# Thistle Versus Rose

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- Book: [Thistle Versus Rose](https://www.bookquiver.com/susan-morrison/thistle-versus-rose) ([Thistle Versus Rose.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/susan-morrison/thistle-versus-rose.md))
- Authors: [Susan Morrison](https://www.bookquiver.com/susan-morrison), [Albert Jack](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-jack)
- Publisher: John Murray
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7360-500-8
- Published: 2014-06-19
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'It is tremendously good fun winding up the Scots. It is terribly easy, particularly Scottish politicians. They can take things far too seriously.' Jeremy Paxman * It's 700 years since England fought Scotland at the Battle of Bannockburn. Miraculously - we still don't understand how - the Scots actually won. It's pretty much the only time they've ever beaten us at anything. So has there ever been a better opportunity to celebrate seven centuries of winding up the Scots? Exploring everything from food, class, the empire and the weather to language, love and landscape, Thistle vs Rose is a hilarious miscellany of Anglo-Scots rivalry. Introduced by bestselling popular historian Albert Jack, it features quotes, jokes and trivia from Stephen Fry, Bill Bryson, Jimmy Carr, George Mikes, Michael McIntyre and many, many others. * published alongside Susan's Morrison's rival Ebook 700 YEARS OF WINDING UP THE ENGLISH (9781473604933) *