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Scots songs in the Kitty Hartley manuscript [PDF]
A review of contents of an eighteenth century song ...
Bold, V.
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ABSTRACT EU Structural Funds have played a major part in the Northern Ireland peace process, with over £2.3 billion pounds being channelled through programmes such as the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) and, from 1995, the successive ‘PEACE’ programmes (Special Support Programmes for Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland).
Charlotte Barcat
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Approaching Walter Scott Part 1: A meeting of minds between Robert Burns and a literary great in the making [PDF]
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Riach, Alan
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The Magistracy of Moses: The Old Testament in Local Government, 1689–1750
Abstract This article explores the popularity of Moses as a model for government in the early eighteenth century. It examines references to Moses in sermons preached at civic or political events such as assizes, elections of mayors, and meetings of reform societies.
Daniel Rignall
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The forgotten '45 : Donald Dubh's rebellion in an archipelagic context [PDF]
The final rebellion of Donald Dubh, heir to the forfeited MacDonald lordship of the Isles, is usually examined within the context of Highland rebellions that occurred in the half century after forfeiture.
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The matter of Jacobitism and the cause of the Stuarts are at the heart of the modern Scottish literary canon, from the songs of Burns via the novels of Scott to the era of Aytoun and Stevenson. Political Jacobitism between 1707 and 1745–6 was the primary vehicle for Scottish independence and anti-unionist sentiment.
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Shorter treatise on creed by the Syrian Jacobite enlightener John Ibn al-Ghurayr in the National library of Russia [PDF]
The article examines a shorter treatise of Anti-Calvinist orientation about the confession (especially on the Eucharist) compiled on the 1st of October, AD 1671, by the outstanding guardian of written heritage of the Syrian Jacobite community of Damascus
Serge Frantsouzoff
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Abstract This article examines the dress of female civic rights activist Théroigne de Méricourt and its political significance in Revolutionary Paris. The first section discusses the symbolism of her iconic scarlet riding habit. The second section explores the role of equestrian fashions in Théroigne's strategy of self‐fashioning as a political actor ...
Valerio Zanetti
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Allan's A‐list: The Subscription List to Allan Ramsay's Poems of 1721
Abstract The new and first complete edition of the works of Allan Ramsay (1684–1758) in six volumes is beginning to draw renewed attention towards this important poet. This essay examines one of the key unexamined puzzles of his career: how an Edinburgh wigmaker apparently without any advantage of birth and connexions succeeded in gathering an ...
Murray Pittock
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'To see oursels as others see us': the imaging of children in a selection of Scottish children's historical fiction [PDF]
British children's literature has an extensive and influential canon, in which historical fiction figures prominently. Scottish authors have contributed significantly to historical fiction for children, but the 'popular' image of Scottish children and ...
Farrell, M.A.
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