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1 giorno fa · Travels in Scotland 1720 – 1832. Old Ways New Roads draws on the output of key travellers – from soldiers, surveyors and scholars to artists, writers and leisure tourists – to consider the connections between the military occupation of 18th-century Scotland and the beginning of modern tourism. The text discusses how travellers experienced ...
3 giorni fa · Most people in Scotland say their only national identity is Scottish – with the number of people describing themselves as Scottish and British plummeting. Census data released on Tuesday shows that 65.5% of the population had Scottish as their only identity – an increase from 62.4% in 2011. The 2022 census also shows an increase in those ...
6 giorni fa · Be inspired by stories of collaboration, creativity and rebellion when you visit Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-90. Touring from Tate Britain, this major survey of feminist art celebrates the women who challenged and changed the face of British culture. Discover the powerful and often provocative work of over 100 artists and collectives forged against the backdrop of seismic ...
2 giorni fa · The exhibition ‘L’incontro: An archive of Italian life in Scotland’ is now on display at the Buchanan Building, Union St, St Andrews, KY16 9PQ. This curated collection of photographs and images offers a glimpse into the rich and diverse lives of Italians in Scotland spanning the last century.
3 giorni fa · Only with the second half of the twentieth century has greater effort been made to address the modern Scottish nation and to see it as a vibrant and vital entity from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the present day.
1 giorno fa · or herself in the process. Rarest of all is the writer who can combine these two traits. Yet, in How the Scots Invented the Modern World, author and professor of history Arthur Herman has done just this — produced a tome that addresses his subject matter in an accomplished, lucid, and yet almost conversational manner that leaves the reader impatient to turn the page and find out more.
4 giorni fa · But with the collapse of Scotland's puritanical religious culture in the later 20th century, the liberalisation of the law, the release of public spaces from invidious controls, and the decline of the Sabbath that saw the opening of public houses on Sundays in the 1970s and the final ending of restrictive Sunday rules for off-licences in the 2000s, new freedoms came to the Scottish people.
