Schiehallion I think you'll need to arrange a guided walk in the New Year covering this subject due to your heavy historical evidence. Count me in as it's fecking fascinating
Me too please
Thank you so much for this post _________________ We've gone on holiday by mistake.
Cracking post schiehallion A thoroughly enjoyable read, thanks for taking the time to put that together and sharing _________________ I was in a Tunnel on another forum and I came out here. fcuk, who shut the door !
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schiehallion I want to add my appreciation for your post on this. I agree with your comments about how Langside just seems to be so little dealt with, to the extent that we are not even quite sure of where exactly the battle site was.
I'm often passing through the locale as I have a relative living nearby and I find the under-appreciation, at times downright ignoring, of the status of the Langside battle in Scottish history is indeed a curious thing - and you have gone a big way to countering this
Like some others I would be up for a field trip.
On a related theme I also feel that no one has just done much justice to the complex story of Marie Queen of Scots. There were a couple of dire 'British films in recent years that were scripted from a totally English perspective and amounted to 'How the good Queen Virgin Elizabeth was so clever and how Mary was so deceitful, wanton and downright useless'. In fact there was a totally fictional scene in one of these two ‘historical’ films where the two Queens were supposed to have met - and of course at which Elizabeth fair tanned the backside of Marie (figuratively speaking of course).
I attended the National Theatre of Scotland's premiere of Marie Stuart last year at The Citizens and I was pretty underwhelmed. I felt that again that this amounted to 'a play about a series of conversations that the two Queens had in person, but that never actually took place'.
My suspicion is that because the story of Marie and the Scottish nobility, along with the provincial cringe, is not something for Scots to be proud of, and many of the issues still reverberate in Scottish society today. So, maybe the entire period remains too sensitive and unattractive for Scots to this day for them to be either objective or rationally assertive about.
I think that the Antonia Fraser book on Marie was about the nearest to an authoratitive work on her. _________________ Well I am.
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