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Baston, Robert («The Battle of Bannockburn: an Englishman’s View»), from Metrum de proelio apud Bannockburn, translated from Robert Baston’s Latin by Edwin Morgan (The Scottish Poetry Library with Akros Publications and Mariscat Press, Edinburgh, 2004). Reprinted by permission of the publishers.

Baur, Chris («The Роре Visits Scotland»), the Scotsman, 2 June 1982. Copyright © The Scotsman Publications Ltd.

Beerbohm, Max («The Opening of Peter Pan»), from the Saturday Review, 7 January 1905, quoted in Rupert Hart-Davis, Around Theatres, London (Granada Publishing Ltd, London, 1953).

Bell, Alexander Graham («The Invention of the Telephone»), from Helen Elmira Waite, Make ajoyful Sound (Macrae Smith Company, 1961), quoted in A Scottish Postbag, ed. George Bruce and Р. H. Scott (W. & R. Chambers, Edinburgh, 1986).

Bell, Ian («The Scottish Parliament Reconvenes»), Ian Bell, in Whata State! Is Devolution for Scotland the End of Britain? ed. Alan Taylor (HarperCollins, London, 2000). Copyright © The Scotsman Publications.

Birrel, Robert («Grammar School Mutiny»), Robert BirrePs diary, quoted in Scottish Diaries and Memoirs, 1550–1746, ed J. G. Fyfe (Stirling, 1927).

Blind Harry («The Rise and Fall of William Wallace»), Blind Harry, The Wallace, ed. Anne McKim (Canongate, Edinburgh, 2003).

Bold, Alan («The Death of Hugh MacDiarmid»), from Alan Bold, MacDiarmid (John Murray, London, 1988). Reproduced by permission of the publisher.

Boswell, James («A Scot Meets Voltaire»), from James Boswell, Boswell on the Grand Tour, ed. Frederick A. Pottle (1953), quoted in The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, ed. James Sutherland (OUP, Oxford, 1975).

Boswell, James («Dr Johnson Arrives in Scotland»), from James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson LLD, 1786, ed. Peter Levi (Folio Society, London, 1990).

Boyd, William («Gordonstoun School»), from William Boyd, Bamboo: Nonfiction 1978–2004 (Hamish Hamilton, London, 2005). Reprinted with permission by Penguin.

Boyle, Jimmy («Prison»), from Jimmy Boyle, A Sense of Freedom (Pan/ Canongate, London/Edinburgh, 1977). Reprinted with permission by Pan Macmillan.

Bradley, Edward («Abbotsford, the Tourist Trap»), from Cuthbert Bede [Bradley’s pseudonym], A Tour in Tartan-Land (Richard Bentley, London, 1863).

Brereton, Sir William («A Visitor’s Impression of Edinburgh»), from Sir William Brereton’s account of Edinburgh in 1636, quoted in Early Travellers in Scotland, ed. P. Hume Brown (Edinburgh, 1892).

Brown, George Mackay («Porridge»), from George Mackay Brown, Rockpools and Daffodiis: An Orcadian Diary 1979–1991 (Gordon Wright, Edinburgh, 1992). Copyright © George Mackay Brown 1992. Reprinted with permission by Steve Savage Publishers Ltd.

Buchanan, George («The Habits of Highlanders»), George Buchanan, found in Early Descriptioris of Scotland, from Rerum Scoticarum Historia, 1582, trans. James Aikman (Blackie, Fullarton & Со., Edinburgh, 1827).

Campbell, Colonei Archibald («The American Independence War»), from J. P. Maclean, A Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America, prior to the peace of 1783 Gohn Mackay, Cleveland and Glasgow, 1900).

Carey, Robert («The Union of the Crowns»), from The Stirring World of Robert Carey: Robert Carey's Memoirs, 1577–1625 (www.RippingYams.com, 2005).

Carlyle, Reverend Alexander («The Porteous Riot», «The Battle of Prestonpans», «Taking a Play to London»), from The Autobiography of Dr Alexander Carlyle of Inveresk 1722–1805, ed. John Hili Burton (1990, Thoemmes Antiquarian Books Ltd, Bristol).

Carlyle, Jane («Thomas Carlyle’s Tax Return»), from Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, ed. J. A. Froude (1883), quoted in The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, ed. James Sutherland (OUP, Oxford, 1975).

Carnegie, Andrew («Andrew Carnegie Shows an Early Interest in Libraries»), from Joseph Frazier Wall, Andrew Carnegie (OUP, Oxford, 1970).