Essays on Scotland

I have grown up in Scotland, in a city named Inverness my whole life. I grew up in Inverness so it has been the only place that I’ve known to be a personal area for me. I have come from a very close family, including the extended family, and have always grown up with people...

Using accounts from Minna Liinpää and Teresa Piacentini, I will compare and critique how they both shape the argument that Scotland is inclusive in theory, but may not always be in practice. Liinpää sets out their work with an illustrative explanation on the role of Scotland in Empire during the 18th century. Here Piacentini explains...

Intro Scotland has been the forefront in education since the late 1800’s. The idea of universal school education pioneered the pedagogical ideal and revolutionised the way the country and how many other countries viewed education. However, Scotland had its issues. During the mid-nineteenth century, one in three children were not in education. Buildings were unsuitable...

History William Wallace is a massive part of Scottish history. He was born into a high society family in the 1270s at Elderslie in Renfrewshire. William Wallace led the Scottish revolution against Edward I, inflicting on the English army a famous defeat at Stirling Bridge. As a patriot and national hero, he is recognized and...

In the first episode of Neil Oliver’s “A History of Scotland,” Oliver claims that Scotland’s history is overly romanticized and misrepresented. I believe that Oliver is correct in stating this. Some people are misrepresented or mislabeled. Most of Scottish history is recorded by outside sources, many times by the enemy, and possibly altered to make...

When we open a discussion regarding poverty, we first have to understand what poverty is. The Scottish Poverty Information Unit defines poverty as “’Poverty is defined relative to the standards of living in a society at a specific time. People live in poverty when they are denied an income sufficient for their material needs and...

Tackling poverty has become a central focus in Scottish education over the years. In the past decade, it has been given great prominence within government policy and attainment initiatives to support every child to ensure they succeed in life and ensure equity of achievement in education. However, Mowat (2017) argued that the current standing policies...