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“christopher a whatley”

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  • Harvie's Dyke

    The People, their Liberty and the Clyde

    by Christopher A. Whatley ...
    In the early 1820s, Thomas Harvie, a newly rich, arrogant Glasgow distiller, bought Westthorn estate on the eastern edge of the city close to the north bank of the River Clyde. To establish the bounds of his property and keep out intruders, he erected two walls, the larger of which (‘Harvie’s Dyke’) was massive, fortified and blocked a long-established pathway alongside the river. Colliers and ... Read more

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  • Salt

    Scotland’s Newest Oldest Industry

    by Christopher A. Whatley, Joanna Hambly ...
    Salt is a vital commodity. For many centuries it sustained life for Scots as seasoning for a diet dominated by grains (mainly oats), and for preservation of fish and cheese.Sea-salt manufacturing is one of Scotland’s oldest industries, dating to the eleventh century if not earlier. Smoke- and steam-emitting panhouses were once a common sight along the country’s coastline and are reflected in many ... Read more

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  • Salt

    Scotland's Newest Oldest Industry

    by Christopher A. Whatley, Joanna Hambly ...
    Discover the story of Scotland, salt and the world.Salt is a vital commodity. For many centuries it sustained life for Scots as seasoning for a diet dominated by grains (mainly oats), and for preservation of fish and cheese.Sea-salt manufacturing is one of Scotland's oldest industries, dating to the eleventh century if not earlier. Smoke- and steam-emitting panhouses were once a common sight along ... Read more

    $18.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pabay

    An Island Odyssey

    by Christopher A. Whatley ...
    The tiny diamond-shaped island of Pabay lies in Skye's Inner Sound, just two and a half miles from the bustling village of Broadford. One of five Hebridean islands of that name, it derives from the Norse papa-ey, meaning 'island of the priest'. Many visitors since the first holy men built their chapel there have felt that Pabay is a deeply spiritual place, and one of wonder. These include the ... Read more

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  • Harvie's Dyke

    The People, their Liberty and the Clyde

    by Christopher A. Whatley ...
    In the early 1820s, Thomas Harvie, a newly rich, arrogant Glasgow distiller, bought Westthorn estate on the eastern edge of the city close to the north bank of the River Clyde. To establish the bounds of his property and keep out intruders, he erected two walls, the larger of which ('Harvie's Dyke') was massive, fortified and blocked a long-established pathway alongside the river. Colliers and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Scots and the Union

    Then and Now

    by Christopher A Whatley ...

    $30.69 USD

  • Association and Enlightenment

    Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830

    by David Allan, Bob Harris, Jacqueline Jenkinson, Ralph McLean, James J. Caudle, Rhona Brown, Corey Andrews, Martyn Powell, Rosalind Carr ...
    Series series Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
    Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social force, committed to improvement and national regeneration as well as to sociability. The essays in this volume examine the complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. Contributors ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Robert Burns in Global Culture

    by Murray Pittock, Leith Davis, Dominique Delmaire, R D. S. Jack, Nigel Leask, Pauline Anne Mackay, Clark McGinn, Silvia Mergenthal, Andrew Monnickendam, Alan Rawes, Frauke Reitemeier, Christopher A. Whatley, Robert Crawford ...
    Robert Burns has been a key figure in Scottish identity globally since his death in 1796. But he has always been much more than that. In America, his admirers have included Emerson, President Lincoln, Maya Angelou and many others, for Burns was long held to be a friend to the American way of life, an opponent of kings and tyranny, and someone who proved that the values that built the United States ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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  • Yorkshire

    A lyrical history of England's greatest county

    by Richard Morris ...
    Yorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close. By weaving history, family stories, travelogue and ecology, Richard Morris reveals how Yorkshire took shape as a landscape and in literature, legend and popular regard. The result is a fascinating and wide-ranging meditation on Yorkshire and Yorkshireness, told through the prism of the ... Read more

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  • The Lowland Clearances

    Scotland's Silent Revolution 1760 - 1830

    by Peter Aitchison, Andrew Cassell ...
    The Highland Clearances are a well-documented episode in Scotland's past but they were not unique. The process began in the Scottish Lowlands nearly a century before, when tens of thousands of people – significantly more than were later exiled form the Highlands – were moved from the land by estate owners who replaced them with livestock or enclosed fields of crops.These Clearances undeniably ... Read more

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  • The Little Book of Scotland

    by Geoff Holder ...
    Series series Little Book Of
    Did you know?One of the biggest battles between the Scots and the English was fought in France.The success of his first book of poems saved Robert Burns from working on a slave plantation.Six craters on Mars are named after places in Scotland.The Little Book of Scotland is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information that no one will ... Read more

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  • A Very Fine Class of Immigrants

    Prince Edward Island's Scottish Pioneers, 1770-1850

    by Lucille H. Campey ...
    Scots who opted for pioneer life in Prince Edward Island are the subject of this book. Being the first of the "northern" colonies to be sold off in its entirety to proprietors in the late eighteenth century, P.E.I. acquired its Scots earliest, doing so even before the start of the American War of Independence in 1775. The colonization of Prince Edward Island by Scots takes us back to a period when ... Read more

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