Adam Smith: an enlightened life

A Kirkcaldy upbringing

Glasgow, Glasgow University and Francis Hutcheson's enlightenment

Private study 1740-46 : Oxford and David Hume

Edinburgh's early enlightenment

Smith's Edinburgh lectures : a conjectural history

Professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow, I. 1751-9

The 'Theory of moral sentiments' and the civilizing powers of commerce

Professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow, 2. 1759-63

Smith and the Duke of Buccleuch in Europe 1764-6

London, Kirkcaldy and the making of the 'Wealth of nations' 1766-76

The 'Wealth of nations' and Smith's "very violent attack ... upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain"

Hume's death

Last years in Edinburgh 1778-90.