History

David Hume and the Jacobites

Author / Creator: Max Skjönsberg

Media type: Article

Date published: 2021

An examination of the relationships between David Hume and the Jacobites


A Maritime Compass Petroglyph in Shetland

Author / Creator: Douglas Cawthorne

Media type: Article

Date published: 2026

The Compass Wart is a maritime compass petroglyph in Shetland


Modern Scottish History: 1707 to the Present Volume 2: The Modernisation of Scotland, 1850 to Present

Author / Creator: Anthony Cooke

Media type: Book

Date published: 2008

Scottish history by distance learning


Modern Scottish History: 1707 to the Present Volume 1: The Transformation of Scotland, 1707-1850

Author / Creator: Anthony Cooke

Media type: Book

Date published: 2008

The Union of 1707 and Jacobitism by distance learning


The History of the Scottish Parliament; Parliament and Politics in Scotland, 1567 to 1707

Author / Creator: A. J. Mann

Media type: Book

Date published: 2005

A new history of Scotland’s first parliament. 


Conceiving a Nation; Scotland to AD 900

Author / Creator: Gilbert Markus

Media type: Book

Date published: 2017

This book reforms our historical perceptions of what has often been dismissed as a ‘dark age’.


England and Scotland 1560-1707

Author / Creator: Douglas Nobbs (

Media type: Book

Date published: 1952

this book analyses the constitutional, religious, economic and social conditions of the two countries in the late sixteenth century 


Medieval Scotland; Kingship and Nation

Author / Creator: Alan MacQuarrie

Media type: Book

Date published: 2004

Of all the Celtic peoples once dominant across the whole of Europe north of the Alps, only the Scots established a kingdom that lasted.


Scotland's Gamble The failed colony that forced a nation to sell itself

Author / Creator: Ian Scott

Media type: Book

Date published: 2026

The failed colony that forced a nation to sell itself 


The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2: Enlightenment and Expansion 1707–1800

Author / Creator: Stephen W. Brown

Media type: Book

Date published: 2011

The first thorough study of the book trade during the age of Fergusson and Burns.


The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 1, Part II From the Earliest Times to 1707 – Networks, Collections and Genre

Author / Creator: Alastair J. Mann

Media type: Book

Date published: 2026

History of the book from earliest times to 1707


The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 1: Medieval to 1707

Author / Creator: Alastair Mann

Media type: Book

Date published: 2026

A wide and varied account of the history of the book


Public Opinion in Early Modern Scotland, c.1560–1707

Author / Creator: Karin Bowie

Media type: Book

Date published: 2025

The rising prominence and changing dynamics of Scottish opinion politics, c.1560–1707


The Historical Geography of Scotland since 1707

Author / Creator: David Turnock

Media type: Book

Date published: 2005

A comprehensive view of the historical geography of Scotland since the Union.


Scotland and the Union 1707-2007

Author / Creator: Tom Devine

Media type: Book

Date published: 2008

A comprehensive examination of the past, present and future prospects of the Anglo-Scottish Union.


Scotland: Defending the Nation. Mapping the Military Landscape

Author / Creator: Carolyn Anderson

Media type: Book

Date published: 2018

Scotland has had a uniquely important military history over the last five centuries. 


Commercial Relations of England and Scotland 1603–1707

Author / Creator: Theodora Keith

Media type: Book

Date published: 2014

The commercial competition between England and Scotland from the accession of James I of England to the Act of Union under Queen Anne in 1707.


Changing Faces of Religion in XVIIIth Century Scotland

Author / Creator: Julio Seoane

Media type: Book

Date published: 2016

Secularisation is often associated with the Enlightenment.


Changing Values in Medieval Scotland

Author / Creator: Elizabeth Gemmill

Media type: Book

Date published: 2006

A Study of Prices, Money, and Weights and Measures


The Changing Scottish Landscape 1500-1800

Author / Creator: Ian Whyte

Media type: Book

Date published: 2023

This book examines patterns of settlement and agriculture in Scotland.