Scotland Cultural Past; Our Independent
Future by Paul
Henderson Scott. A former diplomat, Rector of Dundee university.
https://www.waterstones.com/ebook/scotland/paul-henderson-scott/9781909912687
Follows the broad questions around Scottish
Independence - with informed, easy to read articulate essays.
The English invented the legend of Brutus and made
up false accounts of the Union. Most Scots
were opposed to it- including Walter Scott.
Scott was no unionist, he argues contrary to what some writers put out
and cites his essays Malachi and others which have been largely ignored.
"The process continued with radical argument,
political campaigning, the discovery of oil, nuclear subs on the Clyde, the Iraq
War and above all by the example of the outstanding success of the other small
European nations which have recovered Independence."
*Arguing for Independence;
Evidence, Risk and the Wicked Issues by Stephen
Maxwell. Paul Henderson Scott states
this book as the most comprehensive on Scottish Independence and that Maxwell
writes of his life long work. He is a master of the issues - the democratic, economic, social,
international, cultural and environmental arguments.
Whaur Extremes Meet: Scotland's
Twentieth Century by Catriona Macdonald
Unstated: Scottish Writers for Independence.
Arts
of Independence
by
Alexander Moffat and Alan Riach. Explore cultural arguments for Scottish
independence. How the arts fire the imagination.
The Stone of Destiny by Ian Hamilton - made into a
film in 2008.
Hamilton writes, ' On the morning of 11
April 1951, I left Glasgow
with Bill Craig. At Stirling
Bridge we thumbed a lift
from a car driven by Councillor Gray, which contained the Stone of Destiny, now
carefully repaired. at midday we carried it down the grass-floored nave of the
abbey and left it at the high later. It was a crucifixion.
When we turned away and stood for a minute at the gate, and looked down
the long nave flanked by the blood-red sandstone of the wall s to the alter
where the Stone lay under the blue and white of a Satire. I heard the voice of Scotland
speak as clearly as it spoke in 1320.
