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The Clearances are well known as one of the darkest periods of Highland history. Over a hundred-year period somewhere in the region of 150,000 people evicted from the land they had worked for generations; many were forced to start new lives overseas. The human cost was enormous, but there were huge consequences for the Highland economy too as the land was put to different uses. This book details the Clearances as they affected the island of Mull the Hebridean hub for the emigrant ships which left for the New World. Peter Macnab discusses the influences which changed crofting in the 18th and 19th centuries, the triggers for migration, the crofter protests, the Napier Commission of 1883 and the introduction of various laws to provide security of tenure. Having been brought up in what likely was the last poorhouse in the Hebrides, where his father was governor, Peter Macnab was able to hear directly the stories and about the cruelties suffered. This makes his book a uniquely fascinating perspective on a complex and significant period of Scottish history.

The first English-language collection from one of Indias most hard-hitting writers, these poems brilliantly exemplify writing as an act of resistance. Militant, satirical, and biting, Kalyani Charal pulls no punches in eviscerating paternalistic - and patriarchal - bourgeois socialists who speak on behalf of others.Writing from lived experience, Charal delineates the bourgeois values that fuel the social machinery of caste oppression, while drawing parallels with social and racial marginalisation around the world. Thus, in her poetry, the specificity of Dalit lives in Bengal, a region which prides itself on its Leftist history and enlightened culture, and whose partition into India and Bangladesh has left a legacy of communal tension, refugees, and statelessness, is at the same time the universality of precarity, marginality and dispossession. Finally, there is space for love - wistful and full-throated, with an attentiveness to the natural world that speaks to her claim that "all Dalit woman writers are eco feminists".

Over 4,000 years of history lie in the seams of British mines, beginning all the way back in the New Stone Age.Large-scale coal mining in Britain developed during the Industrial Revolution, providing energy for industry and transportation in industrial areas from the 18th century to the 1950s. This classic Pitkin guide provides a history of mining in Britain as well as of the hard lives of those who worked in them.Child labour was a normal part of Victorian life, so women and children were found in the dangerous deep pits until 1842, while male miners relied on safety lamps and canaries to avoid mining disasters. Fascinating photographs accompany this guides history of these peoples lives, including their time outside of the mines, their homes and hobbies.Whole villages grew up around mines, with close comradeship and tightly knit mining communities emerging. Here is the story of what that life was like for so many, up until British minings decline in the 19th and 20th centuries.Includes a list of mines, museums and heritage centres to visit.

What constituted a secret or a scandal in times gone by? This entertaining title in this new series gives an overview of the times and attitudes to secrets, and what was meant by a scandal. The series uncovers revelations of spies and plots, financial scandals, secrets of the royal bedchambers, dynastic tangles, and the exploits of both villains and so-called saints. Noble lords and ladies sampled the same pleasures and sometimes met the same ghastly fate as common criminals. Enemies of the state plotted and were plotted against, while a horrible fate awaited those found guilty of treason, hanged, drawn and quartered to the jeers of the mob. Assassins lurked in alleys, ghoulish body snatchers opened graves in the dead of night This highly illustrated guide includes places associated with the stories.

A Scots Quair is revolutionary - innovative in its form, deft and humorous in its use of the Scots language, courageous in its characterisation and politics. Central to the trilogy is Chris Guthrie, one of the most remarkable female characters in modern literature. In Sunset song, Gibbons finest achievement, the reader follows Chris through her girlhood in a tight-knit Scottish farming community: the seasons, the weddings, the funerals, the grind of work, the gossip. As the Great War takes its toll, machines repalce the old way of life. Cloud Howe and Grey Granite take Chris from her rural homeland to life in an industrial Scotland and the desperate years of the Depression. The triology as a whole is a major achievment, a picture of society undergoing traumatic and far-reaching transformation. Always readable, never sentimental, A Scots Quair is one of the most important works of Scottish literature.

From the elegance of the grand salons of Prideaux Place, Padstows most stately of homes, to the wild and remote Cornish coastline, Rosamunde Pilcher captured in her novels Cornwalls unique, diverse beauty and compelling charm. WINNER of the Gorsedh Kernows Holyer an Gof Awards 2023.Rosamunde Pilcher grew up near St Ives, publishing her first novel at the age of 25. Cornwall remained her long-standing inspiration with most of her novels set in this wonderfully diverse landscape. Her most famous novel, The Shell Seekers, catapulted Rosamunde to international fame and created a dedicated fan-base.This new Pitkin guidebook takes the reader on a tour of the key areas and places that inspired Pilchers creative writing. Clamber down the steep Bedruthan Steps and enjoy the traditional Cornish welcome in the beautiful harbour town of St Ives. St Michaels Mount, one of the most famous sights in Cornwall, sits majestically off shore while the sound of the waves battering the coastline is a key element in enjoying a visit to Lands End. These sites and many more informed Rosamunde Pilchers writing, making her novels and short stories some of the most popular and cherished around the world, several of which have been adapted for television.

Have you ever wondered how magical it would be if you could really communicate with animals? Charlie reluctantly goes to stay with some old family friends he has never met in rural Kenya, while his mother is seriously ill. He gradually discovers that a bronze wrist band, given to him by his grandfather, allows him to communicate with animals in the most extraordinary way. Together with a new friend Lily, who has a passion for wildlife, they find that some of the last remaining rainforest in the country, and the animals that live there, are in great danger from greedy and corrupt neighbours. After meeting up with Marian, another amazing young person, they learn of even greater powers that they might be able to use to save everything they love and value.

T. S. Eliot took George Barker onto the Faber poetry list in 1935 with Poems, when Barker was only twenty-two. This was the beginning of a publishing association which would endure through nineteen further volumes. There was an earlier Collected Poems published in 1957, but this edition, published in 1987 towards the end of the writers life, is the definitive edition. Here, readers have access to the contents of all of those volumes together with lesser-known work published by smaller presses and journals both in the UK and abroad. The book allows us to follow the evolution of a major talent who subscribed to no school and scorned all affiliation, but whose work is uncompromisingly true in both its stylistic integrity and its unswerving conception of poetic responsibility.His work was passionate, intellectually challenging and highly original, his language incantatory and often hypnotic. Peter Wilby, Guardian

No one likes Millwall. They dont care. But what does it really take to be a part of this team, or a supporter? A British Sports Books Awards 2011 nominee, Michael Calvins Family provides a unique glimpse into the soul of a real football club. Award-winning sports writer Calvin follows Millwall through an emotional promotion season. There for the first day of training, he was on the substitutes bench at Wembley, 333 days later. He vividly portrays players and management as family men, close to their roots. In captain Paul Robinsons words : Were playing for the people who hate their jobs, whod love our lives. Forget the glitz of the Premier League - this is the beautiful game in all its raucous glory. Intimate and compelling, Calvins unforgettable picture of lower-league English football is essential reading for anyone for whom football is far more than just a game.

Through most of eight hundred years, Somerled of Argyll has been variously denounced as an intractable rebel against his rightful king and esteemed as the honoured ancestor of the later medieval Lord of the Isles, but he can be recognised now as a much more complex figure of major prominence in twelfth-century Scotland and of truly landmark significance in the long history of the Gael. In this book individual chapters investigate his emergence in the forefront of the Gaelic-Norse aristocracy of the western seaboard, his part in Gaeldoms challenge to the Canmore kings of Scots, his war on the Manx king of the Isles, his importance for the church on Iona, and his extraordinary invasion of the Clyde which was cut short by his violent death at Renfrew in 1164. Perhaps most impressive is the books demonstration of how almost everything that is known of or has been claimed for Somerled reflects the same characteristic fusion of Norse and Celt which binds the cultural roots of Gaeldom. It is this recognition which has led its author to his proposal of Somerleds wider historical importance as the personality who most represents the first fully-fledged emergence of the medieval Celtic-Scandinavian cultural province from which is directly descended the Gaelic Scotland of today.

The brutal clearances which changed the face of much of rural Scotland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are most often associated with the Highlands. However, one of the most dramatic conflicts between tenant and landowner took place on the small Orcadian island of Rousay. When members of the Royal Commission tasked with assessing the conditions of tenant crofters arrived there, the islands owner, General William Frederick Traill-Burroughs, threatened to evict any islander who gave evidence. As tension mounted, a gunboat arrived to keep the peace, and it was only the belated passing of the Crofters Act of 1886 and a special Act of Parliament directed specifically against the general that saved the islands. This is the dramatic story of these events. At the end of it, Burroughs, once lauded as a national hero who had seen military action in Crimea and India, emerges as a much more complex and human figure that history has previously painted him.

Seo is Twines youth champion.We are in a darker Britain and the national sport is not football but Twine, a game where weavers craft creatures from their fingertips to wage battle against others in vast arenas, watched by thousands.But we are living in intolerant times and Seo harbours a secret. When he is outed as gay by the media, Seo cannot use his magic to save him.With the help of his brother Minjun and Jack, the man he cant quite decide if he loves or not, Seo has to fight to get his life back on track whilst facing the biggest match of his career.A fantastical yet hauntingly contemporary debut novel from Rebecca Zahabi.Readers of fantasy and magical realism will love The Game Weavers- Zahabis writing compared to Ursula Le Guin by Edward Ashton (Black Gate)- A LGBTQ novel exploring love, identity and coming-of-age- Readers of contemporary fiction will love the urban setting combined with elements of fantasy- Supported by a full marketing campaign, including point of sale material, author talks, national newspaper reviews and literary festivals.Reviews for The Game Weavers:"This is one of those books that I wish was around when I was growing up. A fantastic blend of fantasy, magic, and the very real struggle of learning to love and accept yourself as you really are."Jade Marie"Zahabi uses the magical game of Twine to challenge the misogyny and homophobia prevalent in many sports, whilst also presenting a sensitive coming-of-age narrative that will be familiar to many gay people struggling with identity."Rachael, Scorpio Book Dreams"Well thought out and intricate."Lauren, Northern Plunder" Rebecca Zahabi has created a really unusual story, blending futuristic fantasy with dystopian undertones and contemporary YA. There are some hard-hitting themes running throughout, including explorations of internalised homophobia, which make the story compelling and heartbreaking. The Twine magic system is fun and creative but has a dark edge to it."J J Eden"Rebecca Zahabi is a master at twisting the reality we know into something new and exciting. Game Weaversis easily one of my favourites from the year so far."The Queen of Teen Fiction"Game Weavers conjures a world fall of love, friendship, family and a character who finds how to truly love himself. Captivating and raw, Zahabi takes us to a world that is equal parts magical and heart-wrenching, with characters who fight for what they truly believe in."Amy Powis, powisamy"A book for modern times - technology, family and finding who you are in the LGBT community." Chloe Metzger"Fascinating... Very intense."The Moon Kestrel"The Game Weavers by Rebecca Zahabi tangled its twine around me within the first couple chapters and didnt let me go."Imogens Typewriter"Zahabis immersive world-building captures a dynamic game of strategy, not unlike Pokemon or World of Warcraft on the page."Charlotte Molton at charlottebibliophile.com"Game Weavers is a great story about a professional game player, but far more its about family, loyalty, responsibility and finding your own place in this world. Its a good read for any young adult looking for th....

My first thought is that its a pig that someone has lost to the river. Perhaps it fell off one of the barges that choke up the Thames. Theyre a constant feature, toiling up and down, day and night, giving off black smoke that clings to the water.Joe (15) and Edie (13) are orphans living in Victorian London. Forever worried that they will be sent to the dreaded workhouse, they scratch out a living the best way they can by mudlarking on the foreshore of the River Thames and selling their finds to the nortorious Hempson. One day they discover something macabre, and it will change their lives forever. The Grinning Throat is the first in the trilogy of The Mudlark Mysteries. Written by award winnng author, Kate Wiseman, it is historical fiction at its best. Suitable for readers from age 9 and upwards

What constituted a secret or a scandal in times gone by? This entertaining title in this new series gives an overview of the times and attitudes to secrets, and what was meant by a scandal. The series uncovers revelations of spies and plots, financial scandals, secrets of the royal bedchambers, dynastic tangles, and the exploits of both villains and so-called saints. Noble lords and ladies sampled the same pleasures and sometimes met the same ghastly fate as common criminals. Enemies of the state plotted and were plotted against, while a horrible fate awaited those found guilty of treason, hanged, drawn and quartered to the jeers of the mob. Assassins lurked in alleys, ghoulish body snatchers opened graves in the dead of night

Before the time of the Cataclysm, there were cities teeming with towers of glass and metal. The Subterranean race did not yet exist, nor did the Avians. In those long-ago times, all humans were alike, and lived together above the ground....Thus begins the story of Icarus and Velvet.This is a love story, modelled on Romeo and Juliet but set in a landscape vastly different from any we have encountered. It is a story of war, hunger and beauty. Teenagers will love the fiesty Velvet and fall in love with Icarus and his world.Perfect for fans of Holly Black, Leigh Bardugo and Suzanne Collins.

The Tudor age was a pivotal period of English history. In little more than a century, the nation was transformed from a medieval kingdom to a modern state, from an insignificant offshore island to a major world power.Life in Tudor England sparkles with colourful illustrations and a lively text. Discover what life was really like during more than 100 years of Tudor rule in this pivotal period of English history: how industry became an alternative to agriculture as a means of employment; the lavish fads, fashions and fun enjoyed by the rich; the hardships suffered by the poor as inflation spiralled. All is revealed in this enticing taste of days gone by.Look out for more Pitkin Guides on the very best of British history, heritage and travel, particularly the other books in the Life in series: Medieval England, in a Monastery and Victorian Britain.

In volume 1, Professor Verdon sought to identify what crippled social anthropologys original project, that of understanding sociocultural variability. He found its cause in a universal, Aristotelian cosmology that renders groups ontologically variable to their principles of social organization, by defining them in terms of behaviour regulation. In this second volume, he develops a cure to that cosmological malaise: to define groups outside all behaviour regulation, and to define a separate group for every type of activity (unifunctional groups). From these two new cosmological requirements he sets out to define all the main concepts of social anthropology in what he calls an operational language (defined with respect to anthropologys aims, not as entities with intrinsic anthropological attributes): groups, corporations, descent, territoriality, lineages, segmentation, sovereignty and so on.He then applies this language to translate classical ethnographies operationally. He first chose the most famous ethnographies of so-called segmentary lineage societies, the Nuer (Sudan), Tallensi (Ghana) and Tiv (Nigeria), and then added the Berbers from the Rif (Morocco), the Yao (Malawi) and Australian Aborigines. All those societies were described as having descent groups. Translated operationally, ONLY ONE of them retains descent groups (the Tallensi). This leads him radically to transform the ethnographic landscape of social anthropology. Where all ethnographers saw descent groups almost everywhere, he finds them to be rare occurrences, now replaced with clientelistic social formations.Overall, setting out to define a set of etic (objective) concepts, he discovers that this language actually yields much better emic approaches to social organization (an approach closer to the actors subjective experience).

Love, lust, boys and shopping - the main worries of a teenage girl? Not for eighteen-year-old Alice Peterson, who, at the height of her youth and an extremely promising tennis career, was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthiritis. In the midst of shock and denial, and the enduring question, Isnt it old people who get arthritis?, Alice had to learn to live with what quickly turned from the odd ache and pain to a very aggressive form of the illness, and rediscover a new path in life.

I bet no other school gives you the chance to chase super villains through hidden tunnels!Thats what Milly Dillane has to say about life at Blaggards, A.K.A Gangster School. Milly and her new friend Charlie have just started at Blaggards. But whats it like to be in a school that teaches lying, kidnapping and stealing instead of Maths and English? Their parents and teachers are master criminals and want them to follow in their footsteps but are Milly and Charlie just too dependable? In this funny and exciting adventure, smart Milly and super-hacker Charlie face some of the worst villains around, including the cold-hearted Pecunia Badpenny and her sidekick: Wolf the evil electronic dog. Can Milly and Charlie beat Badpenny and her demonic plans? And are they criminal enough to keep their place in a school theyve come to love?Kate Wisemans brilliant Blaggards is like Hogwarts for criminal kids!

Nature artist Jane Smith has been fascinated by wildlife communities and ecosystems her whole adult life. Starting from her own garden in Argyll, she travels to ten locations in the west of Scotland - from the towering cliffs of St Kilda and the peatlands of Lewis to the Solway estuary and the urban sprawl of Glasgow - to explore the interaction of people and wildlife in a variety of diverse settings. On her journey she discovers a number of communities who are taking on the job of regenerating their own landscapes and meets a host of fascinating people whose lives are inextricably bound up with questions of sustainability, conservation and landownership. Contents Includes: Western Isles (peatlands) * North Uist (machair) * Islay (farmland) * Loch Arkaig (woodland) * Knapdale (wetland) * Dumfries and Galloway (river and estuary) * Jura (coast) * St Kilda archipelago (sea) * Glasgow (urban landscapes) *Eigg (community ownership)