Cropping the bluebells
Angus Calder, 22 January 1987
A Century of the Scottish People: 1830-1950
by T.C. Smout.
Collins, 318 pp., £15, May 1986,9780002175241 Show More
by T.C. Smout.
Collins, 318 pp., £15, May 1986,
Living in Atholl: A Social History of the Estates 1685-1785
by Leah Leneman.
Edinburgh, 244 pp., £15, April 1986,0 85224 507 6 Show More
by Leah Leneman.
Edinburgh, 244 pp., £15, April 1986,
“... title without referring once to the D.C. Thomson press or to Harry Lauder. Inspired by Tom Nairn, Murray Grigor and Colin Macarthur, much interesting acerbic comment has latterly been passed on the semiotic nexus of Kailyardism, Brigadoon-ery, Sunday Post-ness and Tartanry where tourists and also many Scots have perceived ... ”