Scotland’s Turmoil: ~ 1500 ~ 1707

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“Our history has been stolen from us and replaced with an elitist version of events, our national heritage often reduced to prestigious palaces with overpriced tickets.”

Johnnie Gallacher zigzags his way through two frenetic centuries of Scottish history. Topics include the Rough Wooing, Mary Queen of Scots, John Knox, witch-hunts, Highland clan feuding, the Bishops’ Wars, Cromwell’s invasion of Scotland, MacColla, the Montrose Wars, Royalists and Covenanters, kings and queens, battles: Flodden, Dunbar, Bothwell Brigg, Killiecrankie, Dunkeld, Worcester, also Argyll’s uprising, the Williamite Revolution, the Glencoe Massacre, the Darien Scheme and the Union of the Crowns.

He tackles the history now from a Lowland perspective, now from a Highland and Gaelic viewpoint, now from Ireland and now from England. He positions Scotland in relation to France and The Netherlands.

“…this history touches on Scotland’s cultural unconscious…”