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The Girl Who Lived On Her Clothes - The People Of Paisley And The New Poor Law, 183976

by Wendy Gordon

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 Criticized as parsimonious and cruel in the later 1800s, the Poor Law for Scotland was first passed in 1845 as a frankly humanitarian measure in response to desperate poverty on display in Paisley and elsewhere in the early 1840s. Poor Law Inspector James Shaw Brown of Paisley Burgh Parish, a compassionate, detail-oriented bureaucrat, was charged with alleviating suffering while limiting expense. In his four-decade career he served the poor, the parochial board, and rate payers of the parish, weaving their conflicting needs and demands though the arcane rules of the law. Inspector Brown and colleagues across the nation interpreted and debated the meaning of the law in correspondence and the courts for decades before it approached its final form. This book delves into Inspector Browns life and records to reveal how poverty and the poor law shaped life experiences for tens of thousands of ordinary Scots in the middle years of the nineteenth century.
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Tradition, Transmission, Transformation - Essays On Gaelic Poetry And Song

by Virginia Blankenhorn

~~75,86€~~ 60,69€ 20% OFF

 Since World War I, communities of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, characterised by collaborative effort and a robust sense of communal identity, have been transformed. This book will help scholars and general readers grasp the magnitude of change as it has transformed an important aspect of Scottish Gaelic culture.
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Death In Scotland - Chapters From The Twelfth Century To The Twenty-First

by Hilary J. Grainger e Peter C. Jupp

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 The fifteen essays gathered in this book probe the multi-facetted role of death in Scottish history and culture. They explore personal fears of death, anxieties about Predestination, prayers for the dead and the appeal of Spiritualism
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The Fiction Of Brian Mccabe And (Scottish) Identity

by Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen

~~77,65€~~ 62,12€ 20% OFF

 This study is the first monograph on the Scottish writer Brian McCabe. It focuses mainly on McCabes fiction and on the elements in his writing that allow for a redefinition of individual and national identity. The book opens with an examination of the socio-cultural context that shapes McCabes position in contemporary Scottish literature. The author goes on to consider McCabe as a writer of the Second Renaissance and the generation of the Lost Poets, and also focuses on the Scottish preoccupation with identity and its representations in the contemporary Scottish short story. Finally, she provides a chronological and thematic analysis of McCabes short story collections The Lipstick Circus, In a Dark Room with a Stranger and A Date with my Wife, and his novel The Other McCoy.
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Death In Modern Scotland, 18551955 - Beliefs, Attitudes And Practices

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 The period 1855 to 1955 was pivotal for modern Scottish death culture. Within art and literature death was a familiar companion, with its imagined presence charting the fears and expectations behind the public face of mortality. Framing new concepts of the afterlife became a task for both theologians and literary figures, both before and after the Great War. At the same time, medical and legal developments began to shift mortality into the realms of regulation and control. This interdisciplinary collection draws from the fields of art, literature, social history, religion, demography, legal history and architectural and landscape history. The essays employ a range of methodologies and materials visual, statistical, archival and literary to illustrate the richness of the primary sources for studying death in Scotland. They highlight a number of intersecting themes, including spirituality and the afterlife, the impact of war, materiality and the disposal of the body, providing new perspectives on how attitudes towards death have affected human behaviour on both personal and public levels, and throwing into relief some of the unique features of Scottish society.
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Between Categories - The Films Of Margaret Tait: Portraits, Poetry, Sound And Place

by Sarah Neely

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 Margaret Tait filmmaker, photographer, poet, painter, essayist and short story writer is one of the UKs most unique and remarkable filmmakers. She was the first female filmmaker to create a feature-length film in Scotland (Blue Black Permanent, 1992). Although for most of her career Tait remained focused on the goal of making a feature-length film, her most notable and groundbreaking work was arguably as a producer of short films. The originality of her work, and its refusal to accept perceived barriers of genre, media and form, continues to inspire new generations of filmmakers. This book aims to address the lack of sustained attention given to Taits large body of work, offering a contextualisation of Taits films within a general consideration of Scottish cinema and artists moving image. Furthermore, the books grounding in detailed archival research offers new insights into Scotland (and Britain) in the twentieth century, relating to a diverse range of subjects and key figures, such as John Grierson, Forsyth Hardy, Hugh MacDiarmid, Lindsay Anderson and Michael Powell.
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Discomfort And Joy - The Cinema Of Bill Forsyth

by Jonathan Murray

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 Discomfort and Joy
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Death In Scotland - Chapters From The Twelfth Century To The Twenty-First

by Hilary J. Grainger e Peter C. Jupp

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 The fifteen essays gathered in this book probe the multi-facetted role of death in Scottish history and culture. They explore personal fears of death, anxieties about Predestination, prayers for the dead and the appeal of Spiritualism
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The Flute In Scotland From The Sixteenth To The Eighteenth Century

by Elizabeth Ford

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 This book explores the role of the flute in Scottish musical life, primarily in the long eighteenth century, including players, repertoire, manuscripts, and instruments. Evidence for ladies having played the flute is examined, as are possible connections between flute playing and bagpipe playing.
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Tradition, Transmission, Transformation - Essays On Gaelic Poetry And Song

by Virginia Blankenhorn

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 Since World War I, communities of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, characterised by collaborative effort and a robust sense of communal identity, have been transformed. This book will help scholars and general readers grasp the magnitude of change as it has transformed an important aspect of Scottish Gaelic culture.
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Scotland And Islandness - Explorations In Community, Economy And Culture

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 Scotlandâ€™s islands are diverse, resourceful and singularly iconic in national and global imaginations of places â€˜apartâ€™ yet readily reached. This collection of essays offers a fascinating commentary on Scotlandâ€™s island communities that celebrates their histories, cultures and economies in general terms.
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So You Want To Be A Paranormal Investigator?

by Russell Phillip Masters

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The Unwitting Fundamentalist

by Andrew Norman

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The Children Of The Goddess Dana

by Maire De Harpuir

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Journey Of The Pigs

by Andrew Bishop

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Once Upon A Mouse

by J. A. Zarifian

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Best Seller Writer

by Asher Drapkin

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 Missing persons, contretemps, triumph and tragedy, jealousy and a guilty conscience are blended together in a way that draws in the reader.
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The Curious Mr. Gahdzooks And His Cautionary Tales For Naughty Children

by J. Anthony Vassell

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 When children misbehave, when they do not do as they're told, then usually in this day and age, they'd get away with a small telling off.
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Sir David Nairne - The Life Of A Scottish Jacobite At The Court Of The Exiled Stuarts

by Edward Corp

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James Kelman - Politics And Aesthetics

by Aaron Kelly

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 This study argues that James Kelmans work should not be construed as a resigned capitulation to capitalist domination or to the fracture of a once unified working-class collective purpose. Politics are to be found not only in the content but also the form of Kelmans work. The radical aspect of his style is that rather than pandering to a ready-made identity, he remains antagonistically non-identical to the prevailing logic of capitalism by contesting its supposedly shared worldview and modes of perception. Instead, Kelmans fiction continually disputes the notion of consensus by revealing the voices of those excluded, those who are unaccounted for in that false consensus. His work uncovers a stark contradiction in the governing logic of our times: we are asked to accept that class has disappeared at the same time that we are told the system that causes it in the first place capitalism is inevitably here forever. Even the most alienated individuals in his stories remind us that isolation can transcend itself by returning us to the social conditions that are its cause. We find politics in Kelmans aesthetics, as his work formally contests who has the right to feel, to think, to speak.
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Between Categories - The Films Of Margaret Tait: Portraits, Poetry, Sound And Place

by Sarah Neely

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 Margaret Tait filmmaker, photographer, poet, painter, essayist and short story writer is one of the UKs most unique and remarkable filmmakers. She was the first female filmmaker to create a feature-length film in Scotland (Blue Black Permanent, 1992). Although for most of her career Tait remained focused on the goal of making a feature-length film, her most notable and groundbreaking work was arguably as a producer of short films. The originality of her work, and its refusal to accept perceived barriers of genre, media and form, continues to inspire new generations of filmmakers. This book aims to address the lack of sustained attention given to Taits large body of work, offering a contextualisation of Taits films within a general consideration of Scottish cinema and artists moving image. Furthermore, the books grounding in detailed archival research offers new insights into Scotland (and Britain) in the twentieth century, relating to a diverse range of subjects and key figures, such as John Grierson, Forsyth Hardy, Hugh MacDiarmid, Lindsay Anderson and Michael Powell.
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James Kelman - Politics And Aesthetics

by Aaron Kelly

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 This study argues that the works of the Scottish novelist James Kelman should not be seen as a resigned capitulation to capitalism or an acceptance of the fracture of a working-class collective purpose. Instead, his fiction continually disputes the notion of consensus by revealing the voices of those excluded, those who are unaccounted for.
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The Ecology Of The Architectural Model

by Nick Dunn

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The Fiction Of Brian Mccabe And (Scottish) Identity

by Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen

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 The first monograph on the Scottish writer Brian McCabe, this book focuses mainly on individual and national identity in McCabeÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s writing by examining the short story collections The Lipstick Circus, In a Dark Room with a Stranger and A Date with my Wife, and his novel The Other McCoy. Also includes an unpublished interview with McCabe.
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