The Hot Trod
The Hot Trod The 2014 Scottish independence debate and the re-ignition of the SNP's call for a second vote in the wake of Brexit ‒ and indeed Brexit itself ‒ begs a reappraisal of what nationality…
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The Hot Trod
The 2014 Scottish independence debate and the re-ignition of the SNP's call for a second vote in the wake of Brexit ‒ and indeed Brexit itself ‒ begs a reappraisal of what nationality and borderer identity actually mean in the twenty-first century and how the past affects this. He's been in these Marches all his life, studied and read about their wild inhabitants, traversed every inch and studied every castle, bastle, tower and battlefield. As a borderer and historian John Sadler is uniquely qualified to examine the border from Roman times to today.
Nasty as he was, he became a kind of instant folk hero to some. In July 2010 in Rothbury, a latter-day outlaw, Raoul Thomas Moat, a vicious petty criminal and murderer, holed up in Coquetdale as hundreds of police tried to flush him out. Four centuries ago, Moat would barely have been noticed on the border ‒ just another