{"title":"Frank Rennie, The Changing Outer Hebrides: Galson and the Meaning of Place","authors":"J. Desportes","doi":"10.3366/nor.2023.0284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/nor.2023.0284","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41518743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Political and social circumstances in fourteenth-century northern Scotland and the central Highlands have long received attention in late medieval Scottish history. However, compared with many studies on the late fourteenth century, discussions on the first half of the century are scarce, except from the perspectives of kingship and regnal politics. There has been little research on Moray under the Randolph family, though detailed examinations of other northern regions and baronial families have been made. In this article the structure and exercise of power in Moray under the first earl, Thomas Randolph is discussed. This paper demonstrates that the earl’s building ties with influential local families and utilising the pre-existing informal political network and formal royal administrative systems, were as crucial for the governance of his northern estates as acquiring proxy-royal, regalian, and judicial power. Indeed, the earl took the opportunity to reinforce his rule by migrating his southern followers and expressing his authority in a unique fashion. However, due to his dependence on the pre-existing power networks and structure, the local political society kept its continuity too. Moray under Thomas I was never free from disputes, but the relatively stable regional situation was the product of such continuity and change.
{"title":"The Structure and Exercise of Power in Moray under Thomas Randolph, First Earl of Moray, 1312–32","authors":"Y. Nakagawa","doi":"10.3366/nor.2023.0280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/nor.2023.0280","url":null,"abstract":"Political and social circumstances in fourteenth-century northern Scotland and the central Highlands have long received attention in late medieval Scottish history. However, compared with many studies on the late fourteenth century, discussions on the first half of the century are scarce, except from the perspectives of kingship and regnal politics. There has been little research on Moray under the Randolph family, though detailed examinations of other northern regions and baronial families have been made. In this article the structure and exercise of power in Moray under the first earl, Thomas Randolph is discussed. This paper demonstrates that the earl’s building ties with influential local families and utilising the pre-existing informal political network and formal royal administrative systems, were as crucial for the governance of his northern estates as acquiring proxy-royal, regalian, and judicial power. Indeed, the earl took the opportunity to reinforce his rule by migrating his southern followers and expressing his authority in a unique fashion. However, due to his dependence on the pre-existing power networks and structure, the local political society kept its continuity too. Moray under Thomas I was never free from disputes, but the relatively stable regional situation was the product of such continuity and change.","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44807187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Murray Pittock, Scotland – The Global History: 1603 to the Present","authors":"Matthew L. Mcdowell","doi":"10.3366/nor.2023.0285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/nor.2023.0285","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42458258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Statutory change in 1868 moved the places of execution on judicial warrant of a convicted person from an open venue to a closed prison room. The execution of Joseph Bell, one of the last such spectacles before a crowd, illustrates the demands made of local authority administration.
{"title":"The Management of the Public Execution of Joseph Bell in Mid-Victorian Scotland","authors":"R. Shiels","doi":"10.3366/nor.2023.0282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/nor.2023.0282","url":null,"abstract":"Statutory change in 1868 moved the places of execution on judicial warrant of a convicted person from an open venue to a closed prison room. The execution of Joseph Bell, one of the last such spectacles before a crowd, illustrates the demands made of local authority administration.","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44435377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Steve Boardman and David Ditchburn (eds), Kingship, Lordship and Sanctity in Medieval Britain: Essays in Honour of Alexander Grant","authors":"G. McKelvie","doi":"10.3366/nor.2023.0286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/nor.2023.0286","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41296619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In the mid-nineteenth century some merchants in Lerwick employed Moravian teachers, several from Ockbrook in Derbyshire, to teach in a series of schools that they established in the town. From 1842–54 John George Glass presided in one of their Subscription Schools, and later as parish headmaster. His teaching methods and personality, and the choir and orchestra that he established in Lerwick, ensured that he was long remembered and esteemed after his untimely death.
{"title":"‘As he came, so, mysteriously, did he vanish’: John George Glass, teacher in Lerwick, 1842–54","authors":"Brian Smith","doi":"10.3366/nor.2023.0281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/nor.2023.0281","url":null,"abstract":"In the mid-nineteenth century some merchants in Lerwick employed Moravian teachers, several from Ockbrook in Derbyshire, to teach in a series of schools that they established in the town. From 1842–54 John George Glass presided in one of their Subscription Schools, and later as parish headmaster. His teaching methods and personality, and the choir and orchestra that he established in Lerwick, ensured that he was long remembered and esteemed after his untimely death.","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44757260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Andrew Mackillop, Human Capital and Empire: Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British Imperialism in Asia, c.1690–c.1820","authors":"Graeme S. Millen","doi":"10.3366/nor.2023.0287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/nor.2023.0287","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47156336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In a tradition of nature and mountain writing in which the solitary male intellectual has long dominated, Kathleen Jamie and Nan Shepherd stood out as offering a new way of writing about the natural world. Inherent in their writing is a repositioning of humanity that neither separates the human from the living world, nor determines anything that is perceived there. Instead, both Jamie and Shepherd focus on their sensed experience of the world, on their bodily perception, as a means by which to interpret that world and to express their part of it. I will draw primarily on the non-fiction prose of both writers to establish this privileging of the senses of the body, and to consider then the relationship that language has with the body and the role that it can play in what Shepherd calls the ‘interpenetration’ of place and mind. 1 I will then consider how Jamie's and Shepherd's perspective shapes the writing of their texts, the journey from sensed experience of the living landscape, through its transformation into language, to the text formed by the writer, and the subsequent implications for the way in which nature writing connects with the living world from which it came.
{"title":"Word and World: Bodily Perception in the Narrative Non-fiction of Kathleen Jamie and Nan Shepherd","authors":"Kirsteen Bell","doi":"10.3366/nor.2022.0272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/nor.2022.0272","url":null,"abstract":"In a tradition of nature and mountain writing in which the solitary male intellectual has long dominated, Kathleen Jamie and Nan Shepherd stood out as offering a new way of writing about the natural world. Inherent in their writing is a repositioning of humanity that neither separates the human from the living world, nor determines anything that is perceived there. Instead, both Jamie and Shepherd focus on their sensed experience of the world, on their bodily perception, as a means by which to interpret that world and to express their part of it. I will draw primarily on the non-fiction prose of both writers to establish this privileging of the senses of the body, and to consider then the relationship that language has with the body and the role that it can play in what Shepherd calls the ‘interpenetration’ of place and mind. 1 I will then consider how Jamie's and Shepherd's perspective shapes the writing of their texts, the journey from sensed experience of the living landscape, through its transformation into language, to the text formed by the writer, and the subsequent implications for the way in which nature writing connects with the living world from which it came.","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49493792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The collapse of the Tay Bridge on the evening of Sunday 28 December 1879 was an event of global interest, partly no doubt because of the pathos of the loss of life on a structure that represented the best of engineering triumphs at that time. Many aspects of the disaster have either remained unexamined or have been subject to little sustained or critical research. The legal considerations of all the relevant events of 1879 have not been reviewed in much detail. The crucial engineering lessons for the Empire and the industrial world beyond British limits were such that an inquiry was convened and heard crucial evidence in London. The inherent unfairness in that procedure seems to have been hinted at in the past and is examined closely here.
{"title":"A Conflict of Interest at the Tay Bridge Disaster Inquiry","authors":"R. Shiels","doi":"10.3366/nor.2022.0271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/nor.2022.0271","url":null,"abstract":"The collapse of the Tay Bridge on the evening of Sunday 28 December 1879 was an event of global interest, partly no doubt because of the pathos of the loss of life on a structure that represented the best of engineering triumphs at that time. Many aspects of the disaster have either remained unexamined or have been subject to little sustained or critical research. The legal considerations of all the relevant events of 1879 have not been reviewed in much detail. The crucial engineering lessons for the Empire and the industrial world beyond British limits were such that an inquiry was convened and heard crucial evidence in London. The inherent unfairness in that procedure seems to have been hinted at in the past and is examined closely here.","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44333565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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