Author : Keith A. Jenkinson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445684888
The fascinating story of Stagecoach's expansion beyond Scotland. With rare, previously unseen photographs.
Author : Colin W. Thom
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 2013-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 147978124X
Bervie and Beyond reaches back to the early 1700s and into the lives of the author’s paternal ancestry in North East Scotland, and then endeavours to trace the lives of all his fellow descendants through to around the mid-1900s. It tells the story of a not very successful smuggler who turned legitimate and established the first linen mill in Scotland. It progresses to his son Walter, who published several books in the early 1800s before being lured to Irelandby Chief Secretary Robert Peel to publish the Dublin Journal newspaper. But it was the next generation which brought real success. Alex Thom developed what was to become the leading Irish printing company, culminating in appointment as the country’s Queen’s Printer. Alex amassed a huge personal fortune which enabled him to establish his beloved Thom’s Directory. By his own efforts it grew in content and stature, and quickly became the primary reference source for all things Irish. It was his greatest achievement, and the Irish nation will forever remember him for it. But wealth and a second marriage created downsides, with family divisions and a widow who took “spreading the joy” (to other than family) to a new art form. In the following generations we learn of a suicide, successful migration toArgentinaandSouth Africa, and in TheAntipodes, destitution.
Author : Rick Steves
Publisher : Rick Steves
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1612389791
Whether you take the high road or the low road, with Rick Steves on your side, Scotland can be yours! Inside Rick Steves Scotland you'll find: Comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring Scotland Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favorites Top sights and hidden gems, from the wild beauty of Orkney Islands and the Hebrides to cozy corner pubs in Edinburgh How to connect with local culture: Chat with whiskey experts on the Speyside Whisky Trail, attend a small-town Highland Games, or join the search for Nessie Beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps with Rick's candid, humorous insight The best places to eat, sleep, and relax Self-guided walking tours of lively neighborhoods and historic sites Detailed neighborhood maps and a fold-out city map for exploring on the go Useful resources including a packing list, a phrase book of Scottish slang, a historical overview, and recommended reading Over 400 bible-thin pages include everything worth seeing without weighing you down Complete, up-to-date information on Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, St. Andrews, the Scottish Highlands, Oban, Mull, Iona, Staffa, Glencoe, Fort William, Inverness, Loch Ness, Pitiochry, Balmoral Castle, the Isle of Skye, Wester Ross, the Orkney Islands, and more Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves Scotland. Spending two weeks or less exploring the country? Try Rick Steves Best of Scotland.
Author : Jeremy Peat
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This is the story of the Scottish economy in pictures, graphs, charts and diagrams, which aims to enable the reader to grasp complex and detailed information at a glance. There is an abundance of advanced analysis, on components of GDP, Scotland's productivity record, the behaviour of unit labour costs, and how incomes and spending patterns have changed. The book draws on statistical data from the Office of National Statistics, the Scottish Office, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Scottish Enterprise. It aims to provide a primer for the student, business man, banker, politician and civil service mandarin.
Author : Paul Loukides
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780879724795
The third of five volumes of new scholarship on American movie conventions. The 19 essays explore cinematic representations of such material items as food, weapons, clothing, tools, technology, and art and literature. Not illustrated. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : Laura Macgregor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1351727915
This title was first published in 2000: The book will be a set of essays addressing various aspects of regulation. It will concentrate on regulation as a precondition of successfully operating markets - by opening up markets and establishing conditions of trust. It will cover a broad range of varied forms of regulation. The book will respond to recent developments, for example, the shift from deregulation to better regulation will be explored. Most chapters will be written jointly by an academic and a legal practitioner (from the commercial solicitors firm of Shepherd and Wedderburn), thus ensuring an integration of theoretical analysis with practical problems.
Author : Graeme Morton
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 19,55 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 : Christopher Redmond
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1780929080
If you have ever read “A Scandal in Bohemia” and wondered what Watson's allusion to “Mr. John Hare” means… if you aren't sure who was in charge in southeast Asia when Mycroft Holmes mentions “the present state of Siam”… if you’re wondering about Watson’s portrait of General Gordon or Holmes’s Vernet relatives or what Scottish expert on poisons Scotland Yard consulted when the Baker Street duo weren’t available… this is your book. It provides one-paragraph biographies of 800 real-life Victorians and Edwardians who strolled down Oxford Street near Holmes and Watson or figured in the newspapers they read. That mention of Blondin on the roof at Pondicherry Lodge? Arthur Conan Doyle’s literary friends? The King of Scandinavia? The British commander at Maiwand? Enquire within.
Author : Jeremy Jennings
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Travel writers
ISBN : 0674275608
Alexis de Tocqueville famously wrote about democracy in America, but he also lauded Catholic society in Quebec, feared the nationalism he saw in Germany, and controversially defended French colonization of Algeria. Jeremy Jennings traces Tocqueville's lesser-known travels, recovering the wider insights of one of history's great political thinkers.
Author : Christopher T. Harvie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 19,29 MB
Release : 2004-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1134337930
An authoritative survey of Scottish social and political history from 1707 to the present day. This fourth edition brings the story and historiography of Scottish society and politics up to date.
