A People's History of Scotland

Chris Bambery

• Publisher: Verso
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781786637871
• eBook ISBN:
  9781781686546
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: History

A People's History of Scotland looks beyond the kings and queens, the battles and bloody defeats of the past. It captures the history that matters today, stories of freedom fighters, suffragettes, the workers of Red Clydeside, and the hardship and protest of the treacherous Thatcher era.

With riveting storytelling, Chris Bambery recounts the struggles for nationhood. He charts the lives of Scots who changed the world, as well as those who fought for the cause of ordinary people at home, from the poets Robbie Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid to campaigners such as John Maclean and Helen Crawfurd. This is a passionate cry for more than just independence but also for a nation based on social justice. Fully updated to include the rise of the SNP post 2014.

Notes

1. Scotland Emerges

1‘10,000 Years Old: World’s Oldest Calendar Found in Scottish Field’, Herald, 15 July 2013

2Friedrich Engels, The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State, Resistance Books, 2004, p. 67

3Gordon Menzies (ed.), Who Are the Scots and the Scottish Nation?, Edinburgh University Press, 2002, p. 9

4A. P. Fitzpatrick, ‘The Submission of the Orkney Islands to Claudius: New Evidence?’ Scottish Archaeological Review 8, 1989, pp. 123–29

5Neil Oliver, History of Scotland, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009, pp. 36–37

6Chris Wickham, The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000, Allen Lane, 2009, p. 154

7Ibid.

8Ian Johnston, ‘The Truth About the Picts’, The Independent, 6 August 2008

9N. J. Higham, The Convert Kings: Power and Religious Affiliation in Early Anglo-Saxon England, Manchester University Press, 1997, pp. 255–60; William Douglas Simpson, The Historical Saint Columba, Oliver & Boyd, 1963, p. 46

10James Earle Fraser, From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795, Edinburgh University Press, 2009, p. 215

11Neil Oliver, History of Scotland, pp. 56–57

12G. W. S. Barrow, ‘Anglo-French Influences’, in Gordon Menzies (ed.), Who Are the Scots and the Scottish Nation?, pp. 89–90

13Robert Bartlett, The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950–1350, Penguin, 1994, pp. 54–55

14T. C. Smout, A History of the Scottish People: 1560–1830, Fontana Press, 1987, pp. 27–28

15Thomas Johnston, The History of the Working Classes in Scotland, Forward Publishing (no date), pp. 21–22

16Ibid., p. 73

2. The Wars of Independence

1The Society of Ancient Scots, Lives of Scottish Poets, Volume 1, T. Boys, 1821–22, made available by David Hill Radcliffe (ed.), Centre for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, pp. 51–52, http://scotspoets.cath.vt.edu/select.php?select=Wyntoun._Andrew, accessed 17 September 2012

2Thomas Johnston, The History of the Working Classes in Scotland, p. 32

3Patrick Fraser Tytler, History of Scotland, William Tait, 1828, p. 122

4Andy King and David Simkin, England and Scotland at War, c.1296–c.1513, Brill, 2012, p. 43

5A. D. M. Barrell, Medieval Scotland, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 127–28

6Neil Oliver, A History of Scotland, pp. 89–90

7Hector MacMillan, Handful of rogues: Thomas Muir’s enemies of the people, Argyll, 2005, p. 248

8G. W. S. Barrow, Robert the Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland, Edinburgh University Press, 2005, pp. 113–16

9Andy King and David Simkin, England and Scotland at War, c.1296–c.1513, pp. 49–50

10G. W. S. Barrow, Robert the Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland, pp. 132–35

11Thomas Johnston, The History of the Working Classes in Scotland, p. 23

12G. W. S. Barrow, Robert the Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland, pp. 177–79

13Ibid., p. 179

14A. D. M. Barrell, Medieval Scotland, p. 113

15Ibid., p. 117

16Christopher Harvie, Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics, 1707–1977, George Allen and Unwin, 1977, p. 23

17A. D. M. Barrell, Medieval Scotland, p. 135

18Katie Stevenson, Chivalry and Knighthood in Scotland: 1424–1513, Boydell Press, 2006, p. 152

19Neil Davidson. ‘Marx and Engels on the Scottish Highlands’, Science & Society 65 (2001), no. 3, p. 314

20T. C. Smout, A History of the Scottish People 1560–1830, p. 38

21Neil Davidson, ‘Marx and Engels on the Scottish Highlands’, p. 317

22Neil Oliver, A History of Scotland, p. 132

3. Reformation and the War of the Three Kingdoms

1Neil Davidson, Discovering the Scottish Revolutions: 1692–1746, Pluto Press, 2003, p. 24

2Thomas Johnston, The History of the Working Classes in Scotland, p....

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• One: Scotland Emerges
• Two: The Wars of Independence
• Three: Reformation and the War of the Three Kingdoms
• Four: Union, Jacobites and Popular Unrest
• Five: Enlightenment and Capitalism
• Six: Radicals and Chartists
• Seven: The Highland Clearances and Resistance
• Eight: Scotland in the Nineteenth Century
• Nine: The Clyde Runs Red
• Ten: The 1920s: Economic Decline and General Strike
• Eleven: The Great Depression: Suffering and Resistance
• Twelve: World War II and After
• Thirteen: The 1970s: When Workers Won
• Fourteen: The Thatcher Years
• Fifteen: Twenty-First-Century Scotland
• Conclusion: Our Destiny Is In Our Hands
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• Index