Airticles tagged “History”
Hou tae forder human skeels
Afore the simmer, I writ in ma afore gane airticle anent hou there is specific skeels that us humans haes that ither species disnae. But hou can we forder thir capacities? Mony human skeels appear tae hae developit in the situation in prehistoric East Africae whaur, acqueesh 135,000-90,000 year syne, there wis several drochts. Thir drochts wis brithert wi a chynge in material cultur. Archaeologists thinks this suggests some o the maist important intellectual skeels developit by wir species, like spikkin an abstract thocht, kythed at this time.
This mebbes appluised a richt muckle cousie for humanity. It turnt oot the early humans wis gittin a inlat for intellectual capacities tae develop.
Soonds o the kirk and coort: early muisic in Scotland
Whither in Italy, Germany, France or England, muisic bi gate o coort and kirk wis floorishin aw ower Europe in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. But what o Scotland? Wis it aw juist bagpipes, reels and fowk sangs? I pat on my speirer’s bunnet and haed a bit leuk. Atween c1430 and c1750—a time that comprehends twa muisical eras scholars caws the Renaissance and Baroque periods—Europe’s kirks and royal coorts …
Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts
The Pechts war warriors, fermers and airtists that ruled ower maist o Scotland throu the first millenia AD. They war the distinct fowk that emerged whan aa the hunners o wee clans in verra early Derk Age Scotland gaithert thegither. They spreid ae appearently homogenous cultur oot fae their hertlaunds in the saxt century, and suin Pechtland raxed ower maist o Scotland. Their name and the ends o their muckle launds are commemoratit in the Pentland Hills, sooth o Embra, and the Pentland Firth aff John O’ Groats, wi Pent bein anither name for Pecht. There’s a guid amoont o haivers spak aboot the Pechts, and little truith. Lat’s here ging on a wee journey throu the story o the Pechts and sort oot whit’s kent fae whit’s keech.
The Scots leid in Australian líteratur
Onybody that kens anent the Scots leid kens that Scots is spoken in Scotland, whaur the leid first upbiggit. Fowk will like eneuch ken that Scots exists in anither pairt: the’r the Ulster Scots, the Scots spik o Northren Ireland. But whit isnae sae weel kent is the Scots uised in Australie. It’s kenable that the main leids o Australie for hunneryears wis the aborigine leids, Dyirbal an Warlpiri amang …
The Body Snatchers
Nae ower lang syne there wis a scientific revolution in Europe. Doun sooth ye haed Newton gettin skelpit on the heid aff an aipple, an extrapolatin oot fae that aa the laws o motion on earth. Up here in bonnie Scotland we haed a wheen inventors in mony fields makkin muckle steps forrit, biggin up a comprehensive kennin o baith naitur an the universe. But ae field o science couldnae …