Publications

Ten years in the life of a factoid: fake history in the Scottish independence debate

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SCOTTISH AFFAIRS PREPRINT: ‘Churchill abandoned the fighting Scots’: the mythology and reality of the surrender of the 51st Highland Division at St Valery-en-Caux, 12 June 1940.

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The ‘omphalos of Britain’: iconic sites and landscapes, methodological nationalism and conceptual conservatism in the writing of ‘British’ prehistory. A reply to Madgwick and collaborators 2021

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The surrender of the 51st Highland Division at St Valery, 12 June 1940

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‘The evidence has always been there’: Unreliable Narrators and Archival Sources for the Battle of George Square, Glasgow, 31 January 1919

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A “Villain for all seasons”

Churchill and Scottish Mythologies of Grievance’. Finest Hour (Churchill Society Magazine)

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A veritable chauvinism of prehistory

Nationalist prehistories and the “British” late Neolithic mythos’. (Archaeological Journal) with K Brophy

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Glasgow, 1919: “Churchill Rolled the Tanks” – What Really Happened

Supposedly, Churchill sent tanks to Glasgow, where soldiers caused injuries and even deaths.

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‘The anti-invasion defences of the Forth and Tay estuaries, eastern Scotland, 1900 to 1918’.

(Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, November 2019) with Ron Morris

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‘The Fortification of the Firth 1880 to 1977: ‘the most powerful naval fortress in the British Empire’

(Society of Antiquaries of Scotland) with Ron Morris

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