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Free Download Northern Lights: The Arctic Scots by Edward J. Cowan
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1780277873 | 569 pages | PDF | 24 Mb
Surprisingly, the remarkable story of the Scottish role in the discovery of the Northwest Passage – a long desired trade route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific – has not received a great deal of attention.

Free Download Mickey Mayhew, "Little Book of Mary Queen of Scots"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1803990430 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 1.9 mb
Mary Queen of Scots is perhaps one of the most controversial and divisive monarchs in regal history. Her story reads like a particularly spicy novel, with murder, kidnap, adultery, assassination and execution. To some she is one of the most wronged women in history, a pawn used and abused by her family in the great monarchical marriage game; to others, a murderous adulteress who committed regicide to marry her lover and then spent years in captivity for the crime, endlessly Descriptionting the demise of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Free Download Robert McColl Millar, "A History of the Scots Language"
English | ISBN: 0198863993 | 2023 | 208 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers in Scotland and several thousand in Ireland, according to the 2011 census. Despite the long history of Scots as a language of high literature, it has been somewhat neglected and has often been treated as a dialect of Standard English. In this book, Robert McColl Millar explores both sociolinguistic and structural developments in the history of Scots, bringing together these two threads of analysis to offer a better understanding of linguistic change. The first half of the book tracks the development of Scots from its beginnings to the modern period, while chapters in the second half offer detailed descriptions of Scots historical phonology and morphosyntax, and of the historical development of Scots lexis.

Free Download David Northcroft, "Scots at School: An Anthology"
English | ISBN: 0748617825 | 2003 | 320 pages | PDF | 21 MB
What is the defining Scottish experience? The Kirk, Scots Law, Hampden Park? There are several contenders, but school is the universal and enduring one. Stories and myths have clustered around its chief features:*Pupils as lads o’ pairts.*Teachers as dominies.*The democratic intellect.*The village skweel.*Hard work, getting on and the power of the tawse.*Academic excellence and ‘sticking in’.Telling the tale of Scotland’s educational experience over the past 250 years, this book draws on the first-hand testimony of pupils, teachers and parents – with extracts taken from biography, local history, journal and oral interview, along with fascinating contemporary photographs.The anthologised material is accompanied by David Northcroft’s narrative outlining the history of the distinctive Scottish school system. By drawing out key themes of identity, nationalism and ‘democracy’, he sets the claims that have traditionally been made for the system’s excellence and independent spirit against the accounts of people’s actual experiences.This history, enhanced by the personal stories of those involved, offers the reader a vivid account of the experience of Scottish schooling.Key Features:*Strong ‘nostalgia’ market for books of this kind.*Draws on broad range of personal testimony.*Includes extracts from Tom Devine, John Galt, Hugh Miller, Magnus Magnusson, Neil Munro, Alan Spence and T. C. Smout.*Each section is prefaced with an editorial introduction – taken together, they trace the Scottish educational experience over the past 250 years.

Free Download Northern Lights
by Edward J. Cowan
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1639362703 | 432 pages | True EPUB | 62.36 MB
In the tradition of Arthur Herman’sHow the Scots Invented the Modern Worldcomes a narrative that charts the remarkable-yet often overlooked or misidentified-Scottish contribution to Arctic exploration