Sport, Scotland and the Scots

England has a Secretary of State for Culture and Sport, whereas Scotland has a Minister of Sport and Culture. The situation which gave rise to this contrast should ensure a good sale for what is claimed to be the first book to analyse the history of the relationship between Scottish society and sport. The contributors are all authorities in their various fields, and the editors are known for several influential works on the social history of sport. So numerous are the varieties of sport past and present that this anthology, covering a period from, with tongue in cheek, 1272 bc...