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Free Download Rhiannon Purdie, Nicola Royan, "The Scots and Medieval Arthurian Legend"
English | 2005 | pages: 170 | ISBN: 1843840367 | PDF | 0,7 mb
Scotland’s importance in Arthurian legend is undeniable: it was the traditional homeland of key figures such as Gawain; its landscape is still dotted with Arthurian associations, and many modern attempts to locate a historical Arthur end up in Scotland. Nevertheless, Scotland’s complex relationship with Arthurian legend has been surprisingly neglected, and this volume is the first to be dedicated to it. The essays cover the period between the appearance in ca. 1136 of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae and the accession of James VI to the English throne as James I in 1603 – five centuries of precarious Scottish independence during which the relationship of the Scots and the English, as refracted through Arthurian legend, is at its most turbulent and changeable.

Free Download How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It (Audiobook)
English | August 22, 2016 | ASIN: B01KOTEUKM | M4B@64 kbps | 18h 20m | 528 MB
Author: Arthur Herman | Narrator: Robert Ian Mackenzie
An exciting account of the origins of the modern world
Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics-contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since.

Free Download Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser, Anne Flosnik, Tantor Audio
English | May 22, 2018 | ISBN: B07CWX3JTB | 25 hours and 3 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 688 Mb
She was the quintessential queen: statuesque, regal, dazzlingly beautiful. Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nations; her marriage to the young French dauphin promised to place a third glorious crown on her noble head. Instead, Mary Stuart became the victim of her own impulsive heart, scandalizing her world with a foolish passion that would lead to abduction, rape, and even murder. Betrayed by those she most trusted, she would be lured into a deadly game of power, only to lose to her envious and unforgiving cousin, Elizabeth I.
Here is her story, a queen who lost a throne for love, a monarch pampered and adored even as she was led to her beheading, the unforgettable woman who became a legend for all time.
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Free Download Sam Allison, "Driv’n by Fortune: The Scots’ March to Modernity in America, 1745-1812"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1459722035 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 3.3 mb
A provocative account of the 78th Fraser’s Highlanders and its crucial place in history.

Free Download Karen F. McCarthy, "The Other Irish: The Scots-Irish Rascals Who Made America"
English | ISBN: 1435154029 | 2015 | 384 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
What do Mark Twain, Neil Armstrong, and John McCain have in common? They’re all descendants of a merry group of Scots-Irish braggarts that crossed the Atlantic from Ireland in the early 1700s and settled in America’s South. Also known as the "Other Irish," this wild bunch of patriotic, rebellious, fervently religious rascals gave us the NRA, at least fourteen presidents, decisive victories in the Revolutionary War, a third of today’s US Military, country music, Star Wars, the Munchkins, American-style Democracy, and even the religious right . . . not to mention NASCAR, whose roots go back to Prohibition-era moonshine runners. Yet few Americans are familiar with the Other Irish or their contributions to American culture. Now author and documentary filmmaker Karen McCarthy shines a probing light on this fascinating topic, illuminating the extent to which the Scots-Irish helped weave the fabric of our nation.

Free Download William Roulston, "Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors: The Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster"
English | 2011 | ASIN: B004I6D7DO | EPUB | pages: 344 | 1.9 mb
One of the greatest frustrations for generations of genealogical researchers has been that reliable guidance on sources for perhaps the most critical period in the establishment of their family’s links with Ulster, the period up to 1800, has proved to be so elusive. Not any more. This book can claim to be the first comprehensive guide for family historians searching for ancestors in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ulster.

Free Download The Scots Magazine – March 2024
English | 135 pages | True PDF | 135.0 MB

Free Download The Queen’s Consort: The Story of Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley
by Steven Veerapen
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1728720826 | 316 Pages | ePUB | 0.3 MB

Free Download The Queen’s Consort: The Story of Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley
by Steven Veerapen
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1728720826 | 316 Pages | ePUB | 0.3 MB

Free Download A History Book for Scots: Selections from the Scotichronicon by Walter Bower, edited by D. E. R. Watt
English | August 18, 2012 | ISBN: 1906566593 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 1 MB
Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon – ‘a history book for Scots’. It begins with the mythical voyage of Scota, the Pharaoh’s daughter, from Egypt with the Stone of Destiny. The land that her sons discovered in the Western Ocean was named after her: Scotland. It goes on to describe the turbulent events that followed, among them the wars of the Scots and the Picts (begun by a quarrel over a dog); the poisoning of King Fergus by his wife; Macbeth’s usurpation and uneasy reign; the good deeds of Margaret, queen and saint; Bruce’s murder of the Red Comyn; the founding of Scotland’s first university at St Andrews; the ‘Burnt Candlemas’; and the endless troubles between Scotland and England.