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Billy Kay celebrates Scotland’s profound engagement with the Flemish & Dutch people. If your name is Fleming, Douglas or Murray, if you play golf or curling, if your house has red pantiles or crow step gables, if you speak Scots and use words like hunkers or howff and if you studied law or medicine at a Scottish university, then you’ve been touched by Scotland’s links to the Low Countries - a cultural legacy that came with trade, religious and intellectual exchange, and patterns of migration to our nearest neighbours across the North Sea. It is an ongoing exchange testified by the publication of a beautiful book Scotland and the Flemish People supported by the Government of Flanders in Belgium.