MADE IN SCOTLAND (BIRLINN)

When people first spread Robertson's Golden Shred Marmalade on their toast, it was thanks to a Scot, James Robertson. How would the housewife have thickened her sauce without cornflour, first produced in Paisley by Brown & Polson in 1854? Pringle of Hawick gave the world the first knitted twin-set, and the UK's number one comic, The Beano, was born in Dundee. This new edition features the stories behind a wide number of the best-known household names.