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The History of England in 6 volumes by David Hume
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David Hume is one of the great philosophers
of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned
him lasting fame and renown; his historical writing earned his bread and
butter. His "The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar
to the Revolution of 1688", published between 1754 and 1764, was
immensely popular and Hume wrote that "the copy-money given me by the
booksellers much exceeded any thing formerly known in England; I was
become not only independent, but opulent." The six volume work has had
numerous editions and is still in print today. David Hume and Thomas
Babington Macaulay have frequently been compared as the premier English
historians but we don't have to choose because Macaulay begins where
Hume leaves off.
The History of England
from the Accession of James II
By Thomas Babington MacAulay
With the rest of the
world we come with our homage to Macaulay. There is no occasion for us
to quote from Macaulay, to criticise or to praise him. Our readers long
ago have made their own quotations, selected their favorite passages,
have read again and again every page of his history; and the universal
approbation of the world has at once dispensed with the necessity of
panegyric, and made censure impossible, except to those who are
ambitious of a foolish singularity. On whatever side we look at this
book, whether the style of it or the matter of it, it is alike
astonishing. The style is faultlessly luminous; every word is in its
right place; every sentence is exquisitely balanced; the current never
flags. Homer, according to the Roman poet, may be sometimes languid;
Macaulay is always bright, sparkling, attractive.— Westminster Review.
Life and Letters of Lord MacAulay
By his nephew the Right Hon. Sir G. O. Trevelyan Bart,. O.M. in two
volumes (1908)
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English
Pictures
Drawn with Pen and Pencil by the Rev. Samuel Manning LL.D. and the Rev.
S. G. Green, D.D.
Reasons
for Scots Moving to England
Scots Diaspora in England
By Duncan Sim
Scotland-Upon-Thames
Scotland’s legacy to Richmond and Kew by Ron McEwen (2024) (pdf)
I was born in the dear Green Place, on the banks of the Molendiner, in
the shadow of Mungo's Kirk. Knox on his lofty column bestowed his
blessing on me. At the age of twenty-one I turned to the south and left
for the land of the Sassenach.
Ronald William McEwen.
Author Ron McEwan is a Scot who has lived in Richmond all his adult life
and is a voluntary guide at Kew Gardens.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
An
Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)
The New Britons: Scottish Identity in the 18th
and 19th Centuries
Commercial Relations of England
and Scotland 1603 - 1707
By Theodora Keith (1910)
The Scot in England
By John Herries McCulloch (1935)
Three Speeches of The Right Honorable, Sir
Francis Bacon Knight
Then his Majesties Sollicitor Generall, after Lord Verulam, Viscount
Saint Alban including Post-Nati, Naturalization of the Scotch in
England, Union of the Laws of the Kingdomes of England and Scotland
(1641). The History of Normandy and of England
By Sir Francis Palgrave (pdf)
As there are quite a number of Scottish Clans with Norman Ancestry I
thought I'd make available this 4 volume publication.
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Volume 4
Life in Normandy
Sketches of French Fishing, Farming, Cooking, Natural History and
Politics drawn from Nature in two volumes. The following pages were
written for pastime in 1848, by a Highland gentleman resident in
Normandy (1862)
Vicissitudes of a Soldier's Life
Or, a series of occurrences from 1806 to 1815; with an Introductory and
a concluding chapter containing with other matters a concise account of
the war in the Peninsula from its commencement to its final close by
John Green, late of the 68th Durham Light Infantry (1827) (pdf)
Sir Titus Salt,
Baronet
His Life and its Lessons by Rev. R. Balgarnie (1875) (pdf)
Highland
Society of London
The next two publications are useful if you do
a search for "Scotland" and "Scotch" and "Scots" as it will reveal some
interesting material...
Four Years at the Court
of Henry VIII
Selection of Dispatches written by the Venetian Ambassador, Sebastian Giustinian, and addressed to the Signatory of Venice, January 12th, 1515
to July 26th, 1519. Translated by Rawdon Brown in two volumes (1854)
Queen Elizabeth
and Her Times
A series of original letters selected from the inedited private
correspondence of the Lord Treasurer Burghley, the Earl of Leicester,
the Secretaries Walsingham and Smith, Sir Christopher Hatton and most of
the distinguished persons of the period edited by Thomas Wright, M.A.,
FSA. &c. of Trinity College, Cambridge, in two volumes (1838)
Memoirs of the
Beauties of the Court of Charles the Second
With their Portraits after Sir Peter Rely and other eminent Painters
illustrating the diaries of Pepys, Evelyn, Clarendon and other
contemporary writers by Mrs. Jameson (Fourth Edition) (1861) (pdf)
Diary of
Samuel Pepys, Complete
This was written during the reign of Charles II. (text file)
The Essentials of Self-Government [England & Wales]
A Comprehensive Survey, designed as a Critical Introduction to the Detailed Study of the Electoral Mechanism as the Foundation of Political Power, and a Potent Instrument of Intellectual and Social
Evolution; with Practical Suggestions for the Increase of its Efficiency by Ellis T. Powell (1909) (pdf)
A
Yacht Voyage Round England
By William H. G. Kingston - New Edition, Revised and Enlarged (pdf)
The Rutland Magazine
and County Historical Record
Edited by G. Phillips
The
Toilers of the Field
By Richard Jefferies (1901) (pdf)
The
Connection between England and Scotland
By Ella S. Armitage (1885) (pdf)
The Hamilton
Papers
Letters and Papers illustrating the political relations of England and
Scotland in the 16th century formerly in the possession of the Dukes of
Hamilton now in the British Museum edited by Joseph Bail FSAScot in two
volumes (1892)
The history
of the troubles and memorable transactions in Scotland and England
From 1624 to 1645 in two volumes (1827) by John Spalding.
Thoughts on the Union
between England & Scotland
By Albert V. Dicey, K.C., M.A., Hon. D.C.L. Oxford, LL.D. (Hon.)
Cambridge, Glasgow and Edinburgh Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and
Robert S. Rait, C.B.E., Histographer Royal for Scotland, Professor of
Scottish History and Literature, in the University of Glasgow (1920)
Enoch Powell, Speech on Immigration, House of Commons, 10/03/1980
Taken from his wilderness years as Ulster Unionist Party M. P. for South
Down, Mr. Enoch Powell cuts an isolated figure as he debates his views
on immigration against a scarcely populated but hostile House of
Commons.
‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, 50 years on: Setting the scene in 1968
Fifty years ago this week the Wolverhampton MP Enoch Powell made his
controversial 'Rivers of Blood' speech.
Britain and the beginning of Scotland Sir John Rhys Lecture
British Academy, 5 December 2013 by Dauvit Broun (pdf)
Scotland, Europe
and the English ‘Missing Link’
By Steve Murdoch, University of St Andrews (2007) (pdf) Scots Descendants in England
John MacKintosh
A Biography by Geo. W. Crutchley (1921)
Gladstone, W.E.
Prime Minister of Britain, by James Bryce
(1919)
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher of Scots parents, political
economist, politician and civil servant. One of the most influential
thinkers in the history of liberalism, he contributed widely to social
theory, political theory, and political economy. (pdf) |
