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.
