Scotland: Her Story: The Nation’s History by the Women Who Lived It
Brand: Birlinn
Categories: Books, History, Europe



Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.3 x 9.3 inches
ISBN-13: 978-1780275314
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1780275315
Publisher: Birlinn
Print length: 320 pages
Publication date: December 15, 2018
subtitle: Hardcover – December 15, 2018
author: Visit Amazon's Rosemary Goring Page search results Rosemary Goring
review: Editorial Reviews Review A portrait of this country through the centuries, a really fine book, and an important one' Peter Ross, The Afternoon Show, BBC Radio Scotland 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 women. It 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 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 About the Author Rosemary Goring was born in Dunbar and studied social and economic history at the University of St Andrews. She was the literary editor of Scotland on Sunday, followed by a brief spell as editor of Life; Work, the Church of Scotland’s magazine, before returning to newspapers as literary editor of the Herald, and later also of the Sunday Herald. In 2007 she published Scotland: The Autobiography: 2000 Years of Scottish History By Those Who Saw it Happen, which has since been published in America and Russia. Rosemary’s first novel was After Flodden.