Table of Contents

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.