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2. Queensferry Crossing, UK: project scope and development history.
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Shackman, Lawrence, Glover, Mike, Murray, Iain, and Hunter, Stuart
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INTELLIGENT transportation systems , *CABLE-stayed bridges , *HISTORY , *TRANSPORTATION corridors - Abstract
The Forth Road Bridge has carried road traffic across the Forth estuary in Scotland, UK, since 1964. It was replaced in September 2017 by the Queensferry Crossing, the country's biggest infrastructure project in a generation. The outturn £1·34 billion replacement crossing project consists of a 2·7 km long cable-stayed bridge, associated connecting roads and junction improvements and a state-of-the art 22 km long intelligent transport system to manage traffic through the project corridor. This paper describes the project history, its development and scope. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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3. Scots Law and Scottish Identity: A Legendary Tale.
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Clancy, Michael P.
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SCOTTISH law ,SCOTTISH national character ,UNION of Scotland with England & Wales, 1707 ,TREATIES ,PRESBYTERIANISM ,RELIGION & state -- History ,EDUCATION ,HISTORY ,EIGHTEENTH century - Abstract
The Treaty of Union 1707 between Scotland and England and the respective implementing legislation in each Kingdom contained provisions which today we might describe as 'opt-outs'. These opt-outs from incorporating Union preserved aspects of the Scottish legal system which, along with the Presbyterian religion and the system of education, helped to ensure that Scottish identity was supported by some of the most powerful aspects of the state. This essay will examine some of the provisions of the Treaty, analyse aspects of the legal system and law that persisted after the Union, comment on the extent to which 310 years of the Union with England influenced that law, reflect on membership of the EU and the harmonization which it brought to the legal system and consider the impact of the Scottish Parliament on that law and legal system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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4. NORMAN CASTLES.
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Hope-Taylor, Brian
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NORMANS ,EXCAVATION ,CASTLES ,HISTORY - Abstract
The article focuses on the excavation of the castles constructed by Normans when they invaded Great Britain in the 11th century. The excavation found out that the castles that the Normans built was made of wooden structures and shaped like an inverted washtub. Those structures were not only found in England but also in Wales, Scotland, and even in Ireland.
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- 1958
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5. St. Andrews THE HAUNTED TOWN.
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Kirk, Russell
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CASTLES ,CATHEDRALS ,SCOTTISH history ,HISTORY - Abstract
The article discusses the history of the city of St. Andrews, Scotland. It comments on the University of St. Andrews and examines several ancient features of the city, including a stone called Blue Stane. The author also addresses the life of the monk Saint Rule, or Regulus, who lived in St. Andrews. Other topics include St. Andrews Cathedral, the religious life of the city, and a castle built by Normans . The article notes the city's prosperity, which the author attributes to golf and to tourism.
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- 1953
6. The Edinburgh Review.
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Clive, John
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ROMANTICISM ,19TH century literary criticism ,HISTORY ,HISTORY of political parties ,INTELLECTUAL life - Abstract
The article discusses the Scottish critical magazine "The Edinburgh Review," which began publication in 1802. It examines the role of the magazine's originator, Sydney Smith, and comments on editor Francis Jeffrey. The author addresses the periodical's reviews of books and comments on the Scottish city Edinburgh as a place of culture and learning. He also considers the periodical's relations to Romanticism and Romantic poets and considers its role as an outlet for Scottish Whiggism. The contributions of British statesman Henry Brougham to the journal are also considered.
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- 1952
7. Womanliness in the Slums: A Free Kindergarten in Early Twentieth-Century Edinburgh.
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Darling, Elizabeth
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KINDERGARTEN , *EARLY childhood education , *KINDERGARTEN teachers , *WELFARE state , *SOCIAL reformers , *WOMEN , *EDUCATION , *HISTORY - Abstract
This paper considers the intersection of Spiritual Motherhood, early childhood education and child welfare in early twentieth-century Edinburgh. Its focus is St Saviour's Child Garden (SSCG), which opened in the Canongate, in November 1906, part of the Free Kindergarten movement that emerged in Europe and North America in the late nineteenth century. The paper focuses on the SSCG's founder Lileen Hardy, in order to trace the development of this new approach to child welfare and women's work in Britain. It discusses her training at the Sesame House for Home-Life Training in London, her move to Edinburgh, and the network of predominantly women reformers, whose interests ranged from urban reform to medical welfare, she found there. It shows how this network facilitated the founding of the SSCG and discusses the form it took and Hardy's implementation of a modified form of Froebelian praxis. In so doing its concern is to show how Free Kindergarten forms part of a wider history of social welfare and urban reform as well as to the history of early childhood education, and to move attention away from the men usually associated with innovations in Scottish social reform like Patrick Geddes, and onto a group of women who created a women and child-centred proto-Welfare State in pre-First World War Edinburgh. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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8. Economic Direction and Generational Change in Twentieth-Century Britain: The Case of the Scottish Coalfields.
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PHILLIPS, JIM
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ECONOMIC history , *ECONOMIC change , *COALFIELDS , *COAL industry history , *COAL industry , *MIXED economy , *PRIVATIZATION , *TWENTIETH century , *HISTORY - Abstract
The article discusses the shift in the economic direction in the 20th century in Great Britain. Topics discussed include the divisive changes in economic direction, corporatist interventions to stimulate aggregate demand, the Conservative Party's adaptation to the post-1945 mixed economy, related elements of economic management that influenced changes in economic direction after 1979 and a case study of the Scottish coalfields to show the changes in economic direction in the 1940s and 1980s.
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- 2017
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9. A "wicked commerce": Consent, Coercion, and Kidnapping in Aberdeen's Servant Trade.
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Shannon, Timothy J.
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KIDNAPPING , *CHILD trafficking , *INDENTURED servants , *EMPLOYEE recruitment , *LEGAL status of children , *COMMERCE , *HISTORY - Abstract
The author discusses the trade in recruiting of indentured servants and the kidnapping of children to supply that trade. He mentions the case of Peter Williamson who was kidnapped in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1743, the Aberdeen merchants who dealt in the servant trade, and the legal status of children in becoming indentured servants.
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- 2017
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10. Artisans and Aristocrats in Nineteenth-Century Scotland.
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Nenadic, Stana and Tuckett, Sally
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ARISTOCRACY (Social class) , *ARTISANS -- History , *HANDICRAFTS & society , *HANDICRAFT , *NINETEENTH century , *HISTORY , *SOCIAL history - Abstract
This article considers relationships between artisans and aristocrats on estates and elsewhere in Scotland during the long nineteenth century. It argues that the Scottish aristocracy, and women in particular, were distinctly preoccupied with the craft economy through schemes to promote employment but also due to attachments to 'romanticised' local and Celtic identities. Building in part on government initiatives and aristocratic office-holding as public officials and presidents of learned societies, but also sustained through personal interest and emotional investments, the craft economy and individual entrepreneurs were supported and encouraged. Patronage of and participation in public exhibitions of craftwork forms one strand of discussion and the role of hand-made objects in public gift-giving forms another. Tourism, which estates encouraged, sustained many areas of craft production with south-west Scotland and the highland counties providing examples. Widows who ran estates were involved in the development of artisan skills among local women, a convention that was further developed at the end of the century by the Home Industries movement, but also supported male artisans. Aristocrats, men and women, commonly engaged in craft practice as a form of escapist leisure that connected them to the land, to a sense of the past and to a small group of easily identified and sympathetic workers living on their estates. Artisans and workshop owners, particularly in rural areas, engage creatively in a patronage regime where elites held the upper hand and the impact on the craft economy of aristocratic support in its various forms was meaningful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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11. Playing By the Rules?: Early Modern Sport and Control in the Northern Mainland Royal Burghs of Scotland.
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Cormack, Wade
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EARLY modern history ,SPORTS ,FOOTBALL ,GOLF ,HISTORY - Abstract
The history of early modern sport in Scotland, especially in the Lowlands, is beginning to emerge. Impressive works have identified the key sports in Scottish history, including bowls, football, golf, horse racing and shinty, but more research is required to understand their place in society and how they were regulated. This paper focuses on the northern mainland royal burghs of Scotland and examines the roles of the crown, the Scottish Parliament, the burgh councils and the parochial kirk sessions in governing sport during the early modern period. It argues that sport in the north was controlled, from the authorities' perspective, to guarantee the training of useful members of society, to minimise disruptions to communities and to follow moral and religious expectations. They did so by applying both direct and indirect methods of social control. However, this element of social control was not universal, unremitting or entirely oppressive and the urban populace had agency and, at times, resisted the authorities' attempts to govern what, where and when sports were to be played. This paper is divided into four sections to illuminate: what sports were played; how they were governed at the national level; where they were played in the urban environment; and, finally, when they were deemed appropriate. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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12. Toward Political Participation and Capacity: Elections, Voting, and Representation in Early Modern Scotland.
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Brown, Keith Mark
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REPRESENTATIVE government -- History , *ELECTIONS , *VOTING , *POLITICAL participation -- History , *RELIGION & state -- History , *STUART Period, Great Britain, 1603-1714 , *HISTORY , *SEVENTEENTH century ,STUART dynasty, Scotland, 1371-1707 ,SCOTTISH politics & government ,UNION of the Crowns, Great Britain, 1603 - Abstract
The article discusses the political representation of the parliament and monarchy of Scotland in the early modern period, focusing on issues associated with elections, representation, and voting between 1603, when King James became ruler over Great Britain and Scotland and the 1707 Act of Union with Great Britain. Topics include political culture, political participation, religion and state, and civil wars.
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- 2016
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13. Walter Scott and the Reform of the Scottish Judicature 1806–10.
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Chittick, Kathryn
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JUDICIAL reform , *POETS , *PATRIOTISM , *COURTS , *LEGAL history , *NINETEENTH century , *POLITICAL attitudes , *HISTORY ,SCOTLAND. Court of Session - Abstract
The significance of the effort to reform the Court of Session in the early nineteenth century lies in the fact that it represented the first time Westminster had proposed to alter a key Scottish institution protected by the articles of the 1707 Act of Union. Scott as a Clerk of Session played a crucial role in the process, initially resisting reform and then undertaking to shape it. At the same time, his literary patriotism as Britain's best-selling poet was criticized by Britain's most famous cultural critic, Francis Jeffrey, a fellow member of the Faculty of Advocates. Jeffrey as editor of the Edinburgh Review wrote a controversial review of Scott's best-selling poem about the Battle of Flodden, Marmion, which accused Scott of being too ‘English’ in his treatment of this Scottish tragedy. And yet, more than Jeffrey, Scott was opposed to the Whig project of reforming Scottish law to make it more ‘constitutional’ or ‘English’. Using original documents held by the National Archives of Scotland, the Advocates Library, and the National Library of Scotland, this article examines Scott's role in making this controversy a matter of interest for both British literature and legal history. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2015
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14. Notes on a Scandal: Robison, Scott, and the Reception of Kotzebue in Scotland.
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Wood, Michael
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ENLIGHTENMENT , *POPULAR culture , *HISTORY - Abstract
The article considers the reception of the works by German dramatist August von Kotzebue (1761–1819) in Scotland during the Enlightenment. It considers references to Kotzebue in the writings of Scottish physicist John Robison, a founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and author of "Proofs of a Conspiracy," as well as novelist Walter Scott's essay for Encyclopedia Britannica "Essay on the Drama."
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- 2018
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15. Discovery and Survey and of a 17th-18th Century Shipwreck near Drumbeg, NW Scotland: an initial report.
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McCarthy, John, Robertson, Philip, and Mackay, Ewen
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SHIPWRECKS , *UNDERWATER archaeology , *ANTIQUES , *UNDERWATER cultural heritage , *NAVAL ordnance , *PROTECTION of cultural property , *SALVAGE (Maritime) , *HULLS (Naval architecture) , *ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations , *SEA anchors , *EIGHTEENTH century , *HISTORY - Abstract
The article discusses the discovery of an 18th century shipwreck near Drumbeg, North West of Scotland and presents the findings of the survey of the shipwreck site. Topics include the discovery of the shipwreck, the antiques found at the site which includes Naval Ordnance or cannons, the hull of the ship and the anchor recovered at the site. It presents an analysis of the ships construction period and the possible identification of the ship.
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- 2015
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16. The War of the Booksellers: Natural Law, Equity, and Literary Property in Eighteenth-Century Scotland.
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MacQueen, Hector
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BOOKSELLERS & bookselling , *COPYRIGHT , *EQUITY (Law) , *NATURAL law , *HISTORY , *LAW ,SCOTTISH law ,SCOTLAND. Court of Session - Abstract
This article analyses the case of Hinton v Donaldson (1773) in which the judges of the Scottish Court of Session refused to follow their English brethren in recognizing an author's right of property outside the Statute of Anne (1710). The decision must be understood against the background of distinct notions of common law and equity in Scots law, drawn from the Natural law tradition of the European jus commune. At the same time the decision reveals developing strands of Enlightenment thought and concepts of the judicial role in relation to legislation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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17. “Social physical exercise?” Football, industrial paternalism, and professionalism in west Dunbartonshire, Scotland, c. 1870–1900.
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McDowell, Matthew L.
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INDUSTRIES , *PATERNALISM -- Social aspects , *PROFESSIONALISM , *SOCIAL mobility , *SOCCER , *HISTORY - Abstract
This article examines the interrelationship of sport, community and industry in west Dunbartonshire during the period 1870–1900. During the early years of the Scottish Football Association (SFA)– the 1870s and 1880s – the county's main football clubs were amongst the SFA's most dominant, regularly challenging Glasgow's major clubs for supremacy in the Scottish Cup. These clubs were part of an industrial landscape, based as they were in shipbuilding and textile communities significantly comprised of Irish and Highland Scottish migrant populations. Local industrialists acted as patrons out of a paternalistic desire to mould the message of football. Their attempts were nevertheless undermined by the existence of professionalism in the game, which in turn encouraged an alternate method of social mobility. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2014
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18. Preventing ‘robotised women workers’: women, sport and the workplace in Scotland 1919–1939.
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Skillen, Fiona
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WOMEN & sports , *INDUSTRIES , *SPORTS , *INTERWAR Period (1918-1939) , *WOMEN employees , *LEISURE , *TWENTIETH century , *HISTORY , *SOCIAL conditions of women , *SOCIAL history - Abstract
This article examines a new area of women's leisure; women's participation in work-related sport. The growth and development of industrial welfare in Scotland in the interwar period will be discussed. Within broader studies, Stephen Jones, Helen Jones and Melling have all indicated that there was a growth in industrial welfarism in Britain from the turn of the twentieth century. This development of welfarism, which included provision of educational classes, pensions and medical support, increasingly also encompassed a variety of sports and physical activities. By looking at case studies, developments in provision across a range of industries will be examined. This discussion will draw on a wide range of sources from a variety of women's employment, from factories to clerical positions and from the retail sector to the civil service. This article will examine the types of sporting opportunities open to women through their workplaces, including organised welfare schemes and independent employee-led activities. Moreover, it will explore working women's experiences of these activities and the ways in which they chose to participate in sport. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2014
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19. LETTERS FROM THE HIGHLANDS.
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King, Rachael Scarborough
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POSTAL service , *HISTORY of manuscripts , *PRINT materials , *MEMOIRS , *NINETEENTH century , *HISTORY , *SOCIAL history ,19TH century Scottish history - Abstract
The article discusses the book "Memoirs of a Highland Lady" by Elizabeth Grant, focusing on how the book highlights changes to the British postal system during the 19th century. Other topics include the division between manuscript and print during the 19th century, the role of the postal service in circulating manuscripts and publications, and how the memoir depicts the transitions in Scottish life during Grant's lifetime.
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- 2014
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20. Birth Control Clinics in Scotland, 1926 - c.1939.
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Elliott, Kirsten
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BIRTH control , *BIRTH control clinics , *PUBLIC health , *LOCAL government , *FAMILY planning services , *HISTORY , *TWENTIETH century ,CHURCH & politics in the 20th century ,SCOTTISH history - Abstract
The article presents an historical overview of the emergence of birth control clinics throughout Scotland from 1926 to the outbreak of World War II, noting its distinctions from trends of larger Great Britain. Topics addressed include the legal and administrative context surrounding their establishment, the dynamics between clinics and their support by individuals, voluntary organizations, and local governing bodies, and the role of Scottish religious views on birth control within the period.
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- 2014
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21. 'Tax the attornies!' Stamp Duty and the Scottish Legal Profession in the Eighteenth Century.
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Finlay, John
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LAWYERS , *STAMP duties , *TAXATION , *LEGAL professions , *PRACTICE of law , *HISTORY ,BRITISH history ,BRITISH politics & government, 1760-1789 ,18TH century Scottish history - Abstract
This article presents an exploration into the history of the practice of law in Scotland during the 18th-century, providing the context behind the British Stamp Duty Act of 1785 during the administration of Prime Minister William Pitt. Details are given describing how Pitt planned and executed the taxation scheme, the response of Scottish lawyers against the measures, and the general conditions of practicing legal professionals during the period.
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- 2014
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22. Patenting in England, Scotland and Ireland during the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1852.
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Bottomley, Sean
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PATENTS , *TECHNOLOGICAL innovations & economics , *INDUSTRIAL revolution , *PATENTS -- History , *COMMERCIAL markets , *INVENTORS , *COMMERCE , *HISTORY - Abstract
There are two competing accounts for explaining Britain's technological transformation during the Industrial Revolution. One sees it as the inevitable outcome of a largely exogenous increase in the supply of new ideas and ways of thinking. The other sees it as a demand side response to economic incentives--that in Britain, it paid to invent the technology of the Industrial Revolution. However, this second interpretation relies on the assumption that inventors were sufficiently responsive to new commercial opportunities. This paper tests this assumption, using a new dataset of Scottish and Irish patents. It finds that the propensity of inventors to extend patent protection into Scotland and/or Ireland was indeed closely correlated with the relative market opportunity of the patented invention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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23. The Scottish Convention of Estates of 1630.
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Goodare, Julian
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ESTATES (Social orders) , *LEGISLATIVE bodies , *PARLIAMENTARY practice , *TAXATION , *17TH century history of the British Parliament , *HISTORY ,BRITISH history ,REIGN of Charles I, Scotland, 1625-1649 - Abstract
Charles I summoned his Scottish estates three times before the Scottish revolution of 1638: in 1625, 1630 and 1633. This article examines the convention of estates of 1630, held one year after Charles had suspended his English parliament. Members of the convention agreed to renew the regular parliamentary taxation (though they refused to vote it for a longer period) and proved surprisingly co-operative over Charles's controversial revocation. However, there was a major explosion of opposition on religious grounds. Two presbyterian petitions attempted to sabotage the enforcement of the five articles of Perth, the crown's flagship liturgical policy; the petitions seemed likely to attract the support of a majority of the estates but were suppressed by high-handed government action. A resolution by the estates against the five articles of Perth might have had a similar effect to the House of Commons' resolutions of 1629 that led to the suspension of the English parliament. The article examines what is known about the dissidents and argues that continuity can be identified both with previous opponents of royal policy (notably in 1621) and with subsequent support for the National Covenant after 1638. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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24. Bannockburn, World War I and the Referendum.
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Ditchburn, David and Macdonald, Catriona M. M.
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NATIONALISM , *BATTLE of Bannockburn, Scotland, 1314 , *WORLD War I , *ANNIVERSARIES & politics , *SECESSION , *TWENTY-first century , *HISTORY ,SCOTTISH independence referendum ,SCOTTISH autonomy & independence movements ,UNION of Scotland with England & Wales, 1707 - Abstract
An editorial is presented in which the authors discuss the 2014 Scottish Referendum on independence from Great Britain in relation to the commemorations of the Battle of Bannockburn, Scotland in 1314 and the beginning of World War I in 1914. They explore why Bannockburn is related to Scottish nationalism and examine how national identity shifted towards Great Britain during the Great War.
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- 2014
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25. Retaining public and political trust: teacher education in Scotland.
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Gray, Donald and Weir, Douglas
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TEACHER education , *EDUCATION policy , *EDUCATION , *EDUCATIONAL change , *HIGHER education , *TWENTIETH century , *HISTORY , *SOCIAL history ,SCOTTISH politics & government - Abstract
This paper traces the key periods, players and events which have contributed to the shaping of the current landscape of teacher education in Scotland. Starting with the Wheatley Report and the formation of the General Teaching Council (Scotland) in the 1960s through to the most recent Donaldson Review of Teacher Education, we examine ebb and flow amongst GTCS, government, colleges of education and universities. Following its own trajectory, Scottish Education resisted and rejected policies emanating from an ‘English’ ideology, capitalised on respect for and influence of the GTCS, and successfully moved teacher education’s base from autonomous colleges to high-status universities. At the core of teacher education in Scotland is the continuing desire for partnership-working amongst key stakeholders: local and national government, GTCS, schools, teacher education institutions, teaching unions, parents and pupils. A teaching profession of trained graduates, underpinned by university-led subject study, is now moving steadily towards Masters-level professional learning for all. Although having faced some troubled episodes, this period has also been characterised by remarkable stability and consensus and, although still tackling the improvement agenda suggested by the recent Donaldson review, teacher education in Scotland has retained a high degree of public and political trust. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2014
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26. Whiteness in Scotland: shame, belonging and diversity management in a Glasgow workplace.
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Russell, Lani
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RACIAL identity of white people , *DIVERSITY in the workplace , *SOCIAL belonging , *SOCIAL classes , *CULTURAL pluralism , *RACE & society , *SCOTS , *EMPLOYEE attitudes , *SOCIOLINGUISTICS , *RACISM , *RACIAL & ethnic attitudes , *TWENTY-first century , *ATTITUDE (Psychology) , *HISTORY , *MANAGEMENT , *SOCIAL history ,SOCIAL aspects - Abstract
This paper uses analysis of interview transcripts and notes from participant observation to explore white reactions to the introduction of diversity management in a large public sector workplace in Glasgow. The paper analyses white talk about racial equality in a social context where the shaming, exclusion and demonization of disadvantaged groups including migrants, asylum seekers and the poor have ensured that issues of entitlement and race are highly charged. It is suggested that in such contexts diversity management is being wielded as a new kind of civility by middle-class people invested in the objectification of poor whites. This represents a form of class conflict over belonging within the body of whiteness that risks reinforcing rather than redressing racial resentments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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27. 'The high state of culture to which this part of the country has attained': Libraries, Reading, and Society in Paisley, 1760-1830.
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Crawford, John C.
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LIBRARIES , *SUBSCRIPTION libraries , *CHURCH libraries , *READING associations , *HISTORY of publishing , *HISTORY of serial publications , *WEAVERS , *HISTORY - Abstract
Between 1760 and 1820 Paisley in the west of Scotland was a pioneering industrial community based on the textile industry. Most of the labour force consisted of well-paid, highly skilled handloom weavers who were able to support both reading societies and a subscription library. Associational activity was widespread among both the working and middle classes, and libraries formed part of this movement. Additionally, the town was a major centre of provincial publishing, and the town's printers were pioneers of provincial serial publication. There were several circulating libraries and a middle-class subscription library, the Paisley Library Society, founded by the town's civic leaders in 1802. It formed an administrative model which was copied by the Trades Library, founded in 1806, and the church libraries founded soon after. Paisley, fuelled by the Evangelical Revival, was one of the first towns in Scotland to develop church libraries and also libraries aimed primarily at children. Libraries attracted the support of local community activists, who were often involved in more than one type of library. After 1820 activity declined as handloom weaving was replaced by machinery and attention turned to mechanics' institutes and eventually to a rate-supported solution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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28. The winding-up of the Ayr Bank, 1772–1827.
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Kosmetatos, Paul
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FINANCIAL crises ,BANKING industry ,BANK failures ,MONETARY policy ,LIQUIDATION ,ANNUITIES ,ECONOMIC history -- 1750-1918 ,SCOTTISH economy ,HISTORY - Abstract
The collapse of the ambitious and experimental Ayr Bank (Douglas, Heron & Co.) was the central episode of the 1772–3 British credit crisis and served as a direct influence on Adam Smith's monetary analysis in the Wealth of Nations. This article identifies the issuance of redeemable annuities in response to the bank's stop of payments in June 1772 and the distressed nature of its asset liquidations afterwards as the main reasons behind the size of its losses. It furthermore uses primary manuscript evidence to reconstruct and extend the existing narrative of this famous episode, from the planning stages in 1773 while the bank was still fighting for its survival, to the retirement of its banknotes by the Edinburgh public banks in 1773–4, the legal and political manoeuvring behind the redemption of the annuities by Act of Parliament in 1774, and the over 40 years of asset unwinding that followed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2014
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29. Two kings and two kingdoms: the Church of Scotland, the monarchy, national identity and establishment.
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Bradley, Ian
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CHURCH & state , *CHRISTIANITY , *HISTORY ,SCOTTISH autonomy & independence movements ,SCOTTISH Reformation ,GLORIOUS Revolution, Great Britain, 1688 - Abstract
The debate about Scottish independence raises questions about church-state relations and religious establishment in Scotland as well as about national identity. This article surveys and summarises attitudes in the Church of Scotland on these subjects over the 450 years since the Scottish Reformation. It identifies and explores several key themes, notably the spiritual independence of the church and national recognition of religion. They were hotly debated topics during the reign of King James VI, enshrined in law in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution and prompted the use of the royal veto by Queen Victoria. The Articles Declaratory of the Church of Scotland, embodied in the Church of Scotland Act of 1921, which provide a unique definition of church establishment, will have to be renegotiated in the event of Scottish independence. There are competing views within the Kirk about the constitutional position of Christianity and more specifically of the Church of Scotland in an independent Scotland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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30. The SERA lecture 2103: Scottish Research in a Global Context - Dependence, Independence or Interdependence?
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Menter, Ian
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EDUCATION research ,EDUCATION ,AUTONOMY & independence movements ,INTERNATIONAL cooperation ,HISTORY - Abstract
Educational research in Scotland has a very distinguished history and has made a major contribution in several aspects of methodology, not least in the relationships between researchers, policymakers and practitioners. The paper considers the Scottish contribution to the development of educational research past, present and future and the significance of interactions at three levels - the UK, European and global. Against the backdrop of the forthcoming Independence vote, it is argued that the historic distinctiveness of educational provision in Scotland - both before and after devolution - has been a significant benefit to the research community here. However, there are some internal dependencies that may need active nurturing, if the benefits of this independence are to be sustained. Furthermore there are critical elements of interdependence, at all three levels, which will be important in pursuing an aspiration to maintain research of the highest quality that will support learners and teachers in the years ahead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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31. Official Histories of Parliament and the Nature of the Union of 1707: A Forgotten Episode in Anglo-Scottish Academic Relations.
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Hayton, D.W.
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LEGISLATORS , *COMMITTEES , *HISTORY , *BIOGRAPHY (Literary form) ,UNION of Scotland with England & Wales, 1707 - Abstract
The Scottish Committee on the History of Parliament was established in 1936 as an offshoot of Col. Josiah Wedgwood's scheme for a collaborative 'history of parliament' researched and written on biographical lines. Circumstances, however, determined that the Scottish history would take a separate path. When Wedgwood's scheme was revived in 1951 an unsuccessful attempt was made to reintegrate the two projects. Discussions between the respective managing committees were conflicted and often bad-tempered, focussing on different interpretations of the nature of the united parliament created in 1707. The Scottish committee insisted that it was a new constitutional entity, while the English saw it as a continuation of the Westminster parliament with Scottish MPs added. This story of mutual incomprehension illustrates the profound differences between Scottish and English academics in the writing of parliamentary history, and also reveals a hitherto unobserved element in the development among leading Scottish jurists of a strain of 'legal nationalism' based on their interpretation of the constitutional significance of the Union. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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32. Witnessing Power.
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SMITH, CROSBIE
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STEAM engine design & construction , *SHIPBUILDING , *CHRISTIANITY , *STEAMBOATS , *NINETEENTH century , *HISTORY , *BOAT design & construction - Abstract
Shipowners' seemingly slow adoption of marine compound engines is often attributed to not appreciating the new technology's superior economy. This article argues that this slow adoption needs to be understood alongside the challenges faced by engine builders in persuading skeptical shipowners and practical engineers that their designs were trustworthy. It explores the rich cultural contexts within which Glasgow master engineer John Elder and his associates rendered their marine compound engines credible for Liverpool's Pacific Steam Navigation Company, the first line to deploy the new engine. Elder operated within a culture whose hallmarks were useful work, economy, and the power of direct witnessing. The article also explores the role of William McNaught, an independent consultant with a strong track record as both a practical engineer and the inventor of a steam-engine indicator. His indicator, deployed to evaluate the performance of Elder's compound engines, stood at the center of the controversy over their economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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33. 'To remove the stigma of the Poor Law': The 'Comprehensive' Ideal and Patient Access to the Municipal Hospital Service in the City of Glasgow, 1918-1939.
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Williamson, Clifford
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POOR laws , *LEGAL status of patients , *MEDICAL care , *HOSPITALS , *HISTORY , *TWENTIETH century ,SCOTTISH law ,SCOTTISH politics & government - Abstract
The objective of the newly established Department of Health after the Great War was to 'remove the stigma of the Poor Law' from public health policy. Although there was no abolition of the Poor Law in its entirety there were strategies employed to encourage better health, and manipulation of the rules to extend free access to primary health care. This article examines the efforts of the Corporation of Glasgow from 1918 to 1939 to expand patient care to the citizens of the city who either did not qualify for poor relief or had no access to national insurance. The article examines the city's pioneering work in devising strategies to fulfil these changed priorities through the reorganization of services, building additional health infrastructure and through lobbying the Scottish Office to support legislation to create a legal context in which to expand patient access; this came to fruition in the health clauses of the 1929 Local Government ( Scotland) Act. As Glasgow was the largest municipal authority outside the London County Council, its experience is crucial in understanding how changing national priorities were applied at local level and that despite great improvements in the scholarship on the inter-war hospital service the neglect of the city has created a major hole in the study of public health before the creation of the NHS. This article will correct this omission and further add to the existing scholarship on the period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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34. The Social Geography of Prostitution in Edinburgh, 1900-1939.
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Settle, Louise
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SEX work , *SOCIOLOGY , *CENTRAL business districts , *HISTORY , *SOCIAL history , *TWENTIETH century , *MANNERS & customs - Abstract
The article discusses geographic aspects of prostitution in Edinburgh, Scotland from 1900 to 1939. Topics include the role of the business districts and entertainment areas in prostitution, Edinburgh policing practices related to prostitution, and the role communication technology in changing prostitution practices.
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35. Shinty, Nationalism and National Autonomy in Scotland, 1887–1928.
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Reid, Irene A.
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NATIONALISM ,SHINTY (Game) ,SPORTS ,AUTONOMY & independence movements ,SPORTS & state ,SOCIOLOGY of sports ,SCOTTISH politics & government ,HISTORY ,MANNERS & customs - Abstract
Studies of the relationships between sport and nationalism have often overlooked how different sports may depict alternative expressions of nationalism. This paper examines how social, cultural and political ideas associated with nationalism and national autonomy in Scotland touched the sport of shinty between 1887 and 1928. During this period, the transformation of shinty from a traditional folk game to a modern sport was consolidated within Scottish Highland society. The paper probes some of the ways that shinty was contoured by, and connected to wider social, cultural and political circumstances of the period. Three strands are considered in the analysis: (i) the place of shinty as a conduit for aspirations of national autonomy, (ii) the different expressions of nationalism in Scotland that oscillated on the landscape of culture and politics and (iii) the connections between shinty and Gaelic sports in Ireland, and the relationship with expressions of nationalism. The analysis is developed using the concepts of national autonomy and civil society. These conceptual components help to probe how shinty symbolised alternative aspirations and expressions of nationalism between 1887 and 1928. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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36. 'I can't resist sending you the book': Private Libraries, Elite Women, and Shared Reading Practices in Georgian Britain.
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Towsey, Mark
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PRIVATE libraries , *ELITE (Social sciences) , *SHARED reading , *READING interests of women , *MANNERS & customs -- History , *HISTORY ,18TH century Scottish history - Abstract
By outlining the contribution made by private libraries to the intellectual and cultural lives of a specific group of readers in the rural north-east of Scotland, this article asks what role family libraries played in the growth of library provision in the long eighteenth century. With book lending becoming something of a social imperative in the polite culture of late Georgian Britain, private libraries often served as a practical resource for the wider community, providing books that could not be acquired elsewhere, and filling important gaps in 'public sphere' provision in rural communities without access to subscription or circulating libraries. More importantly, though, the practice of book sharing had far-reaching consequences for community cohesion, shared reading habits, and intellectual culture. In particular, this essay points to the role played by the physical exchange of private books in the dissemination and widespread acceptance of new ideas relating to female education, child-rearing, and separate spheres associated with James Fordyce and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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37. The Library Designs of Sir Basil Spence, Glover & Ferguson.
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Fenton, Clive B.
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LIBRARY design & construction , *ACADEMIC library design & construction , *LIBRARIES , *HISTORY - Abstract
Sir Basil Spence, Glover & Ferguson, enjoyed a conspicuous presence on the Scottish architectural scene, undertaking a wide range of notable commissions.1 One field in which they became acknowledged as specialists was that of library design. This expertise was developed during the design process for their first such job, the University of Edinburgh's Main Library, which received a RIBA award (1968) and a Civic Trust Commendation (1969). It led to an interesting group of libraries executed during the 1960s and 1970s. In this paper, both the well-known and more obscure libraries and library projects of Spence, Glover & Ferguson are discussed.2 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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38. Was there a British Georgian town? A comparison between selected Scottish burghs and English towns Was there a British Georgian town? A comparison between selected Scottish burghs and English towns.
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McKean, Charles
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PUBLIC buildings , *URBAN growth , *CITIES & towns , *BOROUGHS , *URBANIZATION , *BRITISH national character , *HISTORY - Abstract
This article examines the nature of Scottish urban ambition during the Enlightenment period, through assessing the pattern of public building construction in selected burghs against the general historiography of Georgian towns. Using principally Scottish burgh council minutes and contemporary publications, it studies the improvement agenda as the context for civic building, and questions whether it provided a discernible process and chronology for the construction activity. In reviewing the symbolic role of public buildings in particular, the article ponders whether there was indeed a British urban experience toward the end of the first century of parliamentary union. [1] It concludes that both in the historically different Scottish urbanism and the distinctive manner in which Scots burghs responded to improvement, the urban experience north and south of the border was significantly different. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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39. The Obligations of Kinship and Alliance within Governance in the Scottish Borders, 1528-1625.
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Groundwater, Anna
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NOBILITY (Social class) , *KINSHIP , *COURTS , *FAMILIES , *JUDICIAL process , *HISTORY , *SOCIAL history ,SCOTTISH law ,STUART dynasty, Scotland, 1371-1707 ,SCOTTISH politics & government - Abstract
The importance of kinship and lordship in determining relationships within medieval Scotland has long been acknowledged. In the late sixteenth century, however Scotland underwent an intensification of government in which the crown increasingly drew judicial processes within its own remit, replacing the private justice dispensed by regional elites with the public justice of the central courts in Edinburgh. The assumption might therefore be that the older obligations of kinship and lordship would have been overridden by the newly persistent demands for personal accountability to the crown. This article demonstrates instead that such obligations were still significant in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and that processes associated with traditional private justice were now being used in an unprecedented way by a Scottish crown, increasingly intolerant of violent crime. Familial and fictive familial obligations continued to shape how early modern Scottish society was organized and regulated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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40. An Overview of the U.K. Marine Energy Sector.
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Lawrence, John, Sedgwick, Jonathan, Jeffrey, Henry, and Bryden, Ian
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OCEAN energy resources ,CAPITAL investments ,GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
This paper gives a historical overview of the development of the U.K. marine energy sector from its academic beginnings in the early 1970s. It includes discussion on government support policies and where the sector might develop up to and beyond the end of this decade. The paper also presents two very different projects: the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, U.K., and the forthcoming All Waters Current and Wave Test Facility in Edinburgh, U.K., as examples of capital investment in the sector. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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41. Review of periodical literature published in 2011.
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Faith, Rosamond, Davis, James, Paul, Helen, Murphy, Anne L., Crook, Tom, Velkar, Aashish, and Godden, Chris
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ECONOMIC history ,COMMONS ,RECORDS ,HISTORY of gender role ,MARITIME history ,SLAVERY ,BANKING industry ,PROPERTY rights -- History ,20TH century feminism ,BRITISH politics & government, 1945-1964 ,HISTORY ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
The article reviews periodical literature on economic history that was published in 2011. Topics noted include the origins of medieval common rights systems, statistics from the record-keeping text "Little Domesday Book," and gender roles in medieval Europe. Also addressed are the history of British maritime trade, the payment of compensation to British slave owners following abolition, and the history of the Scottish banking system. In addition, the history of property rights, cultural aspects of feminism, and post-World War II British politics are discussed.
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42. Glasgow’s ‘sick society’?: James Halliday, psychosocial medicine and medical holism in Britain c.1920–48.
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Hull, Andrew
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PHYSIOLOGICAL stress , *PSYCHIATRIC treatment , *HEALTH & psychology , *POVERTY , *HISTORY - Abstract
James Lorimer Halliday (1897–1983) pioneered the development of the concept of psychosocial medicine in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s. He worked in Glasgow, first as a public health doctor, and then as part of the corporatist National Health Insurance scheme. Here he learned about links between poverty, the social environment, emotional stress and psychological and physical ill-health, and about statistical tools for making such problems scientifically visible. The intellectual development of his methodologically and epistemologically integrated medicine – a hybrid of biomedical and psychological approaches – was embedded in the context of this practice with its particular medical culture and socio-economic circumstances. Halliday’s ideas are part of the wider, heterogeneous turn towards medical modernism and holism within mainstream medicine in Britain, western Europe and the United States in the inter-war period, and their evolution underlines the varied nature of contemporary anti-reductionist thinking in medicine. It also points to the diversity of the sources of holism and the many routes by which psychological and especially psychosocial discourses about health and illness entered professional and public arenas in Britain in this period. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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43. Du Bartas’ Visit to England and Scotland in 1587.
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Auger, Peter
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HISTORY of diplomacy , *POETS , *MARRIAGES of royalty & nobility -- Political aspects , *FRENCH poetry , *HISTORY , *POLITICAL participation ,FRANCE-Great Britain relations ,TRANSLATIONS of French literature into English - Abstract
The article discusses the friendship between Huguenot poet Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas and King James VI of Scotland in the 16th century, and how their relationship affected Du Bartas popularity. The poet's diplomatic work for King Henri de Navarre of France is discussed, as well as his efforts to negotiate marriage between James and Henri's sister Catherine de Bourbon. Du Bartas route from France to Scotland is described, as well as his reputation in the court of Queen Elizabeth, and the author discusses the connection between diplomacy and English translations of French poetry.
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44. Whig Tartan: Material Culture and its Use in the Scottish Highlands, 1746–1815*.
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Dziennik, Matthew P.
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CLOTHING & dress , *ELITE (Social sciences) , *TARTANS , *ECONOMIC development , *CULTURAL identity , *MODERNITY , *MATERIAL culture , *HISTORY of political parties , *HISTORY , *MANNERS & customs ,HISTORY of clothing & dress - Abstract
The article discusses the use of dress, particularly the tartan, by Scottish Highland elites to portray the Highlands of Scotland as modern, economically developed and loyal to Great Britain from 1745 to 1815. The relationship between Scottish Highlanders' expression of cultural identity through material culture and Great Britain's political party the Whig Party is discussed. The Highland elites' use of dress, including to represent social hierarchy, social status, and the Highlands' relationship with British imperialism through the Highlands' putative martial culture, is also discussed.
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45. An Elite Revisited: Glasgow West India Merchants, 1783-1877.
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Cooke, Anthony
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MERCHANTS , *SCOTS , *ECONOMIC development , *EMANCIPATION of slaves , *BUSINESS networks , *BUSINESSPEOPLE , *SLAVERY , *COMMERCE , *HISTORY , *SOCIAL history ,SOCIAL aspects - Abstract
The article discusses the history of merchants from Glasgow, Scotland in the West Indies, including their origins, education, wealth family, wills, probate inventories and business networks, from 1783 to 1877. The relationship between wealth acquired by Scottish merchants in the Caribbean Region and economic development in Scotland is discussed. The social and economic conditions of Scottish businesspeople in the West Indies, including their community's social hierarchy and the impact of Great Britain's 1833 emancipation of slaves, are also discussed.
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46. Prosecutors, Juries, Judges and Punishment in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland.
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Riggs, Paul T.
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JUSTICE administration , *CRIMINAL sentencing , *JUDGES , *CAPITAL punishment , *PROSECUTORS , *JURY , *CRIMINAL law , *PROSECUTION , *PUNISHMENT , *HISTORY - Abstract
The article discusses the history of justice administration in early 19th century Scotland. An overview of the criminal procedure in which criminals receive punishment, or sentencing, including the differentiation among genders, judicial discretion in this regard and sentencing guidelines, is provided. The Scottish prosecution system, including Scottish criminal law, juries, judges and prosecutors, is discussed. An overview of capital punishment in Scotland, including public opinion of it and its reduction throughout the early 19th century, is also provided.
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47. Charity doesn't Begin at Home: Ecclesiastical Poor Relief beyond the Parish, 1560-1650.
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McCallum, John
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RELIGIOUS charities , *ECCLESIASTICAL courts , *POOR people , *BEGGARS , *CHARITY , *SCOTS , *FINANCING of charities , *ATTITUDE (Psychology) , *HISTORY , *SOCIAL history ,SOCIAL aspects - Abstract
The article discusses the reformed Protestant Church of Scotland's charitable efforts for poor people, particularly for those not in the parish, from 1560 to 1650. The role that the Scottish parochial ecclesiastical court known as the kirk session played in raising money for poor relief, including for Christians of all denominations and foreigners in Scotland, is discussed. An overview of Scottish charities' attitudes towards poor people who were seen as undeserving of charity, including those who are referred to as sturdy beggars and gypsies, is provided.
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48. Colouring the Nation: A New In-Depth Study of the Turkey Red Pattern Books in the National Museums Scotland.
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Tuckett, Sally and Nenadic, Stana
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PATTERN books , *TEXTILE industry , *EXHIBITION catalogs , *MANUFACTURED products , *FIBERS , *HISTORY of the cotton trade , *NATIONAL museums , *DESIGNERS , *HISTORY ,BRITISH history - Abstract
The production of Turkey red dyed and printed cottons was a major industry in the west of Scotland, particularly in the mid- to late nineteenth century. Although the extensive works were pulled down in the second half of the twentieth century, our knowledge of this industry is significantly aided by the survival of approximately 200 pattern books, now housed in the National Museums Scotland. These pattern books, examined along with business papers, exhibition catalogues and the Board of Trade Design Registers, are the foundation for a new study into the wider Scottish decorative textile industry. The ongoing examination of these pattern books has shown the variety and longevity of Turkey red dyed and printed patterns, as well as providing insights into wider aspects of the textile industry, including issues of design, manufacture and trade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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49. 'Attaque and Break Through a Phalanx of Corruption . . . the Court Party!' The Scottish Representative Peers' Election and the Opposition, 1733-5: Three New Division Lists of the House of Lords of 1735* 'Attaque and Break Through a Phalanx of Corruption . . . the Court Party!' The Scottish Representative Peers' Election and the Opposition, 1733-5: Three New Division Lists of the House of Lords of 1735
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MATSUZONO, SHIN
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NOBILITY (Social class) , *EIGHTEENTH century , *HISTORY ,SCOTTISH politics & government, 1689-1745 - Abstract
In the early 1730s, Archibald Campbell, the earl of Ilay, gained a dominant position in Scotland, and Sir Robert Walpole, the prime minister, entrusted him with the distribution of patronage there. Ilay took full advantage of this power, and controlled the votes of the financially weak Scottish peers in the election of 16 representative peers. The excise crisis of 1733-4, however, changed the political scene in Scotland. Although they had been chosen as supporters of the court party, some of the Squadrone Volante members (the duke of Montrose and the marquess of Tweeddale) and two courtiers (the earls of Marchmont and Stair) raised a standard of revolt against Walpole and Ilay. The Scottish opposition co-operated with the English country party ('the Patriots') and such Scottish tories as the duke of Hamilton. In the 1734 peers' election they launched a challenge to the ministry, but the opposition was crushed by a bankrolled election campaign organised by the court party. Although the English and Scottish opposition petitioned in the house of lords to criticize the 'undue practices' of Walpole and Ilay at the election, the ministry was backed up by English and Scottish courtiers and bishops, and overwhelmed the opposition. Three new division lists related to the aftermath of the Scottish election shed much light upon the party alignment of the upper House in the middle of the 1730s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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50. 19 Ambushes and Advances: the Scottish Act 1998.
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POWER (Social sciences) , *TAXATION , *TWENTIETH century , *HISTORY ,SCOTTISH politics & government - Abstract
The article focuses on the Scottish Act 1998, an act establishing the devolved Scottish Parliament. Topics mentioned include the debate regarding the possible independence of Scotland, the powers of the Scottish Parliament, and the problems it involves, including the division of powers, the over-representation of Scotland, and the taxation.
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- 2012
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