The complete online text of The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott.

The Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is the acknowledged master of the historical novel. He was one of the most influential authors of modern times. Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh on August 15, 1771, the son of a lawyer with a...

Walter Scott was the most influential novelist in world literature. Relying on his capacious memory and drawing on medieval and Renaissance verse romance, his eighteenth-century forerunners in the novel, contemporary women writers of "national tales" and...

A TAVERN WAS THE BACKDROP for a seminal moment in the making of British history, when on December 5th, 1707, at the Bear on the Strand, a small gathering of three men met to discuss matters of antiquity. The meeting was prove the...

There were many scholars, naturalists and antiquaries in the UK who built private mineral collections. The 17th century collectors included Sir Christopher Wren, William Cole and Sir Edmund Halley. In the 18th century, several collections became open to the public. These included those of...