A Brief Description of Orkney, Zetland, Pightland-Firth, and Caithness
Author : John Brand
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 1811
Category : Caithness (Scotland)
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Author : John Brand
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 1811
Category : Caithness (Scotland)
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Author : John Brand
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 1703
Category : Caithness (Scotland)
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Author : John 1668?-1738 Brand
Publisher :
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781361264478
Author : John BRAND (Minister of Borrowstounness.)
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 1703
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Author : John Brand
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781436944984
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Kelsey Jackson Williams
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 0198809697
This book argues that the 'first' Scottish Enlightenment was championed by minority groups traditionally assumed to have been backward-looking and conservative--Jacobites, Episcopalians, and Catholics--and that it resulted in a dramatic transformation of how Scots understood their history.
Author : John Brand
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Page : 159 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 1703
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Author : Ernest Marwick
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 33,30 MB
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1788852729
The two island groups of Orkney and Shetland have much in common. In each the grey stone houses and treeless landscapes are scoured in winter by stinging gales, and in summer lie under the endless days of the 'simmer din'. Originally Norwegian, they have been part of Scotland for five hundred years, but their many and varied legends, folk tales and customs are still saturated with Norse influences. While this book tells tales and discusses beliefs that are known throughout the northern isles, it also outlines those elements which are unique to each island group. The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland is the standard account of what to this day is one of the richest repositories of lore and custom in Britain. Ernest Marwick not only recounts countless tales which have been transmitted aurally and by writing, but also places these tales within geographical and historical contexts, thus enabling a deeper appreciation of this wonderful material. A bibliography is also included, together with an index of tale types and motifs.
Author : Viking Club, or Society for Northern Research (London, England)
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Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Caithness (Scotland)
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Author : Jodie Matthews
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1443835439
Islands and archipelagos hold great imaginative power, and they have long been a subject of study for cartographers and geographers, for anthropologists and historians of colonisation. But what does it mean to be an islander? Can one feel both British and Manx, for example? What are British tourists looking for when they go to former island colonies? How do past relationships with Britain affect islands today? This collection takes a variety of perspectives to provide answers to such questions, examining war, empire, tourism, immigration, language, literature, and everyday life on and in islands, and the question of travel to and from them. Britishness is highlighted as a global island phenomenon, providing an insight into the history, culture and politics of identities from Jersey to Jamaica. Islands and Britishness not only brings together various contemporary strands in Island Studies, but uniquely focuses on the relationship – historical, cultural and economic – between particular islands and Britain, and, crucially, how this relationship frames national identity both on the island and in Britain itself. The collection examines interactions between Britishness and indigenous or earlier invasive/settler cultures, as well as the internal differences within the concept of ‘Britishness’ (Britain/Scotland/Shetland, for instance). It considers the relationship played out on the island between Britishness and the other nationalities with which the islands share an affinity, and questions received wisdoms about national identity on the islands by considering intersecting discourses such as class and gender. The collection offers a global perspective on the divisions within a notion of Britishness and the identities against which Britishness has been constructed.