Scotland's Story

{{Short description|1906 book by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox book |

| name = Scotland's Story: A History of Scotland for Boys and Girls

| author = H. E. Marshall

| illustrator = J. R. Skelton, John Hassall, and J. Shaw Crompton

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| subject = History

| genre = Reference

| publisher = Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.

| pub_date = 1906

| media_type = Print (hardback)

| pages = 428 pp

| preceded_by = Our Island Story

| followed_by = Stories of Guy of Warwick Told to the Children

}}

Scotland's Story is a book by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall first published in 1906 in the United Kingdom{{cite news |title=Enduring mystery of British history's 'lost' storyteller |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-13069091.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104194927/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-13069091.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 4, 2012 |work=The Scotsman |date=August 23, 2005 |accessdate=September 23, 2010 }} and in 1910 in the United States.{{cite news |title=Fiction by Authors New and Old for the Spring |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1910/01/08/archives/new-york-book-announcements-fiction-by-authors-new-and-old-for-the.html |work=The New York Times |date=January 8, 1910 |accessdate=September 23, 2010 }} It was reissued in 2005.{{cite news |title=History's gripping when turned into ripping yarns |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article624915.ece |work=The Times |date=November 6, 2006 |accessdate=September 23, 2010 }}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} It is about the history of Scotland, and it also has some legends having to do with Scotland. The book has been described by historian Richard J. Finlay as "replete with... imperial iconography".{{Cite journal | authorlink = Richard J. Finlay| last1 = Finlay | first1 = R. | title = The rise and fall of popular imperialism in Scotland, 1850-1950 | journal = Scottish Geographical Journal | volume = 113 | pages = 13–21 | year = 1997 | doi = 10.1080/00369229718736986}}

Scotland's Story starts off with the legend of Prince Gathelus,{{cite web|url=http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=marshall&book=scotland&story=gathelus&PHPSESSID=49e2faa3e6d549807967644fb0d0371d|title=The Story of Prince Gathelus|accessdate=2009-04-19}} and it ends with King George IV. It ended here because as Marshall says in the book "And here I think I must end, for Scotland has no more a story of her own – her story is Britain's story."{{cite web|url=http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=marshall&book=scotland&story=save&PHPSESSID=49e2faa3e6d549807967644fb0d0371d|title=George IV|accessdate=2009-04-19}}

Some of the stories this book includes are those of Macbeth,{{cite web|url=http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=marshall&book=scotland&story=sisters|title=Macbeth and the Three Weird Sisters|accessdate=2009-04-19}} William Wallace,{{cite web|url=http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=marshall&book=scotland&story=wallace|title=The Adventures of Sir William Wallace|accessdate=2009-04-19}} Robert the Bruce,{{cite web|url=http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=marshall&book=scotland&story=bruce|title=Robert the Bruce-How the Bruce Received a Letter and Struck a Blow|accessdate=2009-04-19}} and the Stewart kings,{{cite web|url=http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=marshall&book=scotland&story=french|title=Robert II-The First of the Stewart Kings|accessdate=2009-04-19}} but there are many more.

The book's depiction of William Wallace, which describes him as paving the way for the union of Scotland with England,{{cite news |title=Wallace was a unionist hero claims historian |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article557493.ece |work=The Sunday Times |date=August 21, 2005 |accessdate=September 23, 2010 }}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} has been described as a "romanticised illustration" not "based on any idea of historical reality".{{Cite journal| authorlink = Hew Strachan| last1 = Strachan | first1 = H. | title = Scotland's Military Identity | jstor = 25529923 | journal = The Scottish Historical Review | volume = 85 | issue = 220 | pages = 315–332 | year = 2006 | doi = 10.1353/shr.2007.0026}}