Further reading PWJ Riley, 'The English ministers and Scotland, 1707-1727' (London, 1964) JS Shaw, 'The management of Scottish society, 1707-1764' (Edinburgh, 1983) JSS Shaw, 'The political history of eighteenth-century Scotland' (London, 1999) A Murdoch, 'The people above: Politics and administration in mid-eighteenth century Scotland' (Edinburgh, 1979) M Fry, 'The Dundas despotism' (Edinburgh, 1992) John S Gibson, 'The thistle and the crown - a history of the Scottish Office' (HMSO: Edinburgh, 1985) Ian Levitt, ed., 'Government and social conditions, 1845-1919' (Scottish History Society, 1988) Ian Levitt, 'A history of The Scottish Office, 1919-59' (Scottish History Society, 1992) Sir David Milne, 'The Scottish Office' (George, Allen and Unwin: London, 1957)
