Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Framing the Discussion
- 1 A Cause Still Unwon: The Struggle to Represent Scotland
- 2 Scots, English and Community Languages in the Scottish Media
- 3 Communications Policy
- The Historical Context
- Screen and Sound
- Themes and Futures
- Select Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
1 - A Cause Still Unwon: The Struggle to Represent Scotland
from Framing the Discussion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Framing the Discussion
- 1 A Cause Still Unwon: The Struggle to Represent Scotland
- 2 Scots, English and Community Languages in the Scottish Media
- 3 Communications Policy
- The Historical Context
- Screen and Sound
- Themes and Futures
- Select Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
Summary
As far as Mr Weir could make out, arriving when conversation was fairly floated, somebody (probably the LORD ADVOCATE) had devised and was administering a system of indentured labour in the Hebrides. The terms of engagement, he gathered, involved a condition of repatriation. Now that is a thing no Scot who respects himself and truly loves his country will submit to. He will cross the Tweed, come to London, become in turn Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition, or vice-versâ. But repatriation he will not submit to.
(Essence of Parliament, Punch, 20 February 1907: 140)ALL THAT'S BEST IN BRITAIN
An edition of Lilliput magazine from precisely the middle of the twentieth century carries an advertisement for the Standard Vanguard saloon. It is part of a series of advertisements featuring ‘All that's best in Britain’ and features a half-page, low-angle, upper-body colour shot of a piper in semi-profile, in full Highland military dress with bearskin hat and a white cockade; his bagpipes fill most of the frame. Lit strongly to the face, he is framed against a background of blue sky. The copy fills the third quarter of the page, above a line drawing of a Standard Vanguard saloon:
All that's best in Britain…
Scotland, land of glens and lochs, of rich lowlands and thriving cities has reared on its soil a hardy, purposeful people – builders, explorers and engineers whose work forms part of our great British heritage … the same qualities of craftsmanship and enterprise are to be found in the products of the Standard Motor Company, representing as they do in every detail of their design ‘all that's best in Britain’.
(Lilliput July 1950: 109)- Type
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- The Media in Scotland , pp. 3 - 19Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2008