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Steve Hothersall and Janine Bolger, Social Policy for Social Work, Social Care and the Caring Professions: Scottish Perspectives
No full textSteve Hothersall and Janine Bolger, Social Policy for Social Work,
Social Care and the Caring Professions: Scottish Perspectives. Surrey: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 466. ISBN 978-0-7546-7636-2. £25.00
A Scottish Triumphal Path of Learning at George Heriot\u27s Hospital, Edinburgh
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"Matriarchal" or "Patriarchal"? Dundee, Women and Municipal Party Politics in Scotland c.1918-c.1939
No full textDundee has long enjoyed a reputation as a ‘women’s town’. While not every historian has wholeheartedly agreed with this idea, it is true that in women have played a very prominent part in many aspects of the city’s history, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It therefore might be expected that women would play a significant role in the governance of their city in the years after 1918 when women started to gain election to Scottish city councils. However, only a few women sought election to Dundee council before 1939, and Dundee compares poorly with other parts of Scotland in respect to the number of female councillors and council candidates it had during the interwar period. Indeed it can be argued that there was a wider trend of women making less of an impact in party politics in Dundee than they did elsewhere in Scotland after 1918. Several factors influenced this pattern including the fact Dundee had an unusually high number of women in paid employment. However there is also evidence that women in Dundee faced opposition and apathy to the idea of them pursing active political roles. Given the idea that the city was a ‘women’s town’ this may seem odd. Yet, ironically, it can be proposed that the fact women played an atypically high-profile role in other areas of what is often termed the ‘public sphere’ may have actually hindered Dundonian women’s involvement in municipal party politics
William P. Kelly and John R. Young, eds., Scotland and the Ulster Plantations: Explorations in the British Settlements of Stuart Ireland
No full textLand and the “Crofter Question” in Nineteenth-Century Scotland
No full textThe scale and rapidity of the outbreak of land agitation in the Scottish Highlands in the 1880s took many onlookers by surprise, reflecting a general perception in Britain of the Highlanders as loyal and, in the decades following the suppression of the Jacobites, \u27pacified\u27. This article sets the events of 1880s into a longer-term context, and examines the balance between \u27internal\u27 and \u27external\u27 forces on the development of the \u27Crofters\u27 War\u27
