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.
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".
ReplyDeleteIf 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
Ross
ReplyDeleteI'll fetch the claymore from the thatch!
LOL, glad I'm not alone Ros!
ReplyDeleteMy Scots Common army on the shelf
was acting up also....Nice find Tim