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This book takes a timely look at how Scotland's national politics have been expressed in its buildings, exploring the role the architecture of Scotland - in particular its world-famous 'castle architecture' - has played the ongoing narrative of Scots national identity.

Scotch Baronial examines many of the country's most important historic buildings - from the palaces left behind by the 'lost' monarchy, to revivalist castles and proud town halls - examining their architectural styles and tracing their wildly fluctuating political and national connotations.

An introduction to a key episode in British architectural history, and a valuable resource for anyone studying the role of architecture in narratives of nationalism and empire globally, Scotch Baronial ends by bringing the story into the 21st century, exploring how contemporary 'neo-modernist' architecture in today's Scotland, as exemplified in the Holyrood parliament, relates to concepts of national identity in architecture over the previous centuries. An ambitious and wide-ranging account of the complex interplay, over more than eight centuries, between castellated architecture and changing concepts of national identity in Scotland ... The authors are to be congratulated on maintaining an appropriate balance and pace across such a broad chronological span and such an intricately interwoven set of themes. * Castle Studies * It is always a pleasure to pick up an elegantly written book, which wears its research lightly, yet doesn't skimp on scholarship. * Innes Review *

Scotch Baronial: Architecture and National Identity in Scotland

Introduction: Pre-1603 Scotland: Castellated Architecture and 'Martial Independence'



Part I: Absent Monarchs and Civil Strife

Chapter 1: 1603-1660: Empty royal palaces and castellated court architecture

Chapter 2: 1660-1689: From restitution to rejection of the old order

Chapter 3: 1689-1750: The architecture of dynastic struggle



Part II: From 'Romantic Scotland' to 'Imperial Scotland'

Chapter 4: 1750-1790: Enlightenment and Romanticism

Chapter 5: 1790-1820: Scotland and England in the Age of Revolutionary War

Chapter 6: 1820-40: Scott, Abbotsford and 'Scotch' Romanticism

Chapter 7: 1840-70: Billings and Bryce: mid-century Baronial

Chapter 8: 1870-1900: Traditionalism

Chapter 9: External reflections: 'national' Scottish architecture and the empire



Part III: The Twentieth Century

Chapter 10: 1914 onwards: Scottish architectural identity in the age of Modernism

Conclusion: The architecture of Unionist Nationalism - and its international significance



Bibliography

Index