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This article re-evaluates the role and importance of the thirteenth earl of Eglinton as president of the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights (NAVSR). Departing from the established historiography, which depicts his career as a romantic absurdity because of his organization of a medieval tournament in 1839, it shows Eglinton to have been a political figure of substance, who played a significant role in public life during the mid-Victorian era. The article emphasizes the importance of ' administrative devolution ' as a feature of long-term Conservative political thought and points to activities of Eglinton and his circle as an example of the need to give more weight to the importance of Conservatives in modern Scottish history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses the dual feeling of nationalism among Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Treaty of Union set Scotland within British rule, but separated it when it came to matters of local rule, religion, and education. Thus, Scots learned to adopt both a Scottish and British national identity: however, they were never English.

This article analyses an episode in which several major themes of Scottish (and British) cultural and political history intersected: the cult of heroes, romantic paternalism and the evolution of Scottish national identity. Departing from interpretations that have overemphasized the hegemony of an anti-aristocratic bourgeoisie, the article interprets the Burns cult as a contested site of memory. By explicating the dramaturgy of the Robert Burns Festival in 1844 it shows how this event interlocked with the Eglinton tournament, Young England, Queen Victoria's first visit to Scotland, and the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights, to express a version of national identity that was intended to provide the cultural framework for an assertion of aristocratic paternalism in Scotland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the monument of the Duke of Sutherland in Scotland. Historical events associated with the monument; Reason behind the campaign to destroy the monument; Criticisms against the Duke of Sutherland; Information on the sculpture created by Gerald Laing about the Duke.

Examines the royal visits to Scotland in September 1842. Queen Victoria; Prince Albert; Prime Minister Robert Peel.

Focuses on the participation of clinical medical officers in a child health service in Scotland. Development of health services for children; Description of community pediatricians; Continuity of health care in the preschool and early school years.