Tuesday, October 2, 2018

T. M. Devine - Scotland's Empire: The Origins Of The Global Diaspora

Did you know that close to one in six Scottish people, that is including women and children, served in the British army during the period of colonisation? The Highland clearances were detrimental to the British Empire because many of the current soldiers in the British Empire were Scottish.

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Richard Flanagan - Toxic / Christos Tsiolkas - Damascus

Massive figures in Australian literature.