Professor T. C. Smout was educated at the Leys School and Clare College, Cambridge. He was appointed to the Personal Chair in Economic History, University of Edinburgh, in 1971, and took up his present position as Professor of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews in 1980. Besides publishing journals, he is the author of Scottish Trade on the Eve of the Union and A History of the Scottish People (the companion to this volume, also availavble from FP), and co-author of Scottish Population History from the Seventeenth Century to the 1930s, The State of the Scottish Working Class in 1943 and Scottish Voices 1745-1960 (also available from FP)