¹ T. C. Smout, ‘Scottish History in the Universities since the 1950s’, History Scotland, vol. 7 (September/October 2007), 49.

² Marinell Ash, The Strange Death of Scottish History (Edinburgh, 1980), 10.

³ Bruce P. Lenman, ‘The Teaching of Scottish History in the Scottish Universities’, Scottish Historical Review, vol. lii (October 1973), 171–3.

⁴ Ash, Strange Death, 148.

⁵ Colin Kidd, ‘The Strange Death of Scottish History Revisited: Constructions of the Past in Scotland, c.1790–1914’, Scottish Historical Review, vol. lxxvi (April 1997), 100.

⁶ Karen O’Brien, ‘Between Enlightenment and Stadial History’, Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 16 (March 1993), 53–64.

⁷ Lenman, ‘Teaching of Scottish History’, 171. The most recent study is Stuart Kelly, Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation (Edinburgh, 2010).

⁸ Michael Lynch, ed., The Oxford Companion to Scottish History (Oxford, 2001), 315–16.

⁹ Colin Kidd, Subverting Scotland’s Past (Cambridge, 1995).

¹⁰ M. Fry, ‘The Whig Interpretation of Scottish History’, in I. Donnachie and C. Whatley, eds., The Manufacture of Scottish History (Edinburgh, 1992).

¹¹ Richard J. Finlay, ‘Controlling the Past: Scottish Historiography and Scottish Identity in the 19th and 20th Centuries’, Scottish Affairs, 9 (autumn 1994), 124.

¹² George Chalmers, Caledonia, 3 vols. (London, 1807–24), vol. I, 866.

¹³ Colin Kidd, Union and Unionisms: Political Thought in Scotland, 1500–2000 (Cambridge, 2008), 24.

¹⁴ There is considerable literature on these issues. For an overview and summation see T. M. Devine, The Scottish Nation, 1700–2007 (London, 2006), 285–95.

¹⁵ Michael Billig, Banal Nationalism (London, 1995), and for the Scottish analogy, Kidd, Union and Unionisms, 23–31.

¹⁶ R. Colls and P. Dodds, Englishness: Politics and Culture, 1880–1920 (London, 1986).

¹⁷ See Andrew Mackillop’s chapter on Scots in the eastern empire in ‘Locality, Nation and Empire: Scots in Asia, c.1695–c.1813’, in John M. Mackenzie and T. M. Devine, eds., Scotland and the British Empire (Oxford, 2011).

¹⁸ Ash, Strange Death, 150.

¹⁹ Contemporary Review, vol. xli (1882), 150.

²⁰ R. D. Anderson, Education and Opportunity in Victorian Scotland (Edinburgh, 1983), 269ff.

²¹ Gordon Donaldson, Sir William Fraser (Edinburgh, 1985); Lenman, ‘Teaching of Scottish History’, 177–8.

²² Robert Anderson, ‘University History Teaching and the Humboldtian Model in Scotland, 1858–1914’, History of Universities, vol. 25/1 (2010), 149–50.

²³ Lenman, ‘Teaching of Scottish History’, 174.

²⁴ Ash, Strange Death, 149–50.

²⁵ C. S. Terry, Scottish Parliaments 1603–1707 (Glasgow, 1905).

²⁶ J. G., D. H., and L. B. Namier, ‘Richard Pares’, English Historical Review, vol. 73 (October 1958), 577–82.

²⁷ Anderson, ‘University History Teaching’, 167; Kidd, ‘Strange Death’, 99.

²⁸ ‘The Late Professor Hume Brown’, The Scotsman, 2 December 1918.

²⁹ Anderson, ‘University History Teaching’, 160.

³⁰ Lenman, ‘Teaching of Scottish History’, 176.

³¹ J. D. Hargreaves, ‘Historical Study in Scotland’, Aberdeen University Review, vol. xi (1964), 237–50.

³² Smout, ‘Scottish History in the Universities’, 45; Lenman, ‘Teaching of Scottish History’, 178–9; Finlay, ‘Controlling the Past’, 135.

³³ Scottish Historical Review, vol. 31 (April 1952), 82–4.

³⁴ Kidd, Union and Unionisms, 169.

³⁵ Smout, ‘Scottish History in the Universities’, 49.

³⁶ Lenman, ‘Teaching of Scottish History’, 179.

³⁷ For example, R. A. Houston and I. D. Whyte, eds., Scottish Society, 1500–1800 (Cambridge, 1989).

³⁸ Smout, ‘Scottish History in the Universities’, 49–50.

³⁹ Ranald Nicholson, Scotland: The Later Middle Ages (Edinburgh, 1974). J. H. Elliott, Imperial Spain, 1469–1716 (London, 1963), ch. 3.

⁴⁰ Thus The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain, ed. John Morrill (Oxford, 1996); this is a remarkable example of Anglocentric history under the name of Britain, simply because the editor is a historian who has a notable claim to be genuinely ‘British’. It is an indication of the extent of the problem.

⁴¹ For example, Rees Davies, The Matter of Britain and the Matter of England (Oxford, 1996), and The First English Empire (Oxford, 2000).

⁴² The list of ‘British’ books is a very long one. In the interests of space, only two will be cited here R. G. Asch, ed., Three Nations—a Common History? England, Scotland, Ireland and British History c.1600–1920 (Bochum, 1993), and Glenn Burgess, ed., The New British History: Founding a Modern State, 1603–1715 (London, 1999). Footnotes and, in the second work, a section on Further Reading, provide plenty more examples.

⁴³ For reviews of the recent historiography see ‘Special Issue: “Whither Scottish History”: Proceedings of the Strathclyde Conference’, Scottish Historical Review, vol. lxxiii (April 1994), and ‘Special Issue: “Writing Scotland’s History”: Proceedings of the Edinburgh Conference’, Scottish Historical Review, vol. lxxvi (April 1997).