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Queensberry House to the right, home of the The Queensberry House Cannibal. The Scottish Parliament in the background. Royal Mile, Cannongate in the foreground. (Photo: K. Flude)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One of my favourite books on Edinburgh is by Ian Rankin.\u00a0 It is one of the Inspector Rebus series. What makes Rankin a great crime writer is how the author makes Edinburgh central to the story. It adds realism to his stories.\u00a0 As you read the stories you enjoy learning about Edinburgh, its culture, history, people, streets and topography. And get insights into Edinburgh’s moods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Model of the Scottish Parliament, with Queensberry House in the bottom right hand corner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I haven’t read all the Rebus books but the one I want to feature is ‘Set in Darkness’ published in 2000.  It is set in the period immediately after the success of the Scottish Referendum to set up a Scottish Parliament. The story also takes us back to 1979 when the first Scottish Referendum ‘failed’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Queensberry House Cannibal<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The book begins with a body found in Queensbury House, which is being preserved and incorporated into the new Scottish Parliament buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scottish Parliament Building (photo by the author)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This setting was suggested by the well-known tale of the Queensberry House Cannibal; James Douglas the 3rd Marquess of Queensberry and, for a time, the Earl of Drumlanrig. The tale begins on the day, in 1707, that the Scottish Parliament agreed to disband itself. The Parliamentarians voted for an Act of Union with the United Kingdom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On that day, the young Lord was left alone in Queensbury House with no one to look after him, except a kitchen boy. James had mental issues, and when the adults came home, they discovered that he had eaten the kitchen boy by spit-roasting him. The ghost of the boy is said to haunt the house. Or so the story goes.\u00a0 It’s always treated as a true story, but there is a suspicion it was a black calumny on those who agreed to the end of the Scottish Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more on the event, look here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Restoration of the Scottish Parliament 11th September 1997<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So, as today is the anniversary of the day the Scots voted Yes to a restoration of its Parliament (11th September 1997), let’s have a look at the long history of devolution. We will take the story backwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The referendum asked the Scots two questions. The first was: did they support a separate Parliament for Scotland? The second. Should it have the power to vary levels of taxation? 74.3% voted yes to the Parliament, and 63.5% voted yes for powers of taxation. On the 1st July 1999 the Scottish Parliament was set up by the Blair Government. The new Parliament was elected by the Additional Member system of proportional representation. The country is split into regions, the regions into constituencies, and each constituency elects a member of the Scottish Parliament by first part the post system. Each region has a party list of additional potential members, and the seats are allocated between the parties to make the final result as proportion as possible. This is said to combine the advantages of constituency MPs, and PR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ‘Failed’ 1979 Referendum<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

But this wasn’t the first vote for a measure of independence.\u00a0 In 1979, the Scottish Act set up a referendum for a Scottish assembly.\u00a0 James Callaghan was the Prime Minister, and the act followed a Royal Commision on the Constitution. The Referendum was won with a majority of 52%, but an amendment to the Act had a stipulation that there had to be a vote of at least\u00a0 40% of the registered electorate for the vote to succeed. It won only 32% of the 62% turnout so the Act failed. (if only Cameron had done something similar for the Brexit Referendum!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it would be another almost 20 years before the Scots got their own debating chamber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1707 Act of Union<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Scots lost their Parliament on the 1st May 1707 when the Act of Union with England was enacted.  The Scottish Parliament had been in existence since the early 13th Century.  The Scots had no House of Commons, but its unicameral Parliament had representatives from the Three Estates: prelates representing the Church; Aristocrats representing the nobility, and Burgh Commissioners representing the Towns.  Later, Shire Commissioners were added to represent the countryside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision to disband the Parliament of Scotland was very controversial, and blamed on the self-interest of the Nobility against the wishes of the people. Scotland had lost out on the huge profits being made by the Empire by England, excluded as the Scots were by the Navigation Acts from trading freely within the British Empire. So the Scots set up their own \u00a0Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies<\/a>\u00a0which invested in the disastrous \u00a0Dari\u00e9n scheme<\/a>, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea was to build a colony on the\u00a0Isthmus of Panama.\u00a0 80% of the participants in the settlement died, and the 20% of Scottish wealth which was invested in the scheme was lost. Many of the Scottish members of Parliament lost money in the Scheme, and compensation and bribery offered by the English encouraged the Parliamentarians to accept the advantages of free trade within the British Empire and to join the Westminster Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joint Monarchies<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 1603, the Scottish and English monarchies joined in the person of James VI of Scotland who became James 1st of England on the death of his childless aunt, Queen Elizabeth 1. But the Scots kept their own Parliament and legal system. There were attempts to bring a closer Union, but these all failed until 1707.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

England Overlording it?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From the early beginnings of Scottish existence as an independent nation, the English Monarchy claimed to be the feudal overlord of Scotland. Scotland was normally able to deny this until the reign of Edward I. After the battle of Bannockburn the Scottish made a declaration of their complete independence from England at Arbroath. It was sent to the Pope who accepted it. This helped the Scots defy England until 1603 when the two monarchies joined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To see the rest of my Edinburgh Booklist click here<\/a>. or to see my post on poetry on the wall of the Scottish Parliament<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First Written in 2024, revised 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To follow up have a look at these websites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original Scottish Parliament<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How the Scottish Parliament works<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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