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Access to up-to-date research that may be useful for the new Higher Paper 2

Access to up-to-date research that may be useful for the new Higher Paper 2. Dauvit Broun Scottish History Society University of Glasgow. On-line resources. Snapshots on range of topics (some relevant for Higher Paper 2) will be available on LTS and SHS websites from June

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Access to up-to-date research that may be useful for the new Higher Paper 2

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  1. Access to up-to-date research that may be useful for the new Higher Paper 2 Dauvit Broun Scottish History Society University of Glasgow

  2. On-line resources • Snapshots on range of topics (some relevant for Higher Paper 2) • will be available on LTS and SHS websites from June • Recent articles in EUP journals relating to Higher paper 2 topics (free access through SATH members’ area on SATH website)

  3. Other on-line resources • Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland • http://webdb.ucs.ed.ac.uk/saints/ • Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Database • http://webdb.ucs.ed.ac.uk/witches/ • Paradox of Medieval Scotland (1093-1286): • useful website: www.poms.ac.uk • database prototype live in December (to be completed in August)

  4. SHS volumes Digitisation of editions (and translations) of primary sources • to be made available free on SHS website (http://www.scottishhistorysociety.org/) • First will be the St Andrews Kirk Session Register 1559–1600.

  5. ‘Snapshot’ Declaration of Arbroath (1320) • Outline of what the Declaration says • Historical context • The writing of the Declaration • Debates • The ‘deposition’ clause • The ‘freedom’ clause • Suggested reading • Classic studies • Recent books

  6. Outline of what the Declaration says Draws attention to 7. The deposition clause: • ‘Yet if he (King Robert) should give up what he has begun, seeking to make us or our kingdom subject to the king of England or to the English, we would strive at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own right and ours, and we would make some other man who was able to defend us our king.’ 8. The freedom clause: • ‘For as long as a hundred of us remain alive, we will never on any conditions be subjected to the lordship of the English; for it is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we fight, but for freedom alone, which no good man gives up except with his life’.

  7. Historical context Dynastic crisis • after death of Edward Bruce, October 1318 Conspiracy against Robert I • To get Edward Balliol (son of King John Balliol) on the throne

  8. The writing of the Declaration • Creating the Declaration • Sources • Biblical and Roman • English • Scottish • Authorship • Were the barons aware of what the declaration said?

  9. Debates: the deposition clause • A rhetorical flourish? • A constitutional statement? • The community of the realm • A coded attack on John Balliol? • A coded attack on Edward Balliol?

  10. Debates: the freedom clause • Personal freedom = the freedom of the kingdom? • Whose freedom? • Personal freedom • Freedom from tyranny

  11. ‘Snapshot’The Wars of Independence • Brief account of events • Changing perspectives • Suggested books to read • Key figures • Roll-call of battles

  12. Brief account of events: paragraph under each of these headings • 1296-1305: Edward I conquers Scotland twice • 1306-1309: Civil war, Bruce v. Comyn • 1310-1314: Robert Bruce reconquers Scotland • 1314-1323: Bruce takes war to England • 1323-1329: Scottish independence recognised • 1332-1335: Civil war and English occupation • 1335-1341: Revival of the Bruce cause • Stalemate after 1341

  13. Changing perspectives • Key changes • (i) ‘civil war’ dimension is more openly recognised after 1306 • (ii) More attention is paid to the period 1296-1305 and the predominant role of Comyns • Bruce’s achievement reassessed • Patriotism not the only reason to resist English occupation • William Wallace (not like Braveheart!)

  14. Suggested books to read • Classic studies and texts • G. W. S. Barrow, Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland (first published in 1965, new editions in 1976, 1988 and by EUP in 2005) • A. A. M. Duncan (ed. and trans.), John Barbour. The Bruce (Canongate, 1997). • Alexander Grant, Independence and Nationhood: Scotland 1306-1469 (first published in 1984; republished by EUP) • Most recent books • Amanda Beam, The Balliol Dynasty, 1210-1364 (John Donald, 2008) • Michael Brown, Bannockburn: The Scottish War and the British Isles, 1307-1323 (EUP, 2008) • Michael Brown, The Wars of Scotland 1214-1371 (EUP, 2004) • Edward J. Cowan, ‘For Freedom Alone’: the Declaration of Arbroath (Tuckwell Press, 2003) • Edward J. Cowan (ed.), The Wallace Book (John Donald, 2007)

  15. Timetable for ‘snapshots’ • 5 December 2009: First batch of topics approved • 4 April 2010: deadline for submission of texts • May 2010: webpage design by LTS • June 2010: published on SHS and LTS websites • Steady stream of texts thereafter!

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