BRAW STUFF FAE SCOTLAND, the third book from Scottish publisher doodlemacdoodle follows the runaway success of Och Wheest And Get Oan Wae It and Eat haggis And Ceilidh On.  It is a fascinating collection of Scottish people, ideas and discoveries from Neolithic times to modern day including the bicycle, the flush toilet, Clootie Wells, The bank of England and the Ecclefechan tart!

We are delighted to welcome guest reviewer Karen Howlett, the Edinburgh writer who reviews extensively for major publications as well as her own very popular website cornflowerbooks.co.uk. For A  Broad Scot she reviews Scottish books…

Tom Devine: The Conundrum at the Heart of the Scottish Diaspora

Scotland’s greatest export is its people. Few nations can make such a claim because Scots have always treated the world as their oyster, travelling to and settling in all corners of the globe since ‘day one’, making their mark in all fields of endeavour. Following the release of the last in his best-selling trilogy on the Scottish Diaspora, To the Ends of the Earth (pub. Allen Lane) Tom Devine gives his expert insights into this phenomenal in the article The Conundrum at the Heart of the Scottish Diaspora - exclusively for A Broad Scot – in which, among other things, he debunks as fantasy the many popular myths concerning the Highland Clearances!   Read the full article…