Letters from a gentleman in the north of Scotland to his friend in London [by E. Burt].
Author: Edward Burt
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Published: 1822
Total Pages: 436
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Letters from a gentleman in the north of Scotland to his friend in London [by E. Burt]. With an intr. by R. Jamieson
Author: Edward Burt
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 378
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKScotland the Worst
Author: Charles Maciejewski
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
Published: 2019-07-22
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1912387638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn alternative guide to our bonnie wee country and its inhabitants, this book is a compendium of the less generous comments made by 17th, 18th and 19th century visitors. Hopefully much has changed – and mostly for the better!
Gaelic Scotland
Author: Charles W J Withers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-14
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1317332806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, originally published in 1988, examines the Highlands and Islands of Scotland over several centuries and charts their cultural transformation from a separate region into one where the processes of anglicisation have largely succeeded. It analyses the many aspects of change including the policies of successive governments, the decline of the Gaelic language, the depressing of much of the population into peasantry and the clearances.
La Grande-Bretagne Et L'Europe Des Lumières
Author: Serge Soupel
Publisher: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9782878541083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCet ouvrage rassemble seize communications faites lors de deux colloques internationaux sur les rapports entre la Grande-Bretagne et le continent européen au XVIIIe siècle. Une moitié des communications est de nature littéraire, touchant quelques-uns des auteurs britanniques les plus marquants de l'époque, examinés dans leurs liens intellectuels avec l'Europe (qui les influence ou qu'ils influencent). L'autre moitié contient des études sur les mœurs observées par les voyageurs, sur les représentations et images réciproques. Viennent également au jour les rivalités entre les pays (dans le domaine de l'érudition orientaliste), ainsi que la situation des habitants du Nord et l'Écosse, en marge de l'Europe, mais souvent enjeu politique pour l'Europe. La gravure satirique, enfin, a largement sa place avec un article sur les caricatures de Hogarth
Bride Ales and Penny Weddings
Author: R. A. Houston
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014-05
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0199680876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at regionally distinctive practices of wedding traditions in Britain from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, in order to understand social networks, community attitudes, and local and regional identities.
History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900
Author: Graeme Morton
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2010-08-31
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 074862953X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the experience of everyday life in Scotland over two centuries characterised by political, religious and intellectual change and ferment. It shows how the extraordinary impinged on the ordinary and reveals people's anxieties, joys, comforts, passions, hopes and fears. It also aims to provide a measure of how the impact of change varied from place to place.The authors draw on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, including the material survivals of daily life in town and country, and on the history of government, religion, ideas, painting, literature, and architecture. As B. S. Gregory has put it, everyday history is 'an endeavour that seeks to identify and integrate everything - all relevant material, social, political, and cultural data - that permits the fullest possible reconstruction of ordinary life experiences in all their varied complexity, as they are formed and transformed.'
The Jacobite Campaigns
Author: Jonathan D Oates
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1317323327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe military aspects of the Jacobite campaigns in eighteenth-century Britain are considered in this study. Taken from the viewpoint of those loyal to the Hanoverian Crown, the three mainland campaigns of 1715–6, 1719 and 1745–6 are examined, using research based on primary sources: memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers and State papers.
Gaelic in Scotland 1698-1981
Author: Charles W. J. Withers
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 2021-12-01
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 178885425X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurprisingly little is known of the geographical history of Gaelic: where and when it was spoken in the past, and how and why the Gaelic-speaking area of Scotland – the Gaidhealtachd – has retreated and the language declined. A hundred years ago there were 250,000 Gaelic speakers. Now there are 80,000. This book answers four broad questions: What has been the geography of Gaelic in the past? How has that geography changed over time and space? What have been the patterns of language use within the Gaedhealtachd in the past? And what have been the processes of language change? Emphasis is upon the changing geography of the spoken language from 1698 to 1981: from the earliest date for which it is possible to document the expanse of the Gaelic language area to the most recent census to record the numbers speaking Gaelic.
Witchcraft and belief in Early Modern Scotland
Author: J. Goodare
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-12-04
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 023059140X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pioneering collection concentrates on witchcraft beliefs rather than witch-hunting. It ranges widely across areas of popular belief, culture and ritual practice, as well as dealing with intellectual life and incorporating regional and comparative elements.
