Scotland: An Autobiography

Scotland: An Autobiography

by Rosemary Goring
Scotland: An Autobiography

Scotland: An Autobiography

by Rosemary Goring

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Overview

“A spirited collection of witnessing from all the periods of Scottish history”—in the words of Cromwell to Conan Doyle, poets to nurses to warriors (The New York Review of Books).

This is a vivid, wide-ranging account of Scotland’s history, composed of numerous stories and observations by those who experienced it firsthand through the centuries.

Contributors range from Tacitus, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Oliver Cromwell to Adam Smith, David Livingstone, and Billy Connolly. These include not only historic moments—from Bannockburn to the opening of the new Parliament in 1999—but also testimonies like that of the eight-year-old factory worker who was dangled by his ear out of a third-floor window for making a mistake; the survivors of the 1746 Battle of Culloden, who wished perhaps that they had died on the field; John Logie Baird, inventor of television; and great writers including Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and the editor of Encyclopedia Britannica. From the battlefield to the sports field, this is living, accessible history told by criminals, servants, housewives, poets, journalists, nurses, prisoners, comedians, and many more.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781468303124
Publisher: ABRAMS, Inc.
Publication date: 09/01/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 483
Sales rank: 796,848
File size: 1 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Rosemary Goring studied economic and social history at St. Andrews University before starting her career in publishing. She has since edited and written for many reference books, among them the Larousse Dictionary of Writers and Dictionary of Literary Characters. First Literary Editor of Scotland on Sunday, she became Literary Editor of The Herald.
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