Scottish historical documents
Declaration of Arbroath
Author / Creator: Tom Turpie
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
A reproduction of the Declaration of Arbroath with historical analysis
The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320
Author / Creator: the nobles of Scotland
Media type: Document
Date published: 1320
The translated document
Conquered by No One: A People’s History of the Scots who made the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320
Author / Creator: Neil Douglas Roderick McLennan
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
The Declaration of Arbroath’ became the most famous and symbolic document in our nation’s history: its influence stretches across the centuries and around the globe.
The Declaration of Arbroath: 'For Freedom Alone'
Author / Creator: Edward J. Cowan
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
The Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April, 1320, is one of the most remarkable documents to have been produced anywhere in medieval Europe.
Claim of Right Act, 1689
Author / Creator: Scottish Parliament
Media type: Document
Date published:
The Claim of Right Act, 1689 as recorded by The National Archives and the UK government.
Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707
Author / Creator: Parliament of Scotland
Media type: Historic records
Date published:
The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 (RPS) is a fully searchable database containing the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707.
The Scottish Constitution from the Claim of Right
Author / Creator: The Estates of Scotland
Media type: Translation
Date published: 2022
The Scottish Constitution as derived from the Claim of Right Act 1689
The Declaration of the Estates of the Kingdom of Scotland containing the Claim of Right and the offer of the Croune to the King and Queen of England.
Author / Creator: Estates of the Kingdom of Scotland
Media type: Document
Date published: 1689
The document containing the Claim of Right/
Scottish Studies: Primary Sources
Author / Creator: University of Otago Library
Media type: Website
Date published:
A directory of sources of primary documentation - historical and contemporary - which have been digitised. It includes databses too.