Beyond the Highland Line: Highland History and CultureConstable, 1991 - 236 pagini An historical and cultural guide to the Scottish Highlands, embracing the early Pictish inhabitants up to the present day. The author examines such topics as the history of the clans, depopulation and emigration, the tourist trade, and highland ecology. |
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Pagina 133
... dress to new activities , or to make it wearable in conjunction with other items of Lowland dress , the ' phillabeg ' or kilt became and remains the basic garment of modern Highland dress . The next development would be the kilt made of ...
... dress to new activities , or to make it wearable in conjunction with other items of Lowland dress , the ' phillabeg ' or kilt became and remains the basic garment of modern Highland dress . The next development would be the kilt made of ...
Pagina 136
... dress . With the renewed fashion for Highland dress in the nineteenth century , and its adoption as Scottish national costume , it did not reappear in the Highlands as the dress of the people . It was too expensive to be worn by those ...
... dress . With the renewed fashion for Highland dress in the nineteenth century , and its adoption as Scottish national costume , it did not reappear in the Highlands as the dress of the people . It was too expensive to be worn by those ...
Pagina 180
... dress , which had been prohibited from 1746 to 1782 as the dress of a resistance movement , provided a splendid symbol of reconciliation , and George IV played his part by wearing Highland dress at a levee held at Holyroodhouse on 17 ...
... dress , which had been prohibited from 1746 to 1782 as the dress of a resistance movement , provided a splendid symbol of reconciliation , and George IV played his part by wearing Highland dress at a levee held at Holyroodhouse on 17 ...
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Illustrations | 9 |
Picts and Scots | 35 |
Gael Norse and Norman | 52 |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
Alasdair Alasdair MacColla Alexander ancient Angus Óg Argyll army Balliol battle became best-dressed Highlander Bishop Caledonians Campbell cattle Celtic Celts chiefs Christian Church Clan Donald clansmen crofters crown Dalriada David defeated descendants drovers Duke Earl earldom Edinburgh eighteenth century England English feudal followed Gaelic Gaels Glen Gordon Gordon Donaldson Grant and Cheape Hebrides Highland dress Highland Line Highland regiments Highlands and Islands History I.F. Grant Ibid Inverness Iona Ireland Irish Islay Jacobite Jacobite Rising James VI James VII John kilt kindred King of Scots kingdom Kintyre land later Loch Lord Lordship Lowland MacDonald MacGregor MacKenzies MacPherson Malcolm Malcolm MacHeth Mór Moray nineteenth century Norse Orkney Ossian Pictish Picts plaid poem possession Prince Charles Edward Queen Roman Ross royal Scotland Scottish sheep Skye society Somerled Statutes of Iona Stewart stone Stuart survived Sutherland symbols tartan tenants tradition victory warriors Western Isles