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William Wallace: A Select Bibliography

Lizanne Henderson

Alexander, Derek and Alan Steel. Wallace, Renfrewshire, and the Wars of Independence. Renfrewshire Local History Forum 1997 (Edinburgh, 1997)

Alexander, G. Sir William Wallace: the Hero of Scotland. An Historical Romance (London, 1903)

An appeal to Scots and Friends at Home and Abroad for a London Memorial to Sir William Wallace, Scots Patriot (1954) National Library of Scotland

Anderson, David. The Martial Achievements of Sir William Wallace; an historical play, in five acts and in verse (Aberdeen, 1821)

Anderson, Lin. Braveheart: From Hollywood to Holyrood (Edinburgh, 2005)

Anon. The Life of Sir William Wallace, the Scots Patriot (Edinburgh, 1810)

Armstrong, Peter. Stirling Bridge and Falkirk, 1297–98 (Oxford, 2003)

——. The Battles of Stirling Bridge and Falkirk: Heraldry, Armour and Knights (Keswick, 1998)

Ash, M. ‘William Wallace and Robert the Bruce: the life and death of a national myth’, in The Myths We Live By, ed. R. Samuel and P. Thompson (London, 1990)

Bain, J. and J. Paterson. The Surroundings of the Wallace Monument as seen from the top (5th edn, 1920)

Barbour, John. The Bruce, ed. A. A. M. Duncan (Edinburgh, 1997)

Barbour, John. The Bruce and Wallace; published from two ancient manuscripts in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates. With notes, biographical sketches, and a glossary [by John Jamieson] (Glasgow, 1869)

Barrow, G. W. S. Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland, 4th edn (Edinburgh, 1992)

Borland, J. C. William Wallace. His Birthplace and Family Connections (n.p., 1999)

Bower, Walter. Scotichronicon, 9 vols., ed. D. E. R. Watt (Aberdeen, 1987–97)

Brady, Sean. Wallace. A drama in two acts (Glasgow, 1998)

Brown, Chris. William Wallace: The True Story of Braveheart (Stroud, 2005)

Brown, J. T. T. ‘The Wallace and the Bruce Restudied’. Bonner Beiträge zur Anglistik (Bonn, 1900)

Brown, Michael. The Wars of Scotland, 1214–1371 (Edinburgh, 2004)

Brunsden, G. M. ‘Aspects of Scotland’s Social, Political and Cultural Scene in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries, as Mirrored in the Wallace and Bruce Traditions’, in The Polar Twins, eds. Edward J. Cowan and Douglas Gifford (Edinburgh, 1999)

Brunton, Alexander. Life and Heroic Actions of Sir Willliam Wallace, Knight of Elderslie (Edinburgh, 1863; Glasgow, 1881; Edinburgh, 1883; Inverkeithing, 1883)

Buchan, Copy of Earl of Buchan’s Letter to General Washington, President of the United States of America, sent enclosed in the box of Wallace’s oak, June 25th, 1791; contained in The Earl of Buchan’s Address to the Americas at Edinburgh on Washington’s Birthday, February 22nd (1811)

Buchanan, Robert. Wallace: A Tragedy in Five Acts (Glasgow, 1856; Edinburgh, 1859)

——. Tragic dramas from Scottish history: Heselrig, Wallace, James the First of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1859)

Burns, W. ‘Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights’ (c.1853)

——. The Scottish War of Independence. Its Antecedents and Effects, 2 vols. (Glasgow, 1874)

Bute, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquis of. Early Days of Sir William Wallace (Paisley, 1876)

Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland (CDS), 5 vols., ed. J. Bain et al (London, 1881–1986)

Cant, R. G. ‘David Stuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan: Founder of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’, in The Scottish Antiquarian Tradition: Essays to mark the bicentenary of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1780–1980, ed. A. S. Bell (Edinburgh, 1981)

Carnegie, A. Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie (Boston and New York, 1920)

Carrick, John Donald. Life of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Ellerslie and Guardian of Scotland, 2 vols. (Glasgow, 1827; Edinburgh, 1830; 3rd edn 1849)

Carruth, J. A. Heroic Wallace and Bruce (Norwich, 1986)

Child, F. J. English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 5 vols. (Boston, 1882–98)

The Chronicle of Lanercost, 1272–1346, trans. H. Maxwell (Glasgow, 1913)

Cochrane, Mary. Wallace and Bruce, Heroes of Scotland . . . Illustrated (London and Edinburgh, 1897)

‘Colossal Statue of Sir William Wallace’, Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. lxxxvii (1817)

Conditions Relative to Proposed Public Competition for the Wallace and Bruce Memorial. Captain Reid’s Bequest, City of Edinburgh (1882)

Cooper, Anthony. William Wallace. Robin Hood Revealed (Greenock, 2000)

Correspondence of the Custodians of the National Wallace Monument. 1936–1938, 29 January 1937, 2 April 1937. Stirling Council Archive

Cowan, Edward J. ‘For Freedom Alone’: The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 (East Linton, 2003)

——. ‘The Wallace Factor in Scottish History’, in Images of Scotland, eds. R. Jackson and S. Wood in The Journal of Scottish Education Occasional Paper, No. 1 (Dundee, 1997) 5–17

Craigie, William A. The Actis and Deidis of Schir William Wallace, 1570 (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 1940; New York, 1940)

Craigie, W. A. ‘Barbour and Harry as Literature’, The Scottish Review, Vol. XXII (1893)

Dalrymple, David, Lord Hailes. Annals of Scotland From the Accession of Malcolme III to the Accession of the House of Stewart, 3 vols. (Edinburgh, 1776–79)

Davidson, J. M. Scotia Rediva: Home Rule for Scotland with the Lives of Sir William Wallace, George Buchanan, Fletcher of Saltoun, and Thomas Spence (London, 1888; 1890; 1893)

Donaldson, P. The Life of Sir William Wallace, the Governor General of Scotland and Hero of the Scottish Chiefs. Containing his parentage, adventures, heroic achievements, imprisonment and death; drawn from authentic materials of Scottish History(Hartford, 1825)

Douglas, George A. H. Sir William Wallace, and other Poems (Glasgow, n.d. [c.1887])

Duncan, Lesley and Elspeth King, eds., The Wallace Muse: Poems and Artworks inspired by the Life and Legend of William Wallace (Edinburgh, 2005)

Edensor, T. ‘National Identity and the politics of memory: remembering Bruce and Wallace in symbolic space’, Environment and Planning D: Space and Society, Vol. 15, No. 2 (1997)

——. ‘Reading Braveheart: Representing and Contesting Scottish Identity’, Scottish Affairs, Vol. 21 (1997)

Fergusson, J. William Wallace: Guardian of Scotland (London, 1938; Stirling, 1948)

Finlay, J. Wallace, or the Vale of Ellerslie, with other poems, 2nd edn (Glasgow, 1804)

Finlay, Richard J. ‘Controlling the Past: Scottish Historiography and Scottish Identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’, Scottish Affairs, No. 9, Autumn (1994)

Fisher, Andrew. William Wallace (Edinburgh, 1986; new edn 2002)

Fleming, Maurice. The Real MacBeth and other stories from Scottish History (Edinburgh, 1997)

Forbes, George. William Wallace: Freedom Fighter (Glasgow, 1996)

Forrest, M. ‘The Wallace Monument and the Scottish National Identity’, unpublished BA (Hons.) dissertation, University of Stirling, 1993

Four new songs, and a prophecy: I. A song for joy of our ancient race of Stewarts. II. The Battle of Preston, that was fought by his Royal Highness Prince Charles, the 21st of September 1745. III. On an honourable atchievement of Sir William Wallace, near Falkirk. IV. A song, call’d, The rebellious crew. V. A prophecy by Mr Beakenhead, Song 111 [Chapbook] c. 1750

Fraser, J. ‘“A Swan from a Raven”: William Wallace, Brucean Propaganda, and Gesta Annalia II’, Scottish Historical Review, Vol. 81 (2002), 1–22

Fraser, William Crawford. Crawford: from the burning of the castle by Sir William Wallace to the visit of King Edward VII (Crawford, 1909)

Fyfe, W. T. Wallace, the Hero of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1920)

L. G. M. G. Authentic Life of Sir William Wallace; with chapter on Traditional Wallace. Compiled from the best authorities (Dundee, 1877)

Geddie, W., ed., A Bibliography of Middle Scots Poets: with an introduction on the history of their reputations. Scottish Text Society, Vol. 61 (Edinburgh, 1912)

The Generous and Noble Speech of William Wallace . . . at the Battle of Falkirk (n.d. [c.1707])

Gentleman, Ebenezer. Wallace and his times . . . Prize essay which gained the silver medal given by the ‘Sir William Wallace Lodge of Free Gardeners’, Stirling (Edinburgh, 1858)

Gibson, R. M. Freedom is a Noble Thing: Scottish Independence, 1286–1329. Scottish Record Office (Edinburgh, 1996)

Glass, C. G. Stray Leaves from Scotch and English History, with the Life of Sir William Wallace, Scotland’s Patriot, Hero, and Political Martyr (Montreal, 1873)

Goldstein, R. J. The Matter of Scotland. Historical Narrative in Medieval Scotland (Lincoln and London, 1993)

Gourmand, Paul. William Wallace. Drame en cinq actes, en vers (Paris, 1898)

Graham, Henry Grey. William Wallace: The Scottish Patriot/by the Right Rev. Bishop

Graham (Glasgow, n.d. [c. 1900])

Grant, A. Independence and Nationhood: Scotland, 1306–1469 (London, 1984)

Gray, D. J. William Wallace: the King’s Enemy (London, 1991; 1995)

The Gude Wallace; to which is added Lord Thomas Stuart (Glasgow, n.d. [c. 1840])

Guide to the National Wallace Monument (n.d.), Stirling Public Library

Guide to the National Wallace Monument. Situated on the Abbey Craig near Stirling containing the Great Sword of Sir William Wallace. The Finest View in Scotland (n.d. [c.1964])

Hamilton of Gilbertfield, W. A New Edition of the Life and Heroick Actions of the Renoun’d Sir William Wallace, General and Governour of Scotland. Wherein the Old obsolete Words are rendered more Intelligible; and adapted to the understanding of such who have not the leisure to study the Meaning, and Import of such Phrases without the help of a Glossary (Glasgow, 1722)

Hamilton, William. The History of the Life and Adventures and Heroic Actions of the Renowned Sir William Wallace (Edinburgh, 1816)

Hamilton, William of Gilbertfield, Blind Harry’s Wallace. Introduced by Elspeth King. Illustrations by Owain Kirby (Edinburgh, 1998)

Harriston, William. Wallace; or the knight of Ellerslie; a poem; in three parts; [and Proposal, for publishing by subscription, Sir William Wallace, a tragedy, in five acts; specimen pages] (Glasgow, 1819)

Hearn, J. Claiming Scotland: national identity and liberal culture (Edinburgh, 2000)

Henderson, T. E. Scottish Vernacular Literature: a succinct history (London, 1898)

Henry, the Minstrel. Hary’s Wallace (vita nobilissimi defensoris Scotie Wilelmi Wallace militis), ed. Matthew P. McDiarmid (Edinburgh, 1968–69)

——. Sir William Wallace: His Life and Deeds (Glasgow, 1910)

——. Sir William Wallace (Abbotsford Series of the Scottish Poets, 1891)

——. The Actis and Deidis of the Illustere and Vailyeand Campioun Schir William Wallace, Knicht of Ellerslie, ed. James Moir. Scottish Text Society (Edinburgh, 1885–89)

——. The life and heroic achievements of Sir William Wallace . . . and the Life of Robert Bruce, king of Scotland: from the original edition in verse (Aberdeen, 1794; Aberdeen, 1842)

——. The history of the life and adventures, and heroic actions, of the renowned Sir William Wallace, general and governor of Scotland/wherein the old obsolete words are rendered more intelligible . . . by William Hamilton; to which is annexed, The life and martial achievements of . . . Robert Bruce, King of Scotland; by John Harvey (Ayr, 1799; Glasgow, 1802; Edinburgh, 1807; Glasgow, 1811; Edinburgh, 1812; Edinburgh, 1816; Edinburgh, 1819; Edinburgh, 1820; Glasgow, 1822)

——. A new edition; of the life and heroic actions of the renown’d Sir William Wallace general and governor of Scotland/wherein the old obscure words are rendered more intelligible . . . by William Hamilton (Aberdeen, 1794)

——. The metrical history of Sir William Wallace, knight of Ellerslie, by Henry, commonly called Blind Harry: carefully transcribed . . . under the eye of the Earl of Buchan. And now printed for the first time, according to the ancient and true orthography. With notes and dissertations (Perth, 1790)

——. A new edition of the life and heroic actions of the renown’d Sir William Wallace . . . Wherein the old obscure words are rendered more intelligible . . . by William Hamilton. To which is annexed, the life . . . of . . . Robert Bruce . . . by John Hervey (Glasgow, 1722; Glasgow, 1756; Dundee, 1770; Aberdeen, 1786)

——. The ancient and renown’d history of the surprising life and adventures and heroic actions of Sir William Wallace . . . (Falkirk, 1785)

——. The life and surprising adventures and heroic actions of Sir William Wallace, general and governor of Scotland. A new edition. Wherein the old obsolete words are rendered more intelligible (Aberdeen, 1774; Crieff, 1774)

——. The acts and deeds of the most famous and valiant champion Sir William Wallace . . . Written by Blind Harry in the year 1361. Together with Arnaldi Blair Relationes (Edinburgh, 1758)

——. The life and acts of . . . Sir William Wallace, knight of Ellerslie; maintainer of the liberty of Scotland; with a preface containing a short sum of the history of that time (Glasgow, 1713; Glasgow, 1736; Glasgow, 1747; Glasgow, 1756)

——. A new edition of The life and heroick actions of the renoun’d Sir William Wallace, general and governor of Scotland/wherein the old obsolete words are rendered more intelligible . . . [by William Hamilton] (Glasgow, 1722)

——. The life and acts of the most famous and valiant champion Sir William Wallace, Knight of Ellerslie . . . With a preface containing a short sum of the history of that time (Edinburgh, 1640; Edinburgh, 1661; Glasgow 1665; Glasgow 1685; Glasgow, 1699; Edinburgh, 1701; Edinburgh, 1709)

——. The lyfe and acts of the most famous and valiant Champion, Sir William Wallace . . . Mayntayner of the Liberties of Scotland (Aberdeen, 1630)

——. The life and acts of the most famous and valiant Champion, Syr William Wallace . . . (Edinburgh, 1620)

——. The lyfe and actis of the maist illuster and vailzeand campioun William Wallace, knicht of Ellerslie, mainteiner and defender of the libertie of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1594; Edinburgh, 1601; Edinburgh, 1611)

The heroic exploits of Sir William Wallace and King Robert Bruce . . . [Chapbook] (Falkirk, 1813)

The history of the renowned Sir William Wallace [Chapbook] (Edinburgh, c.1850)]

The History of the Scottish Patriot, Sir William Wallace (Edinburgh, n.d. [c.1850])

History of Sir William Wallace: The renowned Scottish Champion [Chapbook] (Glasgow, c.1850)

Holford, Miss. Wallace; or, the Fight of Falkirk: a Metrical Romance (London, 1809)

Holland, Thomas Agar. The Colossal Statue of William Wallace: A Poem. By an Undergraduate (Oxford, 1824)

Holt, J. C. Robin Hood (London, 1983)

Holt, Julia. William Wallace (Abingdon, 2000)

Hutcheson, Thomas S. Bibliotecha Wallasiana. List of the various works relating to Sir William Wallace, from 1488 to 1858 (Glasgow, 1858)

[Hutcheson, Thomas Smith] Anon. Life of Sir William Wallace; or Scotland Five Hundred Years Ago (Glasgow, 1858) Appendix of Bibliotheca Wallasiana

Hutchison, H. S. P. Six Plays from Scottish History for Amateur Acting (Glasgow, c.1931)

Illustrated Souvenir of the National Wallace Monument, Stirling (Stirling, 1896)

Johnston, W. T. Wallace and the Hall of Heroes (Edinburgh, 1992)

Jones, D. A. Wee Guide to William Wallace (Edinburgh, 1997)

Justice to Scotland. Report of the Great Public Meeting of the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights, held in the City Hall, Glasgow, December 15 1853

Kamm, Antony and Jennifer Campbell. Wallace, Bruce and the War of Independence (Edinburgh, 1996)

Keen, M. The Outlaws of Medieval Legend (London, 1961)

Keith, A. Several Incidents in the Life of Sir William Wallace, with an account of Lanark, the theatre of his exploits, and a description of the romantic scenery in the neighbourhood (Lanark, 1844)

Kidd, C. ‘The Strange Death of Scottish History revisited. Constructions of the Past in Scotland, c. 1790–1914’, Scottish Historical Review, Vol. LXXVI, 201 April (1997)

——. ‘Sentiment, race and revival. Scottish identities in the aftermath of Enlightenment’, in A Union of Multiple Identities. T he British Isles, c.1750–c.1850, eds. L. Brockliss and D. Eastwood (Manchester, 1997)

King, A. ‘Englishmen, Scots and Marchers: National and Local Identities in Thomas Gray’s Scalacronica’, Northern History, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2 (2000)

King, Elspeth. Introducing William Wallace: the life and legacy of Scotland’s liberator (Fort William, 1997)

Knightley, C. Folk Heroes of Britain (London, 1982)

Lamb, Thomas. The Life and Death of Sir William Wallace, the hero of Scotland. A Historical Drama, in five acts (Carluke, 1866; 1867)

The life and adventures of Sir William Wallace, General and Governor of Scotland . . . containing, a particular account of his most remarkable battles with King Edward (Longshanks); and his mournful fate at London, . . . With an account of the Battle of Bannockburn, which was fought June 24th, 1314 (Glasgow, 1801)

The Life and Heroic Achievement of Sir William Wallace, the Scottish Patriot, and the life of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland: from the original verse (Jedburgh, 1845)

Life and Surprising Adventures of that Renowned Hero, Sir William Wallace [Chapbook] (Edinburgh, n.d.)

The Life and surprising adventures of that renowned hero, Sir William Wallace (Otley, c.1860)

Life in the Times of Wallace and Bruce. Dundee College of Education (Dundee, 1979)

The life of the celebrated Scottish patriot Sir Wm. Wallace. Containing an account of his wonderful exploits, and his battles with the English, &c. [Chapbook] (Glasgow, 1852)

Look at the National Wallace Monument. Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs Tourist Board (Doncaster, c. 1994)

Loudon, Crawfuird C. In Pursuit of William Wallace (Darvel, c. 1999)

Low, Alexander. Scottish Heroes: In the Days of Wallace and Bruce (London, 1856)

McArthur, C. ‘Braveheart and the Scottish Aesthetic Dementia’, in Screening the Past. Film and the Representation of History, ed. T. Barta (Westport, 1998)

——. ‘Scotland and the Braveheart Effect’, Journal of the Study of British Cultures, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1998)

McDiarmid, M. P. Hary’s Wallace (Vita Nobilissimi Defensoris Scotie Wilelmi Wallace Militis), 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1968–69)

——. ‘The Date of the Wallace’, Scottish Historical Review, Vol. xxiv (1955)

Macdougall, N. A. T. ‘The sources: a reappraisal of the legend’, in Scottish Society in the Fifteenth Century, ed. J. M. Brown (London, 1977)

McGowan, A. ‘Searching for William the Welshman’, The Double Treasure, No. 22 (1999)

Mackay, J. William Wallace: Brave Heart (Edinburgh, 1995; 1996)

McKerlie, P. H. Sir William Wallace: the Hero of Scotland. Contains Fresh Information about the Traitorous Opposition he had to encounter in his struggle for Scottish Independence (Glasgow, 1900)

Maclean, Lachlan. Eachdraidhean-beatha nan Albannach iomraiteach ud Uilleam Vallas, Iain Knox agus Rob Ruadh (Struibhle, 1912)

McNamee, C. ‘Willliam Wallace’s invasion of Northern England, 1297’. Northern History, Vol. 26 (1990), 40–58

McNie, A. Clan Wallace (Jedburgh, 1986)

Macrae, D. The Story of William Wallace, Scotland’s National Hero (Glasgow: Scottish Patriotic Association, 1905)

McSeveney, Margaret and Elizabeth Roberts. Wallace’s Women. A play in two acts. Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum

Mair, J. A History of Greater Britain as well England as Scotland compiled from the ancient authorities by John Major (1521), ed. and trans. A. Constable (Edinburgh: Scottish History Society, 1892) Vol. X

Maxwell, H. E. The Early Chronicles Relating to Scotland (Glasgow, 1912)

May it Please your Majesty. The Petition of the undersigned, your Majesty’s loyal subjects, inhabiting that part of your Majesty’s United Kingdom called Scotland (c. 1854)

Meeting of the Custodians’ Committee [National Wallace Monument], Stirling, 12 February 1906

Meeting of the Custodians’ Committee [National Wallace Monument], 14 December 1936

Memorial of the Council of the National Association, to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty’s Treasury, 27 September 1854

The Metrical History of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Ellerslie, by Henry, commonly called Blind Harry: carefully transcribed from the ms. copy of that work in the Advocates’ Library, under the eye of the Earl of Buchan. And now printed for the first time, according to the ancient and true orthography. With Notes and Dissertations. In Three Volumes (Perth, 1790)

Millar, Alexander Hastie. The Story of William Wallace (Glasgow, 1889)

Miller, J. F. Blind Harry’s Wallace. Glasgow Bibliographical Society (Glasgow, 1914)

——. ‘Some additions to the Bibliography of Blind Harry’s Wallace’. Read 19 March 1917). Records of the Glasgow Bibliographical Society, Vol. VI (Glasgow, 1920)

Moir, J. Sir William Wallace: a critical study of his biographer Blind Harry (Aberdeen, 1888)

——. ed. The Actis and Deidis of the Illustere And Vailyeand Campioun Schir William Wallace, Knight of Ellerslie by Henry the Minstrel, commonly known as Blind Harry (Edinburgh, 1885–89)

Morrison, Dorothy. The Wars of Independence (London, 1996)

Morton, Graeme. William Wallace: Man and Myth (Stroud, 2001)

——. ‘The Most Efficacious Patriot: the heritage of William Wallace in nineteenth-century Scotland’. Scottish Historical Review, Vol. LXXVII, 2. No. 204 (1998)

——. Review: ‘Sir William Wallace and other tall stories (unlikely mostly)’, Scottish Affairs, No. 14 (Spring 1996)

Murison, A. F. Sir William Wallace: Guardian of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1898; New York, 2003)

National Wallace Monument. Official Papers and Newspaper Extracts relating to the Wallace Monument Movement kept by Wm. Burns

National Wallace Monument. Stirling: Minute Book kept by William Burns. Minutes of the meeting held at Glasgow 1 May 1856

Neilson, G. ‘On Blind Harry’s, Wallace’ in Essays and Studies (by members of the English Association), Vol. I (Oxford, 1910)

‘A New Work’. Answer to the Pamphlet, ‘Wallace on the Forth’, proving the stratagem at Stirling Bridge and that the Bridge was at Kildean, etc. Also the history of the famous Battle of Stirling Bridge, to which is added two letters written by Sir William Wallace himself, and Wallace’s charter to Scrymgeour of Dundee (Dunfermline, 1841; Stirling, 1861)

Ohlgren, Thomas H., ed., Medieval Outlaws: ten tales in modern English (Stroud, c.1998)

Paterson, J. Wallace and His Times (Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1858)

——. Wallace, the Hero of Scotland. 3rd edn (Edinburgh, 1881)

Porter, J. The Scottish Chiefs and the Heroism of Sir William Wallace (Wakefield, c.1880)

Power, William. Official Guide to the National Wallace Monument (Stirling Town Council, n.d.)

Prestwich, M. C. Edward I (New Haven and London, 1988)

——. ‘England and Scotland during the Wars of Independence’, Scottish Historical Review, Vol. LXV (1986)

——. War, Politics and Finance under Edward I (London, 1972)

Prospects of the Scottish Home Rule Association (Edinburgh, 1892)

Red Lion, Scotland and ‘The Times’. To the editors of the ‘Edinburgh Evening Post’ and the ‘Scottish Record’ (1853)

Reese, Peter. Wallace: A Biography (Edinburgh, 1996)

Ritchie, William Kidd. Scotland in the Time of Wallace and Bruce (London, 1970; 1971; 1974)

Rogers, Charles. The Book of Wallace in Two Volumes (Edinburgh, 1889)

——. Stirling: The Battle Ground of Civil and Religious Liberty (London and Stirling, 1857)

Rosebery, Lord. In Memory of Sir William Wallace: Address by Lord Rosebery (Stirling, 1897)

——. Wallace, Burns, Stevenson: Appreciations by Lord Rosebery (Stirling, 1905)

Ross, D. R. In Wallace’s Footsteps: A Guide to Places Associated with the Life of William Wallace (Glasgow, n.d.)

——. On the Trail of William Wallace (Edinburgh, 1999)

Sawers, P. R. Footsteps of Sir William Wallace. Battle of Stirling: Or, Wallace on the Forth (Glasgow, 1856)

‘Scheme of the Acting Committee’. National Monument to Sir William Wallace on the Abbey Craig near Stirling (n.d. [c. 1856])

Schofield, W. H. Mythical Bards and the Life of Sir William Wallace (Cambridge, Mass., 1920)

Scotichronicon, by Walter Bower, ed. D. E. R. Watt (Aberdeen, 1991–98), 9 vols. [Wallace material is in Vol. 6]

Scotichronicon, Jobannis de Fordun Chronica gentis Scotorum, ed. W. E. Skene (Edinburgh, 1871), Vol. 1

Scotland During the Wars of Independence: a teacher’s resource book (Central Regional Council, 1984)

Scotland in the time of Wallace and Bruce: a teaching pack for P6-S1 pupils (Aberdeen, 1996)

Scotland in 1298: Documents relating to the campaign of Edward the First in that year, and especially to the Battle of Falkirk, ed. H. Gough (Paisley, 1888)

Scotland Yet! An Address Delivered by the Revd James Barr, B.D., at the Wallace Monument, at Elderslie, on 27 August 1921; and now reprinted from the ‘Forward’ of September 3, 1921 (Glasgow, 1921)

Scott, Tom. Tales of Sir William Wallace, guardian of Scotland, freely adapted from The Wallas of Blind Hary (Edinburgh, c.1981)

Scott, Sir Walter. Tales of a Grandfather (Edinburgh, 1828)

The Scottish Hero Wallace, and his period (Edinburgh, 1847?)

Scottish Historical Pageant to be held at Craigmillar Castle (13–16 July 1927, in aid of the Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute for Nurses (Scottish Branch), Official Souvenir Programme

Seal, G. The Outlaw Legend. A cultural tradition in Britain, America and Australia (Cambridge, 1996)

Shade of Wallace, The: A poem (Glasgow, 1807)

Shearer’s Illustrated Souvenir of the National Wallace Monument, Stirling (Stirling, 1896)

Sibbald, J. Chronicle of Scottish Poetry from the Thirteenth Century to the Union of the Crowns, to which is added a glossary, 4 vols. (London, 1802)

Siddons, Henry. William Wallace; or, The Highland Hero. A tale founded on historical fact, 2 vols. (London, 1791)

Some Records of the Origin and Progress of the National Wallace Monument Movement, initiated at Glasgow in March 1856 (printed for private circulation, 1880)

Speidel, Theodor. Wallace, der schottische Held. Inaugural dissertation (Bayreuth, 1911)

Spence, James Lewis Thomas Chalmers. The Story of William Wallace (London, 1919)

Stevenson, J., ed., Documents Illustrative of Sir William Wallace, his Life and Times, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1841; 1870)

Story of Wallace (Scottish Patriotic Association, n.d.)

Sub-committee appointed by a General Committee of Subscribers at Edinburgh, for carrying into execution the design for erecting a National Monument in Scotland in Commemoration of the Triumphs of the Late War by Sea and Land (Edinburgh, 1822)

Subscription Schedule for the National Monument of Sir William Wallace on the Abbey Craig, Near Stirling (n.d.)

Taylor, J. Pictorial History of Scotland (London, 1859)

Telfer, Glenn. William Wallace: A Scots Life (Glendaruel, 1995; 1996; 1998)

Traditions, etc. respecting Sir William Wallace; collected chiefly from publications of recent date/by a former subscriber for a Wallace monument. [Major-General Yuille] (Edinburgh, 1856)

The Tragedy of the Valiant Knight Sir William Wallace to which is prefixed a brief Historical Account of the Knight, and his Exploits for the Delivery of Scotland, and added a more particular Account of the way which he was betrayed into the hands of the English(Glasgow, 1815?)

Tranter, Nigel. The Wallace (London, 1975) Traquair, P. Freedom’s Sword (London, 1998; 2000)

Tytler, P. E. Lives of the Scottish Worthies (London, 1831), Vol. 1

Waddie, Charles. Wallace or The Battle of Stirling Bridge: An Historical Play in Five Acts (Edinburgh, 1890)

Walker, Thomas. Sir William Wallace, his life and deeds . . . in modern prose (Glasgow, 1910)

Wallace and Bruce, a poem (n.d. [c.1825])

Wallace Commemoration Day, Saturday, 26 August, 1933, Held at Wallace Monument, Elderslie. Official Souvenir Programme

‘Wallace Statue Appeal by the Saltire Society, Edinburgh’. Designed and published by Clydesdale District Council (c. 1992)

Wallace, or, the Vale of Ellerslie with Other Poems (Glasgow, 1802)

Wallace, the Hero of Scotland, a drama, in three Acts: Adapted to Hodgeson’s Theatrical Characters and Scenes in the Same (London, 1822)

Wallace, the Hero of Scotland; or Battle of Dumbarton, An Historical Romance in which the love of liberty and Conjugal Affections are exemplified in the characters of Sir William Wallace and Lady Wallace, with the unparalleled Bravery of the former against a band of Ruffians in the rescue of the Earl of Mar, and his revenge on the governor of Lanark for the Murder of Lady Wallace (London, n.d. [c. 1825])

Wallace; or the life and acts of Sir William Wallace, of Ellerslie. By Henry the Minstrel. Published from a manuscript dated MCCCLXXXVIII, ed. J. Jamieson (new edn, Glasgow, 1820, 1869)

Wallace, Randall. Braveheart (London, 1995)

Watney, John. William Wallace. Braveheart (Andover, c.1997)

Watson, Fiona. ‘The Enigmatic Lion. Scotland, Kinship and National Identity in the Wars of Independence’, in Image and Identity, eds. Dauvit Broun, Richard J. Finlay and Michael Lynch (Edinburgh, 1998)

——. Under the Hammer: Edward I and Scotland, 1286–1307 (East Linton, 1998)

Watson, J. S. Sir William Wallace, the Scottish Hero: A narrative of his Life and Actions, chiefly as recorded in the Metrical History of Henry the Minstrel on the authority of John Blair, Wallace’s Chaplain, and Thomas Gray, Priest of Liberton (London, 1861)

William Wallace: National Hero of Scotland. Scottish Secretariat (Glasgow, 1955?)

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VIDEORECORDING

Braveheart (Twentieth Century Fox, 1995), motion picture. Directed by Mel Gibson

The Three Lives of William Wallace (Saltire Films, 2005). Directed by Ross Harper

William Wallace: The True Story (Cromwell Films, 1998). Directed by Jock Ferguson

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