Author: Norma E. S. ArmstrongPublisher: Glasgow : Scottish Library Association
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Local Collections in Scotland
Author: Norma E. S. ArmstrongPublisher: Glasgow : Scottish Library Association
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A Survey of Local Collections in Scotland
Author: Norma E. S. ArmstrongCatalogue of Local Collection to be Found in the Reference Department
Author: Aberdeen Public Library (Aberdeen, Scotland)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Collection of the Public General Statutes Affecting Scotland ...
Author: ScotlandDirectory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland
Author: Karen AttarPublisher: Facet Publishing
ISBN: 1783300167
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
This directory is a handy on-volume discovery tool that will allow readers to locate rare book and special collections in the British Isles. Fully updated since the second edition was published in 1997. this comprehensive and up-to-date guide encompasses collections held in libraries, archives, museums and private hands. The Directory: Provides a national overview of rare book and special collections for those interested in seeing quickly and easily what a library holds Directs researchers to the libraries most relevant for their research Assists libraries considering acquiring new special collections to assess the value of such collections beyond the institution,showing how they fit into a ‘unique and distinctive’ model. Each entry in the Directory provides background information on the library and its purpose, full contact details, the quantity of early printed books, information about particular subject and language strengths, information about unique works and important acquisitions, descriptions of named special collections and deposited collections. Readership: Researchers, academic liaison librarians and library managers.
Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland
Author: Diarmid A. FinneganPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822981777
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Science was frequently packaged as an appropriate form of civic culture, inculcating virtues necessary for civic progress. In turn, civic culture was presented as an appropriate context for enabling and supporting scientific progress. Finnegan's study looks at the shifting nature of this process during the nineteenth century, using Scotland as the focus for his argument. Considerations of class, religion and gender are explored, illuminating changing social identities as public interest in science was allowed—even encouraged—beyond the environs of universities and elite metropolitan societies.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Author: Scottish Tradition (RLE Folklore)
Author: David BuchanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317550056
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Scottish folk literature is characterised by a wide range of creative expression: story, song, play and proverb. This anthology, first published in 1984, provides an authoritative introduction to Scottish folk literature, and is unique in that it deals with all the genres intrinsic to Scottish tradition. Its selected texts offer an unusual and diverse enjoyment to the reader, including such forms as wonder tales or Märhcen, classical ballads, riddles, jocular tales, lyric and comic and occupational folksongs, rhymes, historical and supernatural legends, and guisers’ plays. The texts chosen cover the main regional traditions of Lowland Scotland, from Galloway to the Shetlands, and span a number of centuries, through both pre- and post-industrial periods, from a sailor’s worksong of the sixteenth century to modern urban legends just recently recorded. The book is arranged in four sections, on Folk Narrative, Folksong, Folksay, and Folk Drama, each with an introduction and a bibliographical essay setting the material in context and indicating some of its international links. Folk literature itself is brought into firm focus by discussion and generic example, and the anthology as a whole illuminates substantial areas of Scottish social and cultural life.
Catalogue of Local Collection to be Found in the Reference Department
Author: Aberdeen. Public Library (Grampion)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past
Author: Tom M. DevinePublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474408818
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotlands connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots unlike the English had any significant involvement in slavery .Scotland saw itself as a pioneering abolitionist nation untainted by a slavery past.This book is the first detailed attempt to challenge these beliefs.Written by the foremost scholars in the field , with findings based on sustained archival research, the volume systematically peels away the mythology and radically revises the traditional picture.In doing so the contributors come to a number of surprising conclusions. Topics covered include national amnesia and slavery,the impact of profits from slavery on Scotland, Scots in the Caribbean sugar islands ,compensation paid to Scottish owners when slavery was abolished,domestic controversies on the slave trade,the role of Scots in slave trading from English ports and much else. The book is a major contribution to Scottish history,to studies of the Scots global diaspora and to the history of slavery within the British Empire.It will have wide appeal not only to scholars and students but to all readers interested in discovering an untold aspect of Scotlands past.