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Magnus Magnusson. Scotland: The Story of a Nation
SCOTLAND. THE STORY OF A NATION. MAGNUS MAGNUSSON
Copyright
Praise
Contents
List of Maps
Introduction
Chapter 1 IN THE BEGINNING
The first people in Scotland (c.7000 BC)
Skara Brae, Orkney (3100–2600 BC)
Calanais (Isle of Lewis): 3000–2000 BC
Maes Howe on Orkney (3000 BC)
The Broch of Mousa
Crannogs
Chapter 2 THE ROMANS IN SCOTLAND
Chapter 3 PICTS, SCOTS, BRITONS, ANGLES AND OTHERS
The ‘Picts’
The Gododdin
The Angles
The Battle of Dunnichen (Nechtansmere): 6851
The Saltire of Scotland
The Britons
The ‘Scots’
Dunadd
The coming of Christianity
The vikings
Kenneth mac Alpin (800–58): the union of the Picts and the Scots
The origin myth of ‘the Scots’
Constantin II
What happened to the Picts?
Chapter 4 MACBETH (r.1040–57)
Birnam Wood and Dunsinane
Shakespeare and Scott
Chapter 5 MALCOLM CANMORE AND ST MARGARET
Queen Margaret, the Saint
The border issue
The death of Malcolm
Aftermath
Chapter 6 DAVID I (r.1124–53)
David the king
The Battle of the Standard (Northallerton, 1138)
Chapter 7 WILLIAM THE LION (r.1165–1214)
The legacy of the Lion
Chapter 8 THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY: ALEXANDERS II AND III
The inauguration of Alexander III
The ‘Battle’ of Largs (2 October 1263)
The Norway connection
The death of Alexander III
Chapter 9 JOHN BALLIOL – ‘TOOM TABARD’
The Maid of Norway
The Competitors
The ‘Great Cause’
‘Toom Tabard’
Chapter 10 WILLIAM WALLACE
‘William Wallace raised his head’
The Battle of Stirling Bridge (11 September 1297)
The Battle of Falkirk (22 July 1298)
After Falkirk
Capture and death
Chapter 11 ROBERT BRUCE (r.1306–29)
He who would be king
Bruce and the spider
Glen Trool
Edward II of England
The Battle of Bannockburn (23 and 24 June 1314)
24 June 1314
The Declaration of Arbroath (6 April 1320)
Success – and succession
Epilogue: Scotland’s parliament
Chapter 12 DAVID II (r.1329–71)
Edward III of England
The Battle of Halidon Hill (19 July 1333)
‘Black Agnes’ of Dunbar
The return of the king
The Battle of Neville’s Cross (17 October 1346)
The rise of the Steward
Epilogue
Chapter 13 ROBERT II (r.1371–90) AND ROBERT III (r.1390–1406)
King Robert II (r.1379–90)
The Battle of Otterburn (19 August 1388)
King Robert III (r.1390–1406)
The Battle on the Inch (1396)
The rise and fall of Prince David
The heir in peril
Chapter 14 JAMES I (r.1406–37)
The Albany years (1406–24)
The Battle of Harlaw (24 July 1411)
The captive poet-prince
A king’s ransom
The key to the castle
Assassination of the king (21 February 1437)
Epilogue
Chapter 15 JAMES II (r.1437–60)
‘James of the Fiery Face’
The ‘Black Dinner’ (24 November 1440)
The Burgundy marriage (3 July 1449)
The Douglas murder (22 February 1452)
England: the Wars of the Roses (1455–87)
Chapter 16 JAMES III (r.1460–88)
The minority of James III
Majority and maturity
The Lauder lynchings (July 1482)
Death at Sauchieburn (11 June 1488)
Epilogue
Chapter 17 JAMES IV (r.1488–1513) AND THE RENAISSANCE
From minor to major
The Marriage of the Thistle and the Rose (8 August 1503)
The Renaissance prince
The Great Michael: a navy for Scotland
The Battle of Flodden (9 September 1513)
Chapter 18 JAMES V (r.1513–42)
The infant king
Personal rule (1528–42)
The Guidman of Ballengeich versus Johnnie Armstrong (July 1530)
The burning of the Countess of Glamis (July 1537)
Love and marriages
Curtains for a king (12 December 1542)
The Battle of Solway Moss (24 November 1542)
Epilogue
Chapter 19 MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS: 1 – REIGN AND THE REFORMATION
‘In my end is my beginning’1
The ‘Rough Wooing’
The Battle of Pinkie (10 September 1547)
Mary Queen of Scots in France (1548–61)
The queen mother: Marie de Guise and the Reformation
The Reformation
John Knox (c.1512–72)
Mary: the Scotland years (1561–67)
Lord Darnley
The murder of Rizzio (9 March 1566)
The murder of Darnley (9/10 February 1567)
Marriage to Bothwell
Chapter 20 MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS: 2 – IMPRISONMENT AND CIVIL WAR
The Battle of Langside (13 May 1568)
The ‘trial’ of Mary Queen of Scots (1568)
Civil war in Scotland (1570–73)
Tutbury Castle: ‘the winds and injures of heaven’
Fotheringhay: Mary’s execution (8 February 1587)
Chapter 21 JAMES VI AND THE UNION OF THE CROWNS (1603)
The cradle king
The ‘Ruthven Raid’ (August 1582)
Kirk and state
Personal rule (1585–1603)
Marriage to Anne of Denmark (1589)
The ‘Bonnie Earl o’ Moray’ (February 1592)
The Gowrie Conspiracy (August 1600)
The Union of the Crowns (1603)
‘Jinglin’ Geordie’
The ‘other’ Scotland
The Powder Treason Plot (1605)
The Hampton Court Conference (1604)
The royal visit to Scotland (1617)
Decline and death (1625)
The succession
Chapter 22 CHARLES I AND THE NATIONAL COVENANT
‘The wee king with big ideas’
Marriage (1 May 1625)
Coronation in Scotland (1633)
The National Covenant (1638)
The ‘Bishops’ Wars’ (1639–40)
The First Civil War in England (1642–46)
The Solemn League and Covenant (1643)
‘The Great Marquis’
The Year of Miracles (1644–45)
Defeat and death
Charles I: the last years
Chapter 23 CHARLES II AND THE COVENANTERS (1649–85)
The young king
The ‘Rule of Saints’ (1648–50)
The Battle of Dunbar (3 September 1650)
Coronation (1 January 1651)
The Battle of Worcester (3 September 1651)
The Royal Oak of Boscobel
The Interregnum: Cromwell’s Scotland (1651–60)
The Honours of Scotland
The ‘incorporation’ of Scotland
The Restoration (1660)
The king’s revenge
Parliament
The Pentland Rising (November 1666)
The gathering crisis
The murder of Archbishop Sharp (1679)
The Covenanter Rising (1679)
The Battle of Drumclog (1 June 1679)
The Battle of Bothwell Brig (22 June 1679)
Scotland under James, Duke of York (1680–82)
The ‘Killing Time’ (1682–85)
The end of the ‘Killing Time’
Memorials to the martyrs
Chapter 24 JAMES VII & II: THE LAST STEWART KING (r.1685 –88)
Scotland in the 1680s
Decline and fall
The Orange invasion (1688)
Chapter 25 WILLIAM AND MARY: ‘THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION’?
William II and Mary II of Scotland
The Battle of Killiecrankie (27 July 1689)
The Battle of Dunkeld (21 August 1689)
The Massacre of Glencoe (13 February 1692)
The Darien Scheme
The end of the ‘Glorious Revolution’ (1702)
Chapter 26 QUEEN ANNE (r.1702–14) AND THE ACT OF UNION (1707)
The long road to union
Queen Anne (r.1702–14)
Prologue to the ‘Great Debate’
‘The end of an auld sang’
Causes and effects
Chapter 27 RISINGS AND RIOTS (1708–36)
The first Jacobite Rising: 1708
The 1715 Rising
The Battle of Sheriffmuir (13 November 1715)
Rob Roy MacGregor (1671–1734)
The 1719 Rising: the Battle of Glenshiel (10 June)
General Wade: the great road-maker
The riotous years
The Porteous Riot (7 September 1736)1
Chapter 28 ‘BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE’ AND THE ’45
‘The Seven Men of Moidart’
The Jacobite surge
The Battle of Prestonpans (21 September 1745)
The Prince and the palace
To Derby – and back
The retreat from Derby (6 December 1745)
1746: the final throes
The Battle of Falkirk Muir (17 January 1746)
The last journey north
The Battle of Culloden (16 April 1746)
Aftermath of defeat
The escape from Scotland
Flora Macdonald
What happened to the Stuarts?
Postscript: Fort George
Chapter 29 SIR WALTER SCOTT: ‘THE WIZARD OF THE NORTH’
Waverley (1814)
Redgauntlet (1824)
Walter Scott: boy and man
The Scottish Enlightenment (1730–30)
Abbotsford
The Honours of Scotland1
The royal visit (15–29 August 1822)
The tartan craze
The crash (January 1826)
Tales of a Grandfather (1827–29)
The end (21 September 1832)
EPILOGUE ‘There Shall be a Scottish Parliament’
Scottish nationalism
The inter-war years
The post-war years
The National Covenant (1949)
The Stone of Destiny
Queen Elizabeth – I or II?
The rise of the ‘Nats’
The 1980s: devolution in disarray1
The Scottish Constitutional Convention
The return of the Stone
A parliament for Scotland: the last lap
APPENDIX A Chronology
APPENDIX B Kings and Queens of Scotland
Sources
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author. Scotland: The Story of a Nation
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