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2020
Book chapter
Indigenising folk art: eighteenth-century powder horns in British military collections
Engraved power horns are a well-known aspect of the material culture of the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763), also known in North America as the French and Indian War. In looking at collections in military museums across the UK it emerged that powder horns were a distinctive form of material culture...Lidchi, Henrietta ; Allan, Stuart
Post-Colonial Studies , War Studies, Museum & Gallery Studies , Cultural History, and Imperial/Colonial History
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2012
Book chapter
Scottish military collections
Allan, Stuart
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2017
Book chapter
Martin George Guise, not a mercenary
Allan, Stuart
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2016
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2016
Book chapter
Our old world diff’rences are dead: the Scottish emigrant military tradition in the First World War
Scottish volunteer corps were an established feature of the defence forces of the British Dominions in the decades before the First World War. Displaying and performing the essentials of traditional identity associated with the British army’s Scottish regiments, these military units constituted one form of associational culture for migrant Scots...Allan, Stuart ; Forsyth, David S
conscription, First World War, Dominions, mobilisation, expeditionary forces, volunteer, nationalism, and Scottish military tradition
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2016
Book chapter
Performing Scottishness in England: dressing the London Scottish Volunteer Rifles
This chapter examines expressions of Scottish difference through the dress and activities of ‘the London Scottish’, a volunteer corps established in 1859. It addresses its connections with the Caledonian Society of London and the Highland Society of London, a revival of links between Scottish associational culture and military volunteering established...Allan, Stuart
England, London, Volunteer, Military, and Associational culture
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2013
Book chapter
Revolution and revitalization: the War of Independence and its aftermath (catalogue)
The catalogue accompanying the exhibition (On the Trails of the Iroquois) provides insights into the historical and cultural context of the exhibits and their makers. In addition, it also highlights the importance of the ethnographic collections held by museums today for an understanding of a fascinating people and their culture.Allan, Stuart
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2015
Book chapter
Beating retreat: the Scottish military tradition in decline
The Scottish military tradition in the British Army is recognised as one of the most visible and celebrated manifestations of Scottish participation in the growth of the British Empire. When, in the middle years of the twentieth century, that empire began to break up, the impact on the Scottish regiments...Allan, Stuart
Scottish regiments, Save the Argylls, defence cuts, Colin Mitchell, and Amalgamation
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2015
Book chapter
“Some idea of our country”: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in early wartime documentary film
This edited collection focuses on the negotiation of national, geographic and cultural identities during the Second World War among the constituent countries of the United Kingdom. Adopting a four nations approach, it contributes to our understanding of how pluralistic identities within the multinational state of Britain informed the functioning of...Allan, Stuart
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2010