page_title: James Taylor (minister)
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: James Taylor (minister) / Works
caption_attribution_description: Steel engraving of a sketch depicting the speech of Calgacus before the Caledonians at the Battle of Mons Graupius.
context_page_description: James Taylor was a Scottish minister and historical author.
context_section_description: Taylor's published writings:
  The Pictorial History of Scotland, London, 1852–9, 2 vols. enlarged edition, 1884–8, 6 vols.
  The Scottish Covenanters, London, 1881.
  The Age we live in: a History of the Nineteenth Century, Glasgow, 1884.
  Curling, the ancient Scottish Game, Edinburgh, 1884; 2nd ed. 1887.
  The Great Historic Families of Scotland, London, 1887, 2 vols.; 2nd ed. 1891–4.
  Taylor also enlarged and continued Patrick Fraser Tytler's History of Scotland, (1845, 1851, 1863); abridged John Kitto's Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature, 1849; and edited The Family History of England, London, 1870–5, 6 vols. He contributed articles to the Encyclopædia Britannica, Imperial Dictionary of Biography, and United Presbyterian Magazine, and published some sermons and pamphlets. The Victorian Empire: a brilliant epoch of our national history (3 vols.) was edited by Taylor and published posthumously in 1897-8; it includes a life of Queen Victoria, essays on Victorian science and on the Indian Empire and other colonial territories.
caption: Calgacus, an illustration from The Pictorial History of Scotland by James Taylor
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