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Blood on the Thistle - The heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice

By: Stuart Pearson & Robert G Mitchell

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Blood on the Thistle - The heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice

By: Stuart Pearson & Robert G Mitchell

Blood on the Thistle is an examination of the life and times of a remarkable Scottish family, the Cranstons of Haddington, East Lothian. It focuses on a period from about 1880, when the young, hard-working parents, Alec and Lizzie Cranston, arrived in Haddington, through to 1920, when the family they had produced, torn apart by the effects of the Great War, broke up as its surviving members pursued separate lives around the globe.Out of seven sons who served in the First World War, four died and two more were horrifically wounded; only one, the youngest, returned home physically unscathed. This book explores the effects of this extreme sacrifice on the sons themselves as well as the loved ones they left behind, particularly their mother, Lizzie, who mourned them for the rest of her days.This is the tale of how a once proud and aspirational Scottish family was devastated by war, and how the effects continued to ripple through time and generations. Until, a century later, the threads of this remarkable family finally begin to be drawn together again, in a book that is at once a superb documentary account and a moving tribute to a generation.

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Kings Road Publishing

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1784180750

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Jonah and the Human Condition

Life and Death in Yahweh’s World

By: Stuart Lasine

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Jonah and the Human Condition

Life and Death in Yahweh’s World

By: Stuart Lasine

Stuart Lasine examines all aspects of the human situation and condition in Yahweh's cosmos as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. As his starting point Lasine uses the phrase “the human condition”, which has been used to describe features of existence with which every person must cope, in ways which vary according to their culture, their situation within that culture, and their personality. In particular the most consistent factor that is basic to the human condition is mortality and, in the biblical context, the sometimes difficult relationship between the creator God and humankind. An examination of this forms the basis of Lasine's study, which draws analytical tools from several disciplines, including literary theory, psychology and philosophy. In the first part of the book Lasine examines a number of relevant biblical texts which display different aspects of the human condition. Part two engages in a detailed case study of one human life-situation, that of the prophet Jonah. Finally, Lasine draws together his conclusions about life and death in Yahweh's cosmos, both for characters within the world of the scriptural text and for present-day readers of the Hebrew Bible.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567691128

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9780567691125

The Brief and Turbulent Life of Modernising Conservatism

By: Stuart Mitchell

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The Brief and Turbulent Life of Modernising Conservatism

By: Stuart Mitchell

The Brief and Turbulent Life of Modernising Conservatism is an examination of government tensions and frustrations during a time of economic and social flux. It concentrates on the development of domestic industrial policy in the Conservative Party between 1945 and 1964, with particular emphasis on Harold Macmillan’s and Sir Alec Douglas-Home’s administrations. Between the general elections of 1959 and 1964, the Conservative Government effected a series of striking and dangerously controversial policy transformations in response to its recognition of Britain’s relative economic decline. These adjustments were both practical and strategic. The administration’s aim was extraordinarily ambitious. It sought to fashion a recognisably modern and dynamic, yet socially stable, nation that could retain its place in the international élite. Thereby, the Party hoped to ensure its own continuation in power. The author considers policy innovations that included an ill-starred attempt to join the European Community, the development of macro-economic planning, and the abolition of resale price maintenance–an exploit which roused the Tory Party to unusual heights of passion. The book does not simply regurgitate an orthodox high political narrative. Instead, it investigates topics of interest to modern historians and political scientists alike. It will be of value to anyone interested in questions of modern political ideology, social and economic change, the nature of popular political support, or the constraints on state power in the post-war world.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443802883

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9781443802888

Blood on the Thistle - The heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice

By: Stuart Pearson & Robert G Mitchell

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Book's by Stuart Pearson & Robert G Mitchell

Blood on the Thistle - The heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice

Blood on the Thistle - The heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice

Jonah and the Human Condition

Jonah and the Human Condition

The Brief and Turbulent Life of Modernising Conservatism

The Brief and Turbulent Life of Modernising Conservatism

Blood on the Thistle - The heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice

Blood on the Thistle - The heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice

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