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    The new state of an old nation

    Oct 09, 2021 3 minutes

    Explore a selection of digital history guides in the History Scotland store: https://scot.sh/hsdownload

    Edited by Dr Martha McGill reviews@historyscotland.com

    Scotland: The New State of an Old Nation

    Murray Stewart Leith and Duncan Sim

    Manchester University Press, 2020

    304 pages

    Hardcover, £20.00

    ISBN: 9781784992552

    Looking back to my time as an undergraduate student taking courses in modern Scottish history, I remember the annoyance of reading numerous outdated articles, or works on the UK that made very few references

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