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What Queen Victoria Saw
It has long entered the folk law of how Queen Victoria was not quite the constitutional monarch her successors have become, and 19th century legislation has a number of instances where the Queen must have proved quite a trial for the parliamentary draftsmen and indeed for some of her Ministers. One such instance was the occasion of an attempted assassination where she could not understand how a person could be found (according to the Criminal Lunatics Act 1800) not guilty on the grounds of insanity whereas she had seen him fire the pistol. Thus, for almost a century the form of the words used 'Guilty but insane' made some lawyers almost tear their hair out before the Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964 restored the wording to 'not guilty by reason of insanity', and the Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act of 1991, regularised this matter.
The Highland Bagpipe
The Highland bagpipe, widely considered 'Scotland's national instrument', is one of the most recognized icons of traditional music in the world. It is also among the least understood. But Scottish bagpipe music and tradition - particularly, but not exclusively, the Highland bagpipe - has enjoyed an unprecedented surge in public visibility and scholarly attention since the 1990s. A greater interest in the emic led to a diverse picture of the meaning and musical iconicism of the bagpipe in communities in Scotland and throughout the Scottish diaspora. This interest has led to the consideration of both the globalization of Highland piping and piping as rooted in local culture. It has given rise ...
Old and New World Highland Bagpiping
Old and New World Highland Bagpiping provides a comprehensive biographical and genealogical account of pipers and piping in highland Scotland and Gaelic Cape Breton.The work is the result of over thirty years of oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, for whom piping fitted unself-consciously into community life, as well as an exhaustive synthesis of Scottish archival and secondary sources. Reflecting the invaluable memories of now-deceased new world Gaelic lore-bearers, John Gibson shows that traditional community piping in both the old and new world Gàihealtachlan was, and for a long time remained, the same, exposing the distortions introduced by the tendency to interpret the ...
The British Empire and the Hajj
The British Empire at its height governed more than half the world’s Muslims. It was a political imperative for the Empire to present itself to Muslims as a friend and protector, to take seriously what one scholar called its role as “the greatest Mohamedan power in the world.” Few tasks were more important than engagement with the pilgrimage to Mecca. Every year, tens of thousands of Muslims set out for Mecca from imperial territories throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, from the Atlantic Ocean to the South China Sea. Men and women representing all economic classes and scores of ethnic and linguistic groups made extraordinary journeys across waterways, deserts, and savannahs, ...
Kill the Queen!
An account of the eight assassination attempts on the life of Queen Victoria.
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