[PDF] Scotlands Future Culture eBook

Author : Stuart McHardy
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1912387115

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The culture of all nations is rooted in past experience, individual and communal. In Scotland's Future History McHardy looked at the misrepresentation of so much of Scotland's political and social history. In this new volume he takes a wider look at aspects of Scotland's culture that have been at the heart of how we have developed into who we are in today's world. Topics include literature, religion, history and story, the Radical 1790s, the remarkable Douglas Young and an introduction to Geomythography, a new way of melding prehistory and history to present a new and refreshing way seeing our past. Understanding our past is vital to the process of building a new Scotland in the years ahead. As Scotland moves towards reclaiming her status among the nations of the world it is important that we understand just how culturally distinctive we are. Being Scottish is no better than having any other nationality, but is is certainly no worse, and as this work hopefully shows, it is something worth celebrating.

Author : Murray Stewart Leith
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1526127806

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Scotland’s future in the Union is in question. Since Devolution in 1997, there has been a sea-change in Scotland’s sense of itself. A distinct Scottish political culture has emerged: confident, assertive and increasingly divergent from that of its southern neighbours. Yet, as this timely and perceptive book shows, Scottish nationalism has been on the rise since the Second World War. Today, the Scottish National Party are in the ascendant, winning nearly half of all votes cast in the 2019 General Election and most of the seats. The Scottish Parliament has been a legislative trail-blazer, enacting progressive legislation well before England and Wales. And Scotland voted overwhelmingly to remain in the European Union, putting it at odds with much of the rest of the United Kingdom on the most important political decision this century. The country has transformed from the socially and politically conservative climate of the post-war period to a nation contemplating, for the second time, a move to independence – for all the uncertainty and turmoil that would bring. At a time when the country’s future has topped the agenda in Britain and abroad, this book unpicks the complex weave of Scottish politics, society and culture, providing an essential insight into Scotland’s present – and its future.

Author : Cairns Craig
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1474435599

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Reveals Britain's secret counter-subversive policies and security measures implemented in the post-war Middle East.

Author : Stuart McHardy
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 9781910021415

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A controversial re-examination of Scotland's history - as it is seen now and as it might be seen in the future in the light of new archaeological techniques not yet widely in use, and reinterpretations of existing texts and oral testimony.

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Page : pages
File Size : 42,5 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Scotland
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"Scotland's Culture: a one stop shop for both electronic and physical resources in the context of Scottish Culture."--HTML Meta.

Author : Gerry Hassan
Publisher : Cargo Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2016-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1911332058

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How our nation has changed and why there's no going back Scotland has changed fundamentally. This story has become a familiar one, but have we yet understood its full meaning and the resulting consequences? What kind of choices do we face as a society and nation about our future, and how can we best shape them? Scotland the Bold explores how Scotland became what it is, considers what choices and obstacles it faces, identifies signs of people taking power into their own hands and addresses what we can all do to create a radically different, democratic and better Scotland. Scotland is now visibly different from the rest of the UK and the self-evidently bankrupt economic, social and political thinking that dominate British elites. Majority Scottish opinion is repulsed by a million people relying on food-banks and the prevalence of welfare sanctions in the fifth richest economy in the world. However, that doesn’t mean that Scotland is automatically morally superior - for in our own nation we have our own poverty, our own shames and silences, and our own elites. For self-government to have any meaning it entails addressing some hard and difficult truths about ourselves. All of this requires that we begin to talk honestly and maturely about Scotland’s future and some of the difficult choices we will have to make; reflecting on where we have come from, what we are proud of, mistakes, and how we do things better in the future. 'There could be no better harbinger... of possibilities than this bracing, searching, discomforting and ultimately exhilarating book.' Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times

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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Career education
ISBN : 9780755914890

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This is a report detailing the progress of delivery of the Determined to Succeed strategy since 2003.