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Author : James Edmund Handley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Navvy in Scotland written by James Edmund Handley and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Lavery
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857905422
Total Pages : 789 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Shield of Empire written by Brian Lavery and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal Navy has always been seen as an English institution, despite a large Scottish contribution, from Admiral Duncan at Camperdown in 1797 to Andrew Cunningham in the Second World War. The Royal Navy's most dramatic effect on Scotland, aside from its role in the British Empire and European wars, was in suppressing the Jacobite campaigns from 1708 to 1746. This book breaks new ground in telling the stories of almost forgotten campaigns, such as the submarine war in the Firth of Forth in 1914-18. In two world wars, and since the 1960s, a large proportion of the Navy's power has been based in Scotland, from the Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow to Trident submarines at Faslane. Most British sailors of the Second World War had part of their training in Scotland, and the famous base at Tobermory was only one of many. Yet, the Navy never felt at home in Scotland. As one Scottish admiral put it, 'In both wars the Royal Navy flooded into Scotland to make use of our deep water ports and sea lochs for large-scale and safer anchorages. After each war the Navy unimaginatively retreated en masse to the Channel.' The book ends with a unique account of the setting up of the controversial missile bases in the Holy Loch and Gareloch. Brian Lavery then looks at the future in order to determine the effect devolution and possible independence might have on Scotland and the Royal Navy.
Author : James Grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Old Scots Navy from 1689 to 1710 written by James Grant and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James E.. Handley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (491 download)
Download or read book The Navy in Scotland written by James E.. Handley and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Church of Scotland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Church of Scotland Home and Foreign Mission Record written by Church of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Industrial Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Decisions written by Great Britain. Industrial Court and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752481266
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book History's Most Dangerous Jobs: Navvies written by Anthony Burton and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the men who built Britain's canals and railways – not the engineers and the administrators but the ones who provided the brawn and muscle. There had never been a workforce like the navvies, a great army of men, moving about the country following the work as it became available. This book will tell of their extraordinary feats of strength and their often colourful lives. They lived rough, usually having to make do with huts and shelters cobbled together from whatever materials were available. They worked hard and drank hard. Often exploited by their employers, they were always liable to erupt into riots that could have fatal results. The book will look at who these men were, where they came from – and destroy the myth that they were all Irish. It is a story full of drama, but above all one of great achievements.
Author : Terry Coleman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784082317
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Railway Navvies written by Terry Coleman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways – the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside an industrial-age architecture unparalleled in grandeur and audacity since the building of the cathedrals.
Author : Colin Helling
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783277041
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Navy and Anglo-Scottish Union, 1603-1707 written by Colin Helling and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the union of England and Scotland by weaving the navy into a political narrative of events between the regal union in 1603 and the parliamentary union in 1707.This book examines the union of England and Scotland by weaving the navy into a political narrative of events between the regal union in 1603 and the parliamentary union in 1707. For most of the century the Scottish crown had no separate naval force which made the Stuart monarchs' navy, seen by them as a personal not a state force, unusual in being an institution which had a relationship with both kingdoms. This did not necessarily make the navy a shared organisation, as it continued to be financed from and based in England and was predominantly English. Nevertheless, the navy is an unusually good prism through which the nature of the regal union can be interrogated as English commanded ships interacted with Scottish authorities, and as Scots looked to the navy for protection from foreign invaders, such as the Dutch in the Forth in 1667, and for Scottish merchant ships trading with the Baltic and elsewhere. These interactions were often harmonious, but there were also many instances of tensions, particularly in the 1690s. The book illustrates both the ambiguous relationship between England and Scotland in the seventeenth century and also the navy's under-appreciated role in creating the political union of Britain.r Scottish merchant ships trading with the Baltic and elsewhere. These interactions were often harmonious, but there were also many instances of tensions, particularly in the 1690s. The book illustrates both the ambiguous relationship between England and Scotland in the seventeenth century and also the navy's under-appreciated role in creating the political union of Britain.r Scottish merchant ships trading with the Baltic and elsewhere. These interactions were often harmonious, but there were also many instances of tensions, particularly in the 1690s. The book illustrates both the ambiguous relationship between England and Scotland in the seventeenth century and also the navy's under-appreciated role in creating the political union of Britain.r Scottish merchant ships trading with the Baltic and elsewhere. These interactions were often harmonious, but there were also many instances of tensions, particularly in the 1690s. The book illustrates both the ambiguous relationship between England and Scotland in the seventeenth century and also the navy's under-appreciated role in creating the political union of Britain.
Author : Malcolm Archibald
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845028856
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Bloody Scotland written by Malcolm Archibald and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, Scotland was renowned as a land of misty glens, engineering innovation and inventive genius. But it was also the home of brutal murder, terrifying riots, cruelty to children, bank robbery and acid attacks. Women as well as men were capable of horrendous acts, and crime could strike anywhere: at home, on the road and even at sea. From the Borders to the Northern Isles, crime was never far away. Edinburgh, with its reputation for polite decorum, was also the scene of poisoning and savagery; the dark streets of industrial Glasgow and Dundee harboured thieves and muggers; and the villages of coast and country hid wild men and vicious women. Bloody Scotland exposes some of the crimes, both remembered and forgotten, that rocked Scotland in those lawless times and reveals not only the criminals who perpetrated them, but also the law enforcers who fought hard to maintain order against a rising tide of crime.
Author : Ultan Cowley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956643612
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (436 download)
Download or read book The Men who Built Britain written by Ultan Cowley and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth J. Logue
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788854136
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Popular Disturbances in Scotland 1780-1815 written by Kenneth J. Logue and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mobbing and rioting' in late eighteenth-century Scotland was often the only recourse of the people in response to high food prices, the threat of eviction or the prospect of compulsory military service. This study of popular disturbances in the thirty-five years spanning the turn of the eighteenth century shows that rioting was not a blind or unreasoning reaction, but rather an active assertion of traditional rights and a collective appeal for just treatment. The book looks at meal mobs, riots against the Highland Clearances, the widespread anti-militia disturbances of 1797, and also riots about Church patronage, politics and industrial action. The concluding chapter draws various themes together and examines the composition of crowds in the period, the role of women in disturbances, the use of handbills before and during riots, and leadership, organisation and forms of action of the crowd. Kenneth J. Logue makes full use of a range of source material: the records associated with the administration of Scottish criminal justice, Home Office documents and numerous newspapers and periodicals.
Author : Billy Kay
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780574010
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book The Scottish World written by Billy Kay and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Thaim wi a guid Scots tongue in their heid are fit tae gang ower the warld' In The Scottish World, renowned broadcaster Billy Kay takes us on a global journey of discovery, highlighting the extraordinary influence the Scots have had on communities and cultures on almost every continent. While others have questioned the self-confidence of the Scots, Kay has travelled the world from Bangkok to Brazil, Warsaw to Waikiki and found ringing endorsements for the integrity and intellect, the poetry and passion of the Scottish people in every country he has visited. He expands people's view of Scotland by relating remarkable stories of the wealthy Scottish merchant community in Gdansk; of national geniuses of Scots descent, such as Lermontov in Russia and Grieg in Norway; of an American Civil War blamed on Sir Walter Scott and initiated in the St Andrew's Society of Charleston; of inspirational missionaries in Calabar and Budapest; of Scotch professors establishing football in soccer strongholds such as Barcelona and São Paulo; of pioneers like Sandeman and Cockburn, and the Scottish roots of many of the great wines of Europe; and of their amazing involvement in liberation movements in Malawi, Chile, Peru, Greece, Corsica and India. The Scottish World is a celebration of the enormous contribution the Scots have made to the modern world.
Author : G. Vaughan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113732984X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book The 'Local' Irish in the West of Scotland 1851-1921 written by G. Vaughan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vaughan renews perspectives on the changes brought about by Irish migrant communities in terms of identity, politics and religion. The book examines on the experience of generations of Irish migrants in the West of Scotland from the aftermath of the Great Famine until the creation of the Republic of Ireland.
Author : Tom M. Devine
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178885442X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Irish Immigrants and Scottish Society in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by Tom M. Devine and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish were the single largest group of immigrants to Scotland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the original settlers and their descendants have had a major impact on modern Scottish society, culture and politics. This book of original studies is the first major reassessment of the general effect of Irish immigration on Scotland since the classic works of James Handley during the 1940s. All the contributors have produced significant research in the field, and the book provides a varied and balanced insight into current historical thinking on the Irish in Scotland.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Scottish Law Review and Reports of Cases in the Sheriff Courts of Scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Tucker
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 1785007939
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Scottish Highland Railways written by David Tucker and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish Highland Railways describes eight great journeys by rail through northern Scotland, detailing the history of the lines while travelling along their modern-day routes. In addition, the landscapes, regional history, stations and services available are all described. With over 100 present-day and archive photographs and maps, this book provides the histories of the railways of the east coast, the Grampian region, the highland main line and the Far North, West Highland and Oban, Mallaig and Kyle of Lochalsh lines. A railway company 'family tree' is given and a timeline documenting the many mergers and changes over time. The recent history of these railways in the 20th and 21st centuries is given along with a list of operational stations in 2020 together with passenger usage statistics. There are also details of rail organizations and regulations in Scotland.
