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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... industrial goods to the Empire and the rest of the world had almost ceased . The needs of war and German U - boats had seen to that . After the war Scotland's coal industry fell on evil days . In 1921 there was a long and bitter strike ...
... industrial goods to the Empire and the rest of the world had almost ceased . The needs of war and German U - boats had seen to that . After the war Scotland's coal industry fell on evil days . In 1921 there was a long and bitter strike ...
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... industry have also failed . In 1979 , Wiggins Teape closed their pulp mill at Corpach near Fort William . The plant , to produce wood pulp from locally grown trees , had given work to nearly a thousand and a village of more than 450 ...
... industry have also failed . In 1979 , Wiggins Teape closed their pulp mill at Corpach near Fort William . The plant , to produce wood pulp from locally grown trees , had given work to nearly a thousand and a village of more than 450 ...
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... industry were working for Scottish controlled companies and the majority of those were small firms employing , on average , seventy - five people . In the 1950s the Americans moved into the whisky business . In 1950 Seagrams took over ...
... industry were working for Scottish controlled companies and the majority of those were small firms employing , on average , seventy - five people . In the 1950s the Americans moved into the whisky business . In 1950 Seagrams took over ...
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Acknowledgements | 8 |
Few and Far Between | 15 |
The Auld Enemy | 30 |
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