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The Shortest History of Scotland by Murray Pittock big-ideas Nothing is harder to doScotland is one of the oldest nations in Europe. Its territory has remained fundamentallyunchanged since the fifteenth century, and its southern border with England has barely altered with the exception of Berwick and a few square kilometres of 'debatable' land since1237. And yet Scotland a country with a global brand is not a state at all. The ShortestHistory of Scotland argues that its very ambiguity is what has made the nation a central partof the