Links & Readings
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Engaging the Scottish Diaspora: see Scottish Government reports
http://www.gov.scot/Resource/Doc/280422/0084484.pdf
http://www.gov.scot/Resource/Doc/285746/0087034.pdf
http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2009/05/28141101/0
http://www.gov.scot/Resource/Doc/285746/0087034.pdf
For academic studies of the Scottish diaspora, see James Hunter Scottish Exodus (2005); Tom Devine To the Ends of the Earth (2011); Duncan Sim American Scots (2011); Marjorie Harper Scotland No More? (2012); Mario Varricchio (ed.) Back to Caledonia (2012); Tania Bueltmann and colleagues The Scottish Diaspora (2013); Murray Leith and Duncan Sim The Modern Scottish Diaspora (2014).
Fiction is stranger than Truth: the Outlander story
‘Readers have voted Outlander as the best book set in Scotland or by a Scottish author to be adapted for television or film. The Book Week Scotland poll saw 65% of almost 5,200 votes cast go to US author Diana Gabaldon’s series of stories.’