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...Sir Tom Devine is Scotland’s most distinguished historian since Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), but unlike the latter — at least by reputation — he likes a joke....
...“Scotland’s politics are almost post-oil now — it’s really been put to one side,” says Professor Sir Tom Devine, one of Scotland’s most eminent historians....
...Tom Devine, one of Scotland’s most eminent historians, this week declared that the union was in its “most fragile condition” since Jacobite prince Charles Edward Stuart led an army of kilted Highlanders...
...“Boris Johnson is the best recruiting sergeant for Scottish nationalism that the SNP have had since Margaret Thatcher,” said Tom Devine, history professor at the University of Edinburgh....
...Tom Devine, a lead attorney with the non-profit Government Accountability Project, says: “Corporate lawyers have a zealous campaign to have employees held criminally and civilly liable for disclosing (alleged...
...But the research was dismissed as “historically illiterate” by Sir Tom Devine, one of Scotland’s most celebrated historians, who told the Scotsman newspaper: “The sectarian beast is in its death throes and...
...“Scotland, I would argue, contributed even more to the national wealth than England during the Industrial Revolution,” said Tom Devine, emeritus professor of history at the University of Edinburgh....
...Sir Tom Devine, Scotland’s most celebrated historian of the modern era, says that through the 19th and early 20th century smug pride in being part of a UK with global power was a more obvious mark of national...
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...Sir Tom Devine, a historian of Scotland, links the party’s decline to the collapse of trade union membership, disillusionment with New Labour starting in the late 1990s and a longstanding struggle to articulate...
...The reviewer is an FT contributing editor Independence or Union: Scotland’s Past and Scotland’s Present, by Tom Devine, Allen Lane (RRP£20)...
...For generations, education has been what the historian Sir Tom Devine called “a badge of identity” for Scotland within the UK....
...On Monday, in the same city, Sir Tom Devine will say that the United Kingdom is no longer “fit for purpose”....
...Declaring his support for independence at the weekend, the eminent Scottish historian Sir Tom Devine cited Scotland’s commitment to the social democratic values that created the UK’s postwar welfare state...
...6789 222, February 3-15 … Little Light, Orange Tree, Richmond The new regime at the Orange Tree carries on pushing the boat out with a volatile new play from Alice Birch, who recently won the George Devine...
...According to the Scottish historian Sir Tom Devine, the act was aimed at disarming the clan system and erasing Scottish culture by banning tartan dress but in fact helped reinforce Scottish identify and...
...But Sir Tom Devine, professor of history at Edinburgh university, notes that the traditional system was already under strain in 1707 from the growing power of central government and an increasingly commercial...
...Before that, the SNP was, in the words of historian Sir Tom Devine, a version of the monster raving loony party. The empire no longer offered Scots the opportunities their fathers had enjoyed....
...According to the historian Sir Tom Devine, the “centralising drive of Margaret Thatcher eroded Scotland’s distinctiveness”, too, and provoked today’s leftwing Scottish nationalism....
...… In search of historical perspective, I headed to the University of Edinburgh to consult Tom Devine, who holds the chair in Scottish history....
...Some, such as the historian Sir Tom Devine and the journalist Neal Ascherson, describe their “journeys to Yes”. Others, such as JK Rowling, are pro-union. These are memoirs as manifestos....
...“Edinburgh is a much more confident place than it was 20 or 30 years ago,” says historian Tom Devine....
...Professor Tom Devine, a specialist in Scottish history, said that there had been an Alice-in-Wonderland aspect to the election, with some significant issues left undiscussed....
...One of Scotland’s leading historians, Tom Devine, also believes that a progressive strengthening of Scottish identity, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s, was a cause, rather than a consequence, of...
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