Scottish History


How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
The Highland Clearances
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
Culloden
Scotland: The Story of a Nation
A History Of Scotland
Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre
Robert the Bruce: King of Scots
Mary Queen of Scots
The Scottish Nation: A History, 1700 - 2000
The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600 - 1900
The Picts: A History
The Wars of Scotland, 1214 - 1371
The Lion in the North: A Personal View of Scotland's History
Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques RousseauAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithCandide and Philosophical Letters by VoltaireCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantThe Enlightenment, Volume 1 by Peter Gay
The Enlightenment and its Impact
288 books — 99 voters
After Elizabeth by Leanda de LisleGod's Vindictive Wrath by Charles CordellGod's Secretaries by Adam NicolsonPirates of Barbary by Adrian TinniswoodUnnatural Murder by Anne Somerset
Early Stuart Britain
107 books — 19 voters


James Robertson
Scott found himself caught between a deep-seated loyalty to, and knowledge of, his country and an equally fundamental commitment to the Union with England. He sought to find a way for Scotland to accommodate its sense of identity with the economic and other benefits of being a partner in the greatest empire the world had yet seen, This was both a deliberate and a subconscious for a highly intelligent, complex, energetic and emotional man. To complete it successfully, the Scottish past had to b t ...more
James Robertson, Finding Out the Rest: History and Scotland Now

Pamela Clare
[Connor to Major Wentworth, grandson of King George] "My fathers were lairds in the Highlands when yours were still farmin' kale back in Germany! ...more
Pamela Clare, Defiant

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