Scotland’s Story was published in 1999, a 40 issue magazine series that traced the complete history of Scotland from it’s geological beginnings right up to the millennium, and was beautifully illustrated with many rare photographs and illustrations. As well as chronologically following the main history of this great nation, it was also packed with extra features, such as Scottish ghost stories, myths and legends, famous Scots in science, literature and the arts, sporting heroes, the Scottish Regiments (Black Watch, Highland Light Infantry, Scot’s Guards, etc, etc).
Volume One – 3 billion BC to 1503: How Scotland was Formed; Fossils and Dinosaurs; Early Scots Settlers; Skara Brae and the Stone Circle Builders; the Picts; the Romans in Scotland; the Coming of Christianity; Scotland in the Dark Ages; the Vikings; Columba; King MacAlpin; Stone of Destiny; Constantine; Cross of St.Andrews; the Real MacBeth; the Middle Ages; King Malcolm and Margaret; King David; Malcolm IV; William I; the Great Cathedrals; the Normans; King of the Isles; Rise of the Clans; Orkneyinga Saga; Alexander II & III; Wars of Independence; William Wallace; Stirling Bridge; Robert the Bruce; Bannockburn; Declaration of Arbroath; David II; Robert II & Robert III; Wolf of Badenoch; the Plague.
Volume Two – 1406 to 1688: Albany Regency; James I; Auld Alliance; Lord of the Isles; Border Reivers; James II; the Douglases; Common Law; Life in the Burghs; James III; Education; Scottish Palaces; the Renaissance; Elphinstone; James IV; Flodden; Scotland at Sea; James V; Printing in Scotland; the Church; the Rough Wooing; Commerce; the Reformation; John Knox; Punishment; Culture; Mary Queen of Scots; Early Maps; the Armada; Story of Dundee; James VI; Union of the Crowns; the Covenant and Covenanters; the Highlands; Rosslyn Chapel; Montrose; the Witch Hunts; Preaching and Piping; Scots Abroad; Cromwell’s Scotland; the Restoration; Soldiers of Fortune; Nova Scotia; the Killing Times; James VII; the Brahan Seer.
Volume Three – 1658 to 1800: the Glorious Revolution and William of Orange; the Jacobites; Killiecrankie; the Campbells; Claverhouse; Glencoe; Scottish Trade; the Darien Scheme; the Famine; Scottish Banking; the Union of 1707; Daniel Defoe; the 1708 Invasion; the 1715 Uprising; Glasgow’s Story; General Wade; Porteous Riots; Robert Walpole; Bonnie Prince Charlie and the ‘Forty Five; the Hanoverians; Culloden; Stirling’s Story; the Rule of the Church; the Enlightenment; the Golden Age; Edinburgh’s Story; Robert Adam; Church Schisms; Law and Order; Robert Burns; Scottish Medicine; the Industrial Revolution; Sea Traders.
Volume Four – 1784 to 2000: Rise of the Radicals; Music in Scotland; Militia Riots; Eastern Exiles; Aberdeen’s Story; Sir Walter Scott; Radical War; the Machine Age; the Railways; Irish Influx; the Highland Clearances; Social Unrest; the Disruption and Rise of the Free Church; the Orange Order; Scottish Soldiers; Age of Splendour; Robert Louis Stevenson; Queen Victoria; the Highland Protests; Publishing in Scotland; Artistic Revival; Ship Building and Industry; Rise of Socialism; Women’s Suffrage; the Second Enlightenment; Imperial Scots; the Great War; Industrial Unrest; Liberalism; Education; John Buchan; Economic Decline; Modernism; Sectarianism; Reconstruction; Second World War; the Churches; SNP and Nationalism; the Fishing Industry; North Sea Oil; Folk Revival; Devolution Thwarted; Immigration; Transport; Political Dissent; Nuclear Scotland; Devolution; Social Change; Scotland the Brand; Language; Innovation; the Future; Comprehensive Index.
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Scotland’s Story 3 Supplements
Supplement 1 The Millenium Commission’s Work in Scotland
Supplement 2 2000 Reasons For Millennium Fun
Supplement 3 How Are You Celebrating the Millennium
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