The Liberty Tree: The Stirring Story of Thomas Muir and Scotland's First Fight for Democracy

The Liberty Tree is a historical novel about the life and struggles of the Scottish radical, Thomas Muir (1765 - 1799) . At the same time the author recreates events using the actual recorded words of the participants (eg. the famous exchanges between Braxfield and Gerrald during the latter's trial) and as such The Liberty Tree also stands as a vivid, well-researched historical account of the life of Thomas Muir.. Murray Armstrong was born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire. He was a journalist who spent the final twenty-one years of his career at the Guardian which he joined in 1987 as a features sub-editor. He was Associate Editor at the time of his early retirement in 2008 which he took with the express intention of writing about Thomas Muir having nurtured an interest in the man and his times for many years.