Download or read book A Scottish Postbag written by George Bruce and published by The Saltire Society. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Bruce and Scott have compiled a selection of Scottish letters covering eight centuries and involving many of the great historical, literary and political figures in Scotland's past.
Download or read book Scotland Resurgent written by Paul Henderson Scott and published by The Saltire Society. This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scottish Mammals written by Robin Hull and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland is a treasure-chest of natural history, but it also offers a wealth of wonderful literature about its wild creatures. Delving into Robin Hull's own experience of the mammals in Scotland and drawing on the texts of many of the great Scottish natural history writers, this book, the first of its kind, examines the historical and cultural relationship between humans and mammals in Scotland over the last 10,000 years. All the wild mammalian species of Scotland are covered, including marine mammals which have been sighted in Scottish waters, such as walruses and narwhals. Insightful and meticulously researched, Scottish Mammals is an analysis of the impact of humans on the planet, as well as a riveting study of the facts and fictions associated with mammals in Scotland.
Download or read book Scotland written by Rosemary Goring and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A spirited collection of witnessing from all the periods of Scottish history”—in the words of Cromwell to Conan Doyle, poets to nurses to warriors (The New York Review of Books). This is a vivid, wide-ranging account of Scotland’s history, composed of numerous stories and observations by those who experienced it firsthand through the centuries. Contributors range from Tacitus, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Oliver Cromwell to Adam Smith, David Livingstone, and Billy Connolly. These include not only historic moments—from Bannockburn to the opening of the new Parliament in 1999—but also testimonies like that of the eight-year-old factory worker who was dangled by his ear out of a third-floor window for making a mistake; the survivors of the 1746 Battle of Culloden, who wished perhaps that they had died on the field; John Logie Baird, inventor of television; and great writers including Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and the editor of Encyclopedia Britannica. From the battlefield to the sports field, this is living, accessible history told by criminals, servants, housewives, poets, journalists, nurses, prisoners, comedians, and many more.
Download or read book The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature written by Trevor Royle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature is the most comprehensive reference guide to Scotland's literature, covering a period from the earliest times to the early 1990s. It includes over 600 essays on the lives and works of the principal poets, novelists, dramatists critics and men and women of letters who have written in English, Scots or Gaelic. Thus, as well as such major writers as Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and Hugh MacDiarmid, the Companion also lists many minor writers whose work might otherwise have been overlooked in any survey of Scottish literature. Also included here are entries on the lives of other more peripheral writers such as historians, philosophers, diarists and divines whose work has made a contribution to Scottish letters. Other essays range over such general subjects as the principal work of major writers, literary movements, historical events, the world of printing and publishing, folklore, journalism, drama and Gaelic. A feature of the book is the inclusion of the bibliography of each writer and reference to the major critical works. This comprehensive guide is an essential tool for the serious student of Scottish literature as well as being an ideal guide and companion for the general reader.
Download or read book Scotland written by Paul Henderson Scott and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than 300 years of union with its larger and wealthier neighbour, Scotland has the opportunity to be independent. It is a chance that well-known Scottish cultural and political commentator Paul Henderson Scott firmly believes should be taken. In Scotland: A Creative Past, An Independent Future, he looks to Scotland's vibrant literary and cultural heritage to envisage an independent nation. Revisiting aspects of Scotland's political and cultural past, from the Union of 1707 to literary figures including Robert Louis Stevenson and Alasdair Gray, this is a passionate and eloquent exploration of Scotland's past, and its potential future - a future where national confidence, culture and identity can flourish. Scott's provocative book persuasively argues the case for Independence, considering a variety of topics, both historic and current, cultural and political. But in every case, the benefits of Independence are clear. Scotland has the opportunity to become more confident, prosperous and contented - an opportunity that even the most sceptical reader will be persuaded that they should take.
Download or read book Scotland s Harvest written by Richie McCaffery and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is the first exploration of the impact of World War Two on Scottish poets of both the front line and the home front. World War One has always been thought of as a poet’s war, one of horror and futility. The poetry of World War Two, by contrast, has long languished in its shadow, though there was a much greater amount of it written. This book asks whether these poets felt they were grown for war or rather that they grew through war experience, with an emphasis on the possibilities of the future instead of cataloguing the senseless horror of the battlefield. How were the hopes of Scottish poets different from their English counterparts? How was their poetry different, and how did it impact on their later lives?
Download or read book The Viceroy s Post bag written by Michael MacDonagh and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Network North written by Steve Murdoch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing a series of economic, confessional, political and espionage networks, this volume provides an illuminating study of network history in Northern Europe in the early modern period. The empirically researched chapters advance existing 'social network theory' into accessible historical discussion.
Download or read book The Anglo Israel Post Bag written by Jonathan Holt Titcomb and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sydney Goodsir Smith Poet written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet: Essays on His Life and Work offers the first substantial, academic work to assess the many strands of the life and work of this important, if presently overlooked, Scottish poet who died prematurely in 1975.
Download or read book Auld Enemies written by David Ross and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost a thousand years, Scotland and England have been neighbour nations. For more than half that time, they were foreign countries, often at war. Four hundred years ago, they began to share a monarchy; three hundred years ago, they joined in a United Kingdom. A new concept of 'Britishness' arose, but for most purposes Scots remained Scots and English remained English, and the old sense of rivalry remained. In olden times, a war of words and propaganda accompanied the fighting. As the countries got to know each other better and the fighting died down, the verbal exchanges continued, and became sharper, more wide-ranging, and funnier. This book provides a unique record of the long contest of verbal warfare across the Border, from its beginnings right up to the present day. Auld Enemies will be a useful handbook that can be enjoyed whichever side you're on.
Download or read book A Clamjamfray of Poets written by Stanley Roger Green and published by The Saltire Society. This book was released on 2007 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Roger Green was a member of the circle of poets and writers surrounding Hugh MacDiarmid in the howfs and halls of post war Edinburgh. Sydney Goodsir Smith, Norman MacCaig, Tom Scott, George Mackay Brown and Robert Garioch were among them and the author offers a very personal account of their life and times.
Download or read book The Age of Liberation written by Paul Henderson Scott and published by The Saltire Society. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Union of 1707 written by Paul Henderson Scott and published by The Saltire Society. This book was released on 2006 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Treaty of Union came into force on 1st May 1707, most of the measures leading to it were carried through in 1706. Paul Henderson Scott, who has studied the event for many years, tells the astonishing story, largely in the words of the people involved at the time.
Download or read book Scottish Postbag written by Paul Scott and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 3905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.
