Download or read book From Croft to Craft written by Graham Simpson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book while fiction, is grounded on recorded truths and history of the times, portraying the story of a young crofter runaway, determined to lead his family out of the despair. Determined to pull his family together again and oppose the combined tyranny of the Lairds and the English he uses wit, guile and courage, to secure a subsidy to build a small fishing boat providing a precarious income and cover for his crew to distill and sell illicit whisky. In 1707 the last Scottish parliament, composed of only unelected gentry met in Scotland’s Capitol, Edinburgh to vote on a new political entity called the ‘United Kingdom’ which would now rule Scotland thus abolishing the Scottish Parliament and Sovereignty. Those who voted against the new regime would lose their hereditary estates and titles and those who voted for, would gain more land with added cash. Previously the two most direct contenders for the new ‘British’ throne had literally ‘lost their heads’ by being both Scottish and Catholic, while the remaining contender ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ now a hunted fugitive, fled the country. New sovereigns were sought from relatively obscure, but tame Dutch or Hanoverian families to assume the now powerful British throne. Perhaps this story may be a useful metaphor for Scotland to boldly strike out for full, independence, returning to its former sovereign status as a small but gifted democracy within the European Family.

Download or read book A Croft in the Hills written by Katharine Stewart and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Englishwoman and her family in the 1950s trade life in the city for a small farm near Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands in this beloved memoir. A real classic among Highland books, A Croft in the Hills captures, in simple, moving descriptions, what it was really like trying to make a living out of a hill croft fifty years ago. A couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, immerse themselves in the practicalities of looking after sheep, cattle and hens, mending fences, baking bread, and surviving the worst that Scottish winters can throw at them. Praise for A Croft in the Hills “Katharine Stewart’s memories are, as she says herself a tale of other times, almost a glimpse of legend . . . Evocative and charming.” —Scottish Book Collector

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Download or read book A History of English Field Names written by John Field and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field names are not only interesting in themselves, but also a rich source of information about the communities originating them. The earliest recorded names often describe only the location or nature of the land, but changes in language, technology, social organisation, land ownership and even religious and political thinking have all contributed to a surprisingly complex picture today. A pioneering history.

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Download or read book The Croft s in the America s written by Richard Rogers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Croft is back! Moving abroad in an attempt to evade an investigation by MI5, this the second novel in the series, takes Lord Croft to the Caribbean, where far from finding peace, he is forced to take reprisals against the very group he had planned to avoid and to add to his woes he finds himself on the radar of the Mafia, USA and Venezuelan Customs Patrols as he fights for survival. His wife and his crew are viciously raped and brutalised and he seeks revenge. Follow his wake of destruction as he takes on pirates and multiple sectors of law enforcement as he continues his life of crime and sexual pleasure. --- Richard Rogers

Download or read book Landing Craft Amphibians written by Ben Skipper and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the wars of antiquity to the recent events in South West Asia, landing craft and amphibians have been an ever-present sea borne and battle space asset in one form or another for the commander wanting to get boots on the ground. Refined during the Second World War with the introduction of the Amphibian, and again with the perfection of the hovercraft, the landing craft’s finest hour in popular consciousness occurred on 6 June 1944. This LandCraft title focuses on Landing Craft and Amphibian development during the Second World War as versatile sea borne assets. The book also looks at the post-war evolution of the Landing Craft and Amphibians, and how the simple concepts of their design remain alive and in use almost a century later. This LandCraft title offers the modeler an exciting range of subjects, era and theater choices, especially those modeling the Second World War.

Download or read book Bandboxes written by Edwina Cholmeley-Jones and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First made in Elizabethan England, bandboxes remain popular in decorating. Patterns and techniques to make your own.

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Download or read book The English Dialect Dictionary Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years A E written by Joseph Wright and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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