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George Blake (1893–1961) was a Scottish journalist, literary editor and novelist. His ''The Shipbuilders'' (1935) is considered a significant and influential effort to write about the Scottish industrial working class. "At a time when the idea of myth was current in the Scottish literary world and other writers were forging theirs out of the facts and spirit of rural life, Blake took the iron and grease and the pride of the skilled worker to create one for industrial Scotland." As a literary critic, he wrote a noted work against the Kailyard school of Scottish fiction; and is taken to have formulated a broad-based thesis as cultural critic of the "kailyard" representing the "same ongoing movement in Scottish culture" that leads to "a cheapening, evasive, stereotyped view of Scottish life." He was well known as a BBC radio broadcaster by the 1930s. Early life He was born in Greenock, the son of Matthew Blake, machinery manufacturer, and his wife Ursula Scott McCulloch. He was educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kailyard School
The Kailyard school is a proposed literary movement of Scottish literature, Scottish fiction; kailyard works were published and were most popular roughly from 1880–1914. The term originated from literary critics who mostly disparaged the works said to be within the school; it was not a term of self-identification used by authors alleged to be within it. According to these critics, kailyard literature depicted an idealised version of rural Scottish life, and was typically unchallenging and sentimental. Origin and etymology The "Kailyard school" was first given that name in an article published April 1895 in the ''New Review'' by J.H. Millar, though its editor William Ernest Henley was heavily implicated to have created the term. The term was meant as a criticism that a certain group of Scottish authors offered an overly sentimental and idyllic representation of rural life, but it was potentially more a gripe against the popularity of the authors. The name derives from the Scots l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Faber
Sir Geoffrey Cust Faber (23 August 1889, Great Malvern – 31 March 1961) was a British academic, publisher, and poet. He was a nephew of the noted Catholic convert and hymn writer, Father Frederick William Faber, C.O., founder of the Brompton Oratory. Life Faber was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford. He gained a first in Classical Moderations in 1910 and a first in Literae Humaniores ('Greats') in 1912. In 1913 he joined the Oxford University Press. A fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, he was the founding editor of Faber and Gwyer (shortly afterwards Faber and Faber), one of the most celebrated of literary publishing houses. He was knighted in the 1954 New Years Honours List.UK list: His grave is located in the churchyard of St. James's Church, Stedham, West Sussex. Works ''Interflow, Poems Mainly Lyrical''(1915) * ''In the Valley of Vision: Poems Written in Time of War'' (1918) * ''Elnovia, An Entertainment for Novel Readers'' (1925) * ''Oxford Apost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern General Hospital
The Southern General Hospital (SGH) was a large teaching hospital with an acute operational bed complement of approximately 900 beds. The hospital was located in Linthouse in the south west of Glasgow, Scotland. All facilities and services have been succeeded by the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital which was constructed on the site of the old hospital. History The hospital had its origins in the Govan Combination Poorhouse located in old cavalry barracks at Eglinton Street in 1852. A new 240-bed hospital and 180-patient lunatic asylum were designed by James Thomson and completed in 1872. A major extension involving 700 more beds was completed in 1905. The hospital was formally renamed the Southern General Hospital in 1923 and it joined the National Health Service in 1948. Upgrading of the hospital's facilities began during the 1950s and culminated in the opening of a new maternity unit in 1970 and the completion of the Institute of Neurological Sciences in 1972, where the Gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Linklater
Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBE (8 March 1899 – 7 November 1974) was a Welsh-born Scottish poet, fiction writer, military historian, and travel writer. For '' The Wind on the Moon'', a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a British subject. Early life Linklater was born in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales to Orcadian Robert Baikie Linklater (1865–1916), a master mariner, and Mary Elizabeth (c. 1867–1957). He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and the University of Aberdeen, where he was president of the Aberdeen University Debater. He spent many years in Orkney and identified with the islands, where his father had been born. His maternal grandfather was a Swedish-born sea captain, so he had Scandinavian origins through both parents. Linklater is an Orcadian name derived from the Old Norse; throughout his life he maintained a sympathetic interest in Scandinavia.J. Keay and J. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Stewart (1907–1991)
Andrew Stewart may refer to: Law and politics * Andrew Stewart (American politician, died 1872) (1791–1872), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania * Andrew Stewart (American politician, died 1903) (1836–1903), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania * Charles Stewart (diplomat) (Andrew Charles Stewart, 1907–1979), British diplomat * Andrew Stewart, Lord Ericht (born 1963), Scottish judge, Senator of the College of Justice Nobility * Andrew Stewart, 1st Lord Avandale ( 1420–1488), Lord Chancellor of Scotland * Andrew Stewart, 2nd Lord Avondale ( 1505–1549), Scottish peer * Andrew Stewart, 1st Lord Avondale (second creation) (died 1513), Scottish nobleman * Andrew Stewart, 2nd Lord Ochiltree ( 1521–1591) Religion * Andrew Stewart (bishop of Moray) (1442–1501), Scottish prelate and administrator * Andrew Stewart (bishop of Caithness, died 1517), Bishop of Caithness and Treasurer of Scotland * Andrew Stewart (bishop of Caithness, died 1541) ( 1490–1541), Scotti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helensburgh
Helensburgh ( ; ) is a town on the north side of the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, situated at the mouth of the Gareloch. Historically in Dunbartonshire, it became part of Argyll and Bute following local government reorganisation in 1996. History History context (Prehistoric–1858) Although it has long been known that there are some prehistoric remains in the Helensburgh area, recent fieldwork by the North Clyde Archaeological Society has uncovered more. However the oldest building in the town itself is Ardencaple Castle which was the ancestral home of Clan MacAulay, and the history of which may date back to the twelfth century. Today only one tower of this building remains, the rest having been demolished in 1957–59. In 1752 Sir James Colquhoun (died 1786), chief of the Clan Colquhoun of Luss, bought the land which was to become Helensburgh; at that time it was known by such names as Malig, Millig or Milligs. In 1776 he placed an advertisement in a Glasgow newspaper seekin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish National Party
The Scottish National Party (SNP; ) is a Scottish nationalist and social democratic party. The party holds 61 of the 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament, and holds 9 out of the 57 Scottish seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons. It is represented by 419 of the 1,227 local councillors across Scotland. The SNP supports and campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom and for Scotland's membership in the European Union, with a platform based on progressive social policies and civic nationalism. Founded in 1934 with the amalgamation of the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish Party, the party has had continuous parliamentary List of Scottish National Party MPs, representation in Westminster since Winnie Ewing won the 1967 Hamilton by-election. With the establishment of the devolved Scottish Parliament in 1999, the SNP became the second-largest party, serving two terms as the Opposition (parliamentary), opposition. The SNP gaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Party
The Scottish (Self-Government) Party was a Scottish nationalist political party formed in 1932 by a group of members of the Unionist Party who favoured the establishment of a Dominion Scottish Parliament within the British Empire. The Scottish Party differed from the existing National Party of Scotland (NPS) on the grounds that the NPS and the form of Scottish independence it advocated was ambiguous about the Empire, and they also disagreed with the left-of-centre platform of the NPS. Origins The Scottish Party emerged in November 1932 as a breakaway from the Cathcart Unionist Association in Glasgow. In June that same year, members of the Association had set up an 'Imperial Committee', which was a pro- Scottish Home Rule front. The committee arranged meetings, made statements in support of Home Rule, and produced a manifesto which proposed replacing the Westminster Parliament with an Imperial Parliament, containing representatives from the British Empire, and establishing do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Party Of Scotland
The National Party of Scotland (NPS) was a centre-left political party in Scotland which was one of the predecessors of the current Scottish National Party (SNP). The NPS was the first Scottish nationalist political party, and the first which campaigned for Scottish self-determination. The National Party of Scotland was founded in 1928 by the amalgamation of the Scots National League (SNL), the Scottish National Movement (SNM) and the Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association (GUSNA). The NPS emerged from the consensus among members of these groups, and the Scottish Home Rule Association, that an independent political party, free of any connections to any existing parties, was the best way forward for achieving Scottish Home Rule. The NPS contested the 1929 and 1931 United Kingdom general elections, and a number of by-elections. In 1934 the NPS merged with the Scottish Party to form the Scottish National Party (SNP). Origins and history The NPS was formed in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Power (Scottish Politician)
William Power (30 August 1873 – 13 June 1951) was a Scottish writer, journalist, and politician. He was the leader of the Scottish National Party from 1940 to 1942, and served as President of the Scottish Convention between 1942 and 1951. Early life William Power was born in Woodlands, Glasgow, the eldest of the five children of William Power snr, a commission agent and ship master. He attended Woodside School in Glasgow, but had to leave at the age of fourteen as a result of his father's death at Gibraltar from fever, and found work as a bank clerk at the Royal Bank of Scotland. Margery Palmer McCulloch, ‘Power, William (1873–1951)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press He continued to read and educate himself, and frequently contributed essays and articles to newspaper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moray McLaren
Moray David Shaw McLaren (1901–1971) was a Scottish writer and broadcasting executive. Life Moray was born in Edinburgh in 1901 the son of Dr John Shaw McLaren FRCSE of 14 Walker Street in Edinburgh's fashionable West end He went to Merchiston Castle School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and spent time in Paris. He worked as assistant editor on the ''London Mercury'', before joining the staff of the British Broadcasting Corporation, where he was assistant editor of '' The Listener'' in 1929. McLaren moved back to Scotland in 1930 as a BBC Scottish Region radio executive, acting as deputy to David Cleghorn Thomson, his work ''Return to Scotland'' of that year laying emphasis on his Roman Catholic background. He announced his interest in Scottish nationalism in 1931 by supporting George Malcolm Thomson's pamphlet ''The Kingdom of Scotland Restored''. During the 1930s, McLaren was transferred to other posts within the BBC. He worked on the ''Radio Times'' under Eric M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Dewar Gibb
Andrew Dewar Gibb MBE QC (13 February 1888 – 24 January 1974) was a Scottish advocate, barrister, professor and politician. He taught law at Edinburgh and Cambridge, and was Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow 1934–1958. Ewen A. Cameron, 'Gibb, Andrew Dewar (1888–1974)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oct 2009; online edn, Sept 2010 Gibb was the leader of the (SNP) from 1936 to 1940. Early life and career Born in Paisley, the son of William Fletcher Gibb, a doctor, Gibb was educated at[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
