Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

Commemoration, Nationality and Memory

James Coleman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2026
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-6363-5 (ISBN)

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At a time when the Union between Scotland and England is once again under the spotlight, Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland examines the way in which Scotland’s national heroes were once remembered as champions of both Scottish and British patriotism.
Whereas current, popular orthodoxy claims that 19th-century Scotland was a mire of sentimental Jacobitism and kow-towing unionism, this book shows that Scotland’s national heroes embodied a consistent, expressive and robust view of Scottish nationality. From the potent legacy of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, through the controversial figure of the reformer, John Knox, to the largely neglected religious radicals, the Covenanters, these heroes once played a vital role in the formation of the virtues that made 19th-century Britain great.
Examined through the prism of commemoration, this book uncovers a reading of Scotland’s past entirely opposed to the now dominant narratives of medieval proto-nationalism and Calvinist misery.

James Coleman is a freelance historian, he is currently based at the University of Glasgow.

Contents, Acknowledgements, Introduction: The Valley Cemetery
Chapter 1: Nationality, Memory and Commemoration
Chapter 2: Scottish Nationality in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 3: ‘Not Servile and Conquered, but Free and Independent’: Commemorating William Wallace and Robert the Bruce
Chapter 4: ‘The Highest Position in the Civilised World’: Commemorating John Knox and the Second Reformation
Chapter 5:‘If They Were Rebels Then, We Are Rebels Now’: Commemorating the Covenanters and the Glorious Revolution
Chapter 6: ‘By the imprudence of his ancestors’: Commemorating Jacobitism and Mary Queen of Scots
Chapter 7: ‘Staunch Loyalty to the Flag that Stands for Union’Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2026
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-3995-6363-7 / 1399563637
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-6363-5 / 9781399563635
Zustand	Neuware