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Lecture
David Stewart of Garth, Scott’s “Highlander of the Old Stamp”
Stuart’s title features David Stewart of Garth as Scott’s ‘Highlander of the Old Stamp’, which I believe is a quotation from a letter of Scott’s to J. G. Lockhart of 14 July 1828. The name rings a particularly sharp bell for me personally, since later that year Stewart, on the...Allan, Stuart
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Doctoral thesis
Commando country: special training centres in the Scottish highlands, 1940-45
Commando Country assesses the nature of more than 30 special training centres that operated in the Scottish highlands between 1940 and 1945, in order to explore the origins, evolution and culture of British special service training during the Second World War. These locations were chosen by virtue of the utility...Allan, Stuart
Inverailort, Achnacarry, Special Air Service, Special Operations Executive, and commando training
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Book chapter
Scottish military collections
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Book chapter
Martin George Guise, not a mercenary
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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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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