Scotland: Her Story by Rosemary Goring

Scotland: Her Story by Rosemary Goring

Scotland: Her Storyis alandmark publication: the first-ever history of Scotland told from the perspective of women.Drawing records, exchequer rolls, treasurers accounts, diaries, memoirs, chap books and newspapers, government reports and eye-witness statements, itbrings to life the half of history that has for too long been hidden or ignored.

'Offers a new perspective, drawing on material from court records and diaries to chapbooks and eyewitness accounts to record life through the eyes of famous and unknown womenIt features everyone from Queen Margaret, Mary Queen of Scots, and Lulu to herring gutters and the mother of a child massacred at Dunblane'

* Country Life *

'Rosemary Goring has set out to tell Scotland’s story from the point of view of the women who played a part in it, without, in Jane Carlyle’s words, “reservation or false colouring”. … it is an especial pleasure to read those contributions that reach beyond the task of redressing the wrongs of the past'

* TLS *

'A portrait of this country through the centuries, a really fine book, and an important one'

-- Peter Ross * The Afternoon Show, BBC Radio Scotland *

'a crafter and editor of stories that illuminate the past and communicate forgotten truths about the past in immensely accessible ways ... [Scotland: Her Story is] a book that is justly celebrated for bringing half the population in from historical darkness'

-- Sally Magnusson

Rosemary Goring was born in Dunbar and studied at the University of St Andrews. She worked at W&R Chambers as a reference editor before becoming literary editor of Scotland on Sunday. She was also the literary editor for The Herald and Sunday Herald, and is the author of two historical novels, After Flodden and Dacre's War.

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ISBN 13	9781780275314
ISBN 10	1780275315
Title	Scotland: Her Story
Author	Rosemary Goring
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Birlinn General
Year published	2018-10-15
Number of pages	320
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