Reading Time: 4 minutes Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson’s reputations were created primarily by Hollywood
Tag: Scotland
Flora Macdonald, from Scottish rebel to loyalist
Reading Time: 4 minutes Flora Macdonald helped Boonie Prince Charlie escape to France after the disastrous Battle of Culloden
The Stuarts, a dynasty brought down by religion
Reading Time: 4 minutes In addition to displaying the Stuart propensity for absolutism, James II publicly converted to Catholicism. The die was cast
What if Brexit leads to the breakup of the United Kingdom?
Reading Time: 3 minutes A separate Scotland and a unified Ireland would certainly face new challenges. But life might be easier for the English
Brexit’s potential for unintended consequences
Reading Time: 3 minutes How about Scottish independence and Irish unification, just to start the conversation?
Legend, reality and the Outlaw King
Reading Time: 3 minutes The full story of Robert the Bruce’s ascendancy to the Scottish crown is more intricate and certainly less romantic
The tangled tragedy of Mary, Queen of Scots
Reading Time: 4 minutes Over the past four-plus centuries, Mary’s reputation has waxed and waned. A movie due out this year should put a positive spin on it
Bringing clarity to the muddy waters of separatist movements
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada’s Clarity Act may be the key to managing issues of sovereignty around the world
Does the Catalonian crisis signal the end of the nation state?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Across the globe, a deep and growing frustration with the nationalist status quo is driving regional politics
A minibus ramble through Scottish Highland history
Reading Time: 4 minutes As our minibus pulled to a stop, I felt suddenly that my grandmother’s love of the Highland landscape was surrounding us all