Reportage Scotland

by Louise Yeoman

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Contents

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Preface by Professor David Stevenson XI
Introduction XII

AD 84-1296
Saints, Battles and Sinners

  • Caledonians and Romans
  • St Columba (d.597)
  • A Letter to the King of the Picts, ad 716
  • Viking Raids – The Martyrdom of Blathmac
  • St Margaret – Tragedy in the Scots Royal Family
  • A Shrine Fit for a Saint
  • The Battle of the Standard, 1138
  • The Stone of Scone and the Making of a King, 1249
  • Battle on the Sands: King Hacon Intervenes in Scotland, 1263
  • Judgement Day – The Death of Alexander III
  • Extreme Naughtiness in Inverkeithing, 1282

1296-1371
Wars of Independence

  • 1296 and All That
  • William Wallace Nearly Killed My Father
  • Stirling Bridge
  • Wallace’s Execution
  • The Comyn Murder
  • The Bruce Women and the Coronation
  • Barbour’s Bruce – The Taking of Forfar Castle and the Herschip of Buchan
  • Scaling Ladders
  • Bannockburn
  • The Scots Prepare for Battle
  • Sir Thomas Gray Senior in Trouble Again
  • Bruces in Ireland
  • Description of the Scots
  • Bruce’s Heart
  • A Cunning Plan

1371-1513
Stewart Scotland

  • ‘Contempt Cordiale’ – Some Problems with the Auld Alliance
  • The Wolf of Badenoch
  • Scotland’s First University
  • The Battle of Baugé
  • The Battle of the Herrings
  • Murder Most Foul
  • Thunderstruck
  • The Tournament
  • Murder Most Royal
  • Further Royal Catastrophe
  • James III
  • The Marriage of the Thistle and the Rose
  • Flodden
  • Father Damian and the Birds

1500-1560
Towards the Reformation

  • The Old and the New
  • 1532 – News of the New World Reaches Jedburgh
  • ‘It Came Wi’ a Lass’
  • Diplomatic Manoeuvres: A First Glimpse of Mary Queen of Scots
  • Burning Wishart
  • The Murder of the Cardinal
  • Pinkie
  • How Inchcolm was Captured from the English
  • Mary’s Wedding
  • The St Giles Riot

1560-87
Mary’s Scotland

  • Mary’s Return
  • A Night to Remember
  • A Diplomatic Incident
  • Another Night to Remember
  • The Escape from Lochleven
  • Defeat and Flight
  • The Half-Roasted Abbot
  • Mary’s Execution

1588-1625
Jamie Saxt’s Scotland

  • Enemy on the Doorstep
  • Dr Fian’s Love Magic
  • Away with the Fairies
  • The Subtlety of Love
  • Bad Bairns and Jailbreaks
  • Union
  • Mad Cows and Two-Headed Bairns in Leith

1626-1688
Covenanters and Anti-Covenanters

  • The Stoneyfield Sabbath Day
  • The National Covenant
  • The Church Militant
  • Civil War
  • Clan Donald Strikes Back
  • The End of Montrose
  • Disaster at Dunbar – the Fate of the Prisoners of War
  • Royalist Revenge
  • Digging Up Montrose
  • Judas Be Taken!
  • The Cameronians
  • The Holyrood Riot

1689-1745
Revolution, Riot and Parliament

  • Killiecrankie
  • ‘Alace!’ ‘Woe Is Me!’ ‘Quarters For Jesus!’
  • The Massacre of Glencoe
  • Darien
  • The Road to Union
  • Storming the Castle – An Amateur Attempt
  • Rob Roy and the 1715
  • More Spanish Invasion
  • The Porteous Mob

1745-1746
The ’45 and After

  • Prestonpans
  • Occupied Edinburgh
  • Banking under a White Flag
  • What’s the Betting?
  • Derby – Black Friday
  • Falkirk
  • Culloden
  • Aftermath
  • Search and Plunder
  • ‘Betty Burk’

1747-1800
Enlightenment and Empire

  • Kidnapped!
  • The Bloody Tragedy of Douglas
  • The Siege of Quebec
  • Death and David Hume
  • John Paul Jones
  • Enlightenment Edinburgh
  • Thomas Muir
  • Storm of Seringapatam
  • Food Riots in Glasgow

1800-1836
The Splendour and the Squalour: Early 19th-Century Scotland

  • Clearances
  • Sir Walter Scott and the Honours of Scotland
  • New Lanark
  • The Radical War
  • George IV’s Visit
  • In the Dundee Mills
  • The Great Fire of Edinburgh
  • Resurrection Men
  • Reform!
  • From Arran to Quebec

1837-1901
Victorian Scotland

  • Victoria’s Visit
  • Down the Mines
  • The Disruption of the Church of Scotland, 18 May 1843
  • The Highland Potato Famine
  • Observations on Epidemic Cholera
  • To the Gold Fields in Australia
  • ‘Tingle-Bang, Wish-Hiss’ – The Crimea
  • ‘The Thin Red Line’
  • Mutiny
  • Dr Livingstone I Presume?
  • The Tay Bridge Disaster
  • ‘How Much More Valuable Is, Not Even a Sheep, but a Game Bird than a Man?’
  • The Gospel in Korea
  • ‘A Red Letter Day in the History o’ the Ferry’ – The Opening of the Forth Rail Bridge
  • Keir Hardie
  • Escape from Pretoria

1901-1947
Twentieth-Century Scotland I: Scotland over Two Wars

  • Votes for Women, Gunpowder for Burns
  • ‘The Rather Tame War Experiences in Flanders 1915 of La. Cpl George Ramage 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, 8th Brigade 3rd Division’
  • Haig and the Somme
  • John Maclean
  • The Iolaire
  • The General Strike
  • Television
  • Penicillin
  • St Kilda
  • Batons Drawn
  • Shipbuilding
  • Exiling the Italian Scots
  • Clydebank Blitz
  • The First Edinburgh Festival

1947-99
Twentieth-Century Scotland II: The Road to Home Rule

  • Stealing the Stone
  • Elvis at Prestwick
  • The Hamilton By-Election
  • The Ibrox Disaster
  • Referendum – 1979
  • The Miners’ Strike
  • Piper Alpha
  • The Poll Tax
  • Elections ’99
  • The Opening of the New Scottish Parliament

Acknowledgements
Index