This complete life story of David Hume, one of Scotland’s greatest thinkers, follows the Enlightenment from its early roots to its full blossoming in 18th-century Edinburgh. Using original sources, many for the first time, this biography details every aspect of the philosopher’s life—from the lukewarm reception of his now pivotal work, A Treatise of Human Nature, to the fame and near excommunication brought about by his famous Essays Moral and Political and The History of England. Also detailed are the stories behind his nickname, “The Great Infidel,” the numerous guests seeking an invitation to dine at his table, and his lengthy intellectual involvement with a married aristocrat. This work is a well-rounded picture of the man, the century in which he lived, his famous ideas, and above all, his humanity.

Great Infidel: A Life of David Hume

Biographies & Memoirs

Graham, Roderick

Historical

Tuckwell Press, Ltd.

This is a history of the ancient burgh of Haddington, a county town of East Lothian. It has long been a popular location for everyone interested in Scotland's past. As well as the history of the burgh, coverage ranges across street names, buildings, monuments and plaques, and places of interest around the town. There are walks and maps for the peripatetic. The book is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to this small town. Historic and contemporary photographs supplement the representations of the town by a local artist.

Haddington: Royal Burgh - A History and a Guide

History

Haddington's History Society

Europe

James V: The Personal Rule, 1528-42 (The Stewart Dynasty In Scotland)

In this book on James V, the author concentrates on his style of government and relations with his nobility, and challenges the widely held view that he was a vindictive and irrational king. The text offers a rounded picture of a monarch who enjoyed impressive magnate support until 1542.

Cameron, Jamie

William the Lion, 1143-1214: Kingship and Culture

Owen, D.D.R.

<p>This study examines all aspects of James IV's reign. It explains his popularity and his successful kingship, and assesses reasons for the disastrous end to the reign when the king and a large proportion of the Scottish nobility were eliminated in a single afternoon at Flodden. James IV is the best-known of all the late-medieval Scottish rulers. Praised by his contemporaries, he combined the qualities of medieval monarch with a wide interest in the arts and sciences, while acutely conscious of the need to enhance the prestige of his dynasty throughout Europe.</p>

James IV (The Stewart Dynasty In Scotland)

MacDougall, Norman

This collection aims to investigate the value of the ballads for historians of the period from the middle ages to the early twentieth century. The crucial role played by collectors such as Ramsay, Burns, scott and Hogg is surveyed, as are such themes as contemporaneity, fairy belief, the Border Ballads, nineteenth-century protest ballads and the songs of the twentieth-century travelling fraternity.

The Ballad in Scottish History

Literature & Fiction

<p>This biography reviews the known facts of the life of William the Lion, Scotland's longest reigning king, and presents them within the broad context of the country's early history and culture. While much of the story centres on the often brittle relationship with the English Plantagenets, Scotland emerges as a European power, respected not least for its now largely forgotten cultural flowering. This is demonstrated in the later chapters by an examination of a body of hiterto undervalued texts, notably a skit on the Grail legend. Set in Scotland, the romance was probably composed by a St Andrews' bishop for the court circle, and can claim to be the country's earliest surviving vernacular work. This interdisciplinary approach, by juxtaposing established facts with literary interpretations, offers historians and the general reader with a new and more rounded view of both the domestic conditions and the reputation abroad of William the Lion's Scotland. D.D.R. Owen is the author of "Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend".</p>

This collection of essays brings together some of the fruits of over a decade of research into the political thought and culture of Renaissance and Reformation Scotland. As a collection, it ranges from detailed studies of the writings of figures of international standing such as John Mair, John Knox, George Buchanan and King James VI and I, to more discursive explorations of the changing self-awareness of the Scottish political community during an era of dramatic political, cultural and religious upheaval. Each essay is self-contained, making its own contribution to a specific area of research. All are variations on the crucial theme of kingship and the commonwealth, analyzing from a variety of perspectives the ways in which the changing nature of the relationship between the Scottish crown and the Scottish people was viewed and expressed by contemporaries. At once focused and wide-ranging, these essays illuminate how a traditionally conservative political community came to terms not only with the cultural influences of Renaissance Europe, but with the revolutionary impact of the Reformation, the constitutional crisis of the reign of Mary Queen of Scots, and the increasing likelihood and eventual reality of union with England.

Kingship and the Commonweal: Political Thought in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland

Mason, Roger A.

Though overshadowed by his father, James IV, and his daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots, James V was nonetheless a crucial figure in British history, as is shown in this dissenting opinion about his reign as England's king. Concentrating on James V's style of government and his relations with the nobility, this account challenges the widely held view that James was both vindictive and irrational. In spite of a few unpleasant personal traits, it is argued, his reign closely resembled that of his more popular father, and the rebelliousness of his magnates in 1542 was due to the political landscape of Britain rather than any aspect of James' temperament.

Arts & Photography

Murder Under Trust is the first biography of Sir Lachlan Mor Maclean of Duart, the 'Great Maclean', a larger-than-life figure who dominated the western seaboard of Highland Scotland from 1578 until his death in 1598.Lachlan Mor's story is based mainly on the reports of spies working for Queen Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain. The author also draws on Sir Lachlan's original letters in both Scots and Gaelic to make him a complex three-dimensional figure and not the cardboard cut-out so many of his contemporaries appear to be through lack of evidence.Murder Under Trust is essential reading for all those interested in the history of the Highlands and Islands and Ulster.

Murder Under Trust: Sir Lachlan Mor Maclean of Duart, 1558-98

Maclean-Bristol, Nicholas

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Great Infidel: A Life of David Hume

Haddington: Royal Burgh - A History and a Guide

James V: The Personal Rule, 1528-42 (The Stewart Dynasty In Scotland)

William the Lion, 1143-1214: Kingship and Culture

James IV (The Stewart Dynasty In Scotland)

The Ballad in Scottish History

William the Lion, 1143-1214: Kingship and Culture

Kingship and the Commonweal: Political Thought in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland

James V: The Personal Rule, 1528-42 (The Stewart Dynasty In Scotland)

Murder Under Trust: Sir Lachlan Mor Maclean of Duart, 1558-98