I agreed with Goring’s headline when I first saw it but then discovered it was for very different reasons. Hers is a purely literary critique apparently unconcerned with any effects of the dominance of tales from English history across the cultural experiences of most Scots. The word Scotland doesn’t even appear.
There is a bigger concern for me.
In my years in teacher education (1984 – 2014), I had students asking for help in teaching the Tudor period in places such as Cumnock, even though the formal curriculum by then had no place for English monarchs. It turned out the schools were using books published in England titled ‘Tudors and Stuarts.’ I heard of an Edinburgh school teaching about the Plantagenets in France and England but not about their imperialist atrocities in 13th and 14th Century Scotland. A colleague spoke to an Englishman, in Barra, happily teaching about the Campaigns of Malborough!
My colleagues at the time had studied History at Glasgow University in the 60s. No Scottish History classes were available to them.
I had studied Higher History in Grangemouth in the late 60s, learning nothing at all of Scottish history but, strangely, learning much of the Partitions of Poland from a man whose name, I later realised, told of ancestry in Danzig!
Let me be clear. I’m not making a case here for mass TV dramatisation of the lives of Scottish monarchs just less of English events and more of Scottish ones. I doubt the Danes spend their evenings watching tales of German or French monarchs.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
To be fair to Ms Goring she has written several books on Scottish History.
BBC 4 is currently repeating a series on The Stuarts that was first broadcast in 2014 – strange timing was it not? But it is one of the few, very few, programmes that has dealt with any aspect of Scottish Histoy, a subject that now has a more prominent place in the curriculum in schools in Scotland.
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If you look at the authors of Scottish history you will find so many of them are English people and most of them went to St. Andrews university
It’s no mistake
English people studying Scottish history at St. Andrews university then writing books on Scottish history and of course often called upon by BBC etc for their englified point of view of Scotland’s past
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I did a course in Scottish History and Literature at Glasgow in the 50s, probably 56/57. It was taught by Professor J D Mackie but, as he was a bit demob happy (about to retire), and we spent too long on the older stuff then galloped through post1707, only just covering enough to do the second paper if the exam.
However it was enough to give me an enduring interest in the subject.
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Broad education does exist. I remember teaching a newly arrived s2 pupil who knew everything worthwhile about Mary Stuart and the Scottish reformation because she learned it in her previous scho in the Czech Republic.
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