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Places of Pilgrimage

By: Ian Scott Massie

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Places of Pilgrimage is a record of the travels of artist Ian Scott Massie, as he seeks out the spirit of place of over 75 locations around Britain. In words and paintings, he explores the personality of these sites explaining, for example, what he feels on the spot where Saint Cuthbert's coffin rooted itself to the earth, or the visions conjured up on crossing the sands to Holy Island.

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0281075182

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9780281075188

Places of Pilgrimage

By: Ian Scott Massie

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Places of Pilgrimage

By: Ian Scott Massie

Places of Pilgrimage is a record of the travels of artist Ian Scott Massie, as he seeks out the spirit of place of over seventy locations around Britain. In words and paintings, he explores the personality of these sites explaining, for example, what he feels on the spot where Saint Cuthbert's coffin rooted itself to the earth, or the visions conjured up on crossing the sands to Holy Island. Some places, which have already been interpreted by people such as A. E. Houseman, Vaughn Williams and Stanley Spencer, are presented afresh. Some are very personal choices: the landscapes painted by Paul Nash (who grew up in the same area as the artist); the village where Laurie Lee wrote Cider with Rosie; the boathouse where Dylan Thomas composed Under Milk Wood, and the industrial landscape which inspired L. S. Lowry. Some are traditional pilgrimage sites, like Lindisfarne, Durham and Canterbury; some are places which have other holds over the visitor - the stones of Avebury, the battlefield of Culloden, the tree where Robin Hood assembled his merry men.

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290

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SPCK

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0281075190

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9780281075195

Dead Souls

From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES

By: Ian Rankin

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Dead Souls

From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES

By: Ian Rankin

The tenth Inspector Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES. 'Britain's best crime novelist' DAILY EXPRESS 'No one in Britain writes better crime novels today Evening Standard Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Inspector John Rebus comes across a paedophile taking pictures of children. When the social workers claim he is there for legitimate educational reasons, Rebus is faced with a dilemma - should he be outed to protect local kids or given a chance to start anew? As the locals begin a hate campaign Rebus gets a call from the past: the son of a friend has gone missing and no one else will make time to ask the right questions. And then a fragment of Scotland's criminal history is repatriated at the end of a life sentence for murder. Once more Rebus's cup of trouble runneth over and the ghosts of past misdeeds return to haunt Edinburgh's streets.

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Orion

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1409107620

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9781409107620

The Black Book

The #1 bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS

By: Ian Rankin

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The Black Book

The #1 bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS

By: Ian Rankin

The fifth Inspector Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES 'Ian Rankin is a genius' Lee Child When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and murder. Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague's notebook, Rebus must piece together the most complex and confusing of jigsaws. But not everyone wants the puzzle solved - perhaps not even Rebus himself... **** Ian Rankin's A HEART FULL OF HEADSTONES was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 10th October 2022 and w/c 1st May 2023

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387

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Orion

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1409107671

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9781409107675

Mortal Causes

From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES

By: Ian Rankin

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Mortal Causes

From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES

By: Ian Rankin

The sixth Inspector Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES. 'An outstanding creation' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH It is August in Edinburgh and the Festival is in full swing... A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city's ancient subterranean streets and marks on the corpse cause Rebus to suspect the involvement of sectarian activists. The prospect of a terrorist atrocity in a city heaving with tourists is almost unthinkable. When the victim turns out to be the son of a notorious gangster, Rebus realises he is sitting atop a volcano of mayhem - and it's just about to erupt.

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378

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Orion

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1409107663

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9781409107668

The Official History of the Cabinet Secretaries

By: Ian Beesley

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The Official History of the Cabinet Secretaries

By: Ian Beesley

This book is the official history of British Cabinet Secretaries, the most senior civil servants in UK government, from the post-war period up to 2002. In December 1916 Maurice Hankey sat at the Cabinet table to take the first official record of Cabinet decisions. Prior to this there had been no formal Cabinet agenda and no record of Cabinet decisions. Using authoritative government papers, some of which have not yet been released for public scrutiny, this book tells the story of Hankey’s post-war successors as they advised British Prime Ministers and recorded Cabinet’s crucial decisions as the country struggled through the exhaustion that followed World War II, grappled with a weak economy that could not support its world ambitions, saw the end of the post-war economic and social consensus and faced the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers symbol of Western dominance. It looks at events through the eyes of politically neutral senior civil servants, the mandarins of Britain. It shows how the dramatic foreshortening of timescales and global news have complicated the working lives of those who daily face the deluge of potentially destabilising events – the skills required to see dangers and opportunities around corners, when to calm things down and when to accelerate action; why secrecy is endemic when government comes close to losing control or when political ambition threatens self-destruction. This book will be of great interest to students of British politics, British history and British government.

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737

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Taylor & Francis

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1351980866

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9781351980869

Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope (Second Edition)

By: Shawn Graham,Ian Milligan,Scott B Weingart,Kimberley Martin

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Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope (Second Edition)

By: Shawn Graham,Ian Milligan,Scott B Weingart,Kimberley Martin

Every day, more and more kinds of historical data become available, opening exciting new avenues of inquiry but also new challenges. This updated and expanded book describes and demonstrates the ways these data can be explored to construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research and in teaching and learning. It helps humanities scholars to grasp Big Data in order to do their work, whether that means understanding the underlying algorithms at work in search engines or designing and using their own tools to process large amounts of information.Demonstrating what digital tools have to offer and also what 'digital' does to how we understand the past, the authors introduce the many different tools and developing approaches in Big Data for historical and humanistic scholarship, show how to use them, what to be wary of, and discuss the kinds of questions and new perspectives this new macroscopic perspective opens up. Originally authored 'live' online with ongoing feedback from the wider digital history community, Exploring Big Historical Data breaks new ground and sets the direction for the conversation into the future.Exploring Big Historical Data should be the go-to resource for undergraduate and graduate students confronted by a vast corpus of data, and researchers encountering these methods for the first time. It will also offer a helping hand to the interested individual seeking to make sense of genealogical data or digitized newspapers, and even the local historical society who are trying to see the value in digitizing their holdings.

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World Scientific

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9811243050

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9789811243059

A Question of Blood

The #1 bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS

By: Ian Rankin

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A Question of Blood

The #1 bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS

By: Ian Rankin

The fourteenth Inspector Rebus novel - and No.1 bestseller. Two seventeen-year-olds are killed by an ex-Army loner who has gone off the rails. The mystery takes Rebus into the heart of a shattered community. Ex-Army himself, Rebus becomes fascinated by the killer, and finds he is not alone. Army investigators are on the scene, and won't be shaken off. The killer had friends and enemies to spare and left behind a legacy of secrets and lies. Rebus has more than his share of personal problems, too. He's fresh out of hospital, but won't say how it happened. Could there be a connection with a house-fire and the unfortunate death of a petty criminal who had been harassing Rebus's colleague Siobhan Clarke?

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491

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Orion

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1409107582

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9781409107583

Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg

By: Ian Duncan

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Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg

By: Ian Duncan

A guide devoted to its subject, the book draws on recent breakthroughs in research on Hogg to illuminate the urgent debates and fruitful contexts that helped to shape his writings. Essays written by an international team of scholars provide an indispensab

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748655166

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9780748655168

Book's by Ian Scott Massie

Places of Pilgrimage

Places of Pilgrimage

Places of Pilgrimage

Places of Pilgrimage

Dead Souls

Dead Souls

The Black Book

The Black Book

Mortal Causes

Mortal Causes

The Official History of the Cabinet Secretaries

The Official History of the Cabinet Secretaries

Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope (Second Edition)

Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope (Second Edition)

A Question of Blood

A Question of Blood

Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg

Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg

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