October
30
/ 2018
A controversial new history book called Traitor, Outlaw, King, written by eminent medieval historian Dr Fiona Watson, a former lecturer of history at Stirling University with a PhD from the University of Glasgow, makes the somewhat shocking claim that Robert the Bruce, the freedom fighting King of Scots who used guerrilla warfare to “send proud Edward homeward [to England] to think again,” was himself an Englishman. Robert the Bruce, Hero of Scotland, Born in Essex Robert the Bruce was, “almost certainly born in Essex” writes Dr Watson, who in her book leans heavily on the solitary words of a 14th Century chronicler who referred to Bruce as belonging to, “The nation of England… born in the village of Writtle, near
