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In 1994, as part of a stock-taking instigated by the SHR Trust, four historians offered a broadly positive assessment of the historiography of early modern Scotland. Focusing on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, their papers highlighted a shift away from insular narratives and narrow Anglo-Scottish comparisons towards a wider contextualisation of Scottish history. Concurrent with this shift, it was argued, the professional standards and output of the field had risen. The field was moving with the times but, as one scholar stressed, resisting the alien forces of postmodernism. 1 Nearly two decades later, though few Scottish historians would label themselves postmodernists, postmodern and poststructural influences have diffused into Scottish history through the ‘cultural turn’, altering the terms of debate in a number of traditional topics in early modern historiography. At the same time, present-day concerns, from postcolonialism to devolution, have combined with ongoing empirical revisionism and the cultural turn to reshape the history of Britain and its empire, again with significant implications for early modern Scottish history. Most recently, the rise of interest in globalisation and its history has expanded the international contexts in which Scottish history can be situated. Alongside these intellectual shifts, key sources have become more available to scholars and students alike through the exploitation of new funding streams and technologies. This paper will consider the impact of these trends on histories of Scotland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 2

Cultural, British and Global Turns in the History of Early Modern Scotland