Scotlands Lost Industries

Author : Michael Meighan
Publisher : Amberley Pub Plc
ISBN 13 : 9781445609171
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scotland's Lost Industries written by Michael Meighan and published by Amberley Pub Plc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the 1960s, the Clyde was synonymous with the shipbuilding industry and many shipyards dotted both sides of the river all the way from Glasgow to Greenock. Today they have all but gone, waterside apartments, exhibition centres and light industrial units taking their place. But Scotland has many lost industries: from papermaking to gunpowder making, as well as whaling, the motor industry, steel making, coal mining, shipbreaking and locomotive manufacture. Once, Scotland was a heavily industrialised country, making all sorts of industrial goods, as well as food stuffs, cloth, coal, quarrying, paper, carpets, and other goods. From jam to jute, from motor cars to aeroplanes, from sewing machines to ships, Scotland made them all. Nowadays, the majority of the industries found in Scotland at the turn of the twentieth century have gone, replaced by newer forms of manufacture, from the drilling of oil to the electronics industry. Michael Meighan takes us on a trip down memory lane, when Scotland was an industrial powerhouse, making goods for the Empire and Commonwealth, as well as exporting to the world.

Author : Michael Meighan
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144562401X
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scotland's Lost Industries written by Michael Meighan and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Meighan takes us on a journey into a time when Scotland, despite its small size, produced the best of everything, from stone to steel and rubber tyres to motor cars

Author : David Bremner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Industries of Scotland written by David Bremner and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William H Marwick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136935509
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scotland in Modern Times written by William H Marwick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1964. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ian Gow
Publisher : Aurum Press
ISBN 13 : 9781845133931
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scotland's Lost Houses written by Ian Gow and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1945 more than 200 of the most noted houses in Scotland have been lost, whether to fire, rot, or demolition. Fortunately, photographs were taken of many of these great structures both prior to and during their destruction. Collected here are images of 20 of the most important lost Scottish houses, among them Hamilton Palace, Rosneath, Balbardie, Amisfield, Gordon Castle, Guisachan, Dunglass, and Millearne. These images provide a fitting testimony to architectural masterpieces from a variety of eras and—in cases such as that or Murthly—offer a painstaking and heartbreaking record of their unfortunate demise.

Author : DAVID BREMNER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033124796
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book INDUSTRIES OF SCOTLAND written by DAVID BREMNER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Scottish Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215556288
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Video games industry in Scotland written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Scottish Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee urges the Government to make the future of the sector a priority in the face of emerging barriers for growth. This is a golden age of opportunity the Committee says for the industry and proper support for small companies accessing global audiences is vital, it is potentially a world leader for the UK. It warns that overseas government subsidies, cheaper labour markets and skills shortages have created an uneven international playing field and more encouragement for development and growth is needed. The possibility of a games industry tax relief should be kept under review and a comprehensive assessment of the benefits of a games tax relief should be carried out, along with an examination of countries whose industries flourish without such support. A shortage of adequately qualified graduates to sustain the industry is also a real concern, skills like maths and computer science being needed and the brain drain of graduates to countries offering better incentives. The creation and retention of intellectual property is seen as a priority issue for the UK video games industry and the Government's review of intellectual property taxation will be monitored. The failure of the creative industries Minister to lobby the Treasury directly on games tax relief is both surprising and disappointing and the Committee asks the Government to explain how the industry's voice will be heard properly in future.

Author : David Bremner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Industries of Scotland written by David Bremner and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rab Houston
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019157886X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scotland: A Very Short Introduction written by Rab Houston and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Devolution in 1999 Scotland has become a focus of intense interest both within Britain and throughout the wider world. In this Very Short Introduction, Rab Houston explores how an independent Scottish nation emerged in the Middle Ages, how it was irrevocably altered by Reformation, links with England and economic change, and how Scotland influenced the development of the modern world. Examining politics, law, society, religion, education, migration, and culture, he examines how the nation's history has made it distinct from England, both before and after Union, how it overcame internal tensions between Highland and Lowland society, and how it has today arrived at a political, social and culture watershed. Authoritative, lucid, and ranging widely over issues of environment, people, and identity, this is Scotland's story without myths: an ideal introduction for those interested in the Scots, but also a balanced yet refreshing challenge to those who already feel at home in Scotland past and present. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Jenny Wormald
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191622435
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scotland written by Jenny Wormald and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland has long had a romantic appeal which has tended to be focused on a few over-dramatized personalities or events, notably Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Highland Clearances - the failures and the sad - though more positively, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce have also got in on the act, because of their heroism in resisting English aggression. This has had its satisfaction, and has certainly been very good for the tourist industry. But, fuelled by the explosion of serious academic studies in the last half-century, there has grown up a keen desire for a better-informed and more satisfying understanding of the Scottish past - and not only in Scotland. The vague use of 'Britain' in books and television series which are in fact about England has begun to provoke adverse comment; there is clearly a growing desire for knowledge about the history of the non-English parts of the British Isles and Eire, already well established in Ireland and becoming increasingly obvious in Scotland and Wales. This book brings together a series of studies by well-established scholars of Scottish history, from Roman times until the present day, and makes the fruits of their research accessible to students and the general reader alike. It offers the opportunity to go beyond the old myths, legends, and romance to the much more rewarding knowledge of why Scotland was a remarkably successful, thriving, and important kingdom, of international renown.