Marcus Merryman was born and brought up in Baltimore, Maryland. After spending a year at Edinburgh University, he completed a PhD at the Institute of Historical research, University of London. Appointed a founding lecturer of Lancaster University, he became one of its longest-serving members. He established himself as a distinguished scholar, combining historical, archaeological and cartographic research in an innovative and stimulating manner. However, his first love was teaching, for which we won a national award.
The 'Rough Wooings', fought by major figures of sixteenth-century Europe for the hand of the young Mary Queen of Scots, were wars as intense, wide-ranging and devastating as the wars of the three Edwards which ravaged fourteenth-century Scotland.But the Wooings were wars of independence...
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