Description: Anderson critically analyses the evidence available from regnal lists and Irish annals of the 6th to 9th centuries, to shed new light on the kingdoms of DalRiata and the Picts. This reedition includes a new introduction and a bibliography of recent scholarship by Nicholas Evans.
Brief description: Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson (1909-2002) was raised in St Andrews, and educated there at St Leonard's School, and later at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. After her marriage to the historian Alan Anderson, she acted as his palaeographer and assistant due to his failing eyesight. After his death in 1958, Marjorie Anderson continued to publish on early Scottish history, most notably her works Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland (1973) and her revision of her husband's Early Sources of Scottish History (1922).