Dr Murray Cook

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TOLBOOTH TALK: Released – 4^th June 2020

‘From Blind Harry to The Corries: The Wars of Independence in Poetry and Song’ – In celebration of 25 years since the release of Braveheart.

Dr Murray Cook is Stirling Council’s Archaeologist and a published author. He has undertaken numerous excavations across the region and published over 40 books and articles. He won a Stirling’s Provost Award in 2018 for his work for the Council, where he has helped raise over £300,000 for community archaeology and research.

Murray studied at Edinburgh University, his PhD dissertation was based on 10 years of research in Aberdeenshire on settlement patterns between 2000 BC and AD 1000.

He is an Honorary Research Fellow at Stirling University, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, runs an occasional course at Forth Valley College.  He also co-runs regular training digs open to all under the name Rampart Scotland.

Nominated Charity – Each Tolbooth Talks speaker has nominated a charity, and we invite those that enjoyed the talk, and are in a position to do so, to make a voluntary donation.   Dr Cooks chosen charity is Transition Stirling, and you will find a link to their donation

LINKS AS MENTIONED IN TALK

• Robert Baston’s The Battle of Bannockburn 1314  ​ The best version is by Edwin Muir which was commissioned for the reopening of the Scottish Parliament, which is what I’ll read from. ​
•  John Barbour’s The Brus 1375​ ​
• Blind Harry’s Wallace 1477…one of the first books published in Scotland​
•  Robert Burns Scots Wa Hae only fully published after his death in 1799​
•  Walter Scott’s Lord of The Isles 1815​ ​
•  ​The Corries Flower of Scotland 1967​

Nominated Charity – Each Tolbooth Talks speaker has nominated a charity, and we invite those that enjoyed the talk, and are in a position to do so, to make a voluntary donation.   Dr Cooks chosen charity is Transition Stirling, and you will find a link to their donation

About Transition Stirling

Transition Stirling is an environmental charity focusing on helping the people of Stirlingshire transition to a more resilient sustainable way of living, providing a positive local response to climate change.

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