Scottish Kirkyards
Author: Dane Love
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2010-05-15
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1445630753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the art, history and social importance of Scotland's kirkyards.
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Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Author: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Publisher:
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13:
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Scottish Ghosts
Author: Dane Love
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2009-08-15
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1445630745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScotland is a land of many ghosts and spirits and every corner of the country seems to have a least one ghost; discover them for yourself in Scottish Ghosts.
Peathill:The Auld Kirk and Kirkyard
Author: Janet McLeman
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-02
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 1470962365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere has been a church at Peathill, near Rosehearty, since the 17th century. The ruins of the old church and the gravestones which surround it reflect the changes in the local community which have taken place over the centuries. The gravestones tell the fascinating story of Peathill's links with the Covenanters, the Jacobites, the American War of Independence and the impact of two World Wars.
Scottish Bodysnatchers
Author: Geoff Holder
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2010-10-31
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0750952768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGraverobbing was a dark but profitable industry in pre-Victorian Scotland – criminals, gravediggers and middle-class medical students alike abstracted newly-buried corpses to send to the anatomy schools. Only after the trials of the infamous murderers Burke and Hare and the passing of the Anatomy Act of 1832 did the grisly trade end. From burial grounds in the heart of Glasgow, Dundee and Edinburgh to quiet country graveyards in the Scottish Borders and Aberdeenshire, this book takes you to every cemetery ever raided, and reveals where you can find extant pieces of anti-resurrectionist graveyard furniture, from mortsafes, coffin cages and underground vaults to watchtowers and morthouses. Richly illustrated, filled with hundreds of stories of ‘reanimated’ corpses, daring thefts, black-hearted murders and children sold to the slaughter by their own mothers, and with Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic short story The Body Snatcher at the end, this macabre guide will delight everyone who loves Scotland's dark past.
Kirkyard Romanticism
Author: Sarah Sharp
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2024-09-30
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1474483445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines Scottish Romantic writers’ shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead Describes the role played by death and the grave in Scottish Romantic cultural nationalism Explores engagement of authors including James Hogg, John Galt and John Wilson with contemporary debates around anatomy, contagion, psychology and migration, providing new contexts for canonical Scottish Romantic texts Considers how kirkyard Romanticism helped to shape understandings of national identity both at home and abroad The early nineteenth century saw the dead take on new life in Scottish literature; sometimes quite literally. This book brings together a range of Scottish Romantic texts, identifying a shared interest an imagined national dead. It argues that the publications of Edinburgh-based publisher William Blackwood were the crucible for this new form of Scottish cultural nationalism. Scottish Romantic authors including James Hogg, John Wilson and John Galt, use the Romantic kirkyard to engage with, and often challenge, contemporary ideas of modernity. The book also explores the extensive ripples that this cultural moment generated across Scottish, British and wider Anglophone literary sphere over the next century.
Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards
Author: Sylvia E. Thornbush
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Published: 2020-04-27
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9811441243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKhis interdisciplinary reference work presents a linked consideration, to the reader, of physical- cultural (physicocultural) representations of headstones located in urban churchyards in England and Scotland. The geomorphology of landscapes relevant to these locations is explained with the help of detailed case studies from Oxford and Edinburgh. The integrated physicocultural approach addresses the conservation of the archaeological record and presents a cross-temporal perspective of landscape change – of the headstones as landforms in their landscape (as part of deathscapes). The physical record (of headstones) is examined in the context of both cultural representation and change. In this way, an integrated approach is employed that connects the physical (natural) and cultural (social) records kept by historians and archeologists over the years. Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards is of interest to geomorphologists, historians and scholars interested in understanding landscaping studies and cultural nuance of specific historical urban sites in England and Scotland.
Zealots
Author: Oliver Thomson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2018-07-15
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1445677962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA page-turning account of often misunderstood events which draws attention to the bloodshed caused by religious extremism in Britain's history.
Photographs Across Time: Studies in Urban Landscapes
Author: Mary J. Thornbush and Sylvia E. Thornbush
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Published: 2015-01-06
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1608059847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhotographs Across Time: Studies in Urban Landscapes presents a record of urban environments in Britain, including Oxford, York, Scarborough, Dunbar, Edinburgh, and Inverness. It is a unique demonstration of how digital photography bridges urban landscape studies with archaeology and heritage studies. The book revisits several landscape and weathering studies in churchyards throughout England and Scotland in the UK. The book explains cross temporal and archival applications of digital photography and explores the archaeological use of photographs. Readers can also learn about issues related to creating and maintaining digital records as well as issues relevant to heritage sustainability. Researchers, landscape experts and professional photographers as well archivists will find Photographs Across Time as a handy reference for quantitative geomorphological studies on English heritage sites and the qualitative realm of historical archaeology.
Dark Heart
Author: Douglas Skelton
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-08-17
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1780577257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Old Tolbooth Jail - Edinburgh's Bastille - was for five centuries the capital's heart of darkness. The tall, turreted building blocked the High Street like a stone sentinel at the gates of Hell. In its early days, it played host to the Scottish Parliament and the Court of Session, but eventually it became the main jail of the Old Town. And it was a hellhole, the very epitome of what Scots Law called squalor carceris, a foul, dingy, plague-infested purgatory that was, nevertheless, an integral part of the history of the Old Town and the nation. Not for nothing did Sir Walter Scott dub it the Heart of Midlothian. It was home to rich and poor, noble and ignoble, master and servant. Thieves, debtors, murderers and rebels all rotted in its filthy cells - many spending their final hours there before surrendering to the tender mercies of an executioner to be hanged, beheaded or burned. Now, for the first time, the complete story of the Old Tolbooth is told, from its proud beginnings to its final downfall at the hands of municipal vandals. Featuring tales of some of the jail's unwilling residents, including the noblemen who had their heads spiked on its tower, the black magician who threatened a monarch and one who scandalised the town with tales of sexual depravity, Dark Heart is the definitive account of one of the most interesting buildings in Edinburgh's history.
