Scotland's Story: A New PerspectiveCollins, 1984 - 358 pagini Fighting endless hardship, at war with the English for the greater part of their history and, in their diversity, often warring amongst themselves, the Scottish people have given the world an enormous wealth of creativity and inventive genius out of all proportion to their numbers. This reveals the Scots as they are, and how they have become so: one of the smallest but most influential countries in the world. |
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... Scots do not . Lowlanders feel little sense of guilt that they cannot speak Gaelic - the language which even in the early Middle Ages was spoken by at least three - quarters of Scotland's population . Nor were the Scots united by the ...
... Scots do not . Lowlanders feel little sense of guilt that they cannot speak Gaelic - the language which even in the early Middle Ages was spoken by at least three - quarters of Scotland's population . Nor were the Scots united by the ...
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... Scots as poor relations was further exacerbated . The English then , as now , believed they had absorbed Scotland politically . Legally they did not , although the numerical strength of English representation in the new parliament meant ...
... Scots as poor relations was further exacerbated . The English then , as now , believed they had absorbed Scotland politically . Legally they did not , although the numerical strength of English representation in the new parliament meant ...
Pagina 279
... Scots had citizenship . Until Scotland's own universities were founded in the fifteenth century , Scots in search of higher education went abroad and the Abbey of St James at Ratisbon in France by the beginning of the seventeenth ...
... Scots had citizenship . Until Scotland's own universities were founded in the fifteenth century , Scots in search of higher education went abroad and the Abbey of St James at Ratisbon in France by the beginning of the seventeenth ...
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Acknowledgements | 8 |
Few and Far Between | 15 |
The Auld Enemy | 30 |
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