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Oatmeal and the Catechism    Oatmeal and the Catechism
ISBN:9780859765749
Category: Emigration, Social History
Author: Margaret Bennett
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
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Synopsis: The award-winning Oatmeal and the Catechism records the oral history, folklore and folk-life of emigrants from the Outer Hebrides to Quebec in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
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Older Scots Literature    Older Scots Literature
ISBN:9781904607496
Category: Literary History, History
Author: (Editor) Sally Mapstone
Publication Date: March 2005
Format: PB
Price: £30.00
Stock Status: reprinting

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Synopsis:

Older Scots Literature is a major set of nearly forty new studies on the literature of fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth-century Scotland.


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Order and Disorder    Order and Disorder
ISBN:9781862321175
Category: Food And Drink
Author: (Editor) Alexander Fenton
Publication Date: March 2000
Format: HB
Price: £30.00
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Synopsis:

Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium of the International Commission for Research into European Food History, Aberdeen 1997. This book is essential reading for all concerned with questions of food and health in Europe.


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Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment, The    Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment, The
ISBN:9781904607144
Category: Scottish History, History
Author: (Editors) R. H. Campbell and Andrew S. Skinner
Publication Date: November 2003
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

This important collection of essays offers new perspectives on the development and character of the Scottish Enlightenment.


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Origins of the Scottish Railway System 1722-1844, The    Origins of the Scottish Railway System 1722-1844, The
ISBN:9781904607403
Category: Railways, Transport
Author: C. J. A. Robertson
Publication Date: March 2003
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:

Scottish nineteenth-century railways have suffered from a degree of neglect by economic historians; this study fills the gaps for the earliest period of Scottish railway history.


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Orphan Country, The    Orphan Country, The
ISBN:9780859764971
Category: Social History
Author: Lynn Abrams
Publication Date: January 1998
Format: PB
Price: £22.50
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Synopsis: This is the first comprehensive study of the history of child welfare and protection in Scotland. It offers a unique insight into the child's experience of care, using oral history as well as sound documentary sources.
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