Scottish History Society

With the tide of Scots national feeling running strongly, the Scottish History Society can feel the stir of life along its keel. Now well past its 100th birthday, the Society was founded in 1886 at the suggestion of Lord Rosebery, the Liberal politician. Future prime minister and three times Derby winner, the author of books on Pitt, Napoleon and Cromwell, he was the most famous and most popular man in Scotland. He was the Society's first president, which he remained until his death in 1929, and took a vigorous interest in its affairs. He was succeeded by John Buchan, G.M. Trevelyan was president in the 1940s, and the Society recognises without rancour that many distinguished historians of Scotland have been English.