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Anderson, R. D., Freeman, M. and Paterson, L. (eds.) The Edinburgh History of Education in Scotland, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2015). A collection of essays by leading historians of Scottish education, telling the history of Scottish education since the Middle Ages.

Paterson, L., Scottish Education in the Twentieth Century, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2003). An account which goes into much greater detail than in this present chapter, paying particular attention to the structure of provision – the first aim of this chapter.