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  • The Glenbuchat Ballads

    Edited by David Buchan, James Moreira ...
    Sometime in the early nineteenth century, most likely in the year 1818, the Reverend Robert Scott, minister of the parish of Glenbuchat in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, compiled a collection of traditional ballads that until now has not been published. Most of the ballad collections produced during the Scottish Romantic Revival were eventually anthologized in Francis James Child's seminal English and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Scottish Tradition (RLE Folklore)

    A Collection of Scottish Folk Literature

    by David Buchan ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
    Scottish folk literature is characterised by a wide range of creative expression: story, song, play and proverb. This anthology, first published in 1984, provides an authoritative introduction to Scottish folk literature, and is unique in that it deals with all the genres intrinsic to Scottish tradition. Its selected texts offer an unusual and diverse enjoyment to the reader, including such forms ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • A Scottish Ballad Book (RLE Folklore)

    by David Buchan ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
    The popular appeal of the ballad is perennial, and few literary genres give so much pleasure to so many kinds of people. This anthology, first published in 1973, is drawn from the richest ballad tradition in Britain, that of the Northeast of Scotland. It provides a fresh and original choice of songs that ranges from the old ballads like ‘Gil Brenton’ and ‘Willie’s Lady’ to the bothy ballads like ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Ballad and the Folk (RLE Folklore)

    by David Buchan ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
    The ballad is an enduring and universal literary genre. In this book, first published in 1972, David Buchan is concerned to establish the nature of a ballad and of the people who produced it through a study of the regional tradition of the Northeast of Scotland, the most fertile ballad area in Britain. His account of this tradition has two parallel aims, one specifically literary – to investigate ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Refuelling Europe

    A Roadmap for completing the Single Energy Market

    by David Buchan ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    The Ukraine crisis has reignited debate in Europe surrounding the EU’s lack ofa fully functioning single energy market. It has brought home to all memberstates the general need for a more coordinated energy policy, even though theymay differ on aspects of what needs to be done. This research highlights thatintegration of the internal energy market should still be the EU’s main instrumentto reach ... Read more

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  • The Glenbuchat Ballads

    Edited by David Buchan, James Moreira ...
    Sometime in the early nineteenth century, most likely in the year 1818, the Reverend Robert Scott, minister of the parish of Glenbuchat in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, compiled a collection of traditional ballads that until now has not been published. Most of the ballad collections produced during the Scottish Romantic Revival were eventually anthologized in Francis James Child's seminal English and ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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  • Customs in Common

    Studies in Traditional Popular Culture

    by E. P. Thompson ...
    The "meticulously researched, elegantly argued and deeply humane" sequel to the landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class ( The New York Times Book Review).This remarkable study investigates the gradual disappearance of a range of cultural customs against the backdrop of the great upheavals of the eighteenth century. As villagers were subjected to a legal system ... Read more

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  • The Yorkshire Dales

    Local and Family History

    by George Redmonds ...
    The landscape and people are the two most distinctive qualities of the Yorkshire Dales, and this book employs new sources and methods to help the reader see both in a different light. In earlier centuries, religious and social factors influenced the first names that were given to children. Distinctive surnames were inherited, and their expansion or decline can throw light on local communities, on ... Read more

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  • Poems of Robert Burns Selected by Ian Rankin

    by Robert Burns ...
    The farmer’s boy from Ayrshire who went on to be the most acclaimed of all Scottish poets, celebrated around the world, Robert Burns is a greater and more varied artist than those that know him only through annual Burns’ Suppers and choruses of his ‘Auld Lang Syne’ at New Year could imagine.This new selection by Ian Rankin of verses and lyrics from Scotland’s national poet, the ‘Heaven-taught ... Read more

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  • Robert Burns, The Poetry Of

    by Robert Burns ...
    Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage. Many nations have produced outstanding poets who they ... Read more

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  • An Everyday Life of the English Working Class

    Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century

    by Carolyn Steedman ...
    This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his way of seeing and writing the world around him, and on the activities of magistrate Sir Gervase Clifton, administering justice from his country house Clifton Hall. Using Woolley's voluminous diaries and ... Read more

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