Author : Irene Maver
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 34,23 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1474470793
This new and extensively illustrated history explores the reality behind stereotypical views of Glasgow.
Author : Graeme Morton
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 074862953X
This volume explores the experience of everyday life in Scotland over two centuries characterised by political, religious and intellectual change and ferment. It shows how the extraordinary impinged on the ordinary and reveals people's anxieties, joys, comforts, passions, hopes and fears. It also aims to provide a measure of how the impact of change varied from place to place.The authors draw on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, including the material survivals of daily life in town and country, and on the history of government, religion, ideas, painting, literature, and architecture. As B. S. Gregory has put it, everyday history is 'an endeavour that seeks to identify and integrate everything - all relevant material, social, political, and cultural data - that permits the fullest possible reconstruction of ordinary life experiences in all their varied complexity, as they are formed and transformed.'
Author : Scottish History Society
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Scotland
ISBN :
Author : Andrew D 1899 Aird
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781013880384
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Donald Macleod Malloch
Publisher :
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Anecdotes
ISBN :
Author : Geoff Holder
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0750953950
The Little Book of Glasgow is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters and literally hundreds of wacky facts. Geoff Holder's new book gathers together a myriad of data on Glasgow. There are lots of factual chapters but also plenty of frivolous details which will amuse and surprise. A reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped in to time and time again to reveal something you never knew. Discover why two archbishops had a fight on the steps of the cathedral, find directions to an Egyptian pharaoh and a Native American chief, and learn where you can find half-a-dozen Tardises. A remarkably engaging little book, this is essential reading for visitors and locals alike.
Author : Geoff Holder
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0750952768
Graverobbing was a dark but profitable industry in pre-Victorian Scotland – criminals, gravediggers and middle-class medical students alike abstracted newly-buried corpses to send to the anatomy schools. Only after the trials of the infamous murderers Burke and Hare and the passing of the Anatomy Act of 1832 did the grisly trade end. From burial grounds in the heart of Glasgow, Dundee and Edinburgh to quiet country graveyards in the Scottish Borders and Aberdeenshire, this book takes you to every cemetery ever raided, and reveals where you can find extant pieces of anti-resurrectionist graveyard furniture, from mortsafes, coffin cages and underground vaults to watchtowers and morthouses. Richly illustrated, filled with hundreds of stories of ‘reanimated’ corpses, daring thefts, black-hearted murders and children sold to the slaughter by their own mothers, and with Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic short story The Body Snatcher at the end, this macabre guide will delight everyone who loves Scotland's dark past.
Author : John Strang
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3375166540
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
Author : William Henry Hill
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 24,8 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Glasgow (Scotland)
ISBN :
Author : Henry L. Fulton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 161149494X
This book is the first biography of Scottish-born physician John Moore. Here, Henry L. Fulton recounts Moore’s childhood, education, and medical training in Glasgow and abroad; discusses his marriage, family, and friendships (particularly with Tobias Smollett); and depicts his professional practice in the north. The narrative uncovers Moore’s transformative experience accompanying a young nobleman on the Grand Tour through Europe and provides a detailed account of the journey's highlights and difficulties. When Moore returns, he moves his family to London to begin a second career in literature and to acquire patronage for his sons’ professions. In this biography Fulton covers not only Moore’s publications but also discusses his circle of friends among nobility, politicians, artists, and others. Also discussed is Moore’s involvement in the French Revolution, his correspondence with Robert Burns, and his strained family relationships. Additionally presented here is new information regarding Moore’s finances drawn from archival records in Glasgow and Edinburgh and his bank ledgers in London.
