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Showing posts with label enlightenment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label enlightenment. Show all posts
Sunday, 29 October 2023

Romanticism in Scotland

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  Nigel Leask rites Burns has been tragically over-looked in academic studies and the need to consider Burns in a de-centralized four nation...
Saturday, 30 September 2023

Images Scotia from Enlightenment to Kailyard

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Journalists, historians and fake historians novelists have written of Scotland’s victimhood and of the false romantic myth-making of the Kai...
Sunday, 31 July 2022

The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE)

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  Scotland’s National Academy was established in 1783 for “the advancement of learning and useful knowledge”.   Our contemporary mission rem...
Tuesday, 31 May 2022

Scotland's Enlightenment Freedom of Thought & Speech

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  The  Scottish enlightenment  has been Scotland's biggest contribution to the world and there were two enlightenments,  according to Al...
Sunday, 31 January 2021

Scotland influence on Democracy and the American Constitution

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Declaration of Independence Scottish moral philosophy influenced the Founding fathers.  Scottish enlightenment figures contributed to the Am...
Sunday, 29 September 2019

Did Revolution happen here too soon?

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Did Revolution happen here too soon? Did revolution in the UK happen a hundred years too early?  In 1649, Charles Stuart I (w...
Friday, 19 April 2019

Four Hundred Years of the Scottish Parliament

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St Giles The Scottish Parliament , sat for 400 years ( 1230 - 1707 ) influenced by the Reformation, Enlightenment and great scholars. ...