Quote Originally Posted by ThistleDown View Post
Maggie Craig also wrote "Bare-Arsed Banditti: Men of the 45", Todd . Both her books are well researched and written, and entertaining to boot.

How serious should we get with this list? Leaving out historical fiction and the like and anything to do with emigration and the diaspora we have a never-ending library to draw on for suggestions.

Just on the Jacobite uprisings of the 18C, their causes and effects, I suggest in no particular order "Letters from a Gentleman in the North to His Friend in London" by Edmund Burt; "Memoirs of the Jacobites" by Mrs Thomson; "Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century", by Henry Grey Graham; "Jacobite Estates of the Forty-Five" by Annette M Smith; "The Jacobite Army in England 1745" by FJ McLynn; "From Chiefs to Landlords" by Robert A Dodgshon; "Easter Ross 1750-1850" by Ian RM Mowat; "After the Forty-Five" by AJ Youngson; "The Jacobite General" by Katherine Tomasson; "Pickle the Spy" by Andrew Lang; "History of the Rebellion of 1745" by Robert Chambers; "Lives of Lovat & Forbes" by John Hill Burton.

As a learned treatise on the last 300 years of Scottish history there is nothing so fine as "The Scottish Nation" by Tom Devine.
Rex,

Many thanks for the tip on "Bare-Arsed Banditti" -- I'm off to our library's online catalog to see if I can order that from Washington University in St. Louis, which has a rather large Scottish collection in its stacks. If it's anything like "Damn Rebel Bitches", then I can't wait for it to arrive! I've always loved the story of Colonel Anne Mackintosh, and Craig certainly did wonders with that story.

T.