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Cover Copyright Dedication Epigraph Contents Introduction Discovering Skara Brae Agricola Sails around Scotland, AD c. 80 Death of St Columba, 597 Viking Invaders, 870 Battle between the Saxons and Northmen, 937 The King of Scots Insults the English King, c. 971–975 English Fashion, Eleventh Century English Invective against the Scots, Eleventh Century Capture of William I by the English, 1174 Guidelines for the Clergy, Thirteenth Century Religious Houses, 1207 The Burning of a Bishop, 1222 Church Corruption, 1271 The Death of Alexander III, 19 March 1286 The Death of the Maid of Norway, c. 26 September 1290 The Rise and Fall of William Wallace, 1297–1305 The Execution of William Wallace, 23 August 1305 The Battle of Bannockburn, 23–24 June 1314 The Battle of Bannockburn: an Englishman’s View, 23–24 June 1314 The Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April 1320 Robert Bruce’s Epitaph, 1329 Bird Flu, or Similar, 1344 The Black Death, 1350 The Auld Alliance, 1385 Acts of Parliament The Murder ofJames I, 20 February 1437 The Battle of Flodden, 9 September 1513 A Paen to Oatcakes, 1521 The Burning of George Wishart, 1 March 1546 The Murder of Cardinal David Beaton, 29 May 1546 John Knox Apologizes to Queen Elizabeth I, 1559 Schooldays, 1560s Mary, Queen of Scots, Arrives in Scotland, 19 August 1561 The Murder of Riccio, 9 March 1566 Mary, Queen of Scots, Appeals to Elizabeth I for Help, 1 May 1568 Act against Luxury, 1581 The Habits of Highlanders, 1582 The Morning of Mary, Queen of Scots’s Execution, 8 February 1587 The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, 8 February 1587 The North Berwick Witches, 1591 No Pipe-playing on Sundays, 1593 Grammar School Mutiny, 1595 Border Reivers Defy Capture, 14 April 1596 The Scottish Diet, 1598 The First New Year’s Day, 1600 The Union of the Crowns, 24 March 1603 The Evils of Tobacco, 1604 Ben Jonson Walks to Scotland, 1618–1619 A Visitor’s Impression of Edinburgh, 6 June 1634 The National Covenant, 1638 The Battle of Dunbar, 3 September 1650 A Good Use for the Plantations, 1665 Murder of Archbishop Sharp, 3 May 1679 The Battle of Killiecrankie, 27 July 1689 The Massacre of Glencoe, 13 February 1692 A Gael’s View of the Islands, 1695 Famine, 1698 The Darien Venture, 25 December 1699 The Run-up to the Union of the Scottish and English Parliaments, 1707 A Jacobite Escapes from the Tower of London, 23 February 1716 Manners, 1720 The Aftermath of the Union of Parliaments, 1723 The Porteous Riot, 14 April 1736 The Battle of Prestonpans, 21 September 1745 The Battle of Culloden, 16 April 1746 The Aftermath of Culloden, April 1746 Jacobite Orphans, 1746 Superstition and Punishment, 1754–1777 Taking a Play to London, 1755 A Scot Meets Voltaire, 24 December 1764 The New Town Is Conceived, 1767 The Invention of the Steam Engine, 1769 The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1771 Dr Johnson Arrives in Scotland, 14 August 1773 A Visitor’s Impressions of Scotland, 1773 The American Independence War, 19 June 1776 The Wealth of Nations, March 1776 Death of David Hume, 25 August 1776 A Jamaican Sugar Plantation, 1784 A Bagpipe Competition, 1784 Robert Burns Is Hailed as a Genius, 1786 The Age of the Earth Is Proved by James Hutton, 1788 Robert Burns Meets Walter Scott, 1787 Smallpox, 1791 Twenty Years of Dramatic Change, c. 1792 The Trial of ‘the Pest of Scotland’, 30–31 August 1793 African Exploration, 1796 Henry Raeburn, Early 1800s Highland Emigration, 1806 The Ossian Fraud, 1806 Building the Bell Rock Lighthouse, 2 September 1807 Conditions in the Mines, 1808 The Historical Novel Is Born, 1814 The Battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815 Law and Justice in the Highlands, c. 1816–1826 An Experiment in Humanity, 1816 The Sutherland Clearances, 1816 The Scotsman Is Launched, January 1817 Radicals in the Playground, 1819 George IV Visits Scotland, 14 August 1822 Child Worker in a Dundee Factory, 1824 The Recipe for Haggis, 1826 The Search for the Sugar Pine, 1826 Travelling Conditions for Emigrants, 1827 The Sale of a Wife, 1828 Sutherland after the Clearances, 1828 The Trial of Burke and Hare, 24 December 1828 Mendelssohn Visits Scotland, 1829 Reminiscences of Edinburgh Life, Early 1800s Cholera Epidemic, 1832 Testimony of Coal Workers, 1840 Streets of Sewage, 1842 The Disruption of the Church of Scotland, 1843 The Origins of Photography, 1845 Railway Mania, 1847 Experimenting with Chloroform, 1847 Rioting in Caithness, 1847 Victoria and Albert at Balmoral, 1848 Andrew Carnegie Shows an Early Interest in Libraries, 1853 Thomas Carlyle’s Tax Return, 21 November 1855 Fish Gutters, 1859 Scavenging, May 1859 The Glorious Twelfth, 1859 An Edinburgh Detective at Work, 1861 Abbotsford, the Tourist Trap, 1863 A Missionary Visits Greenock, 1865 The First Scottish Football Match, 1868 Mayhem at Musselburgh Golf Match, 22–23 April 1870 Dr Livingstone Is Found by Henry Morton Stanley, November 1871 The Invention of the Telephone, 1875 ‘Saxpence in ma claes, ninepence in ma skin’, 1876 Mary Slessor’s Campaign to Save Babies, Late 1870s/1880s The Mental Asylum, 1878 The Tay Railway Bridge Disaster, 28 December 1879 Among the Residents of Black Houses, c. 1880 The Eyemouth Fishing Disaster, 14 October 1881 The Battle of the Braes, 18 April 1882 Treasure Island, 1882 The Origins of Sherlock Holmes, 1891 Keir Hardie Elected as First Labour MP, 3 August 1892 Unknown Comedian Tries His Luck in London, March 1900 Down the Mine in Fife, 1900 The Opening of Peter Pan, December 1904 The Early Adventures of Toad, May 1907 Force-feeding Suffragettes, 1909 Life at the Front in France, 1915–1918 Glasgow Rent Strike, September–October 1915 A Hospital on the Western Front, July 1916 Red Clydeside Erupts, 31 January 1919 The Scuttling of the German Grand Fleet at ScapaFlow, 21 June 1919 Churchill on the Eve of Defeat, 14 November 1922 Sectarian Anxieties, 1923 Eric Liddell Wins Gold at the Olympics, 11 July 1924 The Invention of Television, October 19 The Origins of Miss Jean Brodie, 1929 The Evacuation of St Kilda, 29 and 30 August 1930 Burns’s Halo Is Tarnished, 1930 The Loch Ness Monster, 1933 The Queen’s Governess, 1933 Edinburgh and Its Street Girls, 1934 The Hungry Prostitute, 1935 The Spanish Civil War, May 1937 Benny Lynch Retains His Triple Crown, 12 October 1937 A Glasgow Orange March, 1938 Rape, Late 1930s The Sinking of the Arandora Star, 2 July 1940 The Travelling Family, 1941 The Clydebank Blitz, 13 March 1941 A Conscientious Objector, 1941 Rudolf Hess Crash-lands in Scotland, 13 May 1941 Prisoner of War, 1944–5 The Second Edinburgh Festival, 1948 Stealing the Stone of Destiny, 25 December 1950 Jimmy MacBeath, King of the Cornkisters, 1951 The Flodden of Football, 15 April 1961 Petition for Women to Become Ministers in the Churchof Scotland, 26 May 1963 Prince Charles and the Cherry Brandy, 20 June 1963 Nudity at the Edinburgh Festival, September 1963 Gordonstoun School, 1965 A Glasgow Gang, 1966 Scotland Beats the English World Cup Team, 15 April 1967 Celtic Win the European Cup, 25 May 1967 The SNP Take Their Second Seat at Parliament, 17 November 1967 Prison, November 1967 The Ibrox Disaster, 2 January 1971 The Upper Clydeside Shipyards’ Work-in, 18 August 1971 The Big Yin, 1975 The Death of Hugh MacDiarmid, 9 September 1978 Allan Wells Wins Olympic Gold, 25 July 1980 The Pope Visits Scotland, June 1982 Munro-bagging, 1980s The Miners’ Strike, March 1984 to March 1985 Glasgow’s Cultural Credentials Are Recognized, 1986 The Lockerbie Disaster, 22 December 1988 Porridge, 1990 Scotland Win the Grand Slam, 17 March 1990 Trainspotting, August 1993 The Flying Scotsman Breaks the World Hour Record, 17 July 1993 The Poll that Put Gordon Brown out of the LeadershipRace, 26 May 1994 James Kelman Wins the Booker Prize, 11 October 1994 The Dunblane Massacre, 13 March 1996 Dolly the Sheep, 5 July 1996 The Day They Buried Princess Diana, 6 September 1997 The Scottish Parliament Reconvenes, 12 May 1999 Sean Connery: a Lifetime’s Perspective The Death of Donald Dewar, 11 October 2000 The SNP Come to Power, 4 May 2007 Appendices Personal Acknowledgements Sources and Permissions Select Bibliography Index

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