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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
Linen was Scotland's premier industry in the 18th century and formed the basis for the later cotton, jute, [179] and woollen industries. [180] 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.
June–August – English poet John Keats with his friend Charles Armitage Brown makes a walking tour of Scotland, Ireland and the English Lake District. On 11 July, while in Scotland, he visits Burns Cottage, the birthplace of Robert Burns (1759–96). Before Keats arrives, he writes to a friend "one of the pleasantest means of annulling self ...
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland are a series of documentary publications, related in subject matter though published at different times, covering life in Scotland in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The Old (or First) Statistical Account of Scotland was published between 1791 and 1799 by Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster.
Scottish education in the eighteenth century; Scottish Enlightenment; Scottish literature in the eighteenth century; Scottish religion in the eighteenth century; Scottish representatives to the first Parliament of Great Britain; Sewed muslin; Ship of the People; Society of the United Scotsmen; Squadrone Volante (Scotland) Stockingfield Junction ...
The 18th century saw itself as the Age of Reason and in this climate of Enlightenment.Enlightenment historians tended to react with embarrassment to Scottish history, particularly the feudalism of the Middle Ages and the religious intolerance of the Reformation. [1]
People of the Scottish Enlightenment (4 C, 110 P) Pages in category "18th-century Scottish people" The following 170 pages are in this category, out of 170 total.
The Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland unite. 1934: Scottish National Party founded. 1938: The Empire Exhibition, Scotland is held at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. 1941: The Clydebank Blitz (13–15 March). 1943: Creation of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board to bring electricity to all parts of the Highlands and ...