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Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation, belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland's encounter with the First World War. In a series of thematically linked essays, experts from the fields of literature, history and cultural studies examine how Scotland remembers war, and how remembering war has shaped Scotland.
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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Anniversary Culture and the legacy of Bannockburn
Gill Plain
Part I: Anniversary Culture
1. Missing Dates and Magic Numbers: Reflections on 1914
Fran Brearton
2. Bruce, Wallace and the Diminished Present, 1800-1964
Graeme Morton
Part II: Making the Myths of War and Nation
3. "Men Brave And Strong": Bannockburn, the Auld Alliance and Scottish Martial
Identity in the Late Middle Ages
Michael Brown
4. "Not my land's hills": War and the Problem of Scottish Homecoming
Caroline McCracken-Flesher
5. Medieval Battlefields and National Narratives, 1830-1918
Carol Symes
6. Bannockburn after Baston
Robert Crawford
Part III: Making the Memory of the First World War
7. "The Spirit of the Crusaders": Scottish Peculiarities, British Commonalities and European Convergences in the Memorialisation of the Great War
Stefan Goebel
8. Buchan, Bannockburn and Beyond: popular histories of Scotland's martial past
Catriona M. M. Macdonald
9. Women, War and Internationalism: Notes towards a Counter-History
Margaret R. Higonnet
10. Freedom from judgement above? Predestination and Cultural Trauma in Scottish Gaelic Poetry of World War I
Peter Mackay
11. Shades of Bruce: Independence and Union in First-World War Scottish Literature
David Goldie
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
About the author
Gill Plain is professor of English at the University of St. Andrews.
