Tag Archives: Scottish history

Michael Brander’s Scottish & Border Battles & Ballads

Posted on 13th April 2016 by Diverse Voices

Lahri Bond penned this review. Scottish & Border Battles & Ballads is a mouthful, even for a Scot, and the concept is a little vague if you are impulse-buying this book. These are not ballads about the Scottish borders and battles … Continue reading →

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Deborah A. Symonds’s Weep Not For Me

Posted on 6th April 2016 by Michael M. Jones

This has not been an easy book to review, for several reasons. First of all, we must consider the full title, and the subject matter: Weep Not For Me: Women, Ballads, and Infanticide in Early Modern Scotland. That’s right, Deborah … Continue reading →

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Various Artists’ The Battle of Prestonpans 1745: Music and Songs of the Campaign

Posted on 31st March 2011 by Peter Massey

The album is subtitled as “A Companion to the Prestonpans Tapestry.” If you do not know what the Prestonpans Tapestry is, briefly it’s a tapestry instigated by Gordon Prestoungrange. In about 2002, at the Prestoungrange Arts Festival he commissioned Andrew … Continue reading →

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