Much of the modern world was created in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. The Scottish Enlightenment was more than just the Scottish branch of that great eighteenth-century European movement of ideas ...

Researchers said traditional clan allegiances were broken down in the 18th Century Researchers have sought to shed light on how the Scottish Enlightenment aided the demise of a violence-dominated ...

Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations," published in 1776, advocated for a free market economy driven by competition and self-interest. Smith argued against mercantilism and government intervention, ...

One of the world's leading historians has described the Scottish Enlightenment as a "fantastic explosion of intellectual adventure" which is still having an impact on the world today. Did you know ...

Scotland can create a new philosophical revolution to rival the achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and others during the Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th century, writes Jamie Cooke. Did you ...

This website is a good guide to the notable figures and events in Scottish Industry during the period known as the Industrial Revolution.You can find out about the working conditions for people of all ...

Here’s some vaguely interesting and almost entirely Wikipedia-based background information for you. The (original) Scottish Enlightenment was one of the most intellectually rich periods in Scotland’s ...

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The meeting in 1774 between Lobsang Palden Yeshes (1738–1780), the Third Panchen Lama, and George Bogle (1746–1781), an agent of the East India Company, was the first encounter between Britain and ...

On Sunday, David Brooks discussed theories of the French and Scottish Enlightenments and their relevance to contemporary American politics. In his definitions, he lumped Edmund Burke with Scottish ...

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Researchers have sought to shed light on how the Scottish Enlightenment aided the demise of a violence-dominated "code of manhood" in the Highlands. Glasgow University's Centre for Gender History ...