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Scotland: The Autobiography: 2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw it Happen

by Rosemary Goring (Editor) - £12.99  Penguin Books Ltd (2014)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780241969168 | ISBN 10: 0241969166

A vivid, wide-ranging and engrossing account of Scotland's history, composed of eye-witness accounts by those who experienced it first-hand.
 
Contributors range from Tacitus, Mary Queen of Scots and Oliver Cromwell to Adam Smith, David Livingstone and Billy Connolly.These include key historic moments - ranging from Bannockburn and Flodden to the SNP parliamentary victory in 2007 - along with a vast array of wonderfully readable insights into the everyday life of Scotland through the millennia.
 
This is living, accesible history told by crofters, criminals, servants, house-wives, poets, journalists, nurses, politicians, novelists, prisoners, comedians, sportsmen and many more.

(Price & availability last checked: January 2015)

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