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he book opens with the line ‘until very recently most of Scotland’s long history seems to have been forgotten, misplaced, or misunderstood, and often thought of as incidental.’ When I was a child, we weren’t really taught Scottish history at school, except where it collided with England, and it usually was a collision. In all my work I’ve been trying to tell the great