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Scottish Society, 1707-1830: Beyond Jacobitism, Towards ...
Christopher A. WhatleyThis book challenges conventional wisdom and provides new insights into Scottish social and economic history.
Publications of the Scottish History Society
More editionsContains the society's Report of the annual meeting, 1st- 1887-l9
The Road to Independence?: Scotland since the Sixties
Murray PittockFrom the architecture and art of Edinburgh and Glasgow to the Scottish Parliament, the book investigates every aspect of modern Scottish society to explain the striking rise of Scottish nationalism since 1960.
Scottish Genealogy
Bruce DurieOffers advice for tracing Scottish ancestry, covering the print and electronic resources available, DNA, paleography, heraldry, and the confusion surrounding Scottish clans.
Scotland and the Sea: The Scottish Dimension in Maritime History
Nick RobinsAnd the evidence is still here, in the Cutty Sark, the Denny test tank at Dumbarton, and the Burrell Collection at Pollock, all reminders of a remarkable story. As seen in Scottish Memories Magazine.
The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and ...
PreviewDuncan Sim, Murray Stewart Leith. Sim, D.(2011b), American Scots: The Scottish Diaspora and the USA, Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press. Sim, D. (2012), ' Scottish devolutionandthe Scottish diaspora', National Identities, 14(1): 99–114.
Scottish Government Consultation on the Scottish Law ...
More editionsAnalysis of response to the Scottish Government's consultation on the Scottish Law Commission's review of adults with incapacity.
The Scottish Nation: A Modern History
T M DevineThe Scottish Nation examines the social, political, religious and economic factors that have shaped modern Scotland.
Scottish country
Charles MacLeanMore than 350 full-color photographs and a lively text provide a fascinating survey of the Scottish style of home design, capturing the richly diverse traditions, history, and culture that have shaped Scotland's stylistic innovations. 20 ...
Scottish Forenames: Their Origins and History
More editionsThis work provides origins and meanings for hundreds of Scottish forenames in an A-Z format. This book includes famous and infamous Scots who gave names popularity or notoriety, and also lists the earliest occurrence of a name in Scotland.
Literature and the Scottish Reformation
PreviewCHAPTER 1 Writing the Scottish Reformation David George Mullan Mid sixteenth -century Scottish culture was dominated by a struggle between two versions of Christian faith and practice, the Roman and the Protestant. In this latter case, ...
Scottish Sporting Legends
Robert PhilipScottish sport is the richest of tapestries and in Scottish Sporting Legends the cream of the crop are entertainingly profiled in a revealing collection of pen portraits of stars past and present.
Publications of the Scottish History Society
More editionsby Mr. Mathew Lumsden of Tillicarno Anno 1580 And Carried on from thence to 1667 by William Forbes of Lesslie and Continued by a friend of that Noble Family & Name to the Year 1706. PREFACE To THE READER BY WILLIAM FORBES ...
The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture
PreviewFor a more in-depth discussion of the origins of Scottish Moderatism, see Thomas Ahnert, The Moral Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, 1690–1805 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015). 13. Nicholas Phillipson, “The Making of an ...
The World Hegemon: The British Isles 1832 -1914
William D. RubinsteinOn Scotland, its history and identity, see Christopher Harvie, Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics 1707 to the Present (London, 2004); and Murray Stewart Leith and Daniel P. J. Soule, Political Discourse and National ...
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Scottish History Societyby Mr. Mathew Lumsden of Tillicarno Anno 1580 And Carried on from thence to 1667 by William Forbes of Lesslie and Continued by a friend of that Noble Family & Name to the Year 1706. PREFACE To the Reader by William Forbes of Lesslie ...
Scottish family histories held in Scottish libraries
More editions[By Henry William Gordon, contin. by Sir Henry William Gordon.] Edinburgh, 1895 . Ab. U. Gordons who were parish ministers. n.p., n.d. (Typescript.) Edin. P. Green (James): The History of Scotland: from the death of Queen Margaret ... to the ...
A Shared Legacy: Essays on Irish and Scottish Art and Visual ...
PreviewGeoffrey Keating, D.D., The History of Ireland, trans. David Comyn, vol. i, London: Irish Texts Society, 1902, p. 153. This, indeed, was central to Barry's approach to allegory, his vehement opposition to fixed or mechanical correlations between ...
Imperial Immigrants: Scottish Settlers in the Upper Ottawa ...
Michael E. VancePoint Blankets are discussed in Harold Tichenor, The Blanket: An Illustrated History of the Hudson's Bay Point Blanket (Toronto: Quantum/HBC, 2002), and the significance of Scottish silver-heart brooches is examined in George R. Dalgleish, ...
Scotland - the Brand: The Making of Scottish Heritage
David McCroneBased on an influential study by three leading socioligists, this work examines the specific role and character of the major players in Scottish heritage - the National Trust for Scotland, the Scottish Tourist Board and Historic Scotland - ...
Scottish and Irish Romanticism
Murray PittockChapter 9 looks at the importance of the Gothic in Scottish and Irish Romanticism, particularly in the work of James Hogg and Charles Maturin, while Chapter 10, 'Fratriotism', explores a new concept in the manner in which Scottish and Irish ...
Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-century Scotland
Katharine GloverThe 'Science of Man' in the Scottish Enlightenment: Hume, Reid and their Contemporaries (Edinburgh, 1989), pp.33–53 Barker, hannah, Newspapers, Politics, and English Society, 1695–1855 (harlow, 2000) Barker, hannah, and Elaine ...
Quarterly Bulletin of the Alpine Garden Society
Alpine Garden Society (Great Britain)... 'Medusa', 'Kathleen Dryden', 'Edinburgh', 'Bearsden' and 'Badenoch' are all worth their place in the peat bed. The phyllodoces need very similar growing conditions to the cassiopes. The first to flower in my garden is the rare Scottish native ...
Scottish Girls About Town: And sixteen other Scottish women ...
Jenny ColganMeet the Clanswomen... International bestselling authors Jenny Colgan, Isla Dewar, and Muriel Gray lead off this dazzling collection of stories by popular and rising Scottish women authors.
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