Few Scottish historians are better known than T. C. Smout and fewer still more deserving of the high esteem in which they are held. He has made an outstanding contribution to Scottish historical studies both as an academic discipline and as a subject of wide popular appeal. His retirement in 1991 after twelve years as Professor of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews diminished neither his interest not his output. It did, however, provide a fitting opportunity to honour his accomplishments. This collection of ten essays by his friends and colleagues at St Andrews is a measure of his enormous success in promoting Scottish history there and of their respect for his achievements. Ranging widely over the Scottish past – from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, from high politics to popular protest, from shipwrecks to railway mania, form local social studies to the problem of national identity – the essays pay tribute to the depth of Smout’s historical understanding by reflecting the breadth of research that he has done so much to encourage.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Professor T.C. Smout: An Appreciation
• T.C. SMOUT: A List of Publications
• 1. The Man who would be King: The Lieutenancy and Death of David, Duke of Rothesay, 1399–1402
• 2. ‘It is I, the Earle of Mar’: In Search of Thomas Cochrane
• 3. Chivalry and Citizenship: Aspects of National Identity in Renaissance Scotland
• 4. The Origins of the ‘Road to the Isles’: Trade, Communications and Campbell Power in Early Modern Scotland
• 5. The Laird, his Daughter, her Husband and the Minister: Unravelling a Popular Ballad
• 6. The English Devil of Keeping State; Élite Manners and the Downfall of Charles I in Scotland
• 7. The Wreck of the Dutch East-Indiaman “Adelaar” off Barra in 1728
• 8. Royal Day, People’s Day: The Monarch’s Birthday in Scotland, c.1660–1860
• 9. Railway Mania in the Highlands: The Marquis of Breadalbane and the Scottish Grand Junction Railway
• 10. Whatever Happened to Radical Scotland?: The Economic and Social Origins of the Mid-Victorian Political Consensus in Scotland
• List of Contributors