Bannockburns - Crawford, Robert (Professor of Modern Scottish Literature and Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Poetry, University of St Andrews)

Explores the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism and how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film the ideal of Scottish independence from 1314 to today. Publication coincides with the 700-year anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn and the lead-up to the referendum on independence for Scotland in September 2014.