Approximately 250 years ago, the windswept and unwelcoming capital of a relatively insignificant northern nation became a beacon of intelligence for the entire world. Edinburgh, which had been widely ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: This week, light from the north - how much of the modern world was created in Glasgow, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...