Caroline Gerard’s excellent article on William Crokat, who for five years commanded the guard on St Helena during Napoleon Bonaparte’s imprisonment there, was a reminder of the wide Scottish contribution to British military power. Crockat was not however the only Scottish presence on St Helena. William […]
Read more →University of Strathclyde Genealogical, Palaeographic and Heraldic Studies Centre for Lifelong Learning, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences ASPECTS OF ILLEGITIMACY IN SCOTLAND, 1869-1893 A Small-scale Comparison of Industrial and Agricultural Communities by Alexander Wood A dissertation presented in fulfilment of […]
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In recent years, school trips to Auschwitz and the battlefields of the 1914-18 War have become common. They provide an unrivalled opportunity for young people to understand the march of history far more tangibly manner than text books or teacher-talk. They offer a unique perspective on the […]
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In 2011, North Edinburgh Social History Group published ‘Never Give Up’, a vibrant history of social issues and campaigns in North Edinburgh over a period of 70 years. We reviewed it in Lothian Life (http://www.lothianlife.co.uk/2011/07/never-give-up-%E2%80%93-say-north-edinburgh-social-history-group/), a review which excited considerable interest. The North Edinburgh Social History Group, […]
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In June 2011, the North Edinburgh Social History Group published Never Give Up, an illustrated history of a community’s fight for social justice. A huge success, it deomstrated the often unseen, certainly unheralded, capacity of communities to improve the lives of their citizens and to create local […]
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The Scottish Parliament’s summer exhibition, Special Delivery: the William Wallace Letters, succeeds at three quite different levels, educational, historical and political. Unfortunately, the exhibition’s educational elements are physically less than obvious. One computer, facing away from the main exhibition, captures the work of five schools: John Paul […]
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The Scottish Parliament’s current exhibition, running until 8 September, is ‘Special Delivery: The William Wallace Letters’. The centre-pieces are the only two original letters with a direct link to William Wallace. After the deaths in 1286 ofAlexander III and the Maid of Norway, Scotland had no monarch. […]
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The National Library of Scotland’s current exhibition, Dreaming and Declaring American Independence: the Foundation of the United States of America, runs throughout the Edinburgh Festival, closing on 16 September. It may have a long and complex title but its purposes are simple: to illustrate the roots of American […]
Read more →Brechin City: 1906-1920, the Early Years By ALEX. WOOD CHAPTER 11 A FEW MORE BRECHIN FOOTBALLING SOLDIERS George Gallacio One of the noted patrons of Brechin Hearts Junior FC was George Gallacio.[1] George Gallacio, the original proprietor of Gallacio’s ice cream parlour […]
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Brechin City: 1906-1920, the Early Years By ALEX. WOOD CHAPTER 10 AFTER THE WAR The 1914-18 War and its Remembrance To wander the graveyards – of all nationalities – of the battlefields of France and Flanders is an awesome and moving experience. The German cemeteries are stark, […]
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