Gordon Barclay Author

Dr Gordon Barclay FSA, FSA Scot, FRHistS worked as Principal Inspector and Head of Policy at government heritage agency Historic Scotland. He has published extensively on the history and surviving remains of the defence of Scotland, including ‘If Hitler comes’: Preparing for Invasion: Scotland 1940. His main research interests lie in the misuse of the past for political ends.

Dr Louise Heren FSA Scot, FRHistS has a doctorate in Scottish male violence from the University of St Andrews and is published in Scottish violent crime history. Her most recent work Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland examines masculinities, gender, judicial attitudes and juridical responses to violence in the aftermath of the First World War.