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Showing posts with label National. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National. Show all posts
Saturday, 30 September 2023

New National Scottish Gallery at the National gallery

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  Margaret MacDonald Brand new galleries have been built behind the Mound art galleries Edinburgh to be a new and open home to display Scott...
Sunday, 30 April 2023

Tom Nairn why Scotland missed the European national revival 1800s

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    Tom Nairn why Scotland missed the European national revival 1800s   Scotland’s greatest political theorist of the modern times.  Tom Nai...
Friday, 31 March 2023

Rewilding Alliance

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  Scotland is one of the worlds most depleted countries – with its huge areas of intensively managed and ecologically destroyed land.    Rew...
Friday, 28 August 2020

Song for Scotland -'Auld Lang Syne'

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Scots spread around the world as – explorers, lecturers, innovators, writers – and had close trade to Europe. Kane writes of the ...
Tuesday, 30 June 2020

The Poems of Ossian

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Macpherson’s poems of Ossian translations from the Gaelic traditions – had a profound influence on many painters, poets and writers. An...

Who Would I Honour with a statue?

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Who would I honour with  a statue?  This is a list of writer and others that I particularly admire.: The names that come to mind are –...
Wednesday, 28 November 2018

Story of Jacobites

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Great series of very readable articles, entitled ‘ Back in the Day’  of the Jacobites by Hamish MacPherson i n the National newspaper. H...
Monday, 30 July 2018

The Nature of Nationalism

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Excellent article by Isobel Lindsay National July 2018 on the nature of nationalism.  Lindsay writes that, “nationhood  is morally ne...
Friday, 15 December 2017

SAVE SCOTLAND BRAND: Does Identity Politics matter?

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Do identity politics matter, of course they do! These Brexiteers are so into their “British” or English identity; the French a...