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Scotland, the autobiography : 2,000 years of Scottish history by those who saw it happen / [edited by] Rosemary Goring.

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Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2008, c2007.

Scotland -- History -- Sources.

Scotland -- Social life and customs -- Sources.

xxii, 483 p. ; 24 cm.

Introduction -- Discovering Skara Brae / Professor Vere Gordon Childe -- Agricola sails around Scotland, AD c. 80 / Tactius -- Death of St. Columba, 597 / Adamnan -- Viking invaders, 870 / Matthew Paris -- Battle between the Saxons and Northmen, 937 / The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- The King of Scots insults the English king, c.971-975 / William of Malmsbury -- English fashion, eleventh century / Scotichronicon -- English invective against the Scots, eleventh century / Ailred of Rievaulx -- Capture of William I by the English, 1174 / William of Newburgh -- Guidelines for the clergy, thirteenth century / Scottish Ecclesiastical Statutes -- Religious houses, 1207 / Gervase of Canterbury -- The burning of a bishop, 1222 / Annals of Dunstable -- Church corruption, 1271 / The Chronicle of Lanercost -- The death of Alexander III, 19 March 1286 / The Chronicle of Lanercost -- The death of the Maid of Norway, c. 26 September 1290 / Anonymous -- The rise and fall of William Wallace, 1297-1305 / Blind Harry and Anonymous -- The execution of William Wallace, 23 August 1305 / Anonymous -- The Battle of Bannockburn, 23-24 June 1314 / John Barbour -- The Battle of Bannockburn: an Englishman's biew, 23-24 June 1314 / Robert Baston -- The declaration of Arbroath, 6 April 1320 -- Robert Bruce's epitaph, 1329 / Walter Bower -- Bird flu, or similar, 1344 / John of Fordun -- The Black Death, 1350 / John of Fordun -- The Auld Alliance, 1385 / Jean Froissart -- Acts of Parliment / James I, James II and James III -- The murder of James I, 20 February 1437 / ? One of Queen Joan's attendants -- The Battle of Flodden, 9 September 1513 / Thomas Ruthall -- A paen to oatcakes, 1521 / John Major -- The burning of George Wishart, 1 March 1546 / John Knox -- The murder of Cardinal David Beaton, 29 May 1546 / John Knox -- John Knox apologizes to Queen Elizabeth I, 1559 / John Knox -- Schooldays, 1560s / James Melville -- Mary, Queen of Scots, arrives in Scotland, 19 August 1561 / John Knox -- The murder of Riccio, 9 March 1566 / Sir James Melville -- Mary, Queen of Scots, appeals to Elizabeth I for help, 1 May 1568 / Mary, Queen of Scots -- Act against Luxury, 1581 / The Parliment of Scotland -- The habits of Highlanders, 1582 / George Buchanan -- The morning of Mary, Queen of Scots's execution, 8 February 1587 / Mary, Queen of Scots -- The execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, 8 February 1587 / Robert Wingfield -- The North Berwick witches, 1591 / News from Scotland -- No pipe-playing on Sundays, 1593 / The Presbytery of Glasgow -- Grammar school mutiny, 1595 / Robert Birrel -- Border reivers defy capture, 14 April 1596 / The Lord Treasurer of London -- The Scottish diet, 1598 / Fynes Moryson -- The first New Year's Day, 1600 / The Privy Council -- Teh Union of the crowns, 24 March 1603 / Robert Carey -- The evils of tobacco, 1604 / James VI and I -- Ben Johnson walks to Scotland, 1618-1619 / William Drummond of Hawthornden -- A visitor's impression of Edinburgh, 6 June 1634 / Sir William Brereton -- The National Covenant, 1638 / John Livingstone -- The Battle of Dunbar, 3 September 1650 / Oliver Cromwell -- A good use for the plantations, 1665 / Register of the Privy Council -- Murder of Archbishop Sharp, 3 May 1679 / James Russell -- The Battle of Killiecrankie, 27 July 1689 / The Earl of Balcarres -- The Massacre of Glencoe, 13 February 1692 / A Gentleman in Scotland -- A Gael's view of the islands, 1695 / Martin Martin -- Famine, 1698 / Patrick Walker -- The Darien Venture, 25 December 1699 / Reverend Archibald Stobo -- The run-up to the Union of the British and English Parliments, 1707 / Daniel Defoe, Stirling Town Council and George Lockhart of Carnwath -- A Jacobite escapes from the Tower of London, 23 February 1716 / The Countess of Nithsdale -- Manners, 1720 / Reverend Adam Petrie -- The aftermath of the Union of Parliments, 1723 / Daniel Defoe -- The Porteous Riot, 14 April 1736 / Reverend Alexander Carlyle -- The Battle of Prestonpans, 21 September 1745 / Reverend Alexander Carlyle -- The Battle of Culloden, 16 April 1746 / Colonel Ker of Gradyne -- The aftermath of Culloden, April 1746 / Robert Forbes -- Jacobite orphans, 1746 / John MacDonald -- Superstition and punishment, 1754-1777 / Reverend John Mill -- Taking a play to London, 1755 / Reverend Alexander Carlyle -- A Scot meets Voltaire, 24 December 1764 / James Boswell -- The new town is conceived, 1767 / The Scots Magazine -- The invention of the steam engine, 1769 / James Watt -- The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1771 / William Smellie -- Dr. Johnson arrives in Scotland, 14 August 1773 / James Boswell -- A visitor's impressions of Scotland, 1773 / Samuel Johnson.

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