Alan Young gained a PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1974, on the political role of the Comyns in Medieval Scotland and continues to be fascinated by the family. He has written biographies of William Wallace and Robert Bruce and is a freelance writer and lecturer.
This is a series of papers delivered at the first Thomas H. Raddall Symposium held at Acadia University in September 1990.
It is a great collection of critiques including comments on Raddall as an historian and children’s author as well as identifying similarities in his heroes and themes of feminism.
Targeted primarily at students of Raddall’s work, it is also interesting for readers like me who have enjoyed Raddall’s books and his biography.