Life of Elizabeth I
by Alison Weir. I read this after watching the video Elizabeth - to get my history straight - and enjoyed it much more than the video!
Mary Queen of Scots
The biography by Lady Antonia Fraser. Excellent, of course.
Robert the Bruce : King of Scots
by Ronald McNair Scott
O.K., so I don't have any songs about the Bruce yet - but this is a great biography so I put it here anyway. When I can find the music to The Field of Bannockburn it will be on my site...
Freedom's Sword
by Peter Traquair
An EXCELLENT book on Scotland's Wars of Independence, including Wallace, Robert the Bruce to the Treaty of Berwick in 1357.