Connecting Scotland’s History
Resource type
Lecture
Creator (person)
Groundwater, Anna
Abstract
What was happening elsewhere in the world when Robert the Bruce was outlawed, and Mary Queen of Scots lost her head? Meanwhile, when Genghis Khan was waging war and Ivan the Terrible was the Russian czar, what was occurring in Scotland?
Connecting Scotland's History presents 2,000 years of Scottish history set against the context of global events; showing what is distinctive about Scotland's experience and where movements in Scottish history were part of wider cultural or political change.
Multiple peoples have come together to form a uniquely Scottish population; from the Gaels, Picts and Norse people to more recent influxes from England, Ireland, continental Europe and beyond. Scotland's history reveals its internal connections as well as influences from the wider world.
Anna Groundwater is the Principal Curator for Renaissance and Early Modern History at the National Museum of Scotland.
Publisher
Boswell Book Festival
Rights statement
In Copyright