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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... forced the Picts to move their capital south , possibly to Scone in Perthshire , and the threat of the Norsemen was indirectly responsible for the collapse of the Pictish kingdom . In the west of Scotland , the Norsemen used their ...
... forced the Picts to move their capital south , possibly to Scone in Perthshire , and the threat of the Norsemen was indirectly responsible for the collapse of the Pictish kingdom . In the west of Scotland , the Norsemen used their ...
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... forced the British government to take responsibility for the area now known as Malawi . Livingstone's death inspired Scotland's most famous woman missionary . As a child , Mary Slessor worked in a Dundee weaving shed . Her father was a ...
... forced the British government to take responsibility for the area now known as Malawi . Livingstone's death inspired Scotland's most famous woman missionary . As a child , Mary Slessor worked in a Dundee weaving shed . Her father was a ...
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... forced many landowners to cut back on the staff they employed on their estates . Many lairds were forced to sell up completely and some of Scotland's traditional land - owning families were replaced by foreigners and British companies ...
... forced many landowners to cut back on the staff they employed on their estates . Many lairds were forced to sell up completely and some of Scotland's traditional land - owning families were replaced by foreigners and British companies ...
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Acknowledgements | 8 |
Few and Far Between | 15 |
The Auld Enemy | 30 |
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