Reputations and national identity, or, what do our heroes say about us?
It seems appropriate to be writing this introduction in the same week as the new Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) is launched and the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women celebrates the completion of the commissioning of its entries. Whatever scruples some historians may have over the w...
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| Argitaratua izan da: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/etudesecossaises, |
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| Egile Nagusiak: | , |
| Formatua: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Hizkuntza: | Anglais |
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Études écossaises
2005
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Gaia: | It seems appropriate to be writing this introduction in the same week as the new Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) is launched and the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women celebrates the completion of the commissioning of its entries. Whatever scruples some historians may have over the worth or relevance of biography, there is no doubting its popularity; the tables and shelves of every bookshop groans under the weight of biographies and ghosted autobiographies of past and present ... |
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