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THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT IN SCOTLAND
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THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT IN SCOTLAND
JACK BRAND
First published in 1978
by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd
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Jack Brand 1978
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Brand, Jack
The national movement in Scotland.
1. NationalismScotlandHistory
I. Title
320.5409411DA76578-40578
ISBN 0 7100 8866 3
Mhairi Catriona, this book is for you
Contents
1 The Nature of the Problem and its Background
2 The Substance of Nationalism
3 The Rise of the SNP: Some Theories
Part Two
4 The Political Background
5 The Scottish Economy
6 The Effects of Literary Nationalism
7 Youth and Nationalism
8 The Role of the Church, the Army and Football
9 The Scottish Press
10 The SNP Vote: Some Relations and Conclusions
Part Three
The Beginnings of the Modern Movement
11 The Beginnings of Modern Nationalism
12 The National Party of Scotland
13 The Scottish National Party
14 The Present Organisation of the SNP
15 Conclusion
- 1 The Nature of the Problem and its Background
- 2 The Substance of Nationalism
- 3 The Rise of the SNP: Some Theories
- Part Two
- 4 The Political Background
- 5 The Scottish Economy
- 6 The Effects of Literary Nationalism
- 7 Youth and Nationalism
- 8 The Role of the Church, the Army and Football
- 9 The Scottish Press
- 10 The SNP Vote: Some Relations and Conclusions
- Part Three
- The Beginnings of the Modern Movement
- 11 The Beginnings of Modern Nationalism
- 12 The National Party of Scotland
- 13 The Scottish National Party
- 14 The Present Organisation of the SNP
- 15 Conclusion
Guide
In this study I have tried to provide an analysis of the rise of the Scottish National Party and the nature of the national movement in Scotland. I should like to thank the many people, too numerous to mention, who have helped me in this with their time and with their collections of papers. I have seen many members of the party and others who have worked for or against the cause of nationalism in Scotland and, without exception, they have been co-operative and interested in this work.
In particular I ought to mention the staff of the National Library of Scotland who have, with great skill, collected many of the papers relating to the development of the national movement. Readers of the notes will notice the wide use which has been made of the National Library resources. The initials NLS in the notes refer to the collections held in the National Library of Scotland. The abbreviation Acc. refers to Accession number, and Dep. refers to a Deposit number. Finally, I have a real debt to Mrs E. Clifford, who struggled through my awful writing and produced a typescript against all the odds. As usual any errors made in the course of this work are wholly my responsibility. The research was partially funded through the generosity of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.
Jack Brands National Movement in Scotland appeared at just the wrong moment. The Scottish National Party (SNP) suffered a series of setbacks in 1978, the year the book was published. The following year, Scottish voters failed to show much enthusiasm in a referendum for an Assembly and the SNP lost nine of its eleven MPs at the subsequent general election. The SNP then fell into the kind of internal recriminations and bitter infighting - snarling, self-destructive disarray as he later said - that often follow heavy defeats and crushed expectations.
But Jack always believed the national movements obituaries that followed were premature. He also wanted to see its revival from his academic and personal perspective. Indeed, he played the lead role in the creation and was the first chair of the Campaign for a Scottish Assembly. Jack returned to the issues he discussed in this book in later research, notably reviving the first in the now continuous series of Scottish election studies from 1992, but he never updated the National Movement in Scotland before he died in 2013. His interpretation of developments over the four decades since its publication would have been fascinating. Nonetheless, the book remains remarkably fresh, insightful and an essential work to be consulted by anyone wanting to understand the subject today. It replaced H.J. Hanhams rather hurriedly written 1969 book Scottish Nationalism as the standard text on the subject and has not yet found an obvious replacement though much excellent work has been produced on the subject.
One of the notable features of the book, explicit in the title, was that it was not simply a study of the SNP but placed the party within the wider movement. It offers a salutary reminder to those who equate the SNP with the national movement that there has always been a much broader movement with a plurality of aims and objectives. It was true, as James Kellas of Glasgow University noted in a review of the book, that by the late 1960s the movement effectively tapers down to the SNP. Looking back from today, the Brand interpretation and emphasis on the wider movement looks prescient.
