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Hugh Trevor-Roper's 'The Invention of Scotland'

Submitted by Kim Serca, Aug 4, 2008 09:14

Very interesting as it was when Eric Hobsbawm wrote about the Invention of Scotland in "The Invention of Tradition" 30 years ago. Did Hugh Trevor-Roper acknowledge that a marxist historian had got there first?

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