Scottish Society
Autonomy of Modern Scotland
Author / Creator: Lindsay Paterson
Media type: Book
Date published: 1994
No Scottish politics reading list would be complete without Lindsay Paterson’s Autonomy of Modern Scotland
The New Sociology of Scotland
Author / Creator: David McCrone
Media type: Book
Date published: 2017
A ground-breaking, comprehensive account of the social, political, economic and cultural processes at work in contemporary Scottish society.
Independence in the modern world. Wealthier, happier, fairer: why not Scotland?
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
This paper sets out a detailed analysis of the UK’s performance across a range of economic and social indicators relative to that of ten European countries.
Caledonian Dreaming: The Quest for a Different Scotland
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Book
Date published: 2014
Hassan challenges the myths that define modern Scotland and its place in the United Kingdom.
Bella Caledonia: An Anthology of Writing from 2007 – 2021
Author / Creator: Bella Caledonia
Media type: Book
Date published: 2022
This is a book celebrating fourteen years of publishing and collaborations. We have taken the idea of ‘self-determination’ and began to ask what would that mean for us as individuals, communities, towns and cities, not just as a nation? We have taken the idea that we have been living through a mistake in our timeline. In Scotland we thought we needed a parliament, then realised it’s actually a democracy we need. Our question is: what does that democracy look like and how can we create it, now?