New Unions for Old
Colin Kidd, 4 March 2021
The Case for Scottish Independence: A History of Nationalist Thought in Modern Scotland
by Ben Jackson.
Cambridge, 210 pp., £18.99, September 2020,978 1 108 79318 6 Show More
by Ben Jackson.
Cambridge, 210 pp., £18.99, September 2020,
Standing up for Scotland: Nationalist Unionism and Scottish Party Politics, 1884-2014
by David Torrance.
Edinburgh, 258 pp., £80, May 2020,978 1 4744 4781 2 Show More
by David Torrance.
Edinburgh, 258 pp., £80, May 2020,
“... or the defence of British social democracy in its Scottish stronghold complement the picture David Torrance presents in his study of the UK’s ‘nationalist unionist’ politics. His central thesis is that the unionist parties in Scotland – the Conservatives, the Liberals and Labour – have always couched their commitments to the UK in the ... ”