Acts of Union and Disunion by Linda Colley

Author:Linda Colley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Profile Books

A railway poster designed by Frank H. Mason, c. 1932, evokes – for an American audience – the scenic distinctiveness of parts of Scotland.

Footnote

* It may be relevant that Bolt (1924–95) was born in Sale, Cheshire, a county with a historically close but uneven relationship with North Wales.

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SCOTLAND

On 10 August 1987, Liz Lochhead’s Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off premiered at the Edinburgh Festival. Ostensibly, the play focuses on the relationship between Mary Stuart, who succeeded to the throne of Scotland in 1542, just six days old, and her cousin, Elizabeth I of England:

Once upon a time there were twa queens on the wan green island, and the wan green island was split intae twa kingdoms. But no equal kingdoms, naebody in their richt mind would insist on that.

For the northern kingdom was cauld and sma. And the people were low-statured and ignorant and feart o their lords and poor … The other kingdom in the island was large, and prosperous, with wheat and barley and fat kye in the fields o’ her yeoman fermers, and wool in her looms, and beer in her barrels and, at the mouth of her greatest river, a great port, a glistening city that sucked all wealth to its centre – which was a palace and a court of a queen. She was a cousin, a clever cousin, a wee bit aulder, and mibbe no sae braw as the other queen, but a queen nevertheless.

Queen o a country wi’ an army, an a navy and dominion over many lands.

Twa queens. Wan green island.

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