19th century Scottish novelists cast a long shadow
PAT MURPHY in BOOKS: Scottish novelists Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson’s reputations were created primarily by Hollywood
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Tying up the loose ends on Flora Macdonald’s story
Flora Macdonald, who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape after the Battle of Culloden, was nothing if not a practical woman
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Winston Churchill and the villainous ‘Guilty Men’
PAT MURPHY in BOOKS: An influential book from 1940 laid the guilt of appeasing Nazi Germany at the feet of 15 public figures
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Flora Macdonald, from Scottish rebel to loyalist
PAT MURPHY in BOOKS: Flora Macdonald helped Boonie Prince Charlie escape to France after the disastrous Battle of Culloden
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Pierre Trudeau’s last rollercoaster ride
PAT MURPHY: Pierre Trudeau’s fourth and final term was to be the most controversial of all. It was almost as if he felt finally liberated to be himself
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Popular historian Paul Johnson dead at 94
BOOKS: An enthusiastic polemicist, Johnson had no qualms about giving voice to his particular perspective on the world
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