Scotland S Shame

Author : John Ashton
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857906427

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Scotland's Shame by John Ashton Pdf

The journalist reveals the scandal behind Scotland’s Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial and the questionable conviction of a Libyan terror suspect. The Lockerbie bombing of 1988 remains one of the most notorious acts of terrorism to be perpetrated in the United Kingdom. Its political and foreign policy repercussions have been enormous. Decades later, debate still rages over the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, as well as his controversial release in 2009 on compassionate grounds. In Scotland’s Shame, journalist and researcher John Ashton argues that the guilty verdict, delivered by some of Scotland's most senior judges, was perverse and irrational. He details how prosecutors withheld numerous items of evidence that were favorable to Megrahi. It accuses successive Scottish governments of turning their back on the scandal and pretending that the country's treasured independent criminal justice system remains untainted.

Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015042925902

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Scotland's Shame? by Thomas Martin Devine Pdf

In one of the most controversial lectures of recent times, Scotland's foremost composer, James MacMillan, accused his country of being a land of `sleep-walking bigotry' where visceral anti-Catholicism' disfigures national life. Pandora's Box, it turned out, had been opened in truly spectacular fashion. By his remarks, the media became obsessed with the issue and for weeks Scotland's broadsheets were crammed with columns and letters exploring all aspects of the topic. Clearly MacMillan had touched a nerve. Was Scotland really `Northern Ireland without the guns and bullets'? Although the debate was intense, however, few contributions rose above the level of swapping competing anecdotes. More heat then light was generated in the process. It soon became clear there was a crying need for more reflective assessments and for hard evidence to confirm or deny the many assertions made in the course of the discussion. Scotland's Shame is the first book since the MacMillan lecture to tackle the issues he raised head on. A team consisting of the best writers, researchers and academics in the field has produced a readable volume which is accessible in approach to everyone interested in the subject. Their conclusions will often surprise and intrigue.

Author : M. Rosie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230505131

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The Sectarian Myth in Scotland by M. Rosie Pdf

The question of sectarianism in Scotland belongs within a wider framework than it has hitherto been placed. It offers insights into continuing, indeed pressing, debates about religious identity and civil and political society in the modern world. This book questions the view that religion and politics do not, and cannot, mix in pluralistic, tolerant and increasingly secular societies, and reveals that memories - bitter memories - can outlive, and obscure, the demise of actual conflict.

Author : Reginald De Koven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746
ISBN : HARVARD:32044040419186

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Rob Roy by Reginald De Koven Pdf

Author : Stewart J. Brown,George Newlands,G. M. Newlands,A. C. Cheyne
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567087654

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Scottish Christianity in the Modern World by Stewart J. Brown,George Newlands,G. M. Newlands,A. C. Cheyne Pdf

A new and wide-ranging study of Christianity in Scotland, from the eighteenth century to the present.The contributors include D. W. D. Shaw, Ian Campbell, Kenneth Fielding, William Ferguson, Barbara MacHaffie, Peter Matheson, John McCaffrey, Owen Chadwick, David Thompson, Keith Robbins, Andrew Ross, Stewart J. Brown and George Newlands.Topics encompass varieties of unbelief, challenges to the Westminster confession, John Baillie, Queen Victoria and the Church of Scotland, the Scottish ecumenical movement, the disestablishment movement, and Presbyterian-Catholic relations.

Author : Steve Bruce
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474465465

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Sectarianism in Scotland by Steve Bruce Pdf

Introduction : is Scotland sectarian? --1.nineteenth century --2.thirties --3.present --4.Ulster, football and violence --5.Why bigotry failed.

Author : George Parsons,Robert Sholl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108492539

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James MacMillan Studies by George Parsons,Robert Sholl Pdf

Eleven international scholars analyse key works by Sir James MacMillan, and contextualise his unique musical-theological approach.

Author : Alexander Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:0035524227

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Mary, Queen of Scots by Alexander Walker Pdf

Author : James MacKillop
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476650609

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Highlanders by James MacKillop Pdf

Rebellion was recurrent in the Highlands because the Gaels (Scoti) were an often-oppressed indigenous minority in the nation, Scotland, to which they gave their name. They spoke a language, Gaelic, few outsiders would learn, and had their own family and social system, the clans. Warfare was bloody, culminating in the catastrophe of Culloden Moor during the doomed quest to restore the Stuart kingship to all of Britain. Economic hardship, including the near-genocidal Clearances, in which tenant farmers were replaced with sheep, drove the Gaels from the glens and islands, so that most today live in the diaspora, including millions in North America. Although the Gaels lack a single genetic identity, they clearly draw from distinct roots in the Irish, Norse and Picts. Despite their hardship, the Gaels are also presented in romantic portrayals by the artistic elite of other nations. This book offers ways in which the reader might find roots and ancestry in unfamiliar terrain. Chapters discuss the landscape and language of the Highlanders, the rise of clans, feuds and invasions, and eventual emigration.

Author : Neil Davidson,Minna Liinpää,Maureen McBride,Satnam Virdee
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781912387175

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No Problem Here by Neil Davidson,Minna Liinpää,Maureen McBride,Satnam Virdee Pdf

Does Scotland have a problem with racism? With its 'civic nationalism' and 'welcoming' attitude towards migrants and refugees, Scotland is understood to be relatively free of structural and institutional racism. As the contributors to this book show, such generalisations fail to withstand serious investigation. Their research into the historical record and contemporary reality tells a very different story. Opening up a debate on a subject that has been shut down for too long, No Problem Here gathers together the views of academics, activists and anti-racism campaigners who argue that it is vital that the issue of racism be brought into the centre of public discourse. Scotland's role in maintaining and extending slavery across the British Empire is finally beginning to receive the attention it deserves. Yet there is much more that needs to be said about racism in Scotland today.

Author : Ben Carrington,Ian McDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134578177

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`Race', Sport and British Society by Ben Carrington,Ian McDonald Pdf

Contrary to the popular belief that sport is an arena largely free from the corrosive effects of racism, this book argues that racism is evident throughout British sport. From playing fields and boardrooms of sports organisations, to the offices of sports policy makers and the media, this book breaks new ground in showing how discourses of 'race' and nation continue to pervade our sporting life. Looking at a range of sports, including football, rugby league and cricket, this book covers key topics such as: * British nationalism and nationalist ideology * racial science and the images of Asian and black physicality * sport, racism and the law * black feminism and the issues of race, gender and sport * the role of the media in perpetuating and challenging racial stereotypes. Challenging the prevailing liberal view that sport is one area of society where 'good race-relations' are developed, this book offers a wealth of research material, and a strong theoretical perspective on contemporary British sport. It will therefore be of vital interest to sociologists, sports studies students, sport policy-makers and anyone with an interest in contemporary British sport.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : English literature
ISBN : IND:30000087848564

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Scottish Studies Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hugh Kearney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107623897

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The British Isles by Hugh Kearney Pdf

Hugh Kearney's classic account of the history of the British Isles from pre-Roman times to the present is distinguished by its treatment of English history as part of a wider 'history of four nations'. Not only focusing on England, it attempts to deal with the histories of Wales, Ireland and Scotland in their own terms, whilst recognising that they too have political, religious and cultural divides. This new edition endeavours to recognise and examine contemporary multi-ethnic Britain and its implications for 'four-nations' history, making it an invaluable case study for European nationhood of the past and present. Thoroughly updated throughout to take into account recent social, political and cultural changes within Britain and examine the rise of multi-ethnic Britain, this revised edition also contains a completely new set of illustrations, including sixteen maps.

Author : Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille,Geraldine Vaughan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030428822

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Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600–2000 by Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille,Geraldine Vaughan Pdf

This edited collection brings together varying angles and approaches to tackle the multi-dimensional issue of anti-Catholicism since the Protestant Reformation in Britain and Ireland. It is of course difficult to infer from such geographically and historically diverse studies one single contention, but what the book as a whole suggests is that there can be no teleological narration of anti-Catholicism – its manifestations were episodic, more or less rooted in common worldviews, and its history does not end today.

Author : John Ashton
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857906427

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Scotland's Shame by John Ashton Pdf

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was one of the most notorious acts of terrorism in recent history. Its political and foreign policy repercussions have been enormous, and twenty-five years after the atrocity in which 270 lost their lives, debate still rages over the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, as well as his controversial release on compassionate grounds by Scotland's SNP government in 2009. John Ashton argues that the guilty verdict, delivered by some of Scotland's most senior judges, was perverse and irrational, and details how prosecutors withheld numerous items of evidence that were favourable to Megrahi. It accuses successive Scottish governments of turning their back on the scandal and pretending that the country's treasured independent criminal justice system remains untainted. With numerous observers believing the Crown Office is out of control and the judiciary stuck in the last century, politicians must address these problems or their aspirations for Scotland to become a modern European social democracy are bound to fail.