Шотландия. Автобиография

Muir, Edwin («Edinburgh and Its Street Girls»), from Edwin Muir, Scottish Journey(Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1979). Reprinted with permission by the publisher.

Muir, Thomas («The Trial of „the Pest of Scotland“»), from The Trial of Thomas Muir, younger, of Huntershill, Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on the 30th and 31st Days of August, 1793(London, 1793).

Myles, James («Child Worker in a Dundee Factory»), from James Myles, Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy(Dundee, 1850).

Nithsdale, the Countess of («A Jacobite Escapes from the Tower of London»), from Genuine Account of the Escape of Lord Nithsdale written by the Countess of Nithsdale, to her sister, Lady Lucy Herbert, Abbess of the Augustine Nuns, of Bruges (National Library of Scotland, manuscript archive).

Obree, Graeme («The Flying Scotsman breaks the World Hour Re-cord»), from Graeme Obree, Flying Scotsman, the Graeme Obree Story(Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2003). Extract reproduced by permission of Birlinn Ltd ( www.birlinn.co.uk).

Owen, Robert («An Experiment in Humanity»), from Report of Minutes of Evidence Taken by the Select Committee on the State of the Children Employed in the Manufactories of the United Kingdom (Parliamentary Papers, vol. 3,1816), quoted in Scottish Voices, 1745–1960, eds. Т. C. Smout and Sydney Wood (William Collins and Sons, London, 1990).

Paris, Matthew («Viking Invaders»), from Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, vol. I, quoted in Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers, AD 500–1286, collected and translated by Alan Orr Anderson (Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1991).

Park, Mungo («African Exploration»), from Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa(London, 1799), quoted in The Oxford Book of Exploration, ed. Robin Hanbury-Tenison (OUP, Oxford, 1993).

Patrick, James («A Glasgow Gang»), from James Patrick, A Glasgow Gang Observed(Eyre Methuen, London, 1973),

Petrie, Reverend Adam («Manners»), from Rules of Good Deportment, or of Good Breeding for the Use of Youth(Edinburgh, 1720), in The Works of Adam Petrie, the Scotish [sic] Chesterfield(Edinburgh, 1877).

Playfair, John («The Age of the Earth Is Proved by James Hutton»), quoted in Donald B. Mclntyre and Alan McKirdy , James Hutton: The Founder of Modem Geology(NMS Publishing, Edinburgh, 2001).

Pollock, Thomas («Smallpox»), from The Statistical Account of Scotland 1791–1799:Vol. VI Ayrshire (parish of Kilwinning), ed. Sir John Sinclair quoted in Modem Scottish History 1707 to the Present: Vol. 5 Major Documents, ed. Anthony Cooke, Ian Donnachie, Ann MacSween, Christopher A. Whatley (Tuckwell Press, Edinburgh, 1998).

Porte, Isa («Rape»), quoted in Voices from the Hunger Marches,ed. Ian MacDougall (Polygon, Edinburgh, 1990). Extract reproduced by permission of Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd ( www.birlinn.co.uk).

The Presbytery of Glasgow («No Pipe-playing on Sundays»), the Presbytery of Glasgow, Kirk Session of Glasgow, 1573, quoted in Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Scottish Pageant, vol. II (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1948).

Rafferty, John («Scotland Beats the English World Cup Team»), the Scotsman, 17 April 1967. Copyright © The Scotsman Publications Ltd.

Register of the Privy Council («The First New Year’s Day»), the Privy Council of Scotland, 1599, quoted in Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Scottish Pageant, vol. II (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1948).

Register of the Privy Council («A Good Use for the Plantations»), Register of the Privy Council, 3rd series, ii, quoted in Source Book of Scottish History, vol. I, ed. W. Croft Dickinson, Gordon Donaldson, Isabel A. Milne (Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, Edinburgh, 1958).

Reid, Jimmy («The Upper Clydeside Shipyards’ Work-in»), from «The UCS Campaign», in Jimmy Reid, Reflections of a Clyde-Built Man,ed. Ruth Wishart (Souvenir Press, London, 1976). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

Robertson, James («The Day They Buried Princess Diana»), an extract from his essay «Six Deaths, Two Funerals, a Wedding and a Divorce», first published in Scotland into the New Era(Canongate, Edinburgh, 2000). Reproduced by permission of the author.

Rosie, George («The Big Yin»), George Rosie, «King Billy», in the Sunday Times, 23 February 1975.

Rosie, George, quoted in the Scottish Review of Books, Vol. 3, No. 2,2007.

Royle, Trevor and Taylor, Alan («The Death of Donald Dewar»), the Sunday Herald, 11 October 2000. Sunday Herald, Copyright © Newsquest Ltd (Herald & Times).

Russell, James («Murder of Archbishop Sharp»), in James Kirkton, Secret and True History of the Church of Scotand, ed. С. K. Sharpe (Edinburgh, 1817), Appendix: Russell’s Account of the Murder of Archbishop Sharp.

Ruthall, Thomas («Battle of Flodden»), from Facsimiles of National MSS [of Great Britain], 11, nos 4 and 5, quoted in Source Book of Scottish History, vol. I, ed. W. Croft Dickinson, Gordon Donaldson, Isabel A. Milne (Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, Edinburgh, 1958).

St Fond, B. Faujais («A Bagpipe Competition»), quoted in The Land Out There, a Scottish Land Anthology, ed. George Bruce, with Frank Rennie (AUP, Aberdeen, 1991).

Salmond, Alex («The SNP Come to Power»), quoted in the Sunday Herald, 6 May 2007.

Scotichronicon(«English Fashion»), from Walter Bower, Scotichronicon, c. 39, ii, 34–83, quoted in Walter Bower, A History Book for Scots, Selections fromScotichronicon, ed. D. E. R. Watt (Mereat Press, Edinburgh, 1998). Reprinted by kind permission of the publisher.

The Scots Magazine(«The New Town Is Conceived»), from The Scots Magazine, August 1767.

The Scotsman(«Mayhem at Musselburgh Golf Match»), from the Scotsman, 23 and 25 April 1870.