From the Bloody Heart

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Oliver Thomson is the author of Sutton's The Great Feud: The Campbells and the MacDonalds and Easily Led: A History of Propaganda. He is managing Director of one of Scotland's largest advertising agencies. His other publications include A History of Sin.

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In early medieval Scotland bitter rivalry grew up between two immigrant families from Flanders in their struggle for the crown: the Stewarts and the Douglases. From the Bloody Heart covers the period from 1286 to what may be thought of as the "final" defeat of the Stewarts at Culloden in 1745.