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Download or read book A-Z of Dumfries written by Mary Smith and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the town of Dumfries in the south-west of Scotland in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.
Book Synopsis Dumfries and Galloway by : Edward J. Cowan
Download or read book Dumfries and Galloway written by Edward J. Cowan and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dumfries and Galloway is one of the least-known regions of Scotland. Despite memories and traditions to match those of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, it has been seriously understudied. This innovative, ground-breaking study looks mainly at the everyday lives and culture of people in this region during a period of profound agricultural, industrial and demographic change. In doing so, it uncovers new information about a wide range of topics in local history, including food, festivals and folklore, music, mining, the development of towns and villages, population, smuggling, the experience of migration, and the question of identity. All of the contributors to the book are specialists in their fields and have an in-depth knowledge of the region through life and work.
Download or read book Dumfries written by James Urquhart and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The British monarchy on screen by : Mandy Merck
Download or read book The British monarchy on screen written by Mandy Merck and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Moving images of the British monarchy are almost as old as the moving image itself, dating back to an 1895 American drama, The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots. And from 1896, actual British monarchs appeared in the new 'animated photography', led by Queen Victoria. Half a century later the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II was a milestone in the adoption of television, watched by 20 million Britons and 100 million North Americans. At the century's end, Princess Diana's funeral was viewed by 2.5 billion worldwide. In the first book length examination of film and television representations of this enduring institution, distinguished scholars of media and political history analyze the screen representations of royalty from Henry VIII to 'William and Kate'. Seventeen essays by Ian Christie, Elisabeth Bronfen, Andrew Higson, Karen Lury, Glynn Davies, Jane Landman and other international commentators examine the portrayal of royalty in the 'actuality' picture, the early extended feature, amateur cinema, the movie melodrama, the Commonwealth documentary, New Queer Cinema, TV current affairs, the big screen ceremonial and the post-historical boxed set. A long overdue contribution to film and television studies, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of British media and political history.
Book Synopsis Silver Bough Volume 4 by : F. Marian McNeill
Download or read book Silver Bough Volume 4 written by F. Marian McNeill and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silver Bough is an indispensable treasury of Scottish culture, universally acknowledged as a classic of literature. The author, F Marian McNeill, succeeded in capturing and bringing to life many traditions and customs of old before they died out or were influenced by the modern era. The Silver Branch of the sacred apple tree, laden with crystal blossoms of golden fruit, is in Celtic mythology the equivalent of the Golden Bough of classical mythology - the symbolic bond between the world we know and the Otherworld.In the first volume of the Silver Bough, the author deals generally with Scottish folk-lore and folk belief, with chapters on ethnic origins, the Druids, the Celtic gods, the slow transition to Christianity, magic, the fairy faith, second sight, selkies, changelings and the witch cult. In volumes two and three she explored in some depth the foundations of many of these beliefs and rituals through the Calendar of Scottish national festivals, in which we find enshrined many of the fascinating folk customs of our ancestors. This fourth volume turns our attention to the Local Festivals of Scotland. As man makes greater and greater advances in the understanding and control of his physical environment, the river between the known and the unknown gradually changes its course, and the subjects of the simpler beliefs of former times become part of the new territory of knowledge. The Silver Bough maps out the old course of the waterway that in Celtic belief winds between here and beyond, and reveals the very roots of the Scottish people's distinctive customs and way of life. The Silver Bough is a large and important work which involved many years of research into both living and recorded lore. Its genesis lies, perhaps, in the author's subconscious need to reconcile the old primitive world she had glimpsed in childhood with the sophisticated modern world she later entered. "e;I do not believe that you can exaggerate the importance of the preservation of old ways and customs, and all those little things which bind a man to his native place. Today we live in difficult times. The steam-roller of progress is flattening out many of our old institutions, and there is a danger of a general decline in idiom and distinctive quality in our Scottish life. The only way to counteract this peril is to preserve jealously all these elder things which are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. For, remember, no man can face the future with courage and confidence unless it is solidly founded upon the past. And conversely, no problem will be too hard, no situation too strange, if we can link it with what we know and love"e; F Marian McNeill
Book Synopsis In the Steps of St. Mungo by : A. G. Williamson
Download or read book In the Steps of St. Mungo written by A. G. Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dumfries Through Time by : Allan Devlin
Download or read book Dumfries Through Time written by Allan Devlin and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Dumfries has changed and developed over the last century.
Book Synopsis Scottish Festivals by : Sheila Livingstone
Download or read book Scottish Festivals written by Sheila Livingstone and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour of the festivals and fairs celebrated throughout Scotland. With extracts from prose, poetry and historical documents, this book discovers the significance of Whuppity Stourie, Hogmanay and the Common Ridings, and reveals why disguise and fire play a role in Scottish heritage.
Book Synopsis The Autobiography of a Nation by : Becky Conekin
Download or read book The Autobiography of a Nation written by Becky Conekin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exceptional book is the first full-length study on the 1951 Festival of Britain. As a consciously constructed cultural and educational event, or rather series of events, the Festival provides an opportunity to see a society and a government struggling to recast national identity after the experience of World War II. Primarily an examination of how Britain and Britishness were portrayed in the 1951 Festival’s exhibitions and events, Becky E. Conekin considers the Festival’s history and historiography, its purpose, its representations of the future and the past, the role of London and the "local", the British Empire and finally its legacy.
Book Synopsis Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory by : Burns Federation
Download or read book Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory written by Burns Federation and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Burns Chronicle and Club Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Britain To-day written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scotland written by Magnus Linklater and published by Salem House Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs show the people, farms, towns, castles, cathedrals, mountains, moors, lochs, islands, and harbors of Scotland and are accompanied by brief commentaries on Scottish life.
Book Synopsis The Silver Bough: The local festivals of Scotland by : Florence Marian McNeill
Download or read book The Silver Bough: The local festivals of Scotland written by Florence Marian McNeill and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Haggis, Hogmanay and Halloween by : Betty Kirkpatrick
Download or read book Haggis, Hogmanay and Halloween written by Betty Kirkpatrick and published by Crombie Jardine Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12-02 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland is a beautiful country steeped in history, culture, legend and customs. Many of its customs live on and this book looks at some of the most important of these, notably: Haggis (Scotland's national dish which is celebrated on Burns' night), Halloween, and Hogmanay.
Book Synopsis The Silver Bough by : Florence Marian McNeill
Download or read book The Silver Bough written by Florence Marian McNeill and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scottish Heritage by : Rex Welldon Finn
Download or read book Scottish Heritage written by Rex Welldon Finn and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
