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'''''Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland''''' is a reference work published by [[HarperCollins]], edited by the husband and wife team, [[John Keay|John]] and [[Julia Keay]].

==History==
[[Scottish people|Scots]] had provided the impetus for a number of well-known references works, ''[[Chambers Dictionary]]'' and ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://heritage.scotsman.com/ingenuity.cfm?id=634942005&20050610140559 |title=Scotland and the ultimate reference book |access-date=June 21, 2020}}{{dead link|date=June 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, history of the ''Britannica'' on ''[[The Scotsman]]'s'' Heritage and Culture pages.</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Herman | first = Arthur | year = 2002 | title = [[How the Scots Invented the Modern World]] | publisher = Three Rivers Press | isbn = 978-0-609-80999-0}}</ref> amongst them (the latter still uses a Scottish [[thistle]] as a logo), but hitherto there had been no general purpose Scottish encyclopaedia.

==Statistics==
The encyclopaedia took seven years to compile and has appeared in two editions. The first edition, published in 1994, contained about a million words, nearly five hundred illustrations, and had 126 contributors, ranging from [[Derick Thomson]] to [[David Steel]], from [[Alan Bold]] to [[Neil MacCormick]] and from [[Joy Hendry]] to Sir [[William Macpherson (judge)|William Macpherson]] of [[Cluny]]. It has four thousand individual entries, and an index indicating further references in other articles.<ref>Webster, Jack (26 September 1994) [http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/couple-with-the-last-word-on-scotland-s-story-1.483557 "Couple with the last word on Scotland's story"]. Glasgow. ''The Herald''. Retrieved 17 October 2013.</ref>

==Articles==
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In the original edition, the first entry is [[Aaron Scotus]], and the last on the marquisate of [[Shetland|Zetland]] (the only Z entry).

The aim seems to have been to have reasonably brief entries on most topics, but subjects that get lengthier ones, include Scotland's major cities (including the traditional city of [[Perth, Scotland|Perth]]), [[football in Scotland|association football]] and [[Rugby union in Scotland|rugby in Scotland]], the [[Scottish Gaelic language]], [[Scots law]] etc. A wide variety of topics are dealt with, including figures from [[science]], [[literature]], [[philosophy]], [[sport]] and [[history]].

Less "obvious" topics which have entries include the Roman general [[Gnaeus Julius Agricola|Agricola]] (who tried to [[Roman invasion of Caledonia|invade Scotland]]), the [[hooded crow]], [[Berwick-upon-Tweed]] (which has a stormy past, lying right on the [[Anglo-Scottish Border]]) and [[medicinal plants]].

Several appendices cover the schisms (and mergers) of [[Church of Scotland|Scottish Presbyterian]] factions from 1700 to the date of publication, and also the [[Scottish royal line]].

==Second edition==
The second edition in 2000 contained over a hundred new articles,<ref>[[Neal Ascherson|Ascherson, Neal]] (10 December 2000) [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/dec/10/historybooks.nealascherson "Picts and stones"]. London. ''The Observer''. Retrieved 17 October 2013.</ref> amongst them, ones on [[Billy Bremner]] the footballer, [[Dolly the Sheep]], the [[Scottish Parliament]] and the politician [[John Smith (Labour Party leader)|John Smith]].

==References==
* Most of the above information is taken from the first edition of ''Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland''
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==See also==
*''[[Gazetteer for Scotland]]''
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