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Offering a refreshing change from standard histories, which so often tell a nation's story in terms of big events and personalities, Set on a Hill is an engrossing and entertaining book which looks at the broad sweep of Scotland's history from the perspective of just one small Scottish town - Auchterarder. The story begins in the first century AD, when the Strathearn area lay near the northern frontier of the Roman empire, and continues through the age of Picts, Scots and Britons and Vikings to the coming of Christianity and the medieval Church. Robin Bell then traces Auchterarder's history through the Renaissance, Enlightenment, the Agricultural and Industrial revolutions, the improvements of the Victorian era, the two world wars and ends in 2005, when the world-famous Gleneagles hotel hosted the G8 summit. Set on a Hill highlights an area that has been of surprising strategic historical importance for thousands of years, and shows how international events affect a local community and how it often turns round and effects them right back.
| Choosing a Viewpoint | p. 1 |
| The Evolving Landscape and the First Settlers | p. 2 |
| The Romans. The Flavian Occupation | p. 5 |
| The Romans. The Antonine and Severan Occupations | p. 8 |
| Picts, Scots, Britons and the New Europeans | p. 10 |
| The Coming of Christianity to Scotland | p. 13 |
| Fortriu, Islam and the Vikings | p. 16 |
| The Normans | p. 22 |
| The Rise of Royal Burghs | p. 26 |
| The Power of the Mediaeval Church | p. 29 |
| The First British United Kingdom | p. 36 |
| The Great Mediaeval Families of Central Scotland | p. 41 |
| The Death of Chivalry | p. 47 |
| The End of the Middle Ages | p. 53 |
| The Start of the Modern World | p. 60 |
| The Reformation Begins | p. 66 |
| The Peace of Auchterarder | p. 71 |
| A Catholic Queen and her Protestant Son | p. 78 |
| Inquisitions and Visitations | p. 83 |
| The Union of the Crowns and the Burning of Witches | p. 88 |
| The Thirty Years War | p. 95 |
| James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose | p. 100 |
| Inglorious Restoration and Glorious Revolution | p. 106 |
| The Union of the Parliaments | p. 114 |
| Jacobite Scorched Earth | p. 121 |
| Enlightenment and Military Roads | p. 128 |
| The Forty-Five Rebellion and the Agricultural Revolution | p. 134 |
| The English-speaking World Divides Again | p. 140 |
| The Pax Britannica and the Industrial Revolution | p. 148 |
| Foreign War and Domestic Peace | p. 156 |
| Public Water and Public Land | p. 166 |
| The Spirit of Reform | p. 175 |
| The Coming of the Railways | p. 184 |
| Industrial Magnates and Radical Weavers | p. 190 |
| Victorian Valour and Public Services | p. 197 |
| Democracy at Work and Play | p. 204 |
| The Edwardian Era | p. 213 |
| The First World War | p. 218 |
| The Roaring Twenties and After | p. 226 |
| The Second World War | p. 237 |
| Postwar Regeneration | p. 245 |
| The Swinging Sixties | p. 252 |
| The End of the Second Millennium | p. 257 |
| The New Millennium and the Gleneagles G8 Summit | p. 264 |
| Index | p. 273 |
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ISBN: 9781841589947
ISBN-10: 1841589942
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 256
Published: 1st June 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.3 x 15.7
x 2.9
Weight (kg): 0.517
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