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First contenders emerge for Scotland's History: The Top Ten
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The first batch of contenders for Scotland's History: The Top Ten were screened last night.
The new BBC Two Scotland series, which aims to define the key elements of Scottish history, kicked off with the following contenders and their advocates:
 Declaration of Arbroath - Ted Cowan, Glasgow University
The Reformation - Jenny Wormald, Edinburgh University
Burns - Owen Dudley Edwards, Edinburgh University
Tartanry - folklorist Margaret Bennett
Scientists: James Clerk Maxwell - Bruce Borthwick
The Scottish City - historian Hamish Fraser
Radicalism - historian Michael Donnelly
The Enlightenment - broadcaster James Naughtie
Clearances - Donald William Stewart, Edinburgh University
Football - Bill Murray, La Trobe University, Australia
A further 20 topics will be revealed by presenter Neil Oliver over the course of the next two weeks, to make a list of 30 topics - people, events, ideas - culled from more than 1,000 nominations from the public.
After the initial three programmes, all 30 subjects will go up on the website bbc.co.uk/scotlandshistory on Friday 24 November for the public to choose their favourites.
The results will be revealed in a special programme on St Andrew's night (30 November), alongside the deliberations of a panel of history professionals chaired by Professor Tom Devine.
Joining him to debate and wrestle with the ongoing significance of the 30 different topics - people, ideas and events - to be included in the essential ten of Scottish history are: Allan MacInnes, of Aberdeen University; Alison Cathcart, of Strathclyde University; David Caldwell, National Museums of Scotland; Doreen Grove of Historic Scotland; Duncan Toms, Principal Teacher of History at Bearsden Academy; and Katie Barclay, a PhD student at Glasgow University.
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