Publisher's Synopsis
In the first volume, Stuart McHardy looked at presentations of Scottish History which he believes are clearly unfit for purpose. Much of this, he suggested, was due to an education system driven by the need to preserve the Union of Scotland and England that gave rise to the nation state of The United Kingdom. In this follow-up work he widens the scope of inquiry into just how erroneous so many contemporary, and historical, ideas of Scotland's past are. Topics include the role of women, early church influence, literature in the nineteenth century and the ongoing relevance of our oral traditions to increasing our understanding of the past.
