Andrew Lang was born in Selkirk in 1844 and died in Banchory in 1912. He was the son of the sheriff-clerk of Selkirkshire, and was educated at Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews and Glasgow Universities, and Balliol College, Oxford. He was a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson and produced many books, including novels, children's books, histories, and biographies, as well as criticism, essays, scholarly works of anthropology, and translations of classical literature.
Between 1900 and 1907 Lang published his four volume A History of Scotland - From the Roman Occupation. The book whose contents are reproduced here, A Short History of Scotland was a one volume, 33 chapter, distillation of his earlier work published in 1911. It covers the period from Agricola's arrival in Scotland in AD81 to The Appin Murder on 14 May 1752.
Like other eBooks whose texts are reproduced on Undiscovered Scotland, A Short History of Scotland is long out of copyright. What sets the Undiscovered Scotland version apart is the cross linking between the text of the book and geographical and biographical features elsewhere on the site, allowing the reader to explore beyond the text itself, finding out more about the places and people mentioned.
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