ISBN : 9782296136298
JOURNALISM NEW AND OLD: THE 1707 UNION DEBATE
This paper considers Scotland and its doubles in a temporal dimension by focusing on the reproduction in the first decade of the twenty-first century of texts originally generated and for the most part produced in the first decade of the eighteenth century, in both instances in Scotland. A series of articles published in the Scotsman newspaper to mark the tercentenary anniversary of the 1707 Union evocatively, and perhaps provocatively, titled, "Towards the Union", ran several times a week for three and a half months in late 2006 and early 2007. The articles deliberately drew on contemporary accounts of the Scottish parliamentary debates and other public discourse about the Treaty of Union, often reproducing...