Шотландия. Автобиография
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Medical Officers of Perth and Barlinnie prisons («Force-feeding Suffragettes»), from National Archives of Scotland, HH5 5/327.
Melville, James («Schooldays»), Memoirs of James Melville, quoted in Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Scottish Pageant, vol. II (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1948).
Melville, Sir James («The Murder of Riccio»), Sir James Melville, quoted in Scottish Diaries and Memoirs 1550–1746, ed. J. G. Fyfe (Stirling, 1927).
Mendelssohn, Felix Bartholdy («Mendelssohn Visits Scotland»), from Felix Mendelssohn: A Life in Letters, ed. Rudolf Elvers, translated from German by Craig Tomlinson (Fromm International Publishing Corporation, New York, 1986).
Mill, Reverend John («Superstition and Punishment»), from The Diary of the Reverend John Mill, minister of the parishes of Dunrossness, Sadmck and Cunningsburgh in Shetland, 1740–1803(Edinburgh, 1889).
Mitchell, Joseph («Law and Justice in the Highlands» and
Moryson, Fynes («The Scottish Diet»), Fynes Moryson, in Early Travellers in Scotland, ed. P. Hume Brown (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1891).
Muir, Edwin («Edinburgh and Its Street Girls»), from Edwin Muir, Scottish Journey(Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1979). Reprinted with permission by the publisher.
Muir, Thomas («The Trial of „the Pest of Scotland“»), from The Trial of Thomas Muir, younger, of Huntershill, Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on the 30th and 31st Days of August, 1793(London, 1793).
Myles, James («Child Worker in a Dundee Factory»), from James Myles, Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy(Dundee, 1850).
Nithsdale, the Countess of («A Jacobite Escapes from the Tower of London»), from Genuine Account of the Escape of Lord Nithsdale written by the Countess of Nithsdale, to her sister, Lady Lucy Herbert, Abbess of the Augustine Nuns, of Bruges (National Library of Scotland, manuscript archive).
Obree, Graeme («The Flying Scotsman breaks the World Hour Re-cord»), from Graeme Obree, Flying Scotsman, the Graeme Obree Story(Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2003). Extract reproduced by permission of Birlinn Ltd ( www.birlinn.co.uk).
Owen, Robert («An Experiment in Humanity»), from Report of Minutes of Evidence Taken by the Select Committee on the State of the Children Employed in the Manufactories of the United Kingdom (Parliamentary Papers, vol. 3,1816), quoted in Scottish Voices, 1745–1960, eds. Т. C. Smout and Sydney Wood (William Collins and Sons, London, 1990).
Paris, Matthew («Viking Invaders»), from Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, vol. I, quoted in Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers, AD 500–1286, collected and translated by Alan Orr Anderson (Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1991).
Park, Mungo («African Exploration»), from Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa(London, 1799), quoted in The Oxford Book of Exploration, ed. Robin Hanbury-Tenison (OUP, Oxford, 1993).
Patrick, James («A Glasgow Gang»), from James Patrick, A Glasgow Gang Observed(Eyre Methuen, London, 1973),
Petrie, Reverend Adam («Manners»), from Rules of Good Deportment, or of Good Breeding for the Use of Youth(Edinburgh, 1720), in The Works of Adam Petrie, the Scotish [sic] Chesterfield(Edinburgh, 1877).
Playfair, John («The Age of the Earth Is Proved by James Hutton»), quoted in Donald B. Mclntyre and Alan McKirdy , James Hutton: The Founder of Modem Geology(NMS Publishing, Edinburgh, 2001).
Pollock, Thomas («Smallpox»), from The Statistical Account of Scotland 1791–1799:Vol. VI Ayrshire (parish of Kilwinning), ed. Sir John Sinclair quoted in Modem Scottish History 1707 to the Present: Vol. 5 Major Documents, ed. Anthony Cooke, Ian Donnachie, Ann MacSween, Christopher A. Whatley (Tuckwell Press, Edinburgh, 1998).
Porte, Isa («Rape»), quoted in Voices from the Hunger Marches,ed. Ian MacDougall (Polygon, Edinburgh, 1990). Extract reproduced by permission of Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd ( www.birlinn.co.uk).
The Presbytery of Glasgow («No Pipe-playing on Sundays»), the Presbytery of Glasgow, Kirk Session of Glasgow, 1573, quoted in Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Scottish Pageant, vol. II (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1948).
Rafferty, John («Scotland Beats the English World Cup Team»), the Scotsman, 17 April 1967. Copyright
Register of the Privy Council («The First New Year’s Day»), the Privy Council of Scotland, 1599, quoted in Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Scottish Pageant, vol. II (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1948).
Register of the Privy Council («A Good Use for the Plantations»), Register of the Privy Council, 3rd series, ii, quoted in Source Book of Scottish History, vol. I, ed. W. Croft Dickinson, Gordon Donaldson, Isabel A. Milne (Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, Edinburgh, 1958).
Reid, Jimmy («The Upper Clydeside Shipyards’ Work-in»), from «The UCS Campaign», in Jimmy Reid, Reflections of a Clyde-Built Man,ed. Ruth Wishart (Souvenir Press, London, 1976). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Robertson, James («The Day They Buried Princess Diana»), an extract from his essay «Six Deaths, Two Funerals, a Wedding and a Divorce», first published in Scotland into the New Era(Canongate, Edinburgh, 2000). Reproduced by permission of the author.