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If History was Scottish - Norman Ferguson
NORMAN FERGUSON has been interested in history ever since receiving the Ladybird book on Robert the Bruce as a youngster. He studied Scottish History at university, although little has been retained. He still doesn’t know if James iv was a Renaissance Prince or not.
He has devised websites for the Scottish Government on Scottish history, including one on William Wallace. As a result, he spent far too long watching Mel Gibson’s Braveheart for research.
In his spare time he has written comedy for radio, tv and books. His proudest comedy moment is making Radiohead singer Thom Yorke laugh out loud on Radio One.
After a spell writing non-fiction history books, he felt it was time to use his accumulated knowledge for more lighthearted
ends.
If History Was Scottish is his sixth book.
By the same author
I See… Modern Britain (Portico 2008)
I See… Xmas (Portico 2008)
Chronologia: 24 Hours of History (The History Press, 2012)
The Glasgow Book of Days (The History Press, 2013)
The Little Book of Aviation (The History Press, 2013)
NORMAN FERGUSON
with illustrations by
BOB DEWAR
Luath Press Limited
EDINBURGH
www.luath.co.uk
First published 2013
ISBN (print): 978-1-908373-67-0
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-909912-63-2
The author’s right to be identified as author of this work under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 has been asserted.
© Norman Fergusson 2013
M & D for starting it all.
Contents
Introduction
Afore-History
Biblical Times
Ancient
Middlin’ Ages
1500s Bags of Tudors
1600s Uncivil Wars
Shakespeare
1700s Enlightening Times
1800s Mills and Looms
1900s The Bell Epoch
1910s Oh, What a Boggin’ War
1920s The Roarin’ and Greetin’ Twenties
1930s Flapping Thirties
1940s Mair War Years
1950s The Cauld War
1960s The Swingeing Sixties
1970s Striking Years
1980s The Gimme Decade
Advertising Slogans
1990s The Nineties
2000s The Jim Noughties
Top 20 Pop Songs
20 Great Books of Literature
Days of the Week
Introduction
HISTORY IS FULL of powerful and colourful characters – those that grabbed their chance for immortality,