| A New History Of The Picts - Stuart McHardy |
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This is an accessible history of a people who are so often misunderstood. The author argues that Scottish history has long been dominated by misleading perspectives. Here he discredits the idea that the Picts were a strange historical anomaly and shows them to be the descendants of the original inhabitants of the land, living in a series of loose tribal confederations gradually brought together by external forces to create one of the earliest states in Europe: a people, who after repulsing all invaders, merged with their cousins, the Scots of Argyll, to create modern Scotland. |
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