Images and stereotypes 32
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January 14, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘history’
Migration and unemployment 15
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January 13, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Highlands and islands 42
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January 12, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The takeover bid 38
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January 10, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The framework of taxation 11
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January 09, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The law 54
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January 08, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Bureaucrats in the saddle 36
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January 07, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Frustration in Parliament 68
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January 06, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In all loyalty to the Crown 121
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January 05, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Continuing our daily serialisation of HJ Paton’s fascinating 1968 book “The Claim Of Scotland”, courtesy of splendidly alert and dedicated reader Wilma Watts.
History and legend 114
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January 04, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
To our English brother 166
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January 03, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re enormously grateful to the alert reader who uncovered this little gem. “The Claim Of Scotland” is a book published in 1968 and written by one Herbert James Paton, a philosopher and a senior civil servant at the Admiralty and Foreign Office, who sadly died the following year.
If you click the image above, you’ll find a scanned PDF of the foreword, contents and first chapter, which at just 14 pages is a modest task of reading. Prepare yourself to marvel at how little times have changed since this pre-North Sea oil age, and to smile ruefully at a few of the sentences you’ll encounter.
Information retrieval 85
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December 18, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Someone asked us yesterday for some facts and figures to help them with a debate, and it got us remembering one that we never see being brought up, perhaps because it’s buried in the archives of the Herald under Sport > SPL > Aberdeen (no, really).
It’s a piece that pre-dates the Scottish Parliament (and is written in a style that makes it seem older still), but it’s a complete mess of broken formatting, clearly the victim of numerous website redesigns, and painfully hard to read even when rescued from behind the paper’s paywall.
So we’re going to preserve it for posterity here in a cleaned-up, more user-friendly presentation, because it’s pretty much dynamite.
