Just finished the Flame Bearer. Great stuff as always. And very pleased to see that the anachronistic modern Scotland-England border has been removed from the map. Just been reading the hugely-informative 1873 book by James Murray. ‘The dialect of the southern counties of Scotland’ and read that the Scottish kings didn’t refer to either Galloway of Lothian as geographically or legally part of Scotland until 1249 (a footnote on page 3). The book can be read on-line. It’s chock full of historical surprises about Northern Britain.

Steve Ainsworth