• He is co-director with Penny Fielding of the Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century project at the University of Edinburgh, and an active participant in the Scottish Network of Modernism Studies. (ed.ac.uk)
  • The etymologies and descriptions given in the Ordnance Survey Name Books (OSNB) provide an insight into how these names were perceived and systematized in the nineteenth century. (spns.org.uk)
  • English Poetry is a machine-readable full-text database encompassing the works of 1,350 poets from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the nineteenth century, available commercially from Chadwyck-Healey. (coverpages.org)
  • Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature. (wikipedia.org)
  • Founded by Professor David Daiches in 1947, the Scottish Universities' International Summer School (SUISS) runs summer courses in British literature (Modernism, Contemporary Literature and Scottish Literature), Creative Writing, and Contemporary British Theatre and Performance. (ed.ac.uk)
  • The British Literature courses provide a comprehensive, interdisciplinary programme that examines literature from Britain and Ireland in the context of the key societal and cultural developments during the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Twentieth Century Scottish Literature, including Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance, James Bridie, Modern Scottish Poetry, Muriel Spark. (gla.ac.uk)
  • You will be introduced to the study of English literature in its cultural and historical contexts via a survey of literature from the late Medieval period to the mid-Twentieth Century. (ed.ac.uk)
  • He also holds an MA (Hons) in English and Scottish Literature from the University of Edinburgh and an MA in English Literature from the University of Sussex. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Dr Thomson's main research interests are in 19th and 20th century Scottish literature, and in Critical Theory, particularly the work of Theodor Adorno and of Jacques Derrida. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Other current projects are a study of Hugh MacDiarmid and British modernism, and essays in the areas of Scottish romantic literature and philosophy and on devolution, politics and literature in contemporary Scotland. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Dr Thomson welcomes research proposals in any area of modern Scottish Literature, but particularly in twentieth century Scottish fiction and poetry, in Scottish modernism, and in the history of ideas in Scotland. (ed.ac.uk)
  • He would also welcome proposals relating to his interests in twentieth century French thought, and in the work of the Frankfurt School, as well as interdisciplinary projects linking literature to philosophy and / or political theory. (ed.ac.uk)
  • During his long and prestigious career, Edwin Morgan has revolutionized contemporary Scottish literature, not least with his six decades of work in translation. (jat.org)
  • Thanks to a generous donation from the Scottish Arts Council, SUISS is able to offer a free place on the 2010 six-week 'Text and Context: British and Irish Literature from 1900 to the Present' course. (jat.org)
  • International Companions to Scottish Literature). (uhi.ac.uk)
  • Scottish Literature International , p. 149-169 21 p. (uhi.ac.uk)
  • We had the precedent of Morgan's own stylish little guide to adult literature, Twentieth Century Scottish Classics (1987). (asls.org.uk)
  • The intended learning outcomes of this course are a knowledge of twentieth century literature, in particular women's writing and the issues of gender and nation, the ability to analyse literary texts using theoretical approaches, to do close reading analyses of text, to discuss in small and large group situations, to produce literate and coherent essays, to circulate work reports by email and use of the scratch area. (ed.ac.uk)
  • English Poetry contains primarily the works of those writers listed as poets by The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Cambridge University Press, 1969-1972 (NCBEL). (coverpages.org)
  • From Dumfries to Alness, one of the main ideologies of the first half of the twentieth century found its standard-bearers. (birlinn.co.uk)
  • Anthony O'Hear (ed.) - 2015 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (philpapers.org)
  • Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, horror front, thy and the interpersonal material children: the ' Usual ' Scottish Sunday. (ghb-hh.de)
  • I am a social scientist and social & cultural historian with particular focus on 19th and 20th-century history. (gla.ac.uk)
  • My publications cover a variety of 19th and 20th century social history, from household formation and economics in early 20th-century Scotland, through to examining the intersections of religious faith and sexuality. (gla.ac.uk)
  • My research to date has examined the experiences of gay and bisexual men in post-war Scotland, as well as tracing the history of same-sex desire from the 17th century to the late 20th century in Scotland. (gla.ac.uk)
  • Recent and forthcoming publications have examined the impact of World War One upon women and families in Scotland, the interactions between homosexual law reform organisations and religious institutions in Scotland, masculinity and effeminacy, 'queer emotions', and boarding and lodging in working-class Scottish homes at the turn of the 20th century. (gla.ac.uk)
  • He is equally at home in medieval logic, post-Reformation humanism, the Scottish Enlightenment, the forgotten 19th-century eclecticism and the ignored 20th-century struggle between realism and idealism. (waterstones.com)
  • Douglas Young fut l'une des figures les plus marquantes de la « deuxième vague » de la « Scottish Literary Renaissance » dominée par Hugh MacDiarmid, et pourtant, il en est aujourd'hui l'une des plus négligées. (openedition.org)
  • Wilson, Katharina M. and Frank Warnke Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century . (jimandellen.org)
  • By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the Scottish peasantry suffered a period of great scarcity of food and even famine that lasted intermittently into the first fifty years of the next century. (westonaprice.org)
  • SUISS is affiliated with seven prestigious universities: The University of Aberdeen, The University of Dundee, The University of Edinburgh, The University of Glasgow, The Open University in Scotland, The University of St Andrews, and The University of Strathclyde. (ed.ac.uk)
  • The University of Glasgow uses cookies for analytics. (gla.ac.uk)
  • After completing his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, Dr Alex Thomson held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, before lecturing at the University of Bristol and the University of Glasgow. (ed.ac.uk)
  • This paper was the culmination of research and fieldwork undertaken for my PhD 'Breaking old and new ground: a comparative study of coastal and inland naming in Berwickshire' at Glasgow University and for the Masters in Landscape Architecture programme at Edinburgh University. (spns.org.uk)
  • The Performing Arts Data Service (PADS) at the University of Glasgow is one of five distributed service providers of the Arts and Humanities Data Service. (dlib.org)
  • Gradual improvements in the raising of crops as the eighteenth century drew near brought dietary improvements to most rural dwellers, and to the gentry, a gradual development from a plain to a more sophisticated daily menu. (westonaprice.org)
  • Sorley MacLean (1911-1996) is now regarded as one of the greatest Scottish poets of the twentieth century. (open.edu)
  • 48 poets from mid-18th to end of 19th century. (jimandellen.org)
  • Young is in many ways one of the last looming (both figuratively and physiologically, for he stood at over six foot six) poets and men of letters of the second wave of the Scottish Literary Renaissance, on whose poetry comparatively little critical work has been done. (openedition.org)
  • In addition, following NCBEL, the database contains the works in English of Welsh, Scottish and Irish poets. (coverpages.org)
  • Poets who were active before 1900 are included but poets principally active in the twentieth century are excluded. (coverpages.org)
  • In this book, Alistair Moffat brings vividly to life the story of this great nation, from the dawn of prehistory through to the twenty-first century. (birlinn.co.uk)
  • The aim of this colloquium is to create space for discussion of issues surrounding twentieth- and twenty-first-century lyric poetry, particularly as it engages with notions of voice and authenticity. (brookes.ac.uk)
  • Supported by the 'Living Legacies 1914-18: From Past Conflict to Shared Future' First World War Engagement Centre at Queen's University Belfast, we put together a project to investigate how a rural Scottish community was impacted by a single event. (iwm.org.uk)
  • Gavin Bowd teaches French at St Andrews University. (birlinn.co.uk)
  • Young's vision was not without its problems, and this article looks at what Gavin Bowd has called Scottish nationalism's willingness to "downplay the threat of fascism" in confronting the "auld enemy" of England. (openedition.org)
  • Starting with the lines quoted above, this Friday I want to consider several very different poems, epochs apart but all relating to one place, the Cheviot hills of the Anglo-Scottish border, which I have also sometimes tried to centre in my own writing. (thefridaypoem.com)
  • The Poetry Centre, which is based within the School of Education, Humanities and Languages at Oxford Brookes University, was launched in 1998, and hosts an exciting annual programme of events, which include conferences and research seminars, workshops (including a special workshop for military veterans), exhibitions, poetry readings, and community projects. (brookes.ac.uk)
  • Parry J.P., Taylor S., Parliament and Church of England from the Reformation to the Twentieth Century, in PH, 2000/1, p. 1 ss. (cois.it)
  • The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336, VAT Registration Number GB 592 9507 00, and is acknowledged by the UK authorities as a " Recognised body " which has been granted degree awarding powers. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Every debate about the Scottish constitution should include the topic of Scottish Home Rule, and if there is to be another referendum in Scotland then Home Rule should definitely be one of the options on the ballot paper. (birlinn.co.uk)
  • The Fellowship will be payable in Edinburgh and will cover the costs of all tuition, accommodation, most meals, the social and cultural programme, and includes full use of the facilities of the library of Edinburgh University and the National Library of Scotland. (jat.org)
  • A face of Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century Scotland. (ghb-hh.de)
  • It could be said his reputation as a poet, editor and major organ of the Scottish Literary Renaissance is equally in a state of exile, or at least in limbo, and that some of his ideas are still treated with suspicion, most recently in Gavin Bowd's 2013 work Fascist Scotland: Caledonia and the Far Right , to which we will return. (openedition.org)
  • 2 Young's substantial body comprises poetry in Lallans, translations from and into over ten languages, translations of the plays of Aristophanes, a memoir, monographs on St Andrews (the university being his alma mater) and Scotland, and a whole raft of political pamphlets. (openedition.org)
  • McNeill was born in 1885 in Orkney, the archipelago of islands just north of Scotland, at a time when the previous century of Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions had wrought their stark and sometimes brutal dislocations and disruption of the ancient Scots traditions in social and domestic life. (westonaprice.org)
  • Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913: A Critical Anthology Ohio University Press, 2011. (jimandellen.org)
  • Conference Review: Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) Annual Conference, June 21st-23rd 2023, Northumbria University. (usso.uk)
  • While the philosophical study of mind has always required philosophers to attend to the scientific developments of their day, from the twentieth century onwards it has been especially influenced and informed by psychology, neuroscience, and computer science. (philpapers.org)
  • In the many histories of 'Scottish philosophy' nobody has previously covered its full seven centuries. (waterstones.com)
  • Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuriesprovides an outstanding survey of the most prominent themes in twentieth-century and contemporary philosophy of mind. (philpapers.org)
  • Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology, Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuriesis also a valuable resource for those in related disciplines such as psychology and cognitive science. (philpapers.org)
  • Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (philpapers.org)
  • The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 9: Philosophy of Mind. (philpapers.org)
  • History of Philosophy in the Western Tradition: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. (philpapers.org)
  • Metaphysical Wisdom and Lifeworld: Tendencies in Research on the History of Chinese Philosophy at the Juncture of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries. (philpapers.org)
  • Reviewed by Alex Riggs This year's Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) conference began with an appeal. (usso.uk)
  • Later in her life she produced a four-volume history of Scottish customs, folklore and ancient festivals called The Silver Bough , today considered an essential source by historians in the field. (westonaprice.org)
  • The dynamic and diverse characteristics of more than one hundred years of English, Irish, and Scottish texts are studied in conjunction with recent developments in literary theory. (ed.ac.uk)
  • The book focuses on a number of philosophers in the period from the later-thirteenth century until the mid- twentieth and attends especially to some brilliantly original texts. (waterstones.com)
  • This course will explore the development of Scottish women s fiction from the twenties to the nineties and consider their work in relation to the literary strategies associated with realism, modernism and the Scottish Renaissance, and postmodernism. (ed.ac.uk)
  • This volume explores the rich and complex histories of English, Scottish and Welsh theatres in the 'long' twentieth century since 1895. (cambridge.org)
  • Scottish Highland cattle were introduced there in 1999 for low-intensity grazing. (cdc.gov)
  • Edinburgh University Press. (wikipedia.org)
  • You will complete your Year 1 studies with option courses chosen from a wide range offered by the University of Edinburgh. (ed.ac.uk)
  • He is currently editing Robert Louis Stevenson's Memories and Portraits for the New Edinburgh Edition of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, to be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2013. (ed.ac.uk)
  • He is co-editor of the Edinburgh University Press series Taking on the Political , with Benjamin Arditi, Andrew Schaap and Jeremy Valentine, and serves on the Edinburgh University Press Committee. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Douglas Young was one of the key figures of the "second wave" of Hugh MacDiarmid's "Scottish Literary Renaissance", yet he is one of the most overlooked. (openedition.org)
  • In the aftermath of the 1945 Labour landslide, Young's pro-independence Scottish nationalist stance was moved to the political margins, and Young took up a professorial post in North Carolina to return with fervour to the study and teaching of classics. (openedition.org)
  • Current options are drawn from various periods and themes in American, European, British, Scottish and global history. (ed.ac.uk)
  • She has taught History at Scottish Church College, Presidency University and Sikkim University, Gangtok apart from co-authoring history text books for West Bengal State Book Board and WBBSE. (mcrg.ac.in)
  • In September 2014, with the Scottish independence referendum, the United Kingdom came close to being broken apart after three centuries of one of the most successful political unions in history. (birlinn.co.uk)
  • History Teaching Review: The Yearbook of the Scottish Association of History Teachers, 23. (hud.ac.uk)
  • The History of Scottish Women s Writing. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Archaeology, history and Scottish history courses available at undergraduate, postgraduate and part-time study levels. (historyscotland.com)
  • The foods, menus, history and folklore of Scottish domestic culture are celebrated with a robust affection and pride that are delightfully infectious in Florence Marian McNeill's The Scots Kitchen: Its Lore and Recipes . (westonaprice.org)
  • Her early years on the islands helped to shape her life-long fascination and pride in Scottish history and cultural traditions. (westonaprice.org)
  • 1 Scottish poet, classicist and politician, Douglas Young died more than forty years ago in "exile" (Taylor, 1973, p. 8) in North Carolina, America. (openedition.org)
  • Contemporary Scottish Women Writers. (ed.ac.uk)
  • David M. Rosenthal (ed.) - 1991 - Oxford University Press. (philpapers.org)
  • Many of these pamphlets document Young's most symbolic act of defiance to the English government: his refusal of both military and industrial wartime conscription for the purposes of raising the topic of Scottish independence in courtroom tribunals. (openedition.org)
  • This distinction in some part recalls the days of the Auld Alliance-Scotland's political consolidation with France against the English from the thirteenth century until the end of the sixteenth-which left a bright and lasting influence on Scottish cuisine both in its style and its lexicon. (westonaprice.org)
  • Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Alongside the fiction we will engage with contextualising theoretical approaches including feminism, nationalism and other perspectives informing contemporary Scottish studies. (ed.ac.uk)
  • The Vidalian Géographie Universelle : Five Scholars on the Fringes of the French University World, Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies 35 (2016), 63-93. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • Although Fascism in Britain is normally associated with England, and especially the East End of London, and even then dismissed as a marginal political phenomenon, Fascism did find support in Scottish society. (birlinn.co.uk)
  • Rudolf Hess felt the natives looked at him 'in a compassionate way', but Scottish Fascism had to carve out a niche in a crowded market for bigotry. (birlinn.co.uk)
  • The Scottish Universities' International Summer School (SUISS) was founded as a non-profit organisation by Professor David Daiches in 1947. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Several scientists in the early twentieth century had come close to developing a pancreatic extract that lowered glucose, but the presence of pancreatic enzymes in the extract resulted in significant local toxicities after injection and variable effectiveness (presumably because the enzymes were degrading the internal secretion). (rcpe.ac.uk)
  • Subsequently in that autumn's Schools Conference Maureen Farrell followed up with a helpful review of Scottish fiction for early secondary students. (asls.org.uk)
  • Speaking of the period pre-dating the Agrarian Revolution (which spanned roughly 1750 to 1850) McNeill paints the scene of the early Scot amid the gifts of his homeland: "In olden times, when the population was small and sparse-by the beginning of the sixteenth century it did not exceed half a million-the means of sustenance were on the whole plentiful. (westonaprice.org)
  • In the early twentieth century, plague epidemics accounted for about 10 million deaths in India. (medscape.com)
  • Redekop C., Creation and the Environnement: An Anabaptist Perspective on a Sustainable World, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2000, pp. 302. (cois.it)
  • Scottish women's fiction in the twentieth century presents us with a field of enquiry which both parallels and challenges dominant conceptions and readings of Scottish cultural tradition. (ed.ac.uk)
  • a statement on policy from Jenny Brown of the Scottish Arts Council and lively parallel workshops for local primary school children. (asls.org.uk)
  • Our second Case Study comes from two academics based at Abertay University and the University of the Highlands & Islands, who co-ordinated the ' Visualising the Iolaire ' project. (iwm.org.uk)
  • The city regarding the Bay area happens to be place of several more University associated with California universities, neither that confer undergraduate grade. (misprimerospasitos.cl)
  • Stevenson, Randall and Gavin Wallace (eds) Scottish Novel Since the Seventies. (ed.ac.uk)
  • No.' refers to the North Durham charters, as catalogued by James Raine in 1852, now part of the collection known as 'Durham Cathedral Muniments: Miscellaneous Charters', held by Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections. (spns.org.uk)
  • Gordon Graham (ed.) - 2015 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press. (philpapers.org)
  • This article does not outline the technical challenges inherent in delivering high-quality moving images over networks, as these have already been documented in detail in the final report of the Imagination Universities Network Pilot Project (http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk/ImaginationPilotProjectCollection) and elsewhere. (dlib.org)
  • The PADS' role in the Imagination/Universities Network Pilot project was a "proof-of-concept" presentation of a fully-integrated site for research and teaching, including both the highest-quality moving images and a representative selection of supporting materials including OCR extracts of scholarly monographs, digital images of working scripts and HTML versions of contemporary criticism and review. (dlib.org)
  • The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Banting had a very unsuccessful career as an orthopaedic surgeon and then a general practitioner, before approaching the eminent Scottish physiologist, Professor James Macleod of the University of Toronto (Figure 1). (rcpe.ac.uk)
  • Figure 1 Professor James JR Macleod, Professor of Physiology, University of Totonto. (rcpe.ac.uk)
  • McNeill first published The Scots Kitchen in 1929, with the aim of commemorating and extolling the Scots national tradition as expressed in its regional gastronomical heritages that she, even by the start of the last century, feared might be lost forever "in this age of standardization. (westonaprice.org)
  • The ambit of her doctoral thesis is however different, concentrating on the lives, culture, pathos and experiences of the people of the water and the streets, namely fishermen and boatmen, hackney carriage drivers and palanquin bearers of Bengal between late nineteenth and mid twentieth century. (mcrg.ac.in)
  • He was instrumental in turning around the fortunes of the Dundee Repertory Theatre in 1972, where as artistic director he mounted 11 new plays by Scottish authors, including Ian Brown, Stewart Conn, Tom Gallacher, John McGrath and Hector MacMillan. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dundee University offers six postgraduate Masters degrees M.Litt. (historyscotland.com)
  • The themes of Scottish independence and self-government were pursued throughout Young's life and work. (openedition.org)