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In the latest episode of the Explaining History Podcast, cultural historian Murray Pittock takes us on a whirlwind tour of two millennia of Scottish history – and explains why understanding the past is essential to understanding the present When Murray Pittock agreed to write The Shortest History of Scotland for a bestselling series, he had two practical reasons. First, many one‑volume histories of Scotland were either long, heavy, out of date, or written by non‑historians. Second, The Shortest History of England had sold a third of a million copies. There was a market. But his ambitions for the book went…