Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I: Getting Started with Scottish History 5
Chapter 1: Welcome to Scotland 7
Chapter 2: From Nomads to Farmers: The Earliest Peoples 13
Chapter 3: Disunited Kingdoms (80–750) 21
Part II: Making the Kingdom (840–1286) 31
Chapter 4: The Kingdom of Alba (840–1040) 33
Chapter 5: Good Kings, Bad Kings and a Saintly Queen (1034–1153) 43
Chapter 6: Peace and Plenty? (1153–1286) 57
Part III: Making the Nation (1286–1542) 69
Chapter 7: The Wars of Independence (1286–1371) 71
Chapter 8: The Foundations of the Stewart Dynasty (1371–1460) 91
Chapter 9: Renaissance Scotland (1460–1542) 109
Part IV: The Unmaking of a Nation (1540–1750) 131
Chapter 10: From Reformation to the Union of the Crowns (1540–1625) 133
Chapter 11: King, Commonwealth and Revolution (1625–1690) 157
Chapter 12: The Unmaking of a Nation (1690–1750) 179
Part V: The Remaking of a Nation (1750–1918) 199
Chapter 13: A Nation in Transition (1750–1832) 201
Chapter 14: The Making of Modern Scotland (1832–1918) 227
Part VI: New Beginnings (1918–2000) 257
Chapter 15: The Devil’s Decades: Politics and Poverty (1918 –1945) 259
Chapter 16: The Rebirth of a Nation (1945–2000) 271
Part VII: The Part of Tens 287
Chapter 17: Ten Great Places to Visit in Scotland 289
Chapter 18: Ten Little-Known Scottish People Who Are Worth Knowing About 295
Chapter 19: Ten Things Scotland Has Given to the World 305
Index 311