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Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police. The term is often used, popularly, to refer to one branch, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Named after a short street in London, the site of a palace used in the 12th cent. as a residence of visiting Scottish kings, it... Read more |
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Tweed (river)
Tweed river, 97 mi (156 km) long, rising in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It flows E through S Scotland then NE, forming the Scotland-England border for 17 mi (27 km) before entering the North Sea at Berwick, NE England. The Tweed system drains most of SE Scotland; the Gala, Ettrick, and Teviot... Read more |
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Margaret Maid of Norway
Margaret Maid of Norway 1283-90, queen of Scotland (1286-90), daughter of Eric II of Norway and granddaughter of Alexander III of Scotland. In 1284 the nobles of Scotland recognized the infant Norwegian princess as heiress presumptive to the Scottish throne, and on Alexander III's death Margaret... Read more |
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George Wishart
George Wishart , 1513?-1546, Scottish religious reformer, Protestant martyr. He was master of a grammar school in Montrose. In 1538 he fled Scotland to escape charges of heresy; he was in England for a short time, then on the Continent. In 1544 he is thought to have returned to Scotland, where he... Read more |
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Matilda (Scotland)
Matilda ( Maud) (d. 1131), queen of David I of Scotland. Widow of Simon de Senlis and daughter of Earl Waltheof of Northumbria and his wife Judith, William the Conqueror's niece, she married the future David I in 1113. This marriage, arranged by Henry I, was of profound significance for... Read more |
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Dunkeld
Dunkeld , village, Perth and Kinross, central Scotland. It was a center of Celtic Christianity and the seat of the early Scottish kings.... Read more |
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Saint Margaret of Scotland
Saint Margaret of Scotland d. 1093, queen consort of Malcolm III and sister of Edgar Atheling. She was married to Malcolm c.1070. A deeply religious woman, she worked to replace the Celtic practices of the Scottish church with those of Rome. She did this partly by bringing many English priests... Read more |
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Britain
Britain , alternate term for Great Britain, comprised of England, Scotland, and Wales. Often used synonymously with the United Kingdom, the name Britain is derived from Britannia, given by the Romans to the portion of the island of Great Britain that they occupied. It has sometimes been used to... Read more |
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Battle of Dollar
Dollar, battle of, c.875. The battle, east of Alloa, Scotland, was a crushing defeat for Constantine I of Alba by the Norsemen, led by Halfdan of York. The whole northern part of Scotland was conceded to the invaders. Though the chronology is very doubtful, the reality of serious warfare is clear.... Read more |
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Fraserburgh
Fraserburgh , town (1991 pop. 12,478), Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland, on the North Sea. It is one of Scotland's leading fishing ports. Herring and whitefish are caught. It was founded in 1570 by Sir Alexander Fraser, and the remains of his castle are at Kinnairds Head below a lighthouse.... Read more |
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Last Night's Review TV History returns to the Dark Ages
...for devoting the whole review to **Monarchy. I...supposedly "British" history series. As if Simon...the whole of England, Scotland and Wales, which sounds...course they're playing Scotland, Ireland, or Wales...unlikely ever to present a TV ... |
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Before Scotland: The Story of Scotland Before History.(Book review)
...story of Scotland before history. 352 pp., maps, plates...95 (cloth) Before Scotland is a good and engaging...Childe's Prehistory of Scotland of 1935 (and subsequent...and Stuart Piggott's Scotland before history of ... |
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Scottish history on the margins.(Curious Scotland: Tales from a Hidden...
Curious Scotland: Tales from a Hidden History. George Rosie. Granta...playwright, and author of TV documentaries, not an...Defoe's activities in Scotland before the Union of 1707...the informal return to Scotland by Glasgow students of... |
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TV REVIEW: Absolutely Fabulous, BBC1, Friday Celebrity Dog School, BBC1,...
...with a snore if not a snort into comedy history. Thus was Absolutely Fabulous born in...The welcome new series of Artworks Scotland was totally fresh. Too many years ago...the punters. This Artworks profile of Scotland's magisterial poet Edwin Morgan was... |
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TV Review: Power to the people who tell it like it is
...wonderful world of British TV rather than embarking...as part of O-level history. This isn't a criticism...documentary homed in on the Scotland of the 1950s, dispelling...less hazardous. Today, Scotland's new towns appear...myself back into the ... |
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TV Review:Strange feeling from the Sistine ceiling
...Sunday Destination Scotland, BBC2, Sunday Hey Da...this event in recent history is inextricably linked...It was that rarity: a TV-reality moment of selfless...ignoring the cameras. BBC Scotland began a three-part...series, **Destination ... |
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TV Review: The TV cop with a heart of gold
...that despite a whole history of female police women...latest developmental review for us to get this point...tears. Now, I love my history documentaries, but I...Simon Schama's *A History of Britain, Channel...a new series from BBC Scotland ... |
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Loads of techno-toys and virtual effects, but what does it all mean?TV REVIEW...
...interminable, compulsive TV events, elections rank...virtual Downing Street. In Scotland, silence reigned, interrupted...campaign had much to do with Scotland. One argument, it transpired...devotees of election-night TV, it provided two moments...election ... |
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TV Review: Leave the slapstick to the professionals
...the skill range of British TV cameramen, but when neither...laugh. People from the west of Scotland speak in an unaffected monotone...the Ring of Fire. A west of Scotland monotone supplemented by south...outpouring at one stage in its history that it almost ... |
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Radio Reviews: Histories past, present and personal
Stark Talk, Radio Scotland, Sunday Private Passions...Ferguson's forte, and his TV series and books have...symbol, according to TV critics, one of whom...Foxy Ferguson ... History as the new cultural porn...intellectually flawed. Thus his TV ... |
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