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© SYSTEM It was a pitched battle which was done and dusted in less time than half a football match. By the climax, thousands of men lay dead or wounded, while others were scattered to the wind, pursued by vengeful forces who hunted down their enemies and either slaughtered them or transported them to the West Indies. Even now, 275 years later, Culloden is a word which provokes strong emotions among the descendants of those who perished on a brooding, boggy moor, east of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. Charles Edward Stuart, whose forces were vanquished, is still painted as a romantic fi...

PREMIUM Author Ian Rankin with some of the haul of his personal archive donated to the National Library of Scotland thursday after downsizing his Edinburgh home and which include early drafts of Rebus novels and letters to fellow authors..Pic Gordon Terris/The He AMONG the many things I’ve missed this past year is working in the National Library of Scotland. With its studiously hushed reading rooms, Pickwickian shelves of leather-bound books, and trolleys piled with returns, like upmarket ScotRail buffet carts, the NLS is a haven for anyone who needs access to the millions of books, manus...

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