A People's History of Scotland (53 page)

Portmahomack,
8

Preston, battle of,
58
,
60

Prestonpans,
90

Prestonpans, battle of,
64

Proclaimers, the,
256

Proteus
, USS,
233–7

Proudfoot, David,
180
,
181

Quail, Brian,
269
,
301

Quin, Sarah,
98–9

Quinn, Linda,
249

Radical War of 1820,
93–7

Rae, Jane,
175

Rafferty, Gerry,
290

Randolph, Sir Thomas,
26

Rankin, Ian,
284
,
287
,
300

Ratcliffe, Alexander,
200

Ravenscraig,
263–4
,
264–5

Reader, Seamus,
171

Reform Act, 1832,
97–8

Reid, Agnes,
124

Reid, Craig,
291

Reid, Janet Kerr,
175

Reid, Jimmy,
227
,
245
,
248
,
325

Reid, Thomas,
75

Renfrew,
95

Renfrewshire,
93
,
183

Rent Restriction Act 1915,
146

Renwick, James,
48–9

Reynolds, Hugh,
186

Rheged,
7

Richard III, King of England,
28

Riddoch, Lesley,
306

Robert I, the Bruce,
18
,
20
,
21
,
23–8
,
29

Robert II, King,
29

Robert III, King,
29

Robertson, Catherine,
258–9

Robertson, Jeannie,
237

Robroyston,
22

Roman Empire, the,
4–7

Roseberry, Earl of,
120

Rosie, George,
276–7

Ross,
108

Ross and Cromarty,
165

Rosyth naval dockyard,
154
,
220
,
221
,
250

Rothesay,
98

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
75

Roxburgh, Earl of,
57

Roxburgh Castle,
26
,
29

Royal Commission on Labour, 1892,
127

Rullion Green, battle of,
47

Runrig,
290

Russian Revolution,
152–3
,
240

Sabatini, Tracy,
298

Salmond, Alex,
294
,
323–4

Salveson, Alastair,
317

Samuel Commission, the,
179

Sands, Robert,
91

Scargill, Arthur,
247
,
262

Scheu, Andreas,
139

Scone Abbey,
24

Scotland United,
274–7

Scots Magazine
,
282

‘Scots Wha Hae' (Burns),
81–2

Scotsman
,
165
,
168
,
248–9
,
314

Scott, Alexander,
89–90

Scott, Sir Walter,
25
,
63
,
68
,
69
,
70–1
,
75
,
97–8
,
119
,
217

Scottish Enlightenment, the,
74–9

Scottish Football Association,
120

Scottish Friends of the People,
86

Scottish Home Rule Association,
120
,
136–7
,
169
,
215

Scottish International
,
280

Scottish Land and Labour League,
137–8

Scottish Land Reform Act 2003,
307

Scottish National Party (SNP); birth of,
212–14
,
215–16
; devolution referendum, 1979,
253
; elections, 2011,
294
; first MP,
226
; general election, 1974,
252
; George Square rally,
274
,
276
; NATO commitment,
301
; and oil,
251
,
252
; rise of,
231–3
;
and the Stop the War Coalition,
295–6
; vision,
323–4
; World War II,
225–6

Scottish Trades Union Congress,
154

Scottish Women's Aid Federation,
254–5

Scottish Workers Republican Party,
162

Sellar, Patrick,
110–11

Septimus Severus, Roman emperor,
5
,
6

Shand, Jimmy,
186

Shaw, Donald,
290

Sheffield,
151

Sheridan, Tommy,
272

Sheriffhall,
125

Sheriffmuir, battle of,
59

Shetland,
14
,
165

Shetlands, the,
11
,
12

Shinwell, Emmanuel,
157
,
190

Sillars, Jim,
272

Sinclair, Charles,
89–90

Sinn Fein,
170–1
,
172

Skara Brae,
3

Skinner, Margaret ‘Peggy',
214

Skirving, William,
86
,
89–90
,
92
,
92–3

Skye,
113

Sloan, Hugh,
197

Smith, Adam,
75
,
76

Smith, Anne,
283

Smith, Iain Crichton,
279

Smith, John Mack,
233

Smith, Morris,
204

Smith, Sidney Goodsir,
216–17

Smout, T. C.,
54
,
142

Smyth, James J.,
137

Snowden, Ethel,
190

Social Democratic Federation (SDF),
138–41

Society for Effecting the Abolition of the

Slave Trade,
78

Somerled,
14

Somerville, Alexander,
72–3
,
97

Soutar, Alexander,
239–40

Soutar, William,
207

Spain,
123

Spanish Civil War,
204–8
,
216

Spence, Alan,
280

Stafford, Lord,
109–11

Steel, David,
254

Stephens, Jessie,
189

Sterne, Laurence,
77

Stewart, Bob,
191

Stewart, Charles Edward,
64–7
,
78

Stewart, Dugald,
75

Stewart, James, Earl of Moray,
34

Stirling,
14–15
,
58
,
63
,
67

Stirling Bridge,
18

Stirling Bridge, battle of,
21–2
,
92

Stirling Castle,
23
,
24
,
26

Stirling University,
248–9

Stirlingshire,
181

Stone, Norman,
270

Stonehaven,
12

Stoneyburn,
177

Stop the War Coalition,
294–6
,
299

Stornoway,
166

Strath of Kildonan, the,
109–11

Strathaven,
5
,
96

Strathclyde,
7
,
12
,
14

suffragettes,
188–91

Sules, Ranulf de,
14

Sutherland,
11

Sutherland, Countess of,
109

Tacitus,
5

Tait, Harry,
280

al-Tajir, Mahdi,
307
,
317

Tannochside,
132

Tarbat Peninsula,
8

Tarbrax,
143
,
165

Taylor, John,
245

Taymouth Castle,
90

Tennant, Charles, I,
123

Tennant, Charles, II,
123
,
124

Tennant, John,
123

Thankerton,
132

Thatcher, Margaret,
76
,
251
,
253
,
256–60
,
287
,
310
,
318
,
324
; Caterpillar occupation,
266–8
; death,
266
; general election, 1987,
270–1
,
271–2
; legacy,
290–92
; miners' strike, 1984–5,
260–6
; Poll Tax,
270–4
; removal from office,
273
; and Trident,
268–70

Thirlestane House,
72

Thompson, Margaret,
278

Thomson, Emily,
312

The
Times
,
175
,
262

Torrington, Jeff,
230
,
280

Torryburn,
53–4

Trades Union Congress (TUC),
179–87

Tranent,
90
,
183

Trevelyan, Charles,
112

Trevlyn, Valda,
214

Trotter, Alexander,
84

Tyneside,
123
,
124
,
157

Tytler, James,
87

Uddingston Caterpillar occupation,
266

Uddington,
308

Ulaid,
8

Ullapool,
108

Ulster,
8

Union, Act of,
56–9
,
69–70

Union of the Crowns,
39

United Scotsmen,
90–1

Victoria, Queen,
117
,
121
,
133

Vikings, the,
11
,
12

Voltaire,
75

Wade, General,
63
,
64

Wales,
7

Wallace, Margaret,
258–9

Wallace, William,
18
,
20–3
,
24

Wallace Monument,
120

Wallacestone, the,
92

Watkins, Peter,
67

Watson, the Rev. John,
133

Watson, Stuart,
211

Watt, Robert,
91

Watters, George,
202

Wedderburn, Robert,
32–3

Weir, William,
123
,
147
,
149
,
150

Welsh, Irvine,
279
,
282
,
285–7

West Calder,
187

West Lothian,
129

West of Scotland Female Powerloom Weavers Association,
98

Wester Ross,
2
,
11

Western Isles, the,
12

Whatley, Christopher,
63

Wheatley, John,
127
,
161
,
168–9
,
170
,
174
,
180
,
212

Wheeler, Albert,
261–2

Whitby, Synod of,
9–10

White, James,
254

White, Rev. John,
173–4

Wightman, Andy,
308–9

Wilkes, John,
72

Wilkinson, Ellen,
190

William III,
49–50
,
52
,
55

William IV, King,
98

William the Conqueror,
13

William the Lion, King,
13
,
15

Williamson, Kevin,
276
,
279–80

Wilson, Brian,
253
,
271–2
,
306

Wilson, Harold,
233
,
244
,
250
,
251
,
252

Wilson, James,
95–96
,
96

Wilson, Rab,
287–8

Wishart, Bishop of Glasgow,
20

Wishaw,
193

Wood, Sir Ian,
317

Woodburn, Arthur,
230

Woods, William,
125

Worker, The
,
150

World War I,
142–3
,
151
,
153
,
159–60
,
166
,
190
,
215
,
240

World War II,
165
,
220–6
,
243

Yeoman, Louise,
106

Young, Bob,
185

Young, Douglas,
225–6