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First contenders emerge for Scotland's History: The Top Ten
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The first batch of contenders for Scotland's History: The Top Ten were screened last night.
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The new 大象传媒 Two Scotland series, which aims to define the key elements of Scottish history, kicked off with the following contenders and their advocates:
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 Declaration of Arbroath - Ted Cowan, Glasgow University
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The Reformation - Jenny Wormald, Edinburgh University
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Burns - Owen Dudley Edwards, Edinburgh University
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Tartanry - folklorist Margaret Bennett
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Scientists: James Clerk Maxwell - Bruce Borthwick
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The Scottish City - historian Hamish Fraser
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Radicalism - historian Michael Donnelly
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The Enlightenment - broadcaster James Naughtie
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Clearances - Donald William Stewart, Edinburgh University
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Football - Bill Murray, La Trobe University, Australia
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A further 20 topics will be revealed by presenter Neil Oliver over the course of the next two weeks, to make a list of 30 topics - people, events, ideas -听 culled from more than 1,000 nominations from the public.
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After the initial three programmes, all 30 subjects will go up on the website bbc.co.uk/scotlandshistory on Friday 24 November for the public to choose their favourites.
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The results will be revealed in a special programme on St Andrew's night (30 November), alongside the deliberations of a panel of history professionals chaired by Professor Tom Devine.
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Joining him to debate and wrestle with the ongoing significance of the 30 different topics - people, ideas and events - to be included in the essential ten of Scottish history are: Allan MacInnes, of Aberdeen University; Alison Cathcart, of Strathclyde University; David Caldwell, National Museums of Scotland; Doreen Grove of Historic Scotland; Duncan Toms, Principal Teacher of History at Bearsden Academy; and Katie Barclay, a PhD student at Glasgow University.
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