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Doh Ray Me, When Ah Wis Wee |
ISBN:9781841585581 Category: Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies
Author: Ewan McVicar
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: Ewan McVicar, one of Scotland’s best-known storytellers and song writers, has collected songs in over 40 Scottish schools to create the first publication of the ‘hidden’ songs of Scots childhood. The songs featured include honest vulgarity, violence, football and anti-school ditties.
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Highland Pipe and Scottish Society, The, 1750-1950 |
ISBN:9781904607762 Category: Scottish Culture, Music
Author: William Donaldson
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
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Price: £30.00
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| Synopsis: This is the first history of the musical culture of the worldwide piping community.
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Music and Society in Lowland Scotland in the Eighteenth Century |
ISBN:9781841830490 Category: Scottish Culture, Music
Author: David Johnson
Publication Date: April 2003
Format: PB
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Synopsis: In 18th-century Scotland both folk and classical music flourished in a unique blend. A hundred-year burst of creative activity is described in this ground-breaking study, now with a new introduction.
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Highland Bagpipe and its Music, The |
ISBN:9781841586663 Category: Scottish Culture, Music
Author: Roderick Cannon
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: The only comprehensive book of piping in print, Roderick Cannon provides a great wealth of information for those lovers of the pipes.
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Scots Kitchen, The |
ISBN:9781841830704 Category: Scottish Culture, Food And Drink
Author: F. Marian McNeill
Publication Date: October 2004
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: First published in 1929, The Scots Kitchen gives a delightful account of eating and drinking in Scotland through the ages, with definitive recipes for all the old national dishes.
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Doric Word Book, A |
ISBN:9781841586809 Category: Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies, Reference
Author: Norman Harper
Publication Date: March 2009
Format: PB
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Price: £3.99
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| Synopsis: This is a new series of pocket books designed to introduce some of the wealth of the spoken and written word in Scotland to those who may not be familiar with them.
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Cornkister Days, The |
ISBN:9781841587103 Category: Music, Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies
Author: David Kerr Cameron
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: David Kerr Cameron describes the rural upheavals and developments of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries towards the landscape we recognise today. The third in Cameron's trilogy of rural life. With an introduction by Jack Webster.
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Ballad and the Plough, The |
ISBN:9781841587080 Category: Music, Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies
Author: David Kerr Cameron
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: A rich and captivating insight into life in a Scottish farm town in the mid nineteenth century. Together with Willie Gavin, Crofter Man and The Cornkister Days, this volume forms a remarkable trilogy on life in rural Scotland. With an introduction by Jack Webster.
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Country Life in Scotland |
ISBN:9781841586991 Category: Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies
Author: Alexander Fenton
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
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Price: £9.99
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| Synopsis: Alexander Fenton is acknowledged as Scotland’s leading expert on rural life and offers his readers an improved version of the classic Scottish Country Life.
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Golden City |
ISBN:9781873644973 Category: Scottish Culture, Children's
Author: James T. R. Ritchie
Publication Date: August 1999
Format: PB
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Synopsis: A celebration of children at play. The Scottish games collected here by Ritchie are a universal representation of childhood, recognised by adults and children everywhere.
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Buchan Words and Ways |
ISBN:9781841583990 Category: Scottish Culture
Author: Alexander Fenton
Publication Date: January 2005
Format: PB
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Synopsis: A rich mix of anecdote and example from a part of Scotland with its own unique linguistic heritage.
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Garden in the Hills, A |
ISBN:9781841830988 Category: Gardening, Scottish Culture
Author: Katharine Stewart
Publication Date: June 2006
Format: PB
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Synopsis: Celebrating one of mankind's oldest pleasures, we are taken through a year in the life of Katherine Stewart's garden. The joy of nature has never sounded so rewarding.
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Willie Gavin, Crofter Man |
ISBN:9781841587097 Category: Music, Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies
Author: David Kerr Cameron
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: A portrait of crofting life in the bare and sometimes bitter landscape of Scotland’s North-east lowlands. The second part of Cameron’s trilogy of rural life. With an introduction by Jack Webster.
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Highland Folk Ways |
ISBN:9781874744429 Category: Scottish Culture, Folklore
Author: Isabel F. Grant
Publication Date: April 2007
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: Highland Folk Ways vividly describes the many aspects and artefacts of our ancestors’ lives - the clothes, cooking utensils, weapons, food and the implements for fishing, farming and building are all meticulously depicted and placed in historical context.
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Singing Street, The |
ISBN:9781841830131 Category: Children's, Scottish Culture
Author: James T. R. Ritchie
Publication Date: August 2000
Format: PB
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Synopsis: The Singing Street is a magical collection of Scottish children’s street games, rhymes, sayings and Hallowe’en ploys from the early twentieth century.
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Burns Supper Companion, The |
ISBN:9781841585833 Category: Scottish Culture
Author: Nancy Marshall
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: PB
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Price: £5.99
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| Synopsis: From the casual to the formal, this book is an essential guide for anyone intending to hold or attend a Burns Night.
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Scottish Customs |
ISBN:9781841582931 Category: Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies
Author: Margaret Bennett
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
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Price: £10.99
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| Synopsis: Scottish Customs is a highly readable and absorbing anthology of traditional Scottish customs and rites of passage, drawn from a broad range of literary sources dating back to the 16th century.
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Summer Walkers, The |
ISBN:9781841581996 Category: Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies
Author: Timothy Neat
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: The Summer Walkers documents an archetypal and vanishing way of life.
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Scottish Life Society: Scotland's Domestic Life |
ISBN:9780859766494 Category: Ethnology Series, Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies
Author: John Burnett, Elizabeth Cumming, Alexander Fenton, Heather Holmes, Joyce Miller, David Riches, Christopher Whatley
Publication Date: November 2006
Format: HB
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Price: £50.00
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| Synopsis: This wide-ranging volume considers Scotland’s domestic life by examining that variety and considering changes in the structures in which Scots have lived and the ways in which they have lived in those homes.
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