Download or read book Bothy Nichts and Days written by David G. Adams and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bothy Culture written by George T. Mortimer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Bothy Culture' focuses on exploring the rich subculture that can be found at some of the remotest locations throughout the Scottish wilderness; however, it is much more than that for it is primarily one man's scathing social commentary on what he interprets as "a world gone mad." Often funny, controversial and brutally provocative, Mortimer takes no prisoners in explaining his need to regularly get off-grid and escape the urban/suburban sprawl.
Download or read book Jock Duncan the Man and his Songs written by and published by Rymour Books. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jock Duncan: The Man and his Songs is a collection of songs transcribed from the singing of Jock Duncan (1925-2021), a revered singer of songs from the North-east of Scotland. The collection is published with the permission of surviving members of his family. It includes not only the words of the songs but also the tunes, noted and transcribed by the editor. Including are detailed notes on the songs and the tunes and a biography of Jock Duncan.
Download or read book AMONGST FARM HORSES written by Stephen Caunce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique and detailed account of a rural way of life formed from extensive academic research and oral testimony recorded in the 1970's. It tells of the farm servant system in East Yorkshire which was central to the rural economy in that area for men born before 1900. Boys as young as 13 would be looking after and working with as many as 4 heavy horses in a team. Their lives would be spent living in the farmhouse and would continue that way until they married. Rural history forms an essential part of national history, with different parts of the UK having very varied employment systems. This book describes how, although having roots deep in history, the East Riding farming system was thoroughly modern and profitable, paying good wages to its workers. Telling the stories of their lives in their own words, this book brings to life the intimate details of a distant way of living and working.
Download or read book The Folklore Historian written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reach of Print written by Peter C. G. Isaac and published by Oak Knoll Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume in the new series Print Networks shows that the annual Seminar on the British Book Trade is steadily developing the depth and breadth of its interests in the contemporary social, economic, educational and cultural climates in which booksellers and printers and their fellows operated.
Download or read book A Book of Death and Fish written by Ian Stephen and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bright book and a brilliant book." - Robert Macfarlane. Peter MacAulay sits down to write his will. The process sets in motion a compulsive series of reflections: a history of his own lifetime and a subjective account of how key events in the post-war world filter through to his home, Stornoway. He reveals his passions for history, engines and fish, and witnesses changing times - and things that don’t change - in the Hebrides. The novel is driven by its idiosyncratic narrator, but with counterpoints from people he engages with - his father, mother, wife, daughter, friends. It’s all about stories, a litany of small histories witnessed during one very individual lifetime.
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Download or read book Hamish Henderson Volume 1 written by Timothy Neat and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-08-25 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamish Henderson lived one of the great lives of twentieth-century Scotland, a dramatic life of epic European scale, a life of major artistic, political and spiritual achievement. Well-known as a songwriter, a poet and a pioneer in the field of Scottish folksong, Henderson was also a highly original translator of poetry - from Gaelic, French, German, Latin and Greek - much of it into Scots. He also translated the work of the Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci, whose "Prison Letters" he published in English in 1974. Born in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, in 1919, Hamish Henderson spent his early years in Glenshee before moving to Ireland and then Devon. He won a scholarship to Dulwich College and went on to study Modern Languages at Cambridge. During the Second World War he served in North Africa and Italy with the 51st Highland Division. He died in March 2002. This book, a major study of this charismatic and fascinating man, presents both a detailed biography and an assessment of his place in the context of the twentieth century. It is based on first-hand interviews with those who knew Henderson both personally and professionally as well as detailed research of published and unpublished sources.
Download or read book Scottish Life and Society Oral literature and performance culture written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Aberdeen written by Ian R Mitchell and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian R Mitchell recognises his hometown is an often underloved place, but in Aberdeen: Beyond the Granite he sets out an overwhelming case as to why this sentiment is thoroughly undeserved. An Aberdonian born and bred, Mitchell has lived in Glasgow for almost four decades. Returning to his roots, he delves into Aberdeen's rich and often unseen history and culture from an exile's perspective, revealing a proudly unique city, home to the world's oldest surviving company, the UK's oldest newspaper, and perhaps Britain's oldest Italian restaurant!
Download or read book Independent Television in Britain written by Jeremy Potter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ITV network was designed as a federation of companies, different in size and character, jointly and severally constructing programme schedules in which strands of entertainment were interwoven with news bulletins, drama with sport, feature films with documentaries, church services with broadcasting for schools. The purpose of this volume is to convey some impression of diversity by illustrating and illuminating the rich assortment of companies and programmes making up ITV's overall service to the public in the operation of a plural system on a single television channel during a peak period in British broadcasting.
Download or read book Vernacular Architecture Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book McLean Plays 1 written by Duncan McLean and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duncan McLean is one of Scotland's liveliest fiction and non-fiction writers - this is his first volume of plays Julie Allardyce rushes into the theatre like a fresh breeze off the North Sea. It is loud and coarse-tongued and funny . . . a play which opens doors and shoves the audience through into areas of new experience' (Scotland on Sunday); Blackden: 'Something of a revelation . . . A gripping, ominous meditation on the strange disappearance of a young man in his prime, driven along by the hard, powerful lilt of McLean's Aberdeenshire Scots' (Scotland on Sunday); also included are Rug Comes to Shuv: 'nasty, brutish and hilarious . . . fast, furious and foul-mouthed, it enriches the belly laughs with unexpectedly poignant undercurrents' (The Scotsman) and two other short pieces, One Sure Thing and I'd Rather Go Blind. "A magnificent writer with liberal empathy for man's dark side" (Daily Telegraph)
Download or read book Bothy written by Colin R Tosh and published by KDP. This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bothy" - Book 1 of a series: A Future History of Scotland (Book 2: https://amzn.to/2WeOXX4, Book 3: https://amzn.to/2YfUSO8) Summary of "Bothy" from back cover: Circa 2500 AD. Laddie is daein aricht, runnin a oor the Strathmore Valley, mindin ees fields, scrappin. Bit thir is ees fucked heid an ees pair deid fether thit ee cannae stop thinkin aboot. And Eberdeen wi thir aggressive land acquisitions an great ugly fields o gren. So Laddie is awa up tae Eberdeen tae sort it oot, an ee disnae mean tae start a war but it’s a war ee gits. And afore lang it’s three wumin fae the Strathmore Valley thit ir sooked intae the hale mess; charged wi pittin a bullet atween the ene o the heid lad o Aberdeen. Noo, ene o these wumin is aricht: a richt warrior. Bit the ithir twa? Weel… Am sair hopin the day aricht cus if the dinnae it’ll be richt back tae square one. Athin thit his been built up in the Strathmore Valley’ll be for nothing. W’ll be richt back tae the wuy it wis afore the world went tae pot; afore The Destruction. About the author: Colin Tosh grew up in the Strathmore Valley in Scotland and now lives in North East England. He is a renowned ecologist and evolutionary biologist as well as a writer of stories (https://sites.google.com/view/colin-r-tosh-ecologist/home)
