Scotland the Autobiography: 2000 Years Of Scottish History By Those Who Saw It Happen

This is a vivid, wide-ranging and engrossing account of Scotland's history, composed of eye-witness accounts by those who experienced it first-hand. Contributors range from Tacitus, Mary Queen of Scots and Oliver Cromwell to Adam Smith, David Livingstone and Billy Connolly. These include not just key historic moments - from Bannockburn to the opening of the new parliament in 1999, but testimonies like that of the eight-year-old factory worker who was dangled by his ear out of a third-floor window for making a mistake; the survivors of Culloden, who wished perhaps that they had died on the field; the breakthrough moment for John Logie Baird, inventor of television; and, the genesis of great works of literature recorded by Conan Doyle, Stevenson and the editor of "Encyclopaedia Britannica".From the battlefield to the sports field, we have moments of glory or disaster, along with wonderfully readable insights into the everyday life of Scotland through the millennia. This is living, access

Scotland: The Autobiography: 2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw It Happen

History

Rosemary Goring

Europe

Viking Adult

Dacre's War

Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited

London, 1945. The girls of slender means are the residents of the May of Teck Club, a genteel yet rather shabby boarding house established for the 'social protection of ladies of slender means below the age of thirty years'. The novel concerns their everyday affairs over a period of a few weeks before a shocking event transforms their lives. This is one of the 22 novels written by Muriel Spark in her lifetime. All are being published by Polygon in hardback Centenary Editions between November 2017 and September 2018.

The Girls of Slender Means (The Collected Muriel Spark Novels)

Literature & Fiction

Muriel Spark

Contemporary

Alphabetical entries cover all aspects of the major world religions and belief systems.

Dictionary of Beliefs & Religions (Wordsworth Collection)

Religion & Spirituality

Wordsworth Editions Ltd.

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