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Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Anniversary Culture and the legacy of Bannockburn Gill Plain Part I: Anniversary Culture 1. Missing Dates and Magic Numbers: Reflections on 1914 Fran Brearton 2. Bruce, Wallace and the Diminished Present, 1800-1964 Graeme Morton Part II: Making the Myths of War and Nation 3. "Men Brave And Strong": Bannockburn, the Auld Alliance and Scottish Martial Identity in the Late Middle Ages Michael Brown 4. "Not my land's hills": War and the Problem of Scottish Homecoming Caroline McCracken-Flesher 5. Medieval Battlefields and National Narratives, 1830-1918 Carol Symes 6. Bannockburn after Baston Robert Crawford Part III: Making the Memory of the First World War 7. "The Spirit of the Crusaders": Scottish Peculiarities, British Commonalities and European Convergences in the Memorialisation of the Great War Stefan Goebel 8. Buchan, Bannockburn and Beyond: popular histories of Scotland's martial past Catriona M. M. Macdonald 9. Women, War and Internationalism: Notes towards a Counter-History Margaret R. Higonnet 10. Freedom from judgement above? Predestination and Cultural Trauma in Scottish Gaelic Poetry of World War I Peter Mackay 11. Shades of Bruce: Independence and Union in First-World War Scottish Literature David Goldie Bibliography Notes on Contributors