Homecomings: finding neverland

The previous chapters have examined the four main forms of Scottish play-acting on mainland Europe. The Scots of Europe are musicians in military-inspired pipe and drum bands, athletes at Highland Games, commemorators at festivals of remembrance, and historical re-enactors who reproduce their favourite historical periods and characters. In all this activity, the play-actors cherish a Scotland of the past. They participate in what they claim to be ancient musical, athletic, and sartorial traditions, commemorate historical links between Scotland and Europe, and re-stage moments from the Scottish past (or myths thereof). Their favourite history isheroichistory; re-enactors replay battles, commemorators