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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... building programme was finished , the six companies were increased to ten and the Black Watch Regiment was formally consti- tuted . Wade went south to assume another post in 1734. He had supervised the construction of some 235 miles of ...
... building programme was finished , the six companies were increased to ten and the Black Watch Regiment was formally consti- tuted . Wade went south to assume another post in 1734. He had supervised the construction of some 235 miles of ...
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... building their own cotton mill at Rhode Island in 1870 . The fate of the handloom weaver , William Carnegie of Dunfermline , was typical . When factories forced him out of business , he saw no alternative but to take his family to the ...
... building their own cotton mill at Rhode Island in 1870 . The fate of the handloom weaver , William Carnegie of Dunfermline , was typical . When factories forced him out of business , he saw no alternative but to take his family to the ...
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A New Perspective Tom Steel. launched an appeal to raise funds to build a hospital where patients could be studied and treated . A further call on private funds paid for a new building to accommodate 228 more patients in 1741. The new ...
A New Perspective Tom Steel. launched an appeal to raise funds to build a hospital where patients could be studied and treated . A further call on private funds paid for a new building to accommodate 228 more patients in 1741. The new ...
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Acknowledgements | 8 |
Few and Far Between | 15 |
The Auld Enemy | 30 |
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