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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland [ Clubs & Societies ]

… Abstract A circle of amateur antiquarians established the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1780 to lay the foundation of a museum displaying Scottish and world cultural heritage. It would rapidly establish a wide network of Fellows, almost exclusively masculine, Honorary Fellows, and donors across Scotland, Britain, and Europe. The society played a central role in Edinburgh’s learned sociability and contributed to … century and beyond. Unlike similar European institutions, it was not state-funded and promoted the cultural identity of Scotland within the larger political entity of Great Britain. Places > Clubs & Societies Keywords Antiquarians Edinburgh …

Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]

… > Association Keywords Clans Highlands Union Tartan Scottish society Identity Scottish Enlightenment Clubs and Societies Scotland Tradition In the eighteenth century, Scottish society was still mainly structured into clans, or extended … Campbells, the MacKenzies, the Grants or the MacLeans. Clans are often associated with the Highlands and the Isles of Scotland but they were in fact present everywhere in the kingdom. They could be divided into two distinctive groups … the Highland clans was also one of cattle-thieves and uncivilised groups of people hidden in the most remote places of Scotland. The Statutes of Iona (1609), which obliged all the Highland chiefs’ sons to come and study to Edinburgh or …

James, Duke of York and Albany (and court culture in Edinburgh) [ Aristocracy / Cities ]

… a time when the merchant class had come to be the elite. People > Aristocracy Places > Cities Keywords Court Edinburgh Scotland New elite Duke of York and Albany Reformed society Patronage James of York and Albany came with his family and … However, the departure of the Stuart court for England deprived Edinburgh of its wealthiest clients. Those who stayed in Scotland or eventually came back, such as the well-off aristocracy, the members of the Parliament or the Magistrates, … Edinburgh’s society and forms of sociability were profoundly altered. Prince James, Duke of York and Albany, was sent to Scotland by his brother, Charles II, in October 1679, because of his declared Catholicism. Since the prince was facing …

David Hume [ Philosophy ]

… first at Hume as a sociable philosopher, in theory and in practice  ̶  he belonged to diverse clubs and societies in Scotland and London, then at Hume’s participation in the Republic of Letters, and finally at philosophy as the practice … meditation. He went back to London in 1737, where he published the Treatise (1739-40). In 1739, he returned to Scotland, to work on his Essays , which were published in 1741-42. Unable to secure a position in a Scottish university, … abroad for a few years (working in particular for General James St Clair in Vienna and Turin), before coming back to Scotland in 1749, where he wrote An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals , as well as the Dialogues Concerning …

Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]

… of sociability and the Scottish Enlightenment. According to Nicholas Phillipson, one explanation for eighteenth-century Scotland’s intellectual effervescence lay in the distinctive modes of sociability forged in the nation’s debating clubs, … Smith were forged via the stimulus of conversation and intellectual exchange in a range of private and public spheres in Scotland, as well as across Britain and in the cities and salons of continental Europe. Moreover, philosophical questions … at the heart of the rich mixture of historical, theological, legal and economic writing produced in eighteenth-century Scotland. The issue of sociability was far more than a technical debate in moral philosophy, or a binary controversy …