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Tag: Anglo-Scottish relations

  • Independence and interdependence: one Scot’s perspective on Anglo-Scottish relations in early-seventeenth-century London

    Independence and interdependence: one Scot’s perspective on Anglo-Scottish relations in early-seventeenth-century London

    By Laura Flannigan | @LFlannigan17 Notions of Scottish devolution or independence from England and the rest of the United Kingdom have been reiterated across the last few generations, with the 2014 ‘IndyRef’ and its potential sequel only the most recent examples.  Much of the discussion south of the border hangs on how Scotland could think…

  • Staging History: Mary Stuart

    Staging History: Mary Stuart

    Harriet Lyon (@HarrietLyon) reviews Friedrich Schiller’s play Mary Stuart, adapted and directed by Robert Icke. What is history if not a series of contingencies? For every thing that happens, an infinite number of other possibilities are extinguished. But what if things had been different? Although writing history certainly involves a good dose of imagination, academic historians have…