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Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past
For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotlands connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots unlike the English had any significant involvement in slavery .Scotland saw itself as a pioneering abolitionist nation untainted by a slavery past.This book is the first detailed attempt to challenge these beliefs.Written by the foremost scholars in the field , with findings based on sustained archival research, the volume systematically peels away the mythology and radically revises the traditional picture.In doing so the contributors come to a number of surprising conclusions. Topics covered include national ...
The Shipbuilding Industry
This work aims to facilitate the study of the shipbuilding industry by making available information on the present location of shipbuilding archives. The brief histories of about 200 businesses are offered.
The Glasgow Effect
How would your career, social life, family ties, carbon footprint and mental health be affected if you could not leave the city where you live? Artist Ellie Harrison sparked a fast-and-furious debate about class, capitalism, art, education and much more, when news of her year-long project The Glasgow Effect went viral at the start of 2016. Named after the term used to describe Glasgow's mysteriously poor public health and funded to the tune of £15,000 by Creative Scotland, this controversial 'durational performance' centred on a simple proposition – that the artist would refuse to travel beyond Glasgow's city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for a whole calendar year.
The Rosie Result
Curl up with the big-hearted and hilarious final instalment in the Rosie Project series about overcoming life's obstacles with a little love and a lot of overthinking THE INTERNATIONAL MILLION COPY BESTSELLER 'Incredibly funny, life-affirming and warm-hearted' HEAT 'A fast-paced enjoyable journey. Genuinely heartwarming' INDEPENDENT 'Hilarity is the order of the day in this joyful read' PRIMA 'A fun and satisfying read' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Laugh out loud' MAIL ON SUNDAY __________ Can you fit in when you were born to stand out? Don Tillman - scientist, husband, father, and world's greatest problem-solver - is facing his toughest task yet. He and his wife Rosie have been told their son, Hudson, n...
