This article enquires how notions of national identities are still topical in recent scholarship at a time when processes of globalisation appear to be undermining the nation-state and its territorial power. The so-called spatial turn within the social sciences and humanities has exposed transnational, postcolonial and global aspects of identity constructions beyond the narrow borders of the nation and all things national. Stimulating historical and geographical research into nations and identities, this journal is informed by the same epistemology, tentatively located in postmodern thinking. Despite the prophecies of doom of postmodern enthusiasts, this study testifies to the continued relevance of borders and national attachments, albeit in terms of self-reflexivity.

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This essay explores how Scottish history was const7Ucted in discourse and displayed ar the History Exhibition in Glasgow in 1911. Having already held fwO international exhibitions. Glasgow's bourgeoisie organised one on a national scale in which the idea of progress was amended with that of history. Different concepts of Scottish history reflected differenr images of Scottish identity which competed with each other in the public debate about the foundatWn of a chair in Scottish history and literature at Glasgow University with funds left wer from rhe exhibition. A professor was appointed to the chair whose scholarly interests testified to the influence of powerful social groups in favour of a unionist notum of Scottish history.

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