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2008
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2012
Journal article
Transforming the National Museum of Scotland
Forsyth, David S
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2014
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2014
Book
Common Cause: Commonwealth Scots and the Great War
Emigration has been an ever-present theme in the story of Scotland. In 1914, as the world prepared for war, thousands of men enlisted in Scotland for military service, and across the British empire and beyond thousands more of Scottish birth and descent joined up. As optimism gave way to the...Allan, Stuart ; Forsyth, David S
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2014
Moving image
Creiff, Scotland: Piper James (Jimmy) Richardson VC
David Forsyth, Principle Curator at the National Museum of Scotland tells the story of Piper James (Jimmy) Cleland Richardson VC. James Richardson and was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire in 1895 where he joined the Boy Scouts and learned to play the bagpipes. He was known as “Jimmy” and in...Forsyth, David S
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2016
Journal article
The Stewart dynasty at National Museums Scotland
David S Forsyth introduces some of the beautiful treasures held in the collection of the National Museum of Scotland which provide a rich and varied insight into the splendour of the Stewart dynasty.Forsyth, David S
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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