David Hume, by David Hume 1711-1776
Channel: Age of Enlightenment
Date: 2015-11-28

This is Hume's story of his own life from the beginning of his The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688 published 1754–1761. David Hume became a librarian at the University of Edinburgh , established 1582, so he had access to a variety of books. Later he went to France and then back to Scotland.