Auteur: Professor Murray Pittock

The changes begun by the devolution referendum of 1997 have caused interest and concern throughout Britain. What seemed a remote and abstract question to many has, in the last few years, struck at th …

Robert Burns (1759 –1796), Scotland”s national poet and pioneer of the Romantic Movement, has been hugely influential across Europe and indeed throughout the world. Burns has been translated seven t …

Robert Burns (1759 –1796), Scotland”s national poet and pioneer of the Romantic Movement, has been hugely influential across Europe and indeed throughout the world. Burns has been translated seven t …

This book examines the difficulties and challenges which faced attempts to create a British identity. Taking its perspective from the cultural, social and political margins of the British Isles, it d …

The last genuine rebellion on British soil, the Jacobite rising of 1745 forms one of the greatest ‘what ifs’ of British history. If Bonnie Prince Charlie’s troops had defeated the forces of George II …