Aggravation of national relations in a number of Western European countries in the 60-70s of the XX century. it helped to increase the interest of foreign science in the history of small nations and peoples that are now part of multinational capitalist states. This also explains the fact that over the past decade and a half or two, there has been a steady increase in the volume of research on the history and historiography of one of the leading national regions of this country-Scotland. The greatest activity in modern British historiography is shown by the bourgeois-liberal Scottish school, which developed at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. Major centers such as the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews, Aberdeen, Dundee, and Stirling play a significant role in the development of the Scottish historiographic tradition. Historical societies such as the Scottish Historical Association, the Society for the Study of the Scottish Working Class, the Scottish History Society, the Economic History Society and many others occupy an important place in modern historical science in Scotland. Universities and historical societies in Scotland have a publishing base that allows them to publish historical journals, collections of scientific papers, yearbooks, and monographs. Among the most authoritative academic periodicals is the Scottish Historical Review (SHR), which has been published intermittently (in 1929-1946) since 1903. The study of the problems of this journal for the 60s-early 80s gives an idea of the trends in the development of modern historical science in Great Britain. At the origins of the revival of the magazine in the post-war period was the famous Scottish historian W. Dickinson, a recognized specialist in the history of the Middle Ages in British history and a publisher of archival documents. For a long time - from 1947 to 1963 - he supported the SHR, which was published in Edinburgh by the private company of T. Nelson. In the mid-60s, the magazine, ... Read more