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The Stone of Scone: Coronating Medieval Scottish Monarchs

Matthew McIntosh — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:57:23 +0000

Introduction The Stone of Scone (Gaelic: Lia Fail), also known as the Stone of Destiny or Coronation Stone,

Matthew McIntosh — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:56:17 +0000

The Scottish Enlightenment played a dominant part in the late-18th and early-19th century debate about the location of

Matthew McIntosh — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 19:07:47 +0000

How early modern science’s fascination with unfamiliar objects helped a new chapter of Scottish folklore. This article, The

Matthew McIntosh — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 17:18:19 +0000

Macbeth appears to have cleverly positioned Scotland between her more powerful neighbors yet he did not isolate Scotland

Matthew McIntosh — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 18:22:40 +0000

The story of the Loch Ness Monster originates in the 7th-century CE work of a monk named Adomnan.

Matthew McIntosh — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 18:29:59 +0000

In terms of its staging of sovereignty, passivity distinguished the Scottish king from the English tyrant. Introduction ‘Quhat

Matthew McIntosh — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:44:30 +0000

The contribution of popular but historically inaccurate films—and literature—to the evolution of a misguided patriotism that fails to

Matthew McIntosh — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:47:18 +0000

This gift from America to Scotland can be understood as a symbol of Gilded Age transatlantic relations. Introduction

Matthew McIntosh — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 18:40:55 +0000

Their heyday was in the last hundred years of their existence, during the time of the Stuart Kings

Matthew McIntosh — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 18:33:33 +0000

Scotland has its own independent legal system, education system and religious institutions, and gay men were criminalized there