In This Section: ScARF National FrameworkPanel Reports Chronology and DownloadsPalaeolithic & MesolithicNeolithicBronze AgeIron AgeRomanMedievalModernExecutive SummaryModern - Overall Research Recommendations1. Introduction2. Reformations3. Global Localities4. The Modern Person5. Nation and State5.1 Introduction5.2 Constructing the state: defining borders5.3 Embedding and evading the state in civil life5.4 Being Scottish, or being something else5.5 Research recommendations6. People and Things7. People and Place8. People and Landscape9. Modern Past, Modern PresentModern Case StudiesModern BibliographyModern Downloads 5. Nation and State 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Constructing the state: defining borders 5.3. Embedding and evading the state in civil life 5.4. Being Scottish, or being something else 5.5. Research recommendations