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Bonnie Prince Charlie
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Carolly Erickson |
Bonnie Prince Charlie is celebrated in Scotland as the Young Pretender, Charles Stuart, the hero whose claim to the British throne divided the kingdom and shook the opulent monarchies of continental … |
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Alexander Nimmo's Inverness survey & journal, 1806
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Alexander Nimmo |
Alexander Nimmo was Rector of Inverness Academy in 1806 when the Commission for Highland Roads and Bridges employed him to survey the boundary of Inverness-shire with the adjacent counties. During hi… |
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The two unions
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Alvin Jackson |
Alvin Jackson examines the two Unions--the Anglo-Scots Union of 1707 and the British-Irish of 1801--comparing their background, birth, and survival. In sustaining a comparison between the Unions, he … |
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Loyalty and identity
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Daniel Szechi,Murray Pittock |
"This collection of essays provides a series of fresh approaches to a fascinating subject: Jacobitism. The contributors focus on issues of identity and memory among Jacobites in Scotland, Ireland, En… |
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Sixteenth-century Scotland
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Julian Goodare,Michael Lynch |
"This collection of essays demonstrates the vitality of the political, cultural and religious history of Scotland in the era of the Renaissance and Reformation. It is a Festschrift for Michael Lynch,… |
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Aberdeen
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Elma McMenemy |
A short history of Aberdeen, Scotland, from Mesolithic settlers in 8200 BC to the oil industry in2013. |
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The Declaration of Arbroath 1320
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James Fergusson of Kilkerran |
"The Declaration of Arbroath" is one of the best known and most treasured document in the national archives of Scotland. It is a letter from the earls and barons of Scotland to the Pope during the Wa… |
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The Cruel Madness Of Love Sex Syphilis And Psychiatry In Scotland 18801930
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Gayle Davis |
Against a backdrop of contemporary social and sexual concerns, and potent fears surrounding the moral and physical 'degeneration' of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century society, this book exp… |
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Mary, Queen of Scots, and the murder of Lord Darnley
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Alison Weir |
This book is an excursion into Britain's bloodstained, power-obsessed past. The author's investigation into Lord Darnley's murder is set against one of the most dramatic periods in English history. I… |
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The anatomy murders
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Lisa Rosner |
*Up the close and down the stair,
Up and down with Burke and Hare.
Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief,
Knox the man who buys the beef.*
—anonymous children's song
On Halloween night 1828, i… |
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Scotland
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Patricia Levy,Jacqueline Ong |
"Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Scotland"--Provided by publisher. |
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Fatal rivalry
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George Goodwin |
"In 1509 the young Henry VIII renewed his father's Treaty of Perpetual Peace with Scotland. Yet by 1511 he was already planning an invasion of France, Scotland's traditional ally. Over the next two y… |
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A monstrous commotion
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Gareth Williams |
Sir Peter Scott, internationally renowned naturalist and president of the World Wildlife Fund, was convinced that the Monster existed. So were senior scientists at London's Natural History Museum and… |
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Robert the Bruce
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Fiona J. Watson |
From disastrous beginnings after he took the throne of Scotland, having murdered a powerful rival, Robert I became a military leader of consummate genius. Throwing away the rulebook of medieval warfa… |
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Conceiving a Nation
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Gilbert Márkus |
1 online resource (xiv, 295 pages) : |
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Nation Changed?
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Gerry Hassan,Simon Barrow |
367 pages : 23 cm |
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The Edinburgh book of days
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Turnbull, Michael |
Taking you through the year day by day, The Edinburgh Book of Days contains a quirky, eccentric, amusing or important event or fact from different period of history, many of which had a major impact … |
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A woman nobly planned
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John J. Toffey |
Flora MacDonald's 10-day adventure with Bonnie Prince Charlie in June 1746 brought her instant fame and a year of captivity. While in London, she became a darling of society, sitting for portraitists… |
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The wars of the Bruces
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Colm McNamee |
This a very readable narrative of a momentous episode in British history. Former studies of this topic concentrate upon events in Scotland, but England's war with Robert Bruce profoundly affected the… |
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My Heart Is My Own
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John Guy |
This book is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots. Crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months of age, and Queen of France at 16, at 18 Mary ascended the throne that was her b… |
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