This history offers a scholarly survey of the forces that have shaped modern Scotland.
Sir Tom Devine is the Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or editor of more that forty books on Scottish historical studies and related fields. The only historian to be knighted by HM The Queen for services to the study of Scottish history, he has been described by The Times newspaper as as close to a national bard as the nation has.
