Part I museums and modernity in Europe and England
From court to state: the emergence of national art museums in continental Europe
'the peculiarities of the English': the formation of the National Gallery, London
Part II art, society and the birth of the National Gallery of Scotland
Stirrings of the modern: art, civil society and the Scottish Enlightenment
The birth of the National Gallery of Scotland, 1800-59
The high within and the low without: the social production of aesthetic space in the National Gallery of Scotland, 1859-70.