The complete short history of Scotland - from the retreat of the ice-caps to the Independence Referendum of 2014

• Introduction


• 1: From Fireball to the Unified Kingdom, 10,000 BC- AD 1100


• 2: The Community of the Realm, 1100-1560


• 3: Reformation and Dual Monarchy, 1560-1707


• 4: Union and Enlightenment, 1707-1815


• 5: The World's Workshop, 1815-1906


• 6: Journey to the Frontier


• Devo-Max or Independence, 2001-2014?


• Timelines


• Bibliographical Essay


• Index

Christopher Harvie was born in 1944 in then-industrial Motherwell, and brought up in the Scottish Borders, to which he has now returned, to look after his near-centenarian parents. The author of fifteen books about the European, British, and Scottish past and contemporary affairs, he was a founder-historian at the Open University in 1969, and taught at the historic University of Tuebingen from 1980-2007. Associated with Gordon Brown in the frustrated devolution campaign of the 1970s, he served as an SNP member of the Scottish Parliament 2007-11 and as adviser to Scottish First Minister, Alex Salmond. The HERALD newspaper voted him its 'Free Spirit of Parliament' in 2008, and the Berlin government gave him its Bundesverdienstkreuz in 2012.