Peter Hume Brown, FBA was a Scottish historian and professor who played an important part in establishing Scottish history as a significant academic discipline. In addition to teaching and writing, he
Peter Hume Brown
The Scottish Reformation was the process whereby Scotland broke away from the Catholic Church, and established the Protestant Church of Scotland. It forms part of the wider European 16th-century Prote
Peter Hume Brown
…a "revolutionary step" for a university to include study of "the national history". Hume Brown was concerned with Scotland's nationhood, and saw the Reformation as a key period in the development of a national consciousness, when "Scotland was entering on a new phase of her national life". He lectured his…
Henry Wardlaw (died 1440), Bishop of St Andrews, royal tutor and adviser, founder of The University of St Andrews and key figure in fighting Lollardy
A mid-16th-century oak panel carving from a house in Dundee
Portrait of Hector Boece (1465–1536), a major figure in European humanism, who returned to be the first principal of the University of Aberdeen
The Martyrs' Monument at Saint Andrews commemorates Protestants executed before the Reformation: Patrick Hamilton, Walter Milne, Henry Forrest and George Wishart.