Scottish Wars of Independence (1)
Wallace: Fact vs. Fiction

Playlist : texts read & music played

1. The Corries: Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace  bled (as a song)
2. Robert Burns: Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled (original poem)
3. Fiona Watson: Under the Hammer – Edward I and Scotland
4. Runrig: Alba
5. John Barbour: The Bruce
6. ‘Blind Harry’:  Wallace (Translated by William Hamilton of Gilbertfield)
7. Alasdair MacDonald: William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie
8. Walter Scott on Wallace’s sword
9. John of Fordun on Wallace
10. The Scotichronicon on Wallace
11. Alasdair MacDonald: Stirling Brig
12. Randall Wallace: ‘Sons of Scotland’ from Braveheart
13. Sydney Goodsir Smith: The Wallace
14. Plaque on wall of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London
15. Sylvia Barnes: The Lament of Wallace
16. Robert Southey: The Death of Wallace
17. William Wordsworth: The Prelude, Book 1
18. Robert Burns on Wallace
19. R.B. Cunninghame Graham on Wallace
20. James Lumsden: The Castle, Edinburgh
21. The McCalmans: The Lion Wallace Saw

Bibliography

– Burnet, A.: The National Wallace Monument (2024)
– Carruth, J.A.: Heroic Wallace and Bruce (1986)
– Cook, M.: Bannockburn and Stirling Bridge (2021)
– Fisher, A.: William Wallace (1986)
– Geddes & Grosset: Sir William Wallace (2000)
– Goodsir Smith, S.: The Wallace (1960)
– Hamilton, W.: Blind Harry’s Wallace (1772; 1998)
– Jones, Duncan: William Wallace (1997)
– Kamm, A.: Wallace and Bruce (1996)
– Mackay, J.: William Wallace – Braveheart (1995)
– Meikle, H.W.: The Story of Scotland (1949)
– Reese, Peter: Wallace – A Biography (1996)
– Ross, D.R.: On the Trail of William Wallace (1999)
– Traquair, P.: Freedom’s Sword – Scotland’s Wars of Independence (1998)
– Watson, F.: Under the Hammer – Edward I and Scotland (2022)