Scotland and Poland
Historical Encounters 1500-2010
This collection of essays explores more than five centuries of Scottish–Polish interactions. It focuses on the two main moments of contact: the early modern experiences of Scottish pedlars, merchants, mercenaries and diplomats in the Polish–Lithuanian commonwealth and the Polish presence in Scotland during the twentieth and early twenty-first century.
Sir Tom Devine is the Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or editor of more that forty books on Scottish historical studies and related fields. The only historian to be knighted by HM The Queen ‘for services to the study of Scottish history’, he has been described by The Times newspaper as ‘as close to a national bard as the nation has’.
David Hesse holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and currently works as a journalist for a leading Swiss newspaper.
