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A comprehensive history of ethnic and religious identity in Scotland through a study of politics and football. ... Read more

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Rangers Football Club, "The Sunday Post" and the Orange Order are the modern outlets for a Protestantism that in the past has been seen to characterize Lowland Scotland and provide the motivating force behind many of Scotland's most outstanding men and women. This is an academic study of Protestantism's role in Scottish culture. It examines in turn the different institutions and social movements which are considered to be distinctively Scottish and traces the Protestant element in each. The 19th century foundations of Scottish Protestantism, its role in the military and politics, and its association with working class culture are described in detail, and there are chapters on the Orange Order and Protestantism and gender. ... Read more

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Sir David Lindsay of the Mount is a key figure in the history of Scottish literature and in any wider analysis of the Renaissance period. To date, studies have concentrated largely on Lindsay the poet or Lindsay the religious reformer, approaches that neglect his greater importance. By locating him more precisely within a historical, political and religious context, this book illuminates both Lindsay's own work and the ideas that helped shape Scottish culture during his time. The book is divided into three parts. The first part addresses Lindsay's career, tracing his service at the courts of James IV and James V and his involvement in the religious controversies of the period. The second part looks at Lindsay as political thinker, examining his ideas on such issues as kingship and commonweal. The third part discusses Lindsay's poetry in the light of the religious climate in Scotland on the eve of the Reformation. ... Read more

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Spanning more than 100 years of cultural history, this book examines the ways that representations of Scottish identity in Scotland and abroad have influenced and responded to the rapid changes of modernity since 1890. Popular representations of Scottish national, ethnic, and cultural identity are in abundance not only in Scotland, but also in the United States, Canada, and throughout the Anglophone settler nations of the world. The author argues that Scotland's history, traditions, and bloodlines have served as ideological battlegrounds for Scots and non-Scots alike to give voice to fantasies of pre-industrial communities and to the realities of working class life. Linking a range of nationalist renditions of Scottish culture, including poetry, film, folklore studies, clan organizations, and popular fiction, this volume shows the importance of Scotland to our present understanding of class, gender, race, and national identity. ... Read more

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The Tapestry of the Law brings together a study of aparticular legal system - that of Scotland - with anumber of (mainly contemporary) theories of or about law. Rather thanendorsing any one legal theory, it ends with some tentativeconclusions about legal theory itself. It is written for all thoseinterested in the law, whether in the academic context, aspractitioners of law or politics, or from the lay point of view, butprimarily with students in mind. At this level, chapters II to VIprovide an information base for those embarking on courses incomparative law or politics, whilst the whole, and especially thelater chapters, will offer most to those who already have somegrounding in the issues with which jurisprudence is concerned. ... Read more

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Of the wide range and diversity of British products that are now household names, both at home and abroad, the Scots can take pride in the fact that many of them began in Scotland. When people first spread Robertson's Golden Shred Marmalade on their toast, it was by courtesy of a Paisley man, James Robertson. How would the housewife have thickened her sauce without cornflour, first produced in Paisley by Brown & Polson in 1854? Pringle of Hawick gave the world the first knitted twin-set; J & P Coats of Paisley, whose origins go back to 1830, grew into the largest thread manufacturer in the world, and the UK's number one comic, The Beano, was born in Dundee.This new edition of "Made in Scotland" features the stories behind a wide number of the best-known household names that originated in Scotland. It is a fascinating and nostalgic journey into the past and a wonderful celebration of Scottish industry. It includes a huge number of photographs of old advertisements, slogans and trademarks of all the products featured. ... Read more

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Going to the Pictures recalls the days when a night out could only mean a trip to the local Regal or fleapit. The century's most popular art form is remembered in the words of cinema-goers from all over the country, recalling village halls in the Highlands and Islands, as well as the art deco palaces of the cities. Scots share memories of the Silent days, courting in the balcony, noisy children's matinees, and the sheer glamour of Hollywood and the stars. Scottish images on the big screen also feature in a survey of a hundred years of Scotland on film. ... Read more

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An overview of Scottish culture from the time of union with England and Wales up to and through the moment of devolution to the present.

A wide-ranging introduction to Scottish culture, this book examines the central place of Scottish cultural studies within British cultural studies, describing the changing relationship of Scotland and the union as a whole. Scotland has a disproportionately high production of British output in many fields -- technological, colonial, political, artistic and literary -- and this book shows how Scotland, long used to the differences between nation and government, is leading the constitutional changes which are accompanying the breakup of the British union today. It condenses much of the pioneering research done on Scottish studies over the last couple of decades, as well as introducing new research. Each chapter introduces an aspect of modern Scottish culture, including film, religion, sport, cultural history, mass media and literature.

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The Renaissance in Scotland is a collection of original essays on awide range of topics concerning the cultural history of Scotland. The periodconcerned extends from the late fifteenth through to the early seventeenthcentury.The individual studies take various aspects of culture as theirstarting-points: literature; the history of manuscripts and printed books;libraries; the law; the universities; music; education; social, political andecclesiastical history. The essays, however, all take full account of thelarger context provided by the age of humanism and reform, as this wasmanifested in Scotland.The Renaissance in Scotland contains an abundance of new information andoffers many challenging new insights and interpretations. It will be ofinterest to all those concerned with the cultural and intellectual history ofScotland and of northern Europe in general. ... Read more

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This provocative book follows MGM's Gene Kelly musical Brigadoon through the worlds of 1940s Broadway theatre and 1950s Hollywood and documents the contempt the film has elicited, particularly from the Scots intelligentsia. McArthur succumbs to Brigadoon's charm, but finds no such mitigating features in Mel Gibson's 1995 blockbuster Braveheart. Tracing Braveheart's appropriation by political, touristic and sporting figures, he argues that, far from its being about Scottish history, it is primarily about Hollywood's generic forms and cinematic traditions. He looks too at the way the film distorts history and examines Braveheart's sinister appeal to the proto-fascist psyche. McArthur argues that both films have enormous resonance within Scottish culture and the Scots diaspora and, crucially, for a vast worldwide audience who may have no other knowledge of the Scots.
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Illustrated Shallow Grave and Trainspotting were two of the most significant films for kick-starting the revival of a more successful and popular British Cinema in the 90s. Both were Scottish. So are the actors Robert Carlyle and Ewan McGregor, two of the leading lights amongst the young talent spearheading this UK renaissance. Indeed over the past five years a vital Scottish cinema has emerged with a degree of independence from the British industry and a confidence and identity of its own. This book provides the first overview of these developments and the institutional context within that such successes as Regeneration, Carla's Song, Mrs Brown, and My Name is Joe have appeared. It also examines the longer and deeper history of Scottish film production, from the silent period onwards, that has yet to receive its full due.The emergence of a new Scottish cinema is related to the development of film production based in Scotland via a consideration of the significance of documentary and the convergence of television drama and cinema. It explores the inspirational work of pioneering "auteurs" like Bill Douglas and Bill Forsyth and a new wave of creative filmmaking, drawing upon both popular genres and the more personal concerns of European art cinema. Lastly the book also considers the increasing international engagement with Scotland that has led to the making of Hollywood blockbusters like Rob Roy and the Oscar winning Braveheart.Placing its analysis in the context ofa devolving British cinema and the idea of national cinemas more generally, Screening Scotlandprovides a unique overview of interest to a wide range of readers. ... Read more

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This discussion provides primary research on the activities of popular dramatists and drama groups in Scotland who played an important role in the late blossoming of a Scottish national drama. The text covers Joe Corrie's Fife Miner Players, Glasgow Unity Theatre and Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. These companies produced a wide range of original works on contemporary issues (the General Strike of 1926, unemployment in the hungry 30s, Glasgow's post-war housing shortage) as well as religious, racial and gender issues. They adopted a variety of styles, from agit-prop to social realism, and made creative use of popular forms of entertainment, from the Burns Supper to the village concert. The book provides a comparison with the work of other international popular drama movements. ... Read more