Table of Contents

Forewords 7 Chronology 13 Introduction 15 PART 1 A New Scottish Song 1997–2003 31 PART 2 New Beginnings 2003–2011 79 PART 3 The End of Consensus 2011–2018 111 PART 4 Gàidhlig anns a’ Phàrlamaid / Gaelic in the Parliament 149 PART 5 The Scottish Parliament at 20 157 Glossary of Terms 161 Contributor Biographies 175

About the Author

THOMAS STEWART attended the University of St Andrews between 2011 and 2015, graduating with a First Class in Modern History. He then went achieve a Distinction in an MSc in Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh from 2015 to 2016. In September of 2016, he began working on his PhD thesis entitled 'Political Change and Scottish Nationalism in Dundee 1973-2012'. At the beginning of 2018, he established the Scottish Parliament Oral History Project on which his book, The Scottish Parliament in its own Words: An Oral History, is based, conducting over 80 interviews with current and former MSPs.