Scotland Connected: The History of Scotland, England and the World at a Glance

Anna Groundwater has long experience of dealing with British, foreign and Scottish students, of all ages, bewildered by the huge task of trying to reconcile the development of Scotland as a nation with what they know of global history. Over time she has developed a way of presenting Scottish history, within a simple framework of dates, which students find helpful.

Anna Groundwater ANNA GROUNDWATER is currently Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Scottish history at Edinburgh University (having herself been educated at Cambridge and Edinburgh), and teaches first year undergraduates in introductory courses to Scottish and British history. She acts as a consultant to TV history programmes, appearing on 'Scotland's Clans' in 2008-09 and 'Born Fighters' (forthcoming)., and previously worked as publicity director for Quartet Books.