Field Guide to the Soul: A Down-To-Earth Handbook of Spiritual Practice

James Thornton

Religion & Spirituality

Tuckwell Press

The publication of Priscilla Bawcutt's complete edition of The Poems of William Dunbar provides the opportunity for a critical stocktaking on Dunbar studies and the chance to map out areas in which more extensive enquiry should be undertaken.  This volume of essays thus both celebrates the culmination of scholarship which Bawcutt's edition represents, and indicates new directions for the next phase of work on one of Scotland's greatest poets.

William Dunbar, 'The Nobill Poyet': Essays in Honour of Priscilla Bawcutt

Literature & Fiction

mapstone, sally

British & Irish

Nairn in the 1920s and 1930s was a town of about 4500 people divided between the Fishertown and the Uptown. The author remembers life in the Fishertown, where the fishing provided work and support for as many as 250 Nairn men and their 1500 or so dependants. Before World War I, 75 locally owned boats were engaged in either line or drift-net fishing, and in 1920, when the European market for salt herring was shrinking fast, the Mariner's Almanac for that year showed there were still 30 steam drifters and 42 fishing boats powered by sail belonging to Nairn fishermen. Even in 1931 there were still 210 men employed in the industry, notwithstanding a degree of emigration. By 1951 the census enumerated only 80 fishermen and today there is but a handful, none of them based in the town. The fisher folk had a distinctive way of life, being to some extent detached from the rest of the townspeople by the nature of their exacting trade. They lived like a large family, observing a code of behaviour and set of customs and values prescribed by their seagoing forebears and handed down through generations. Their traditions were nurtured and sustained by a united and unswerving devotion to the ceaseless demands of the fishing industry. A stable pattern of life was established through close working partnerships and strong family ties, as boats were operated by groups of relatives who spent all their working lives together. The women shared equally in this solidarity in their closely packed Fishertown houses, communicating daily with each other over the men's work and their own connected duties.

Salt Herring on Saturday : The Fishertown of Nairn Last Century

Margaret M. Bochel National Museums of Scotland

This new account of the galloglas-mercenary warriors from the Hebrides and West Highlands who settled in Ireland in the later 13th century and achieved extraordinary prominence on Irish battlefields throughout the 300 years following-is written from a decidedly Scottish perspective. The origins of the six kindreds-MacCabes, MacDonnells, MacDowells, MacRorys, MacSheehys, and MacSweeneys-are traced and the circumstances which brought about their relocation to Ireland are investigated. The book also examines the galloglas as warriors, pointing to their distinctly Norse character and proposing their battle-fury as the last unmistakable echo of the Scandinavian impact on the Celtic west.

Galloglas: Hebridean and West Highland Mercenary Warrior Kindreds in Medieval Ireland

History

Marsden, John

Europe

<p>From Lady Macbeth of evil repute to the tragic Anne, Queen of a united Engand and Scotland, this accessible book provides `lively and revealing miniature portraits' of these largely forgotton women. Rosalind Marshall's aims are to discuss the nature of Scottish queenship while exploring the personalities behind the throne, asking how these women managed to cope with the difficulties that inevitably followed an arranged marriage, usually in a country foreign from their own. Not surprisingly, the very readable biographies are at their longest when discussing some of the more familiar names such as Margaret Tudor, Mary of Guise and Mary Queen of Scots.</p>

Scottish Queens 1034-1714

Biographies & Memoirs

MARSHALL, Rosalind K.

Historical

<p>An estate ledger of 1752-1793, lost since the dispersal sale of Spottiswoode in 1935, is the bases of this enquiry into a once-famous family, their estate and their contribution to the history of Scotland. From his detailed study of the ledger, Tom Barry has identified the 18th-century John Spottiswoode as one of the important agricultural improvers of his age. workmen and tenants, turning a barren stretch of the Lammermuirs into what was to become a paradise of forest and productive farmland. tracing the Berwickshire family through its evolution from turbulent Lammermuir land holders, through dignitaries of Church and state under the Stuarts, to canny lawyers and men of business under the Hanoverians, and fully fledged members of the British upper class under Queen Victorian. During all that time, the family name and blood spread throughout Britain and the colonies, and, through Governor Alexander Spotswood of Virginia, through the United States.</p>

Spottiswoode: Life and Labour on a Berwickshire Estate, 1753-1793

Tom Barry

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