The 100 Best Scottish History Books
The 100 best Scottish history books list begins with a selection of general histories and then roughly follows a chronological order.
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1. The Scottish Nation: A Modern History
By Tom Devine
Part of a trilogy on Scottish history, T.M. Devine's The Scottish Nation: A Modern History traces the epic story of a nation from the Union with England to today's debates on the possibilities of Scottish independence.Drawing on extensive research and exploring everything from the high politics of the ... More »
2. Scotland: A History
Scotland has long had a romantic appeal which has tended to be focused on a few over-dramatized personalities or events, notably Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Highland Clearances-the failures and the sad - though more positively, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce have also got ... More »
3. Scotland: a New History
By Michael Lynch | Rock-bottom Price: $0.01
Columba, Bannockburn, Robert Bruce, the nobles, Home Rule, Kenneth mac Alpin, the Wars of Independence, the union of the crowns, Mary, Queen of Scots, the Convenanters, the Reformation, Flodden, the industrial revolution, James VI, Thomas Chalmers, the union of parliaments, John Knox, the Canmore dynasty, Glencoe, the Enlightenment, ... More »
4. Scotland: A Very Short Introduction
By Rab Houston | Used Price: 80% Off
Scotland's past is too often seen through a film of myths and misconceptions. In this Very Short Introduction, Rab Houston explores the key themes from more than 1,000 years of Scotland's very real and very fascinating history. Covering everything from the Jacobites to devolution to the modern economy, ... More »
5. No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Scotland 1900-2015
By Christopher Harvie | Used Price: 50% Off
Epitomised by political, social and technological change this history appraises a fast-evolving century, from the outbreak of World War I up to the present and the politics of devolution and the age of the internet. The book begins with the devastating impact of World War I and Scotland's ... More »
6. A History of Scotland
Covering a staggering period from the Pictish peoples and their symbol stones to modern devolution. Mitchison's absorbing narrative remains the classic introduction to Scottish history. More »
7. Glasgow
By Irene Maver
This new and extensively illustrated history explores the reality behind stereotypical views of Glasgow. More »
8. On Glasgow and Edinburgh
Edinburgh and Glasgow enjoy a famously scratchy relationship. Resembling other intercity rivalries throughout the world, from Madrid and Barcelona, to Moscow and St. Petersburg, to Beijing and Shanghai, Scotland's sparring metropolises just happen to be much smaller and closer together-like twin stars orbiting a common axis. Yet their ... More »
9. A Military History of Scotland
By Matthew Strickland; Edward M. Spiers; Jeremy Crang
This is a magisterial work of Scots military history. The Scottish soldier has been at war for over 2000 years. This illustrated pean to his rich heritage explores both the detail of battles and the cultural history of war, devoting eight separate chapters to 'The Cultural and Physical ... More »
10. Scotland: Archaeology and Early History
By Anna Ritchie; Graham Ritchie
Scotland is unusually rich in field monuments and objects surviving from early times. This comprehensive survey of Scotland's prehistoric and early historic archaeology covers the full chronological range from the earliest inhabitants to the union of the Picts and Scots in AD 843. Fully illustrated throughout, this book ... More »
11. From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795
From Caledonia to Pictland examines the transformation of Iron Age northern Britain into a land of Christian kingdoms, long before 'Scotland' came into existence. Perched at the edge of the western Roman Empire, northern Britain was not unaffected by the experience, and became swept up in the great ... More »
12. Conceiving a Nation: Scotland to Ad 900
This new edition in The New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyth s Warlords and Holy Men (1984), covers the history of Scotland in the period up to 900 AD. A great deal has changed in the historiography of this period in the intervening three decades: an ... More »
13. Scandinavian Scotland
In no other area of historical study in the early Middle Ages can the demands be greater to surmount the barriers of traditional academic disciplines. Because of the paucity of contemporary historical information, much of the book draws on archaeological evidence including hoard material and stone scupture as ... More »
14. Medieval Scotland
This is a one-volume history of medieval Scotland, concentrating on the period between the middle of the eleventh century and the Reformation and taking full account of recent scholarship. It is primarily a political and ecclesiastical study, analysing the development of the institutions of the Scottish state, conflict ... More »
15. The Kingship of the Scots, 842-1292: Succession and Independence
First published in 2002, and here introduced by Dauvit Broun as a core text in Scottish medieval history, this classic work is considered one of the most invaluable critiques of kingship in Scotland during the nation's foundations. In the early years of the period a custom of succession ... More »
16. Domination and Lordship: Scotland, 1070-1230
By Richard Oram
This volume centres upon the era conventionally labelled the 'Making of the kingdom', or the 'Anglo-Norman' era in Scottish history. It seeks a balance between traditional historiographical concentration on the 'feudalisation' of Scottish society as part of the wholesale importation of alien cultural traditions by a 'modernising' monarchy ... More »
17. Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750
By Elizabeth L. Ewan; Maureen M. Meikle; Rosalind Kay Marshall
A comprehensive view of the lives of women in Scotland from 1100 to 1750, based on a wide range of archival sources, including Court of Session records and Middle Scots poetry. Amongst the women featured are nuns, brewers, widows, witches, and wives of ministers of the kirk. More »
18. Scotland Before the Industrial Revolution: An Economic and Social History C.1050-c. 1750
By Ian D. Whyte | Used Price: 90% Off
This splendid portrait of medieval and early modern Scotland through to the Union and its aftermath has no current rival in chronological range, thematic scope and richness of detail. Ian Whyte pays due attention to the wide regional variations within Scotland itself and to the distinctive elements of ... More »
19. Scotland: The Scottish Nation: Origins to C. 1500
By Alan R. MacDonald; Bob Harris
Part of the thought-provoking and authoritiative series - Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation c. 1100-1700. Volume 1 (The Scottish Nation: Origins to c. 1500) comprises specially commissioned essays by a strong field of expert authors. It starts with a numer of broadly chronological chapters, furnishing ... More »
20. The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290
By Alice Taylor
This is the first full-length study of Scottish royal government in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries ever to have been written. It uses untapped legal evidence to set out a new narrative of governmental development. Between 1124 and 1290, the way in which kings of Scots ruled their ... More »
21. The Wars of Scotland, 1214-1371
The Wars of Scotland is the story of the pivotal period in Scottish history between 1214 and 1371. The century and a half between the death of King William the Lion and the accession of the Stewarts witnessed major changes in the internal character of the kingdom and ... More »
22. The Wallace Book
By Edward J. Cowan; Fiona Watson | 50% Off
Through his personality, ingenuity and ability, he initiated a resistance movement which ultimately secured the nation's freedom and independence. Yet, Wallace was reviled, opposed and eventually betrayed by the nobility in his own day to re-surface in the epic poetry of the fifteenth century as a champion and ... More »
23. Robert Bruce: And the Community of the Realm of Scotland
This classic edition is the definitive history of Robert Bruce's life and career, during Scotland's tumultuous coming of age in the Wars of Independence, and one of the twentieth century's bona-fide classics in historical writing. It tells the story of how Robert Bruce outwitted Edward I, defeated his ... More »
24. Domination and Conquest: The Experience of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1100-1300
By R.R. Davies
This book, a revised and extended version of Professor Davies's 1988 Wiles Lectures, explores the ways in which the kings and aristocracy of England sought to extend their domination over Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It analyses the mentalities of domination and subjection ... More »
25. Power and Propaganda: Scotland 1306-1488
How did the later medieval kings of Scotland manipulate their power and alliances after the Wars of Independence? Power and Propaganda is a thematic reflection on the political history of late medieval Scotland, that considers the ways in which power was expressed and renegotiated during a crucial period ... More »
26. Independence and Nationhood: Scotland 1306-1469
Challenging traditional assumptions of general late-medieval decline, Alexander Grant demonstrates how the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were a crucially important period of change and growth for Scotland. Under Robert Bruce and his successors, Scotland maintained its independence from England and developed its sense of nationhood, with a profound ... More »
27. Court, Kirk and Community: Scotland 1470-1625
How did Scots live and change in the dying days of an independent kingdom?This essential history focuses on society and religious life in Reformation Scotland from 1470 to 1625. Now re-issued in the popular New History of Scotland series, with a contextual foreword by Keith Brown as tribute ... More »
28. A Palace in the Wild: Essays on Vernacular Culture and Humanism in Late-Medieval and Renaissance Scotland
By Sally Mapstone; A. A. MacDonald; L. A. J. R. Houwen
The essays in this collection share an overall purpose : they aim to shed new light on Scottish culture during the century and a half (1475-1625) which saw the full emergence of Scotland as a player on the European political and cultural stages. Throughout the book, awareness of ... More »
29. Scotland Re-formed, 1488-1587
From the death of James III to the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, the story of the Scotland is told from the perspective of its regions and of individual Scots, as well as incorporating the view from the royal court. This book explains how the country was ... More »
30. A History of the Scottish People, 1560-1830
By T. C. Smout | Under $1.00
('By far the most stimulating, the most instructive and the most readable account of Scotch history that I have read! This splendid work carries us from Knox to Neilson, from the hot gospel of Calvin to the hot-blast of the smelting process -- and, incidentally, seeks to explain ... More »
31. The Old Poor Law in Scotland: The Experience of Poverty, 1574-1845
Based entirely on research from primary sources, this book describes the development of the Scottish Poor Law as an instrument for the preservation of the old and destitute and, partially, as a protection against famine. More »
32. Noble Power in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution
Why did early modern nobilities remain so powerful? In this volume Brown builds on his previous book, "Noble Society in Scotland", to argue that in spite of the changes brought about by the Reformation, by the recovery of crown authority and by the regal union between England and ... More »
33. Global Migrations: The Scottish Diaspora Since 1600
By John M. MacKenzie; Angela McCarthy
From the seventeenth century to the current day, more than 2.5 million Scots have sought new lives elsewhere. This book of essays from established and emerging scholars examines the impact since 1600 of out migration from Scotland on the homeland, the migrants and the destinations in which they ... More »
34. State and Society in Early Modern Scotland
This is the first full scholarly study of state formation and the exercise of state power in Scotland. It sets the Scottish state in a British and European context, revealing that Scotland - like larger and better-known states - developed a more integrated governmental system in the sixteenth ... More »
35. The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context
A collection of essays on Scottish witchcraft and witch-hunting, which covers the whole period of the Scottish witch-hunt, from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth. Includes studies of particular witchcraft panics such as a reassessment of the role of King James VI. Covers a wide range of ... More »
36. Satan and the Scots: The Devil in Post-Reformation Scotland, c.1560-1700
Frequent discussions of Satan from the pulpit, in the courtroom, in print, in self-writings, and on the streets rendered the Devil an immediate and assumed presence in early modern Scotland. For some, especially those engaged in political struggle, this produced a unifying effect by providing a proximate enemy ... More »
37. Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670-1740
Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment represents the first in-depth investigation of Scottish witchcraft and witch belief post-1662, the period of supposed decline of such beliefs, an age which has been referred to as the 'long eighteenth century', coinciding with the ... More »
38. A History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland, 1500-1920
By T. C. Smout; Alan R. MacDonald; Fiona Watson
'An authoritative, readable and attractively illustrated book...it is likely to be a much cited, definitive work for a long time to come.' Ian Whyte, Landscape History 'I thoroughly recommend it to ecologists, historians, and anyone liking a good story.' Oliver Rackham, Agricultural History Review 'This well-produced book has ... More »
39. Gender in Scottish History Since 1700
By Lynn Abrams; Eleanor Gordon; Deborah Simonton
Scottish history is undergoing a renaissance. Everyone agrees that an understanding of our nation's history is integral to our experience of its present and the shaping of the future.But the story of Scotland's past is being told with little reference to gendered identities. Not only are women largely ... More »
40. Feuds, Forays and Rebellions: History of the Highland Clans 1475-1625
Feuds, Forays and Rebellions is a history of the Highland Clans over the hundred and fifty years after the MacDonalds, Lords of the Isles, forfeited the Earldom of Ross in 1475. It describes the fragmentation of Clan Donald and its vassal kindreds as they resisted the impact of ... More »
41. Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Intimate, Intellectual and Public Lives
By Deborah Simonton; Katie Barclay
The eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth, the political Union of 1707, the Jacobite Rebellions and the Enlightenment - events that were intrinsic to the creation of the modern nation and ... More »
42. Gender and Enlightenment Culture in Eighteenth-century Scotland
This title presents major new research on gender in the Scottish Enlightenment. What role did gender play in the Scottish Enlightenment? Combining intellectual and cultural history, this book explores how men and women experienced the Scottish Enlightenment. It examines Scotland in a European context, investigating ideologies of gender ... More »
43. Modern Scottish History: The Transformation of Scotland, 1707-1850
By Christopher Whatley; Ann MacSween; Ian Donnachie; Anthony Cooke
This is the first volume of a distance-learning history of Scotland course running from January 1998. The successful completion of the course gives students the equivalent to Junior Honours/OU Level 3 and carries 60 SCOTCAT points. The 26 major topics are covered in five books, designed for self-study ... More »
44. Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837
By Linda Colley
How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? This brilliant and seminal book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade, and empire. Lavishly illustrated and powerful, 'Britons' ... More »
45. Religion and Society in Scotland Since 1707
From current day sectarianism to the Free Church, religion has had a dominant effect upon society in Scotland for centuries. In this topical and thought-provoking book, Callum Brown examines the role of religion in the making of modern Scottish society. Tackling important contemporary themes such as the role ... More »
46. The Political History of Eighteenth-Century Scotland
This study looks afresh at the assumption that those in the Scottish parliament who voted for the union of 1707 sold their country. The world of Scottish politics after the union is then explored from the perspective of the people at the top of the ruling elite. It ... More »
47. The Myth of the Jacobite Clans: The Jacobite Army in 1745
The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: a revolutionary book, it argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to understand it, and that the Jacobite Risings drew on extensive Lowland support and had a national quality within Scotland. The ... More »
48. A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the British Union of 1707
This volume of essays explores the intellectual context of the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. Challenging the received view of the Union as a simple political job, it argues instead that the Union was a landmark in the history of political thought. It investigates the ideas of union, universal ... More »
49. Education and the Scottish People, 1750-1918
Scotland's democratic traditions, together with its early lead in literacy, make its educational system of great interest to historians. Professor Anderson examines the distinctive characteristics and the historical myths of Scottish popular education, placing them in a broader framework of social, political, and intellectual history. Among the topics ... More »
50. The Scottish Enlightenment
The Scottish Enlightenment was one of the greatest intellectual and cultural movements that the world has ever seen. Its legacy in philosophy, history, science, music, art, architecture, economics, and many other disciplines cannot be overstated. This book considers the totality of achievements from this most astonishing period of ... More »
51. The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment
This is the first exposition of how Enlightenment thinkers viewed this idea that shapes the world today. The Scottish Enlightenment was the first intellectual movement to view commercial society as a distinct and distinctive social formation - one that still shapes our everyday lives. Christopher Berry explains why ... More »
52. Enlightenment's Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism
Enlightenment's Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith's famous defense of free trade? Fredrik Albritton Jonsson recovers the forgotten networks of improvers and natural historians that sought to transform the ... More »
53. Enlightenment and Change: Scotland 1746-1832
By Bruce Lenman
This second revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Integration and Enlightenment provides a compact survey of developments in Enlightenment Scotland, from the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion to the Scottish Reform Act of 1832. The Act spelled the end of political and social systems that had ... More »
54. The Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820
This is a pioneering study of 18th century Scottish urbanism: dynamic but different. This heavily illustrated and innovative study is founded upon personal documents, town council minutes, legal cases, inventories, travellers' tales, plans and drawings relating to some 30 Scots burghs of the Georgian period. It establishes a ... More »
55. Historic New Lanark: The Dale and Owen Industrial Community Since 1785
By Ian Donnachie; George R. Hewitt
New Lanark, the former cotton spinning village, is internationally renowned for pioneering technology and social change in the Industrial Revolution. This book traces the community's history from its conception as a centre of mass production in 1785 to its present day standing as a World Heritage Site. Beginning ... More »
56. From Chiefs to Landlords: Social and Economic Change in the Western Highlands & Islands
This new approach to Highland history before the Clearances draws attention to little-studied yet important economic and social processes within the Highland clan system and argues that we should consider the problems of traditional Highland society, economy and environment together. Exploring how the different aspects of the clan ... More »
57. The Highland Clearances
The Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland. This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In considering both the terrible suffering of the Highland ... More »
58. Clanship to Crofters War: The Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands
By Tom Devine
Received to wide acclaim when first published in the 1990s, this absorbing book remains one of the most important, influential and widely-read histories of the Scottish Highlands from the end of the Jacobite Risings to the great crofters' rebellion of the 1880s. T. M. Devine argues that the ... More »
59. Adventurers And Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus
'The Scots have always been a restless people', says leading Scottish historian Marjory Harper 'but in the nineteenth century their restlessness exploded into a sustained surge of emigration that carried Scotland almost to the top of a European league table of emigrant exporting countries.' This is the first ... More »
60. Industry, Empire and Unrest: Scotland, 1790-1880
Industry, Reform and Empire traces the evolution of politics from a repressive, reactionary and electorally restricted regime before 1832 to an era of wider franchise and sweeping institutional reform. Focusing on the impact of rapid industrialisation, the author shows how it transformed the economic and social identity of ... More »
61. The Industrial Revolution in Scotland
The Industrial Revolution in Scotland is the first new student text on this subject for more than two decades. While the focus is on Scotland, Dr Whatley's approach is largely comparative and he places the Scottish experience of industrialisation within the context of the debate about the 'British' ... More »
62. The Transformation of Scotland: The Economy Since 1700
By Tom Devine; George C. Peden; Clive H. Lee
This is the first comprehensive history of the Scottish economy over the last three centuries to appear in a generation. Written by leading scholars in the field, it presents 'state of the art' research in an accessible style to all those interested in understanding the historical context of ... More »
63. The Development of the West of Scotland 1750-1960
The economic and social problems of modern Scotland are at the centre of current debate about regional economic growth, social improvement and environmental rehabilitation. In this book, as relevant today as when it was first published in 1975, Anthony Slaven argues that the extent and causes of these ... More »
64. Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean
By Juanita Cox-Westmaas; Rod Westmaas; David Alston
Scots were involved in every stage of the slave trade: from captaining slaving ships to auctioning captured Africans in the colonies and hunting down those who escaped from bondage. This book focuses on the Scottish Highlanders who engaged in or benefitted from these crimes against humanity in the ... More »
65. Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection
By Tom Devine
For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland's connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots, unlike the English, had any significant involvement in slavery. Scotland saw itself as a pioneering ... More »
66. The Fight for Scottish Democracy: Rebellion and Reform in 1820
Three Scottish weavers, James Wilson, Andrew Hardie and John Baird, were hanged and beheaded for high treason in the summer of 1820. Nineteen more men were transported to the penal colony of Botany Bay. Their crime? To have taken up arms against a corrupt and nepotistic parliament, and ... More »
67. Northern Neighbours: Scotland and Norway Since 1800
By John Bryden; Ottar Brox; Lesley Riddoch
Northern Neighbours explores the reasons for, and outcomes of, the social, political and economic divergence between Scotland and Norway over a period encompassing 500 years, in an engaging and comprehensive way. This accessible comparative study takes a closer look at the links between suffrage, property ownership and the ... More »
68. Out of Bounds: Women in Scottish Society, 1800-1945
By Esther Breitenbach; Eleanor Gordon | 90% Off
Women are said to have been absent in conventional accounts of Scottish history, but "Out of Bounds" aims to show they were far from passive. Describing their vocal and active part in social, public and institutional life, it tries to refute the view of women as confined to ... More »
69. Ourselves and Others: Scotland 1832-1914
What did it mean to be a Scot in an age marked by the movement of people and the flow of information? This revised and updated volume of the 'New History of Scotland' series explores a period of intense identity formation in Scotland. Examining the 'us and them' ... More »
70. Industry and Ethos: Scotland, 1832-1914
By Sydney Checkland; Olive Checkland | 90% Off
This book celebrates the emergence of the Scots and Scotland from centuries of poverty and backwardness as the nineteenth century saw Scottish locomotives and ships working on land and sea throughout the world, and Scottish technology leading the way. It analyses the ways in which Scots retained their ... More »
71. Red Scotland!: The Rise and Fall of the Radical Left, C. 1872 to 1932
By William Kenefick | Used Price: 70% Off
An excellent resource for teaching and learning, this book explores the rise and decline of left radicalism in Scotland c.1872 to 1932. A journey through these turbulent times observes the response of Scottish artisans to legal restrictions on trade-union activities in the 1870s, trade union formation among the ... More »
72. The Firth of Forth: An Environmental History
By T. C. Smout; Mairi Stewart | 50% Off
A rare portrait of one of Scotland’s major firths, this book shows how man has interacted with the environment throughout thousands of years. Combining a rich wildlife with a history of long and intense human activity around the estuary's shores and in its ... More »
73. Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland Since 1880
Ewen Cameron explores the political debate between unionism, liberalism, socialism and nationalism, and the changing political relationship between Scotland and the United Kingdom. He sets Scottish experience alongside the Irish, Welsh and European, and considers British dimensions of historical change - involvement in two world wars, imperial growth ... More »
74. Scottish Popular Politics: From Radicalism to Labour
By W. Hamish Fraser | Used Price: 80% Off
One hundred years ago the Labour Representation Committee was formed - this is usually taken as the founding meeting of the Labour Party. However a month before, in January 1900, the Scottish Workers' Parliamentary Election Committee was established to achieve the same things in Scotland - the election ... More »
75. Whaur Extremes Meet: Scotland's Twentieth Century
On the cusp of memory and history, the story of Scotland's twentieth-century is contested territory: international yet parochial; prosperous yet ailing; and, passionate yet temperate. This thematic account of Scotland's twentieth century examines the economic, social, political and cultural aspects that shaped the country during the period. Catroina ... More »
76. Modern Scotland 1914-2000
A major history of the Scottish people in the twentieth century - from the First World War, which radically altered the political, social and economic landscape of the country, to the creation of the Scottish parliament in 2000. Richard Finlay's comprehensive narrative and analysis consider the major themes ... More »
77. A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth Century Scotland
By Lynn Abrams; Callum G. Brown
Over the twentieth century Scots' lives changed in fast, dramatic and culturally significant ways. By examining their bodies, homes, working lives, rituals, beliefs and consumption, this volume exposes how the very substance of everyday life was composed, tracing both the intimate and the mass changes that the people ... More »
78. Scottish Politics in the Twentieth Century
The book examines and seeks to explain the extent to which politics in Scotland in the twentieth century has both deviated from and conformed to the overall British pattern. Attention is devoted to the impact of differences from the rest of Britain in Scottish social and economic structures, ... More »
79. Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century
By Jim Phillips
Throughout the 20th century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book shows that coal miners occupy a central position in Scotland's economic, social and political history. More »
80. Sex for Sale in Scotland: Prostitution in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1900-1939
Sex for Sale in Scotland examines the various methods that were used to police female prostitution in Edinburgh and Glasgow between 1900 and 1939, with particular emphasis on the experiences of the women involved. More »
81. People and Society in Scotland: 1914 to the Present Day v. 3
By James H. Treble; Tony Dickson
Throughout this volume emphasis is placed on the particular identity and distinctiveness of Scotland in terms both of its institutions and the social values of the Scottish people. More »
82. Scotland and the Great War
By Catriona M.M. MacDonald; Elaine W. McFarland
There has been very little previous attention paid to Scottish civilians during the Great War, but, as is revealed here, Scotland had its own unique experience. Of multi-disciplinary interest for academics, and of broad general interest too, this is the only single-volume study of the impact of the ... More »
83. The Scottish Suffragettes
By Leah Leneman
An inspiring look at the remarkable women who fought so tirelessly for equality. Using new material, this study moves away from the ardent activists in London and focuses on the campaign for the vote for women in Scotland. Non-militant 'suffragist' groups were found countrywide -- from Ayrshire to ... More »
84. The Scottish Suffragettes and the Press
This book approaches the Scottish women's suffrage campaign from the point of view of the popular press. It investigates how the press engaged with the women's suffrage movement; how suffragettes were portrayed in newspapers; and how different groups attempted to use the press to get their message into ... More »
85. Popular Politics and Political Culture: Urban Scotland, 1918-1939
A fresh perspective on the history of the radical left in inter-war ScotlandThis book presents a distinctive reading of inter-war Scottish politics, reinterpreting the consequences of the expanded electorate after 1918 by focusing on changing perceptions of the radical political culture of urban Scotland. It re-evaluates the factors ... More »
86. Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic: A Dark Epilogue
Between August 1918 and March 1919 a flu pandemic spread across the globe and in just under a year 40 million people had died from the virus worldwide. This is the first book to provide a total history and seriously analyze the British experiences during that time. ... More »
87. Scheming: A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956
By Sean Damer
Sean Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow's council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence of amplifying social segregation and ghettoisation in the city. More »
88. Scotland and the Spanish Civil War
Why did so many Scots offer their time, their money and even their lives in aid of the Spanish Republic? First scholarly account of Scottish involvement in a globally important conflict Makes a case for Scottish distinctiveness, contextualised within existing literature on Scottish political cultures Presents new primary ... More »
89. New Scots: Scotland's Immigrant Communities Since 1945
By Tom Devine; Angela McCarthy
This is the first wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary overview of immigration to Scotland in recent history and its impact on both the newcomers and the host society. It examines key themes relating to postwar migration by showcasing the experiences of many of Scotland's most striking immigrant communities. More »
90. Sectarianism in Scotland
By Steve Bruce; Michael Rosie; Tony Glendinning
Is Scotland a sectarian society? Scotland is divided not by religion as much as by arguments about the enduring importance of religious divisions. The 'curse' of Sectarianism is debated in the Parliament, the General Assembly and in the media. What we have not had until now is a ... More »
91. The Sexual State: Sexuality and Scottish Governance 1950-80
By Roger Davidson; Gayle Davis
This important book fills a gap in the study of modern Scottish, and British, Society, providing as it does a vital perspective on Scotland's sexual history and its political and social context. It is unique in exploring the period from 1950 to 1980, covering the immediate post-war and ... More »
92. The Path to Devolution and Change: A Political History of Scotland Under Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher's premiership from 1979 to 1990 had a profound impact on Scotland. David Stewart analyzes the impact of this period of Conservative government on Scotland, while examining the extent to which Conservative policy under Thatcher represented a break from the 'post-war consensus' in British politics. Focusing on ... More »
93. Living in Scotland: Social and Economic Change since 1980
By Lindsay Paterson; Frank Bechhofer; David McCrone
Shortlisted for the Saltire Society/NLS Scottish Research Book of the Year Award, 2005Living in Scotland gives an account of the key social changes in Scottish society, describing how it has been transformed over the last two to three decades. Drawing on a uniquely wide range of data from ... More »
94. Gaelic in Modern Scotland: Policies, Movements, Ideologies
In this extensive study of the changing role of Gaelic in modern Scotland - from the introduction of state education in 1872 up to the present day - Wilson McLeod looks at the policies of government and the work of activists and campaigners who have sought to maintain ... More »
95. Claiming Scotland: National Identity and Liberal Culture
In September of 1997 Scots voted overwhelmingly for the establishment of a modern democratic parliament - their first parliament in almost three hundred years. How did this remarkable constitutional change come about? Jonathan Hearn explores this question by examining how claims for greater political autonomy in Scotland today ... More »
96. Muslims in Scotland: The Making of Community in a Post-9/11 World
The experience of being a Muslim in Scotland today is shaped by the global and national post-9/11 shift in public attitudes towards Muslims, and is infused by the particular social, cultural and political Scottish ways of dealing with minorities, diversity and integration. This book explores the settlement and ... More »
97. The Scottish Labour Party: History, Institutions and Ideas
By Gerry Hassan
Scottish Labour has been the dominant political party in Scotland for over 40 years. Yet this is the first book to consider the contemporary party, analysing it in the context of Scottish politics, Scotland, and the UK, as well as drawing on international comparisons. A range of areas ... More »
98. SNP: The History of the Scottish National Party
By Peter Lynch
Although the Scottish National Party (SNP) has existed since 1934, no full-length history of the Scottish National Party was written until the first edition of this book in 2002. This second edition further traces the fortunes of the SNP since 2002, particularly since 2007 when it became the ... More »
99. Union and Unionisms: Political Thought in Scotland, 1500-2000
By Colin Kidd
Although the dominant political ideology in Scotland between 1707 and the present, unionism has suffered serious neglect. One of the most distinguished Scottish historians of our time looks afresh at this central theme in Britain's history, politics and law, and traces the history of Scottish unionist ideas from ... More »
100. Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland
By Ewan Gibbs
The flooding and subsequent closure of Scotland's last deep coal mine in 2002 was a milestone event in the nation's deindustrialization. Villages and towns across the densely populated Central Belt of Scotland owe their existence to coal mining's expansion during the nineteenth century and its maturation in the ... More »
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