A Nation in Want of a Grievance takes its name from a 19th century editorial in the Times newspaper. It consists of a collection of 35 essays written in Scotland around the end of the 20th century and the start of the present 21st century. Some of...
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A Nation in Want of a Grievance takes its name from a 19th century editorial in the Times newspaper. It consists of a collection of 35 essays written in Scotland around the end of the 20th century and the start of the present 21st century. Some of these are directly concerned with Scotland, some are not. Some are documentary in character, others are fictional. The first essay is a memoir, in a spirit of fictionised reportage, of the last herring-fishery on the west coast of Scotland - a fishery in which the author took part as a trawler deck-hand. A second piece in the collection is a re-jig of Lady Gregory's famous little one-act play, The Rising of the Moon, which has been re-written and located in the post-Jacobite Highlands of 1746. One piece of extended and research-intensive journalism examines in detail the long record of landlord chicanery relating to popular access to the waters of Loch Morar in western Lochaber. Another piece draws extensively on French and Spanis Cover -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Publisher Information -- A Very Short Introduction -- Nation in Want of a Grievance -- Snow On High Ground -- A Clear Day Dawning -- English Takes Over -- Civilisation - In Flagrante Delicto -- A new scottish enlightenment? -- Decent people from the south? -- Oysters from sweetings' -- Mad bad and dangerous to know. -- A Small Miracle In Tarbert -- Paperback Bolsheviks -- Pass The Bottle -- Highland Renaissance -- A Laconic Lump Of Water -- A highland university at last? -- The Forty-Five In Atholl -- Team Amerika - World Police -- The Red Virgin -- Class War In The Glen -- A Cider Called Spartacus -- Do we need these tories now? -- Downhill From The Bay Of Strangers -- Duncan Stewart Of Balquidder And Haiti -- Fàilte Gu La Nouvelle Dordogne -- Of Keepers And Kings -- The Last Jacobite -- These Hills Were Mine -- A province in want of a grievance? -- Welcome To The New Age Of Salami Crofting -- Time for another statistical account? -- Confined notions of nationality? -- Bookz: While-U-Wait -- Union-Jack Stalinism And A Second Protectorate -- Attack the story near the end. -- A counter-factual editorial from a post-war edition of the scotsman. -- And a factual editorial from The Times, 1856. -- Also Available
