Links & Readings

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Heritage and tourism: D. McCrone et al., Scotland – the Brand (1995); P. Basu Highland Homecomings: genealogy and heritage tourism in the Scottish diaspora (2007); D. Hesse Warrior Dreams: playing Scotsmen in Mainland Europe (2014).

On kailyard and tartanry: W. Donaldson Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland (1986); I. Brown (ed.) From Tartan to Tartanry: Scottish Culture, History and Myth, EUP, 2010.

On filmic representations, see Duncan Petrie’s Screening Scotland (2000); Contemporary Scottish Fictions – Film, Television and the Novel (2004); and The Cinema of Small Nations (2007).

For an extract from the movie, ‘Scotch myths (1982)’, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzZSmVX2M-Q

On the 2016 exhibition at National Museum of Scotland, and the British Museum, see https://blog.britishmuseum.org/2015/10/13/who-were-the-celts/