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Linen was Scotland's premier industry in the 18th century and formed the basis for the later cotton, jute, [177] and woollen industries. [178] Scottish industrial policy was made by the board of trustees for Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland, which sought to build an economy complementary, not competitive, with England.
The Scottish Enlightenment (Scots: Scots Enlichtenment, Scottish Gaelic: Soillseachadh na h-Alba) was the period in 18th- and early-19th-century Scotland characterised by an outpouring of intellectual and scientific accomplishments. By the eighteenth century, Scotland had a network of parish schools in the Scottish Lowlands and
This is a timeline of Scottish history, ... 18th century. Year Date ... Act 1775 commences the removal of life bondage of coal and salt workers. [2]
18th-century military history of Scotland (5 C) ... Pages in category "18th century in Scotland" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total.
The demographic history of Scotland includes all aspects of ... A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century Scotland (Edinburgh ... the 17th and 18th ...
The term Scottish Agricultural Revolution was used in the early 20th century primarily to refer to the period of most dramatic change in the second half of the 18th century and early 19th century. More recently historians have become aware of a longer processes, with change beginning in the late 17th century and continuing into the mid-19th ...
Scotland in the early modern period refers, for the purposes of this article, to Scotland between the death of James IV in 1513 and the end of the Jacobite risings in the mid-eighteenth century. It roughly corresponds to the early modern period in Europe , beginning with the Renaissance and Reformation and ending with the start of the ...
Houston, R. A., Scottish Literacy and the Scottish Identity: Illiteracy and Society in Scotland and Northern England, 1600–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), ISBN 0-521-89088-8. Jones, C., A Language Suppressed: The Pronunciation of the Scots Language in the 18th Century (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1993), ISBN 0-85976-427-3.