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Exploring History in the Scottish Borders

Author : Ian James Douglas
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781514766873
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Exploring History in the Scottish Borders written by Ian James Douglas and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scottish border is steeped in history. "Exploring History in the Scottish Borders" provides an overview of the history of this turbulent area. This didn't produce Robin Hood characters, it produced a tough and often violent people, the border reivers. In the 16th century the Scottish borderland made the American wild west of the 19th century look like a kindergarten. But its past has also left its mark in splendid castles, beautiful ruined abbeys, and a depth of history few other areas can match. From the time of the Romans the borderland was the crossroads between the north and south of Britain. The often fraught relationship between England and Scotland left its mark on the area and the people. This book tells the story of the of the English/Scottish borderland from the time of the Romans, through the Scottish wars of independence, the turbulent 16th century and Henry VIII's "rough wooing," up until the reopening of part of the Waverley Line by Queen Elizabeth in 2015. Illustrated by many full colour photographs, Exploring History in the Scottish Borders provides an overview of Border history, and a guide to key historical sites in the borderland.

Border Raids and Reivers

Author : Robert Borland
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Border Raids and Reivers written by Robert Borland and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Border Raids and Reivers" by Robert Borland. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Tweed Dales

Author : Donald Smith
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1912387182
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Tweed Dales written by Donald Smith and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the Scottish Borders, Tweed Dales covers six journeys spanning from the Eildon Hills to Tweeddale, Kelso to Gala Water, Ettrick to Teviotdale. The long history of the Borders and their unique culture is evoked through key personalities, events, stories and folklore. Both accomplished storytellers, Donald and Elspeth spin the magic of the stories of Borders history with passion and vitality.

The Borders

Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857901141
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book The Borders written by Alistair Moffat and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed book, Alistair Moffat tells the story of a part of Scotland that has played a huge role in the nation's history and moved poets, painters and writers as well as ordinary people for hundreds of years. The hunter-gatherers who first penetrated the virgin interior, the Celtic warlords, the Romans, the Northumbrians and the Reivers, who dominated the Anglo-Scottish borderlands for over 300 years, have all had their part to play in the constantly evolving life of the area. It is the people of a place that make its history and Alistair Moffat's book is a testament to those who have made the Borders their home, and who have created the traditions, myths and romance that define it so strongly.

The Tweed Dales

Author : Donald Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912147212
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book The Tweed Dales written by Donald Smith and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinctive blend of emotions and responses each landscape stirs up are echoed in stories filtered through the voices of storytellers, the pens of poets and historians, and the tools of artists and crafters. We hope you will experience these too, as you journey with us through the landscape. The popular Journeys and Evocations series continues with the fourth instalment Travelling the Tweed Dales, an exploration of the Scottish Borders. Six journeys take the reader from Eildon Hills to Tweeddale, from Kelso to Gala Water, Ettrick and Teviotdale. The long history of the Borders and their unique culture is evoked through key personalities, events, stories and folklore. Complete with driving instructions and directions, the book is a travelogue, expressed through story, poetry and song, set against the landscape, in a previously unexplored way. Whether by foot, bike, bus, armchair or car, this book is your perfect travelling companion. Previous Journeys and Evocations books focused on Scotland's capital city, exploring Arthur's Seat, Calton Hill and Edinburgh Old Town.

Borders Witch Hunt

Author : Mary W. Craig
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1910022268
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Borders Witch Hunt written by Mary W. Craig and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years between 1600 and 1700 were a period of war, famine, plague and religious upheaval in Scotland.A time when ordinary women, and men, of the Scottish Borders who fell under the suspicion of the Kirk would face interrogation and torture.A time when fear of Auld Nick turned the world upside down and the cry of witch would almost always lead to the rope and the flame.Mary Craig explores this tremulous period of Scottish history and examines the causes and effects of the 17th century witchcraft trials and executions in the Scottish Borders.

Exploring Environmental History

Author : T. C. Smout
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748635149
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Environmental History written by T. C. Smout and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, newly available in paperback, brings together the best of T. C. Smout's recent articles and contributions to books and journals on the topic of environmental history and offers them as a collection of 'explorations'. The author's interests are multi-faceted and, though often focussed on post-1600 Scotland, by no means restricted to that area.

Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama

Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748646345
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama written by Ian Brown and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines historical rigour with an analysis of dramatic contexts, themes and formsThe 17 contributors explore the longstanding and vibrant Scottish dramatic tradition and the important developments in Scottish dramatic writing and theatre, with particular attention to the last 100 years.The first part of the volume covers Scottish drama from the earliest records to the late twentieth-century literary revival, as well as translation in Scottish theatre and non-theatrical drama. The second part focuses on the work of influential Scottish playwrights, from J. M. Barrie and James Bridie to Ena Lamont Stewart, Liz Lochhead and Edwin Morgan and right up to contemporary playwrights Anthony Neilson, Gregory Burke, Henry Adams and Douglas Maxwell.

Border Essays (1896)

Author : John Veitch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781436582148
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Border Essays (1896) written by John Veitch and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Scotland

Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780272801
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Scotland written by Alistair Moffat and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Ice Age to the recent Scottish Referendum, historian and author Alistair Moffat explores the history of the Scottish nation. As well as focusing on key moments in the nation's history such as the Battle of Bannockburn and the Jacobite Risings, Moffat also features other episodes in history that are perhaps less well documented. From prehistoric timber halls to inventions and literature, Moffat's tale explores the drama of battle, change, loss and invention interspersed with the lives of ordinary Scottish folk, the men and women who defined a nation.

Literature of Travel and Exploration: R to Z, index

Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579584405
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration: R to Z, index written by Jennifer Speake and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

Acts of Union

Author : Leith Davis
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804732697
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Acts of Union written by Leith Davis and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the political relationship between Scotland and England as it was negotiated in literature after the 1707 Act of Union. It is built around five discursive encounters between Scottish and English writers: Daniel Defoe-?Lord Belhaven, Tobias Smollett-?Henry Fielding, James Macpherson-?Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth-?Robert Burns, and Walter Scott-?Thomas Percy.

Exploring Border Reivers History

Author : Philip Nixon
Publisher : Breedon Books Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781859835838
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Border Reivers History written by Philip Nixon and published by Breedon Books Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have a reiver name, or suspect your ancestors were just a load of villains up to no good, then this well researched and lavishly illustrated book could just confirm your worst fears!

An Exploration of Exmoor and the Hill Country of West Somerset

Author : John Lloyd Warden Page
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book An Exploration of Exmoor and the Hill Country of West Somerset written by John Lloyd Warden Page and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tudor and Stuart Britain

Author : Roger Lockyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429861958
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Tudor and Stuart Britain written by Roger Lockyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tudor and Stuart Britain charts the political, religious, economic and social history of Britain from the start of Henry VII’s reign in 1485 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714, providing students and lecturers with a detailed chronological narrative of significant events, such as the Reformation, the nature of Tudor government, the English Civil War, the Interregnum and the restoration of the monarchy. This fourth edition has been fully updated and each chapter now begins with an introductory overview of the topic being discussed, in which important and current historical debates are highlighted. Other new features of the book include a closer examination of the image and style of leadership that different monarchs projected during their reigns; greater coverage of Phillip II and Mary I as joint monarchs; new sections exploring witchcraft during the period and the urban sector in the Stuart age; and increased discussion of the English Civil War, of Oliver Cromwell and of Cromwellian rule during the 1650s. Also containing an entirely rewritten guide to further reading and enhanced by a wide selection of maps and illustrations, Tudor and Stuart Britain is an excellent resource for both students and teachers of this period.

The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300–1600

Author : K. Terrell
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349293391
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300–1600 written by K. Terrell and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1350-1600 explores the roles that Scotland and England play in one another's imaginations. This collection of essays brings together eminent scholars and emerging voices from the frequently divergent fields of English and Scottish medieval studies.

Enclosing Space, Opening New Ground

Author : Tanja Romankiewicz
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789252040
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Enclosing Space, Opening New Ground written by Tanja Romankiewicz and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enclosures are among the most widely distributed features of the European Iron Age. From fortifications to field systems, they demarcate territories and settlements, sanctuaries and central places, burials and ancestral grounds. This dividing of the physical and the mental landscape between an inside and an outside is investigated anew in a series of essays by some of the leading scholars on the topic. The contributions cover new ground, from Scotland to Spain, between France and the Eurasian steppe, on how concepts and communities were created as well as exploring specific aspects and broader notions of how humans marked, bounded and guarded landscapes in order to connect across space and time. A recurring theme considers how Iron Age enclosures created, curated, formed or deconstructed memory and identity, and how by enclosing space, these communities opened links to an earlier past in order to understand or express their Iron Age presence. In this way, the contributions examine perspectives that are of wider relevance for related themes in different periods.