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Sir David Nairne
The Life of a Scottish Jacobite at the Court of the Exiled Stuarts
Av Edward Corp
Häftad, 2017
1096 kr
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For nearly forty years David Nairne was actively involved in the administration of Jacobite politics. A member of the exiled courts of the Stuart Kings James II and James III, he worked for and with a succession of Jacobite secretaries of state, conducting the Jacobite correspondence, deciding on …
Tradition, Transmission, Transformation
Essays on Gaelic Poetry and Song
Häftad, 2019
904 kr
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Since World War I, the self-contained communities of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, characterised by collaborative effort and a robust sense of communal identity, have been transformed. Improved transport and communications have brought today’s Gaelic speakers into the culture of mainstream Western …
Flute in Scotland from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
Häftad, 2019
677 kr
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It is a generally accepted truth that the flute was unknown in Scotland prior to 1725, and that it was played exclusively by wealthy men. Upon examination, these beliefs are demonstrably false. This book explores the role of the flute in Scottish musical life, primarily in the long eighteenth …
Death in Scotland
Chapters From the Twelfth Century to the Twenty-First
Av Peter C. Jupp, Hilary J. Grainger
Häftad, 2019
601 kr
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For the past twenty years, Scottish death culture has emerged as a focus of scholars drawn from a wide variety of disciplines. Death comes to us all but too often we treat it as a private or personal matter. The former taboo about death is slowly lifting and contemporary research is playing an …
Scotland and Islandness
Explorations in Community, Economy and Culture
Av Kathryn Burnett, Ray Burnett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
783 kr
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Scotland’s islands are diverse, resourceful and singularly iconic in national and global imaginations of places «apart» yet readily reached. This collection of essays offers a fascinating commentary on Scotland’s island communities that celebrates their histories, cultures and economies in general …
Anti-hero’s Journey
The Work and Life of Alan Sharp
Häftad, 2023
673 kr
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«This labour of love is everything a critical biography should be: informative, gossipy, admiring and more than capable of restoring Sharp’s reputation, giving him his rightful place in both Scottish literature and Scottish screen writing history. »(Carl MacDougall, writer and former President of …
Girl Who Lived On Her Clothes
The People of Paisley and the New Poor Law, 1839–76
Av Wendy Gordon, Valentina Bold
Häftad, 2024
603 kr
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Criticized as parsimonious and cruel in the later 1800s, the Poor Law for Scotland was first passed in 1845 as a frankly humanitarian measure in response to desperate poverty on display in Paisley and elsewhere in the early 1840s. Poor Law Inspector James Shaw Brown of Paisley Burgh Parish, a …
Second Sight: The Making of the Brahan Seer Legend
Av Alexander Sutherland, Valentina Bold
Häftad, 2025
728 kr
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«We have here a masterly, well-indexed and clear account of the evolution of the legend of the Brahan Seer over the centuries, one that will add a contextual depth in understanding to the many sources which give the prophesies attributed to him. Sutherland manages to inform his readers of the way …
Death in Modern Scotland, 1855–1955
Beliefs, Attitudes and Practices
Av Susan Buckham, Peter C. Jupp m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
899 kr
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The period 1855 to 1955 was pivotal for modern Scottish death culture. Within art and literature death was a familiar companion, with its imagined presence charting the fears and expectations behind the public face of mortality. Framing new concepts of the afterlife became a task for both …
Between Categories
The Films of Margaret Tait: Portraits, Poetry, Sound and Place
Av Sarah Neely
Häftad, 2016
642 kr
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Margaret Tait – filmmaker, photographer, poet, painter, essayist and short story writer – is one of the UK’s most unique and remarkable filmmakers. She was the first female filmmaker to create a feature-length film in Scotland (Blue Black Permanent, 1992). Although for most of her career Tait …
Defining Strains
The Musical Life of Scots in the Seventeenth Century
Av James Porter
Häftad, 2008
1082 kr
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This volume aims to fill a historical gap in the recent coverage of musical life in Scotland. The seventeenth century in Scotland, as in Europe, was one of religious controversy and civil strife. The period has thus been neglected by music historians in comparison with the centuries before and …
James Kelman
Politics and Aesthetics
Av Aaron Kelly
Häftad, 2013
838 kr
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This study argues that James Kelman’s work should not be construed as a resigned capitulation to capitalist domination or to the fracture of a once unified working-class collective purpose. Politics are to be found not only in the content but also the form of Kelman’s work. The radical aspect of …
Discomfort and Joy
The Cinema of Bill Forsyth
Häftad, 2011
694 kr
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Filmmaker Bill Forsyth is one of the most important and fondly regarded of all living Scottish artists. His filmmaking career, beginning with That Sinking Feeling (1979), paved the way for the emergence of an indigenous Scottish cinema. It also established Forsyth as one of the most distinctive and …
James Hogg
A Bard of Nature’s Making
Av Valentina Bold, Valentina Bold
Häftad, 2007
814 kr
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This book sheds new light on James Hogg, the Scottish poet (1770-1835), going beyond the ‘Ettrick Shepherd’ stereotype. By focussing on Hogg’s poetry (Scottish Pastorals, The Queen’s Wake, Jacobite Relics, Queen Hynde, Pilgrims of the Sun) it shows that his work, and the critical response to it, …
