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Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Friday, 24 January 2025

Glasgow 850

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Del Amitri Glasgow is a city of surprises. Dotted around the city centre are many impressive, architecturally interesting buildings. The cit...
Sunday, 29 October 2023

Union with David Olusoga BBC Review

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  While Olisoga is an informed historian, and consulted many experts and this is a highly watchable  if it times biased program. However he ...
Friday, 30 September 2022

Edinburgh festivals 2022

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Its good to see tradition and history given due regard – with the new to challenge and move things forward. We need both. Freedom to move, t...
Tuesday, 13 September 2022

Queen Elizabeth's Respect for the Scottish Nation

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  Professor Tom Devine was commenting on the radio on this historic week after Queen Elizabeth’s death, as her cortege left Balmoral’s estat...
Tuesday, 31 May 2022

Scotland must move forward with new ideas

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  Scotland must move forward with new ideas from the tired, old arguments of the social left vs extreme right capitalism, all controlled fro...
Thursday, 30 September 2021

History of Scottish Home rule

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Dr James Hawes BOOK ‘Speak for England’– LINK interview Independence Live Hawes expects Scotland to be independent in 5 years after the hard...
Monday, 30 August 2021

Tom Devine and Ciaran Martin: 'Our Nation’s Future', at Edinburgh International book festival 2021

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With Clare English. Where next for the UK’s future?  English said, “Since union 1707, 300 years ago, there has been a largely stable relatio...

Tom Devine 'Rewriting Scottish History', at Edinburgh International book festival 2021

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  In conversation with Alan Little:  “A deeper sense of Scottishness” - Tom Devine Rewriting Scottish History at Edinburgh International boo...