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Free Download The Scots Magazine – March 2024
English | 135 pages | True PDF | 135.0 MB

Free Download The Queen’s Consort: The Story of Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley
by Steven Veerapen
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1728720826 | 316 Pages | ePUB | 0.3 MB

Free Download The Queen’s Consort: The Story of Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley
by Steven Veerapen
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1728720826 | 316 Pages | ePUB | 0.3 MB

Free Download A History Book for Scots: Selections from the Scotichronicon by Walter Bower, edited by D. E. R. Watt
English | August 18, 2012 | ISBN: 1906566593 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 1 MB
Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon – ‘a history book for Scots’. It begins with the mythical voyage of Scota, the Pharaoh’s daughter, from Egypt with the Stone of Destiny. The land that her sons discovered in the Western Ocean was named after her: Scotland. It goes on to describe the turbulent events that followed, among them the wars of the Scots and the Picts (begun by a quarrel over a dog); the poisoning of King Fergus by his wife; Macbeth’s usurpation and uneasy reign; the good deeds of Margaret, queen and saint; Bruce’s murder of the Red Comyn; the founding of Scotland’s first university at St Andrews; the ‘Burnt Candlemas’; and the endless troubles between Scotland and England.

Free Download Northern Lights: The Arctic Scots by Edward J. Cowan
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1780277873 | 569 pages | PDF | 24 Mb
Surprisingly, the remarkable story of the Scottish role in the discovery of the Northwest Passage – a long desired trade route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific – has not received a great deal of attention.

Free Download Mickey Mayhew, "Little Book of Mary Queen of Scots"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1803990430 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 1.9 mb
Mary Queen of Scots is perhaps one of the most controversial and divisive monarchs in regal history. Her story reads like a particularly spicy novel, with murder, kidnap, adultery, assassination and execution. To some she is one of the most wronged women in history, a pawn used and abused by her family in the great monarchical marriage game; to others, a murderous adulteress who committed regicide to marry her lover and then spent years in captivity for the crime, endlessly Descriptionting the demise of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Free Download Robert McColl Millar, "A History of the Scots Language"
English | ISBN: 0198863993 | 2023 | 208 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers in Scotland and several thousand in Ireland, according to the 2011 census. Despite the long history of Scots as a language of high literature, it has been somewhat neglected and has often been treated as a dialect of Standard English. In this book, Robert McColl Millar explores both sociolinguistic and structural developments in the history of Scots, bringing together these two threads of analysis to offer a better understanding of linguistic change. The first half of the book tracks the development of Scots from its beginnings to the modern period, while chapters in the second half offer detailed descriptions of Scots historical phonology and morphosyntax, and of the historical development of Scots lexis.

Free Download David Northcroft, "Scots at School: An Anthology"
English | ISBN: 0748617825 | 2003 | 320 pages | PDF | 21 MB
What is the defining Scottish experience? The Kirk, Scots Law, Hampden Park? There are several contenders, but school is the universal and enduring one. Stories and myths have clustered around its chief features:*Pupils as lads o’ pairts.*Teachers as dominies.*The democratic intellect.*The village skweel.*Hard work, getting on and the power of the tawse.*Academic excellence and ‘sticking in’.Telling the tale of Scotland’s educational experience over the past 250 years, this book draws on the first-hand testimony of pupils, teachers and parents – with extracts taken from biography, local history, journal and oral interview, along with fascinating contemporary photographs.The anthologised material is accompanied by David Northcroft’s narrative outlining the history of the distinctive Scottish school system. By drawing out key themes of identity, nationalism and ‘democracy’, he sets the claims that have traditionally been made for the system’s excellence and independent spirit against the accounts of people’s actual experiences.This history, enhanced by the personal stories of those involved, offers the reader a vivid account of the experience of Scottish schooling.Key Features:*Strong ‘nostalgia’ market for books of this kind.*Draws on broad range of personal testimony.*Includes extracts from Tom Devine, John Galt, Hugh Miller, Magnus Magnusson, Neil Munro, Alan Spence and T. C. Smout.*Each section is prefaced with an editorial introduction – taken together, they trace the Scottish educational experience over the past 250 years.

Free Download Northern Lights
by Edward J. Cowan
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1639362703 | 432 pages | True EPUB | 62.36 MB
In the tradition of Arthur Herman’sHow the Scots Invented the Modern Worldcomes a narrative that charts the remarkable-yet often overlooked or misidentified-Scottish contribution to Arctic exploration

Free Download James A.C. Stevenson, "Scoor-oot: A Dictionary of Scots Words and Phrases in Current Use "
English | ISBN: 1474247199 | 2015 | 272 pages | PDF | 36 MB
This dictionary covers a multitude of Scots words and expressions, some of which have entered into English worldwide, some of which are peculiarly Scottish and communicate much about Scotland’s unique culture and society. Often light in tone, it offers valuable insight into the linguistic development of Scots.