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  70 Kevin Williamson, ‘Rebel Inc: 20 Years On & Ready For More’, Bella Caledonia, 2 May 2012, http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2012/05/02/rebel-inc-20-years-on-ready-for-more/

  71 Richard Zumkhawala-Cook, Scotland as We Know it: Representations of National Identity in Literature in Literature, Film and Popular Culture, McFarland, 2008, p. 16

  72 Paul Foot, ‘Seize the Time’, Socialist Review, 165 (June 1993), pp. 10–11, marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/1993/06/timex.htm, accessed 25 March 2013

  73 Michael Gardiner, Modern Scottish Culture, Edinburgh University Press, 2005, p. 182; and James Campbell, Invisible Country: A Journey Through Scotland, New Amsterdam, 1990, p. 107

  74 Kevin Williamson, ‘Rebel Inc: 20 Years On & Ready For More’ John McGrath, Naked Thoughts That Roam About: Reflections on Theatre, 1958–2001, Nick Hern Books, 2002, p. 65

  75 Ibid., pp. 73–74

  76 James Kelman, And the Judges Said…, Secker and Warburg, 2002, p. 40

  77 Peter Kravitz, ‘Essay: As It Never Was’, Variant, 13 (Summer 2001), variant.org.uk/13texts/Peter_Kravitz.html, accessed 24 October 2014

  78 Peter Kravitz (Introduction), The Vintage Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction, Vintage, 1997, p. xxi

  79 Ibid.

  80 Ibid., p. xxiii

  81 Independent, 13 October 1994, independent.co.uk/voices/highly-literary-and-deeply-vulgar-if-james-kelmans-booker-novel-is-rude-it-is-in-good-company-argues-robert-winder-1442639.html, accessed 29 October 2013

  82 Scott Hames, ‘Eyeless in Glasgow: James Kelman’s Existential Milton’, Contemporary Literature, 50 (3) (Fall 2001)

  83 James Kelman, Booker Prize Acceptance Speech, citystrolls.com/z-temp/z-pages/kelman.htm, accessed 29 October 2013

  84 Tom Leonard, Intimate Voices: Selected Work 1965–1983, Vintage, 1995, p. 120.

  85 Simon Kövesi, James Kelman, Manchester University Press, 2007, p. 7

  86 Ian Brown, ‘Processes and Interactive Events: Theatre and Scottish Devolution’, in Steve Blandford (ed.), Theatre and Performance in Small Nations, Intellect, 2013, p. 37

  87 ‘Liz Lochhead – The SRB Interview’, Scottish Review of Books, 7 (4) (2011), scottishreviewofbooks.org/index.php/back-issues/volume-seven-2011/volume-seven-issue-four/442-liz-lochhead-the-srb-interview, accessed 29 October 2013

  88 Attila Dosa, Beyond Identity: New Horizons in Modern Scottish Poetry, p. 183

  89 James Kelman Some Recent Attacks: Essays Cultural and Political, AK Press, 1992, pp. 1–4.

  90 Aaron Kelly, Irvine Welsh, Manchester University Press, 2005, p. 20

  91 Ibid., p. 45

  92 Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, Vintage, 2004, p. 18

  93 Ibid., p. 218

  94 Aaron Kelly, Irvine Welsh, pp. 11–12

  95 Ibid., pp. 84–85

  96 Irvine Welsh, ‘Scottish Independence and British Unity’, Bella Caledonia, 10 January 2013, http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2013/01/10/irvine-welsh-on-scottish-independence-and-british-unity/, accessed 28 October 2013

  97 Anna Burnside, ‘Alasdair Gray: “Self-rule for Scotland would make us grow up”’, Independent, 8 August 2011, independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/alasdair-gray-selfrule-for-scotland-would-make-us-grow-up-2333613.html, accessed 28 October 2013

  98 James Foley, ‘Radical Lallans Poet: Rab Wilson’, Communiqué, 28 July 2011, http://internationalsocialist.org.uk/index.php/2011/07/radical-lallans-poet-rab-wilson/#sthash.w1KrFY2o.dpuf, accessed 28 October 2013

  99 Grant Pooke, Contemporary British Art: An Introduction, Routledge, 2012, p. 87

  100 Ibid., p. 88

  101 The Glasgow History Mural, mediamatters.co.uk/media/kcurrie.html, accessed 30 October 2013

  102 Simon McKerrel, ‘Modern Scottish Bands (1970–1990): Cash as Authenticity’, Scottish Music Review, 2 (1) (2011)

  103 Ibid.

  104 Ibid.

  105 Michael Gray, ‘Death of Gerry Rafferty’, http://bobdylanencyclopedia.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/death-of-gerry-rafferty.html, accessed 21 May 2013

  106 ‘Margaret Thatcher Is Back but Should Scots Ever Forgive the Iron Lady?’, Daily Record, 8 January 2012

  107 Christopher Harvie, Scotland and Nation: Scottish Society and Politics 1707 to the Present, Routledge, 2004, p. 228

  108 Ian MacWhirter, ‘That Bloody Woman’, New Statesman, 26 February 2009

  15. Twenty-First-Century Scotland

  1 Thomas Zittel and Dieter Fuchs, Participatory Democracy and Political Participation: Can Participatory Engineering Bring Citizens Back In? Taylor and Francis, 2006, p. 83

  2 Anthony Seldon, Blair’s Britain 1997–2007, Cambridge University Press, 2007, p. 492

  3 Ibid., p. 491

  4 ‘Organisers Hail Anti-war Protests’, BBC Scotland News, 15 February 2003, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2765093.stm, accessed 25 May 2013

  5 Alistair Hulett, ‘Scottish Struggles Created a Rich Tradition of Radical Song’, Socialist Worker, 20 August 2005, socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7144, accessed 25 March 2013

  6 Lyn Smith, Voices Against War: A Century of Protest, Mainstream, 2009, p. 283

  7 Gerry Mooney and Tricia McCafferty, ‘“Only looking after the weans”? The Scottish Nursery Nurses’ Strike, 2004’, http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/1375/1/strathprints001375.htm, accessed 24 April 2013

  8 Ibid.

  9 Ibid.

  10 Ibid.

  11 Mark Irvine, ‘Scotland, Labour and the Trade Union Movement: Partners in Change or Uneasy Bedfellows’, in Gerry Hassan (ed.), The Scottish Labour Party, Edinburgh University Press, 2004, p. 230

  12 ‘Poverty Marchers Call for Justice’, BBC News, 2 July 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4645251.stm, accessed 23 April 2013

  13 Online report, socialistworker.co.uk/art/6701/A+coalition+against+the+new+global+order, 3 July 2005

  14 ‘Naming the Dead’, Guardian Blog, 4 July 2005, guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2005/jul/04/namingthedead1, accessed 23 April 2013

  15 BBC, ‘Protesters Breach G8 March Route’, 6 July 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4654767.stm, accessed 23 April 2013

  16 ‘Thousands of Anti-nuclear Protesters Attend Glasgow March against Trident’, Daily Record, 13 April 2013, dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/thousands-anti-nuclear-protesters-glasgow-march-1828754, accessed 15 April 2013

  17 ‘The Constitution Page: Defence’, Scottish Left Review, 72, (September-October 2012), scottishleftreview.org/feature/the-constitution-page-defence/, accessed 28 May 2013

  18 Ibid.

  19 ‘Call Centre Staff Angry at Intrusive Monitoring, Claims TUC’, personneltoday.com/articles/05/04/2001/5448/call-centre-staff-angry-at-intrusive-monitoring-claims.htm, accessed 30 May 2013

  20 Chris Baldry et al., The Meaning of Work in the New Economy, Palgrave MacMillan, 2007, p. 67

  21 Ibid., p. 71

  22 Ibid., p. 78

  23 Ibid., pp. 141–42

  24 Ibid., p. 146

  25 Ibid., p. 214

  26 Sarah Collins, ‘Our Generation Is Your Friend’, Scottish Left Review, 75, (March/April 2013)

  27 Ibid.

  28 Michael Keating, The Government of Scotland: Public Policy Making After Devolution, Edinburgh University Press, 2010, p. 49

  29 L. Paterson, F. Bechhofer and D. McCrone, Living in Scotland: Social and Economic Change since 1980, Edinburgh University Press, 2004, p. 99; R. Johns, D. Denver, J. Mitchell and C. Pattie, Voting for a Scottish Government: The Scottish Parliament Election of 2007, Manchester University Press, 2010, pp. 81–82.

  30 Brian Wilson, ‘System of Land Ownership – Worst in Europe’, West Highland Free Press, 14 March 2012, localpeopleleading.co.uk/policy-talk/policy-arti-cles/1347/, accessed 13 May 2013

  31 Andy Wightman, The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got It, Birlinn, 2010, p. 106

  32 Andy Wightman, Scotland: Land and Power – the Agenda for Land Reform, Luath Press, 1999, p. 30

  33 Lesley Riddoch, ‘Big Landowners Bigge
st Obstacle to the Big Society in Rural Scotland’, 25 February 2011, lesleyriddoch.co.uk/2011/02/, accessed 13 May 2013

  34 Gavin Corbett and Andy Wightman, Housing, Homelessness and Land Reform, Shelter Scotland, 1998, p. 2

  35 Andy Wightman, The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got It, p. 256

  36 Bryan D. MacGregor, ‘Owner Motivation and Land Use on Landed Estates in the North-west Highlands of Scotland’, Journal of Rural Studies, 4 (4) (1988), pp. 389–404

  37 ‘Scottish PLC: Land Ownership in Scotland’, corporatewatch.org/?lid=1308, accessed 13 May 2012

  38 Joseph Ritchie, ‘Introducing the Land Issue Part 2: Why it Matters and How it Can Change’, Bright Green Scotland, http://brightgreenscotland.org/index.php/2011/07/introducing-the-land-issue-part-2-why-it-matters-and-how-it-can-change/, accessed 13 May 2013

  39 Jimmy Reid Foundation, ‘Quick Note: Who Owns Scotland?’ http://reidfoundation.org/portfolio/quicknote-who-owns-scotland/, accessed 14 May 2013

  40 Andy Wightman, Scotland: Land and Power – the Agenda for Land Reform, pp. 46–47

  41 Thomas Johnston, Our Scots Noble Families, Forward Publishing Company, 1909, p. x

  42 Glasgow Herald, 15 December 1938

  43 Scotsman, 20 May 2013

  44 ‘Anger at BBC Scotland virtual news blackout of Healey North Sea Oil admission’, http://newsnetscotland.com/index.php/scottish-news/7414-anger-at-bbc-scotland-virtual-news-blackout-of-healey-north-sea-oil-admission, accessed 24 May 2013

  45 Margo MacDonald, ‘We Were Lied to Over Oil Money’, scotsman.com/news/margo-macdonald-we-were-lied-to-over-oil-money-1-2939440, accessed 24 May 2013

  46 Nathaniel O. Keohane and Sheila M. Olmstead, Markets and the Environment, Island Press, 2007, p. 218

  47 David Torrance, ‘We in Scotland’: Thatcherism in a Cold Climate, Birlinn, 2009, p. 65

  48 Gordon Morgan, ‘Its Scotland’s Wind’, Scottish Left Review, 76 (May-June 2013), scottishleftreview.org/article/it%E2%80%99s-scotland%E2%80%99s-wind/, accessed 28 May 2013

  49 Amnesty Scotland, ‘Why Do We need International Women’s Day in Scotland?’, 8 March 2013, http://www2.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/scottish-human-rights-blog/why-do-we-need-international-womens-day-scotland, accessed 24 May 2013

  50 Ibid.

  51 Colette Douglas Home, ‘For Some, Sexual Equality Is Still in the Dark Ages’, Herald, 28 May 2013, heraldscotland.com/comment/columnists/for-some-sexual-equality-is-still-in-the-dark-ages.21196607, accessed 28 May 2013

  52 Scotland Future’s Forum, ‘Women, Punishment and Human Rights, 2011’, scotlandfutureforum.org/assets/library/files/application/Women,_Punishment_and_Human_Rights_-_final_report.pdf, accessed 24 May 2013

  53 STUC Women’s Committee on Scottish Parliament Childcare Debate, May 8th 2013, stuc.org.uk/news/998/stuc-women-s-committee-on-scottish-parliament-childcare-debate

  54 Catriona Stewart, ‘Women in Scotland Losing Out in Battle for Equal Pay’, Evening Times, 17 July 2013, eveningtimes.co.uk/news/women-in-scotland-losing-out-in-battle-for-equal-pay-130699n.21624793, accessed 31 July 2013

  55 ‘Equality and Human Rights Commission: Scottish Government Not Maximising Potential of All Scotland’s People’, Herald, 31 July 2013, heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/equality-and-human-rights-commission-scottish-government-not-maximising-potential-of-all-scotlands-people.1375287, accessed 31 July 2013

  56 Mhairi McAlpine, ‘A Woman’s Place Is in the Independence Movement’, Second Council House of Virgo, 3 June 2012, 2ndcouncilhouse.co.uk/blog/2012/06/03/a-womans-place-is-in-the-independence-movement/, accessed 25 May 2013

  57 Ibid.

  58 Cahal Milmo and Nigel Morris, ‘Woolwich Attack: Number of Islamphobic Incidents Continues to Rise with Ten Attacks on Mosques Since Murder of Soldier Lee Rigby’, Belfast Telegraph, 28 May 2013, belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/woolwich-attack-number-of-islamophobic-incidents-continues-to-rise-with-ten-attacks-on-mosques-since-murder-of-soldier-lee-rigby-29300306.html, accessed 28 May 2013

  59 Amy Homes, Chris McLean and Lorraine Murray, Ipsos MORI Scotland, British Council, ‘Muslim Integration in Scotland’, July 2010, britishcouncil.org/scotland-society-muslims-integration-in-scotland-report.pdf, accessed 25 May 2013

  60 Asifa Hussain and William Miller, Devolution Briefings, Towards a Multicultural Nationalism? Anglophobia and Islamophobia in Scotland Briefing No. 24, March 2005, devolution.ac.uk/pdfdata/Briefing%2024%20-%20Hussain-Miller.pdf, accessed 25 May 2013

  61 ‘Edinburgh: Headscarves Torn Off Two Muslim Women’, Scotsman, 6 May 2013, scotsman.com/news/racial-attack-on-muslim-women-1-2921652, accessed 25 May 2013

  62 ‘Racism on the Rise in Scotland’, STV News, 11 February 2011’, http://news.stv.tv/scotland/227562-racism-on-the-increase-in-scotland/, accessed 25 May 2013

  63 Satnam Virdee, Christopher Kyriakides and Tariq Modood, ‘Codes of Cultural Belonging: Racialised National Identities in a Multi-ethnic Scottish Neighbourhood’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 35 (2) (February 2009), pp. 289–308

  Conclusion: Our Destiny Is In Our Hands

  1 Barclays Wealth, ‘2011 UK Wealth Map’, p. 36

  2 STV News, ‘Six Billionaires Among Ranks of Scots Dominating British Rich List’, 21 April 2013, http://news.stv.tv/scotland/222270-six-billionaires-among-ranks-of-scots-dominating-sunday-times-rich-list/, accessed 13 May 2013

  3 Barclays Wealth, ‘2011 UK Wealth’ Map, p. 36

  4 James Foley, Britain Must Break: The Internationalist Case for Independence, ISG, 2012, p. 19

  5 Ibid.

  6 STV News, ‘Six Billionaires Among Ranks of British Rich List’

  7 James Meadway, ‘Breaking Free of London-Focused Growth’, New Economics Foundation, 23 May 2013, neweconomics.org/blog/entry/Breaking-free-of-London-focused-growth, accessed 25 May 2013

  8 Aditya Chakrabotty, ‘London’s Economic Boom Leaves Rest of Britain Behind’, Guardian, theguardian.com/business/2013/oct/23/london-south-east-economic-boom, accessed 2 November 2013

  9 Robin MacAlpine, ‘Economy Plan Chained by Convention’, Scotsman, 24 May 2013, scotsman.com/the-scotsman/opinion/comment/robin-mcalpine-economy-plan-chained-by-convention-1-2942502, accessed 30 May 2013

  10 Phil Inman, ‘UK Investment Fall Among Worst in G8’, Guardian, 23 May 2013, theguardian.com/business/2013/may/23/concerns-health-uk-ecoomy-gdp-growthons, accessed 3 November 2013

  11 ‘Economic Recovery Not Certain, Warns Think-Tank’, Herald, 31 October 2013, heraldscotland.com/business/markets-economy/economic-recovery-not-certain-warns-think-tank.22560739, accessed 31 October 2013

  12 Scottish Government, ‘Labour Market Monthly Briefing Summary Tables October 2013’, scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00436901.pdf, accessed 31 October 2013

  13 ‘MSPs to Investigate Problem of Child Poverty’, Scotsman, 31 October 2013, scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/msps-to-investigate-problem-of-child-poverty-1-3161755, accessed 31 October 2013

  14 Scottish Government, ‘Fuel Poverty Evidence Review: Defining, Measuring and Analysing Fuel Poverty in Scotland, 2012’, scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0039/00398798.pdf, accessed 31 October 2013

  15 James Moncur, ‘Aberdeen’s First Food Bank Is Helping Dozens of Needy People’, Daily Record, 23 May 2013, dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/aberdeens-first-food-bank-helping-1905723, accessed 30 May 2013

  16 Daily Record, 18 October 2013, dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scotsmost-productive-workers-uk-2464919, accessed 31 October 2013

  17 Pedro Morago, ‘Health and Health Inequalities’, in Steve Hathersall and Janine Bolger (eds), Social Policy for Social Work, Social Care and the Caring Professions: The Scottish Perspective, Ashgate, 2010, p. 209

  18 ‘Death Rates Point to Scotland Wealth Split, Scotsman, 27 March 2013, scotsman.com/news/health/death-rates-point-to-scotland-wealth-split-1-2859611, accessed 28 March 2013

  19 ‘A Nation Still Divided by Poverty and Inequality’, Scotsman, January 4 2006, http://news.scotsman.com/health
.cfm?id=11972006, accessed 28 May 2013

  20 Pete Ramand, ‘Austerity, the Left and Independence’, 25 July 2011, http://internationalsocialist.org.uk/index.php/2011/07/austerity-the-left-and-scottish-independence/, accessed 29 May 2013

  21 Rodge Glass, Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography, Bloomsbury, 2012, p. 277

  INDEX

  Aberdeen, 2, 14, 45, 78, 102, 103–4, 104, 121, 181, 197, 198, 204, 210, 229, 239–40, 251, 322

  Abernethy, 13

  Adamson, Willie, 180

  Æthelstan, King, 11–12

  Agricola, 5

  Ainslie, Jim, 269

  Airdrie, 130

  Aitchison, Alexander, 92

  Alchfrith, 10

  Alexander III, King, 16, 17–18

  Alexandria, 246

  Alison, Archibald, 100

  Allison, James, 197

  Alloway, 79

  Alnwick, 15

  American War of Independence, 77, 78

  Anderson, James, 87

  Andrew of Wyntoun, 17

  Angus, 14

  Annan, 90

  Annandale, 14

  Anne, Queen, 55, 56

  Applecross, 2

  Arbroath, Declaration of, 26–7

  Argentocoxus, 6

  Argyll, 8, 108

  Argyll, Dukes of, 57, 58, 60, 66, 71, 75, 108, 120

  Armitage, James, 266

  Arnot, Andrew, 47

  ASE, the, 154

  Asquith, Herbert, 120, 166–7

  Attlee, Clement, 226

  Auchincruive, 77

  Auchterarder, 91

  Avenel, Robert, 14

  Ayr, 63, 95, 206, 297

  Ayrshire, 130, 132

  Badenscallie, 112

  Bain, Sir James, 131

  Baird, John, 96

  Baird, William, 122–3

  Baldwin, Stanley, 179, 187

  Ball, Carol, 296

  Balliol, John, 19, 19–20, 22, 23–4

  Balmaclellan, 47

  Balmoral Castle, 117

  Banks, Iain, 279

  Bannockburn, battle of, 18, 26, 27

  Barbour, John, 25, 27–8

  Barbour, Mary, 144, 145, 146, 170, 189

  Barrie, J. M., 133

 

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