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Jon Rosebank, Penelope Middelboe
#32 The curious case of inventing Scottishness
35 minutes Posted Jan 7, 2026 at 8:00 am.
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In 1983 Professor Hugh Trevor Roper claimed that Scottishness had been invented. We enjoyably demolish Trevor Roper’s theory and reveal that the commercialisation of romantic Scottishness in the nineteenth century had far deeper and darker roots than the manufacture of tartan and romantic fiction. (R)

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