Meet Tom Robertson, your septuagenarian guide to an alternative and unknown Scotland - a Scotland inhabited by African ghosts, monstrous mountain-roaming creatures and castle-dwelling vampires. On the surface, Tom appears to be an average pensioner quietly winding down his life. Appearances, however, can be deceptive. Tom has an amazing story to tell. In fact, Tom has several amazing stories to tell, because he has devoted much of his existence to a strange and unusual obsession that brought fame and controversy, ill health and adventure - ghosthunting. Now Tom is ready to recount the most fantastic of his personal experiences, in his own inimitable style, in a controversial, scary and funny journey stretching across seven decades in this memoir with a difference. An amazing man who has led an out-of-this-world life will captivate and take readers off the beaten track on a trip through Scotland one may never have imagined possible.
Meet Tom Robertson, your septuagenarian guide to an alternative and unknown Scotland - a Scotland inhabited by African ghosts, monstrous mountain-roaming creatures and castle-dwelling vampires. On the surface, Tom appears to be an average pensioner quietly winding down his life. Appearances, however, can be deceptive. Tom has an amazing story to tell. In fact, Tom has several amazing stories to tell, because he has devoted much of his existence to a strange and unusual obsession that brought fame and controversy, ill health and adventure - ghosthunting. Now Tom is ready to recount the most fantastic of his personal experiences, in his own inimitable style, in a controversial, scary and funny journey stretching across seven decades in this memoir with a difference. An amazing man who has led an out-of-this-world life will captivate and take readers off the beaten track on a trip through Scotland one may never have imagined possible.
The scholarly interests of Scots in the Restoration period are analysed by Murray Simpson through an in-depth study of the library of the Reverend James Nairn (1629–1678), the biggest collection formed in this period for which we have detailed records.
This is a study of Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided by urban studies theory, it pinpoints the distinctive features that made Enlightenment in the Scottish capital possible.
The last genuine rebellion on British soil, the Jacobite rising of 1745 forms one of the greatest 'what ifs' of British history. If Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops had defeated the forces of George II, it is fair to say that the entire subsequent course of the country's history would have been dizzyingly changed. Jacobitism is a comprehensive study of the Stuart dynasty's attempts to regain the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in the eighteenth century. It provides not only a history of the Jacobite cause and the Risings but also studies of Jacobite culture, the financing of Jacobitism, the Jacobite diaspora and Jacobitism and nationalism, as well as a critical review of the major changes in Jacobite scholarship this century.
This book examines the difficulties and challenges which faced attempts to create a British identity. Taking its perspective from the cultural, social and political margins of the British Isles, it demonstrates how fragile the supposed political consensus of the eighteenth century was. To read it is to revaluate our understanding of the culture of England in relation to other societies of these islands.
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