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  Scottish History Reading List
    This reading list identifies some of the important works on Scottish history. I have arranged them by period rather than subject (except for the Wars of Independence). Where books are in print, I have included links to Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble should you wish to purchase them directly.
     
Politics
I Donnachie, C Harvie & IS Wood (eds)
Forward! Labour politics in Scotland 1888-1988		 M Fry
Patronage and principle: a political history of modern Scotland
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C Harvie
Scotland and Nationalism		 IGC Hutchinson
A political history of Scotland 1832-1924
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JG Kellas
Modern Scotland		 WH Marwick
A short history of Labour in Scotland
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K Robbins
Ninteenth century Britain: England Scotland and Wales		 K Webb
The growth of nationalism in Scotland
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A Wilson
The Chartist movement in Scotland		 Richard J Finlay
Independent & Free: Scottish Politics and the Origins of the Scottish National Party, 1918-1945
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Paul H Scott
Towards Independence		 Andrew Marr
The Battle for Scotland
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Religion
CG Brown
The social history of religion inScotland since 1730		 AL Drummond & J Bulloch
The church in Victorian Scotland 1843-1874
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AL Drummond & J Bulloch
The church in late Victorian Scotland 1847-1900		  
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Highlands
Bumstead, J.R.
The peoples clearance 1770-1815		 Cameron, A.D.
Go Listen to the Crofters: The Napier Commission and crofting a century ago
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Durkacz, V.E.
The decline of the Celtic Languages		 Grigor, I.F.
Mightier than a lord: the Highland crofters' struggle for the land
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Hopkins, P.
Glencoe and the end of the Highland war		 Hunter J.
The making of the crofting community
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Hunter, J.
A Dance Called America		 Inverness Field Club
The Middle Ages in the Highlands
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Kermack, W.R.
The Scottish Highlands: a short history		 MacKenzie, A.S.
History of the Highland Clearances
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Richards, E.
A history of the Highland clearances (2vols)		 Stevenson, D.
Alasdair MacColla and the Highland problem in the seventeenth century
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Withers, CWJ
Gaelic in Scotland 1698-1981		  
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Economy and Society
G Donaldson
The Scots overseas		 T Dickson & JH Treble (eds)
People and society in Scotland Vol III 1914-1980
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A Fenton
Country life in Scotland		 WH Fraser & RJ Morris (eds)
People and society in Scotland Vol II 1830-1914
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B Lenman
An economic history of modern Scotland		 I Levitt
Poverty and welfare in Scotland 1890-1948
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A Slaven
Development of the West of Scotland, 1750-1960		 TC Smout
A Century of the Scottish people 1830-1950
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