Katie Stevenson

Katie Stevenson, a medieval historian at St Andrews, is director of the Institute of Scottish Historical Research.

Still Defending the Scots: Robert the Bruce

Katie Stevenson, 11 September 2014

The​ political commentator Iain Martin, who claims that he fled Scotland before the 2007 Scottish elections rather than live under an SNP-led government, wrote a few months ago in a blog for the Telegraph of a Treasury aide who’d said to him that ‘Alex Salmond wants to be William Wallace.’ ‘No,’ Martin corrected him. ‘Alex Salmond wants to be Robert the...

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