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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... island trade was con- tinuous and far - reaching . Stone quarried on the Western Islands of Rum and Arran found its way , by sea , to the eastern seaboard . Axes made at Tievebullaigh in northern Ireland were exported to Aberdeenshire ...
... island trade was con- tinuous and far - reaching . Stone quarried on the Western Islands of Rum and Arran found its way , by sea , to the eastern seaboard . Axes made at Tievebullaigh in northern Ireland were exported to Aberdeenshire ...
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... island's 126 villages have names that are Norse in origin . Later the Vikings moved north to settle the Faroes and Iceland . Norse communities flourished . Their longships , a new style of boat , and adopted by the local inhabitants of ...
... island's 126 villages have names that are Norse in origin . Later the Vikings moved north to settle the Faroes and Iceland . Norse communities flourished . Their longships , a new style of boat , and adopted by the local inhabitants of ...
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... island was rising and there was less useful land to support people than elsewhere in the Highlands and islands . Those who returned home from the war had been promised crofts by Robert Munro , the Secretary of State for Scotland . When ...
... island was rising and there was less useful land to support people than elsewhere in the Highlands and islands . Those who returned home from the war had been promised crofts by Robert Munro , the Secretary of State for Scotland . When ...
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Acknowledgements | 8 |
Few and Far Between | 15 |
The Auld Enemy | 30 |
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Minorities and Memories: Survivals and Extinctions in Scotland and Western ... Andrew Strathern,Pamela J. Stewart Vizualizare fragmente - 2001 |