Reconquering the Highlands: Hanoverian interpretations of Roman Scotland

2020 ◽  
pp. 112-130
Author(s):  
Alan Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Scottish Highlands ◽  
The North ◽  
Major General

The sixth chapter focuses on the years following the failure of the 1745 Jacobite uprising, a period which would witness dramatic social change, particularly in the Scottish Highlands. The Hanoverian regime’s attempt to subdue the north of Scotland and wipe out Gaelic culture was clearly based on ancient Roman precedents. In addition, a number of the Hanoverian military men who were based in Scotland after the ’45 would become interested in the region’s Roman heritage, leading to many new discoveries and influential publications. Best known among these men are General Robert Melville and Major General William Roy, whose posthumously published Roman Antiquities of the Romans in North Britain would include many maps and plans of Scottish Roman sites.

Traditionalism and politics: A case study of Northern Nigeria

1967 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. O. Dudley
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
High Time ◽  
The Political ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
The North ◽  
The Right

In the debate on the Native Authority (Amendment) Law of 1955, the late Premier of the North, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto, replying to the demand that ‘it is high time in the development of local government systems in this Region that obsolete and undemocratic ways of appointing Emirs’ Councils should close’, commented that ‘the right traditions that we have gone away from are the cutting off of the hands of thieves, and that has caused a lot of thieving in this country. Why should we not be cutting (off) the hands of thieves in order to reduce thieving? That is logical and it is lawful in our tradition and custom here.’ This could be read as a defence against social change, a recrudescence of ‘barbarism’ after the inroads of pax Britannica, and a plea for the retention of the status quo and the entrenched privilege of the political elite.

A reinterpretation of Scottish ‘hummocky moraine’ and its significance for the deglaciation of the Scottish Highlands during the Younger Dryas or Loch Lomond Stadial

1993 ◽  
Vol 130 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Bennett ◽  
Geoffrey S. Boulton
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Younger Dryas ◽  
North West ◽  
Scottish Highlands ◽  
Ice Cap ◽  
The North ◽  
Loch Lomond

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to demonstrate that much of the ‘hummocky moraine’ present within the northern part of the LochLomond Readvance ice cap formerly situated in the North West Scottish Highlands may be interpreted as suites of ice-front moraines deposited during active decay. These landforms can be used to reconstruct ice cap decay, whichleads to important insights into the shrinking form of the ice cap and associated environmental conditions. Evidence has been collected from 10803 airphotographs and from detailed field survey. It is presented at three spatial scales.

VI.—The Altered Clastic Rocks of the Southern Highlands, their Structure and Succession

1896 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 167-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Macnair
Keyword(s):  
Red Sandstone ◽  
North West ◽  
Scottish Highlands ◽  
Clastic Rocks ◽  
The North

In the following paper I propose to give an account of some observations upon the structure and succession of the rocks of the Southern Highlands. By the term Southern Highlands I mean that part of the Scottish Highlands lying immediately to the north-west of the great line of fault separating the older rocks of the former area from the younger Old Red Sandstone series of the low grounds.

scholarly journals Social Changes on Basisombow in The Community of Kampar Riau Regency

Catharsis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-76
Author(s):  
Osmawinda Putri ◽  
Hartono Hartono ◽  
Udi Utomo
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
The North ◽  
New Findings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Inspection Process

Basisombow is a literature that develops in the North Kampar of Kampar District. In antiquity Basisombow was used for traditional event, wedding, and circumcision event. The research aims to describe and analyze the social change of Basisombow in the community of Kampar Riau Regency. This study used qualitative research, with a sociological approach. Observation technology, interviews and documentation are used as instruments of the research in collecting the data. The data analysis procedures used data reduction, data presentation and data verification. The validity of the data in this study used Triangulation source that was performed for the inspection process by examining data from multiple sources. The results of the study that Basisombow experienced social change as follows: 1). Changes on Kampar community structure; 2). new findings and other cultural contacts; 3). Differences of opinion amongst generations. In particular, the findings in social change are influenced by 2 (two) factors such as; external and internal factors which are related to the social environment of the Kampar community.

XI.—The Glaciation of Holyhead Mountain

1904 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
pp. 504-505
Author(s):  
Edward Greenly
Keyword(s):  
Irish Sea ◽  
General Level ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Scottish Highlands ◽  
The North ◽  
The Irish Sea ◽  
North And South ◽  
Sea Cliffs

The bare and rocky hill known as Holyhead Mountain is of considerable interest in connection with recent geological events, standing as it does some thirty miles out from the highlands of Carnarvonshire into the Irish Sea Basin; and in such remarkable isolation, for it is much the highest of the five hills which rise above the general level of the platform of Anglesey.Its height is only 721 feet, but so strongly featured is it, especially towards the west, that one feels the term ‘mountain’ to be no misnomer, and can hardly believe it to be really lower than many of our smooth wolds and downs of Oolite and Chalk. Being composed, moreover, of white quartzite (or more properly of quartzite-schist), and being so bare of vegetation, it recalls much more vividly certain types of scenery in the Scottish Highlands than anything in those Welsh mountains that one sees from its sides. Towards the east it slopes at a moderate angle, but a little west of the summit it is traversed by a very strong feature, due to a fault, running nearly north and south, along which is a line of great crags, facing west, and prolonged northwards into the still greater sea cliffs towards the North Stack. Beyond this the land still remains high, but is smoother in outline, a somewhat softer series of rocks extending from the fault to the South Stack, where the high moors end off in great cliffs above the sea.

The Funeral of Henry Percy, Sixth Earl of Northumberland

1990 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Broce ◽  
Richard M. Wunderli
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Political Information ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
Central Authority ◽  
Rapid Social Change ◽  
The North ◽  
One Step ◽  
Main Instrument

The staging of aristocratic funerals was among the variety of ideological controls and display employed by Henry VIII to reduce the great magnate families of the north and place the country under central authority. An examination of the funeral of Henry Percy (1502/03?–1537) may be especially instructive because of the important and unusual relationship between the Crown and Percy. In fact, the sixth earl's funeral is worth examining in detail because it clearly reflected not only this personal and family relationship but also one step in the transfer of power from the north to the court.It was not at all unusual that the College of Arms should have been a main instrument by which Henry VIII manipulated the ceremony. As marshalls of aristocratic Tudor funerals and prominent participants in them, the heralds of the College customarily used the occasions to convey an abundance of political information whose display was intended to serve the interests of the Crown. This included information about the rank of the deceased, his or her relation to the Crown, and the enduring authority of the elite, all of which could be represented in symbols so conventional that their array and magnificence would communicate clear meaning. Henry VIII's subordination of the College and his support for it — increased prestige and employment for the heralds, for example, and their expansion from registrars to regulators of armorial bearings or insignia — may therefore be seen as attempts to help manage the aristocracy in a time of rapid social change.

The North Star Fund: A Resource for Progressive Social Change

Souls ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-89
Author(s):  
Betty Kapetanakis
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
The North

The NATO Defense College

1959 ◽  
Vol 63 (582) ◽  
pp. 369-371
Author(s):  
G. Kenyon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
United States Army ◽  
Air Force ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
French Government ◽  
The North ◽  
Trained Staff ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
Major General

The College owes its origin to the early days of NATO when the first Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Eisenhower, was confronted with the problem of finding suitably trained staff to fill the posts in the NATO organisation. He therefore proposed to the Standing Group that a Defense College should be formed to fulfil this function. This proposal was agreed and the French Government set aside part of the historic Ecole Militaire building in Paris to house the college. The first course began in November 1951, some two years after the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty and since then fifteen courses have been held, each of approximately six months duration.The first Commandant was Admiral Lemonnier of France, who was succeeded by Air Marshal Sir Lawrence Darvall, R.A.F., Great Britain, Lieutenant General Clovis E. Byers, United States Army, Lieutenant General de Renzi, Italian Army, and Major General Estcourt, British Army. The present Commandant is Lieutenant General Ariburun of the Turkish Air Force.

scholarly journals IV.—Moine Pebbles in Torridonian Conglomerates

1915 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 447-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Good Evidence ◽  
British Association ◽  
Remarkable Feature ◽  
North West ◽  
Scottish Highlands ◽  
The North ◽  
Moine Rocks ◽  
North Western

The relation of the Torridon Sandstone to the Moine Gneiss or ‘Eastern Schists’ is one of the primary questions in thegeology of the Scottish Highlands. These two widespread series ofrocks occur on opposite sides of the great overthrusts in North-Western Scotland; and another remarkable feature of their distributionis that though the Torridon Sandstone often rests directly upon theLewisian Gneiss, it never occurs on the Moine Gneiss. The view hastherefore been suggested that the Moine rocks are the easternmetamorphosed continuation of the Torridonian. Some altered Torridon Sandstones certainly resemble the rocks of the Moine Series.Dr. Home, in his address to the British Association in 1901, quotedthe authority of Dr. Teall and Dr. Peach for the resemblance ofaltered Torridon Sandstone to the Moine; and he again remarked thisresemblance in the memoir on the North-West Highlands. The lateW. Gunn went further, and in the same work claimed (p. 612) that “east of Dundonnell good evidence can be adduced that alteredTorridon Sandstone has entered largely into the composition of the Eastern schists”. The recent memoir on the Fannich Mountains represents some of the flaggy granulites of that district as due “to the crushing of Torridonn grit”.

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