Alan R BorthwickAlan Borthwick has been one of the archivist staff of the now National Records of Scotland for over 30 years, and in that time has worked in a variety of posts. He has been Head of the Private Records section since 2007. Alan was the lead curator forthe NRS exhibition in 2005 at the Scottish Parliament when the Declaration of Arbroath was last publicly displayed. He was also lead curator for the two exhibitions of the "Wallace document" of 1300, at the Scottish Parliament (2012) and at Stirling Castle (2014). His PhD thesis, on the reign of King James II (1437-1460), was completed in 1989. He also contributed a number of articles to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). Other contributions include "Montrose v Dundee and the Jurisdiction of Parliament and Council over Fee and Heritage in the Mid-Fifteenth Century", Parliamentary History xv (1) (1996) 33-53 and "An Addition to Scotia Pontifica", Innes Review xxxix (1) 61-64. Read More Read Less