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Author : Dane Love
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445630753
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Scottish Kirkyards written by Dane Love and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the art, history and social importance of Scotland's kirkyards.
Author : Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland written by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes List of members.
Author : Dane Love
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445630745
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Scottish Ghosts written by Dane Love and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland 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.
Author : Janet McLeman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1470962365
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Peathill:The Auld Kirk and Kirkyard written by Janet McLeman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There 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.
Author : Scottish Ecclesiological Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Transactions of the Scottish Ecclesiological Society written by Scottish Ecclesiological Society and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : MAUREEN M MEIKLE
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291518002
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Scottish People 1490-1625 written by MAUREEN M MEIKLE and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scottish People, 1490-1625 is one of the most comprehensive texts ever written on Scottish History. All geographical areas of Scotland are covered from the Borders, through the Lowlands to the Gàidhealtachd and the Northern Isles. The chapters look at society and the economy, Women and the family, International relations: war, peace and diplomacy, Law and order: the local administration of justice in the localities, Court and country: the politics of government, The Reformation: preludes, persistence and impact, Culture in Renaissance Scotland: education, entertainment, the arts and sciences, and Renaissance architecture: the rebuilding of Scotland. In many past general histories there was a relentless focus upon the elite, religion and politics. These are key features of any medieval and early modern history books, but The Scottish People looks at less explored areas of early-modern Scottish History such as women, how the law operated, the lives of everyday folk, architecture, popular belief and culture.
Author : Geoff Holder
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750952768
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Scottish Bodysnatchers written by Geoff Holder and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graverobbing 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.
Author : Julian Goodare
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526134446
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The supernatural in early modern Scotland written by Julian Goodare and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought about, debated and experienced the world around them. Comprising twelve chapters by an international range of scholars, The supernatural in early modern Scotland discusses both popular and elite understandings of the supernatural.
Author : Oliver Thomson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445677962
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Zealots written by Oliver Thomson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning account of often misunderstood events which draws attention to the bloodshed caused by religious extremism in Britain's history.
Author : Sylvia E. Thornbush
Publisher : Bentham Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9811441243
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards written by Sylvia E. Thornbush and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: his 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.
Author : James Grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Philip Rollo; or, The Scottish musketeers written by James Grant and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Skelton
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780577257
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Dark Heart written by Douglas Skelton and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.
Author : Mary J. Thornbush and Sylvia E. Thornbush
Publisher : Bentham Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608059847
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Photographs Across Time: Studies in Urban Landscapes written by Mary J. Thornbush and Sylvia E. Thornbush and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs 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.
Author : Diarmaid MacCulloch
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141926600
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Reformation written by Diarmaid MacCulloch and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reformation was the seismic event in European history over the past 1000 years, and one which tore the medieval world apart. Not just European religion, but thought, culture, society, state systems, personal relations - everything - was turned upside down. Just about everything which followed in European history can be traced back in some way to the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation which it provoked. The Reformation is where the modern world painfully and dramatically began, and MacCulloch's great history of it is recognised as the best modern account.
Author : Roger Bowdler
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445691124
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Churchyards written by Roger Bowdler and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain’s churchyards are among its most historic, peaceful and magical places. They are also among its most overlooked. This book will open readers eyes to the treasures to be found up and down the land.
Author : Graeme Morton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000203751
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Weather, Migration and the Scottish Diaspora written by Graeme Morton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did large numbers of Scots leave a temperate climate to live permanently in parts of the world where greater temperature extreme was the norm? The long nineteenth century was a period consistently cooler than now, and Scotland remains the coldest of the British nations. Nineteenth-century meteorologists turned to environmental determinism to explain the persistence of agricultural shortage and to identify the atmospheric conditions that exacerbated the incidence of death and disease in the towns. In these cases, the logic of emigration and the benefits of an alternative climate were compelling. Emigration agents portrayed their favoured climate in order to pull migrants in their direction. The climate reasons, pressures and incentives that resulted in the movement of people have been neither straightforward nor uniform. There are known structural features that contextualize the migration experience, chief among them being economic and demographic factors. By building on the work of historical climatologists, and the availability of long-run climate data, for the first time the emigration history of Scotland is examined through the lens of the nation’s climate. In significant per capita numbers, the Scots left the cold country behind; yet the ‘homeland’ remained an unbreakable connection for the diaspora.
Author : James Maclehose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Scottish Historical Review written by James Maclehose and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new series of the Scottish antiquary established 1886.
