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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... century BC and were followed in the fifth century by Celtic people who may have come from Switzerland . With the arrival of the Celts , the existing population of Scotland felt a need to fortify their settlements . They were widely ...
... century BC and were followed in the fifth century by Celtic people who may have come from Switzerland . With the arrival of the Celts , the existing population of Scotland felt a need to fortify their settlements . They were widely ...
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... century , Scots Gaelic had replaced the Pictish Celtic language . People by custom took the language of their king . Since the dominant Scots had little interest in Pictish records they were never copied and ultimately disappeared . The ...
... century , Scots Gaelic had replaced the Pictish Celtic language . People by custom took the language of their king . Since the dominant Scots had little interest in Pictish records they were never copied and ultimately disappeared . The ...
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... century , it still took a month for mail to get from Edinburgh to London and even a parcel or letter to Selkirk , thirty - eight miles away from Scotland's capital , could take a fortnight . The sea was still the only adequate method of ...
... century , it still took a month for mail to get from Edinburgh to London and even a parcel or letter to Selkirk , thirty - eight miles away from Scotland's capital , could take a fortnight . The sea was still the only adequate method of ...
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Acknowledgements | 8 |
Few and Far Between | 15 |
The Auld Enemy | 30 |
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