Gaberlunzie's return

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 5, 2000, Pages 41-50

  Pocock, J G A ^a  

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1. For the reconstruction of British history, see Glenn Burgess, ed., The New British History: Founding a Modern State 1603-1715, London 1999; and a bibliography up to 1998 in American Historical Review, 104, 2, April 1999, p. 491, notes 2 and 3. Most work in this field so far has been done on the early modern state-building period, c. 1530-1830; but Nairn cites the exception, Laurence Brockliss and David Eastwood, eds., A Union of Multiple Identities: the British Isles, c. 1750-c. 1850, Manchester 1997.
2. For the reconstruction of British history, see Glenn Burgess, ed., The New British History: Founding a Modern State 1603-1715, London 1999; and a bibliography up to 1998 in American Historical Review, 104, 2, April 1999, p. 491, notes 2 and 3. Most work in this field so far has been done on the early modern state-building period, c. 1530-1830; but Nairn cites the exception, Laurence Brockliss and David Eastwood, eds., A Union of Multiple Identities: the British Isles, c. 1750-c. 1850, Manchester 1997.
3. For the reconstruction of British history, see Glenn Burgess, ed., The New British History: Founding a Modern State 1603-1715, London 1999; and a bibliography up to 1998 in American Historical Review, 104, 2, April 1999, p. 491, notes 2 and 3. Most work in this field so far has been done on the early modern state-building period, c. 1530-1830; but Nairn cites the exception, Laurence Brockliss and David Eastwood, eds., A Union of Multiple Identities: the British Isles, c. 1750-c. 1850, Manchester 1997.
4. Gaberlunzie ('18th-20th century, Origin obscure', Scots National Dictionary) is drawn from the poems of Douglas Dunn, many times cited in Nairn's text and notes. He inhabits the Highland fastnesses, 'wild country where he is safe' -Among bracken, in his hideouts of fern -Gaberlunzie, half-life, national waif, Earth-pirate of the thistle and the thorn.
5. After Britain, London 2000, p. 287: henceforth AB. For a partial repudiation of Braveheart, see chapter 5, 'On Not Hating England', though this is mostly an indictment of the English for supposing that the Scots hate them.
6. AB, 'Notes', pp. 306-7. Observe that Northern Unionism is 'retrograde' and 'primordial'. Why should it not be the latter?
7. Nairn, 'Ukania under Blair', NLR 1 January-February 2000, pp. 69-103; cf. AB, chapter 1.
8. AB, pp. 40, 85.
9. AB, p. 88.
10. AB, p. 290.
11. AB, p. 142; something to do with Tam Dalyell, which I leave to others.
12. AB, pp. 14, 90, 187-88.