Want to travel to 1314 and see Robert the Bruce slaying an English knight? Why step this way, madam.
- Bradley Professor of English Literature and Pro Vice-Principal, University of Glasgow
Years before anyone conceived celebrity, the Scottish bard may have been the first to turn himself into a brand.
The Jacobites are regularly cast as ‘primitive’ Scots – yet it is a false narrative suited for political ends.
Scotland has always been a distinct nation but since the Act of Union in 1707, it has been a nation within a larger political entity: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The election…
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