Friday 4 February 2011

Bannockburn, 1314

While driving to a meeting yesterday I chanced to hear most of an interesting radio programme about the Battle of Bannockburn http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y2srx 

For those of you even less familiar then me with this period, Bannockburn (1314) saw the English army under Edward II get a good kicking.  Not that I am in any way biased.

Joining Melvyn Bragg to discuss the battle, what caused it and it's effects were:
Matthew Strickland - Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow
Fiona Watson - Honorary Research Fellow in History at the University of Dundee
Michael Brown - Reader in History at the University of St Andrews

The link above will take you to the BBC's 'listen again' facility and a useful reading list - I expect it'll be available for about a week.

3 comments:

Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com said...

Thanks Tim. Now all those little metal spearmen on the back shelf are pounding their wire pike butts on the ground and belting out "O Flower o'Scotland" and I can hear their general rehearsing his lines again, "Scots Wha Hae wi Wallace Bled".

If I don't keep an eye on them, they'll be leaning over the shelf edge next and taking swipes at the English on the next shelf.

-Ross

Tim Gow said...

Ross
I'll fetch the claymore from the thatch!

Don M said...

LOL, glad I'm not alone Ros!
My Scots Common army on the shelf
was acting up also....Nice find Tim