one of Scotland's leading historians has criticised the controversial comments of the writer and artist Alasdair Gray, after he wrote an essay which categorised the English population in Scotland as "settlers" or "colonists".
Professor Tom Devine, professor of history Edinburgh University, said Gray's language and opinion, expressed in an essay published last week, was "disgraceful" and not an apt description of the English population in Scotland or its contribution to Scottish society.
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