Wednesday 24th August 2011
Charting Scotland’s global influence
Edinburgh University News
New research reassessing Scotland’s influence on the modern world has been launched at the Edinburgh Book Festival.
The pre-eminent Historian, Professor Tom Devine, Director of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies at the University charted the story of the Scots at home and abroad over the last three centuries in his latest book To The Ends of the Earth.
Remarkable impact worldwide
At an event attended by the Scottish Minister for Culture and External Affairs, Fiona Hislop, Professor Devine explored the epic story of the Scots émigrés, and their remarkable impact worldwide.
He touched not only on such old colonial territories as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, but on nations outside the 19th-century empire, including the United States, Japan and parts of Latin America.