The British Dimension
Rosalind Mitchison, 16 October 1980
The Life of David Hume
by Ernest Campbell Mossner.
Oxford, 736 pp., £20, March 1980,0 19 824381 2 Show More
by Ernest Campbell Mossner.
Oxford, 736 pp., £20, March 1980,
‘The People Above’: Politics and Adminsitration in Mid-18th-Century Scotland
by Alexander Murdoch.
John Donald, 199 pp., £12, March 1980,0 85976 053 7 Show More
by Alexander Murdoch.
John Donald, 199 pp., £12, March 1980,
The Strange Death of Scottish History
by Marinell Ash.
Ramsay Head Press, 166 pp., £6.50, March 1980,0 902859 57 9 Show More
by Marinell Ash.
Ramsay Head Press, 166 pp., £6.50, March 1980,
“... have stronger personalities. Scott’s double vision was to be lost by a later generation, as Marinell Ash’s book indicates, and has not yet been fully regained – a fact displayed by the acrimonious nature of much recent writing on the Union with England. Dr Ash’s study of 19th-century Scottish historiography ... ”
