Milestone Lecture 2013
The Scottish Independence Referendum 2014: a Historian's Perspective
On 18 September 2014, a referendum will offer Scottish voters the chance to decide whether or not Scotland should remain part of the United Kingdom. In her Milestones Lecture, Trinity Hall's new Senior Tutor, Dr Clare Jackson, surveyed the complex history of the make-up - and potential break-up - of the United Kingdom. A seventeenth-century specialist, Dr Jackson has recently finished filming a landmark documentary series for BBC2(Scotland)/BBC2 entitled 'The Stuarts' which will be screened in early 2014. As both the TV series and her research show, the history of Anglo-Scottish relations since 1603 offers a compelling story of contingency, controversy and irony.
To read Dr Jackson's research on the subject, click here for her chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History, edited by TM Devine & Jenny Wormald.