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Warrior dreams Warrior dreams Playing Scotsmen in mainland Europe DAVID HESSE Manchester University Press Manchester and New York distributed in the United States exclusively by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Copyright © David Hesse 2014 The right of David Hesse to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accor- dance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published by Manchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9NR, UK and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA Distributed in Canada exclusively by UBC Press, University of British Columbia, 2029 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for ISBN 978 0 7190 9190 2 hardback First published 2014 The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third- party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such web- sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Typeset by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire Comme tous les songe-creux, je confondis le désenchantement avec la vérité. Jean- Paul Sartre, Les mots Contents List of figures page viii Acknowledgements ix Introduction: the Scots of Europe 1 1 Context: playing the past 17 2 The Scottish dreamscape: formation 37 3 The Scottish dreamscape: spread 48 4 Marching Scots: pipe bands 83 5 Only the strong: Highland Games 108 6 Our Scottish past: commemorations 130 7 Régiments du passé: re- enactment 149 8 Homecomings: finding neverland 170 9 Who’s like us? Scotland as a site of memory 193 Conclusion: warrior dreams 213 Appendix A: Tables 219 Appendix B: Sample questionnaire 244 Bibliography 247 Index 276 Figures 1 Scots Guards on Tilburg’s Oude Markt, Netherlands, 29 October 1944 (Regionaal Archief Tilburg, Netherlands) page 93 2 The Dutch Pipes and Drums, formerly De Scotjes, concert poster, Netherlands, 2013 95 3 Clan Reischinga, Highland Games, Pfalzen, South Tyrol, Italy, 2009 (photo David Hesse) 109 4 Puschtra- Hexn, Highland Games, Pfalzen, South Tyrol, Italy, 2009 (photo David Hesse) 109 5 Clan Schierhagl, Highland Games, Pfalzen, South Tyrol, Italy, 2009 (photo David Hesse) 110 6 Auld Alliance Pipe Band, Aubigny- sur- Nère, France, July 2009 (photo David Hesse) 133 7 Flyer, Flanders Memorial Day, Belgium, 2009 141 8 The ‘Braveheart period’: Terra Crom, Aubigny- sur- Nère, France, 2009 (photo David Hesse) 155 9 Jacobites: Wee Jock MacMelville and William MacBran, Clan MacBran, Netherlands, 2009 (photo David Hesse) 156 10 Women dressing up as men: Keltfest, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2009 (photo David Hesse) 205 Acknowledgements I am grateful to all the Scots of Europe who made time to talk to me and who sent me their photographs, flyers, books, and records – thank you. This book is based on a doctoral thesis which was generously funded by the University of Edinburgh’s Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies and the Swiss National Science Foundation. I am grateful to both institutions. Particular thanks go to my supervisors, Professor Tom Devine and Professor David McCrone, for their invaluable advice and enthusiasm. An earlier version of chapter 7 was published in Myth, Mysticism, Celtic Nationalism, edited by Shelley Trower and Garry Tregidga (London: Routledge, 2012). An earlier version of chapter 8 appeared in Back to Caledonia. Scottish Return Migration from the Sixteenth Century to the Present, edited by Mario Varricchio (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2012). Materials employed in chapter 5 were used in ‘Scots for a Day: The Highland Games of Europe’, History Scotland 11.3 (May/June 2011). Reproduced with kind permission. I am grateful to staff at the National Library of Scotland, the National Museums of Scotland, the National Archives of Scotland, Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Switzerland, and Regionaalarchief Tilburg, Netherlands. Special thanks to Boris Galenko of the Suvorov Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia, and to Lieutenant Colonel George Latham of the Highlanders Museum, Cameron Barracks, Inverness. Many thanks to Hajo Hoffmann, Vanessa Agnew, Neal Ascherson, Tanja Bueltmann, Steve Murdoch, David Worthington, Lennart Wanner, Hisashi Kobuyama, Katherine Tawny Paul, David Ritchie, Eva Becsei- Kilborn, Amy Lloyd, Matthew Dziennik, Joan Haig, Svein-B jorn Thórdarsson, Nanna Teitsdóttir, Paula Dumas, Lindsey Flewelling, Devon McHugh, Joseph Mujere, Mario Varricchio, Elisabetta Novello, Diego Malara, Hal Hutchison, Florian Graf, Valeria Mitelman, Yves Endrass, Alexi Endrass Korach, the Swiss Club of Edinburgh, Alex Murdoch, Enda Delaney, James Fraser, Ewen Cameron, Steve Boardman, Richard Rodger, Sandy Robertson, Jennifer Curtis, Richard Kane, Niko Ovenden, Anne Brockington, Clan Ruffo, Clan Spring, Rachel Vogt, Gabriel Dalvit, Frank Schubert, Marianne Sommer, Valentin Groebner, Jakob
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