Time Travels

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Susan Morrison explores the rich and sometimes murky depths of Scotland's past.

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Time Travels: Queens, Countesses and Communists

Queens, Countesses and Communists

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Susan Morrison finds out what's new, fun or fascinating in Scottish history.

Susan Morrison finds out what's new, fun or fascinating in Scottish history throughout the centuries.

It’s 200 years since the birth of Queen Victoria  - one of our longest reigning monarchs.  Professor Alvin Jackson of Edinburgh University author of  'Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom' tells Susan Morrison what Victoria ever did for us, why in Scotland we loved her but in Ireland she was never a hit in the same way.

Then we're checking out the dating profile for a single Countess in the year 1404 who owns her own castle and needs a man who can frighten off Scotland's most murderous noble family  - the Albany Stewarts. Louise Yeoman heads to Kildrummy to find out from Dr Katy Jack how Isabella Countess of Mar was no mere damsel in distress. But that's quite enough landed aristocracy, next stop the Spanish Civil War where Dr Fraser Raeburn of Edinburgh University, working on a new book, takes us into the deep roots of volunteering for Spain among the jobless and radicalised workers of the 1930s.

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