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Ideas of kinship play a significant role in structuring everyday life, and yet kinship has been neglected in Christian ethics, moral philosophy and bioethics. Attention has been paid in these disciplines to the ethics of 'family, ' but with little regard to the evidence that kinship varies widely from culture-to-culture, suggesting that it is, in fact, culturally constructed. Surveying notions of shared substance (e.g. blood ties), house, gend...

How have the Scottish Conservatives influenced Scottish politics?

The incredible story of the first Labour administration and the 'wild men' who shook up the British establishment. In 1923, in only the second election since all adult men had gained the vote, an unprecedented result opened the door for a radically different sort of government: men from working-class backgrounds, who had never before occupied the corridors of power in Westminster. The Wild Men tells the story of that first Labour administrat...

Explores how the Scottish Conservative and Unionist parties have influenced the political landscape in Scotland between 1868 and 2021 The Scottish Unionist Party was the dominant party of inter-war Scotland, and while its electoral fortunes declined with the rise of the Labour and Scottish National parties during the 1960s, it remained a central force in Scottish politics after its 1965 rebranding as the Scottish Conservative Party. More recen...

Explores the development of the Scottish Liberal Party's organisation, ideology and electoral performance over two centuries

Explores the development of the Scottish Liberal Party's organisation, ideology and electoral performance over two centuries

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What makes a speech great?In this second volume of Great Scottish Speeches, more than 60 speeches made by Scots or by others in Scotland have been drawn together, not necessarily for their heart-stopping eloquence (although many have that), but as a testament to their enduring historical significance. These speeches each provide a snapshot of the social, cultural or political context in which they were made, a celebration of the power of great...

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Examining the startling revival of the Scottish Conservative Party under Ruth Davidson's leadership When Ruth Davidson was elected leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party in 2011, the party was considered something of a joke: in electoral decline for decades, politically irrelevant and apparently beyond the point of no return. But, by 2017 'Ruth Davidson's Conservatives' became Scotland's second party at Holyrood and Westminste...

Examining the startling revival of the Scottish Conservative Party under Ruth Davidson's leadership When Ruth Davidson was elected leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party in 2011, the party was considered something of a joke: in electoral decline for decades, politically irrelevant and apparently beyond the point of no return. But, by 2017 'Ruth Davidson's Conservatives' became Scotland's second party at Holyrood and Westminste...

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Born in Edinburgh in 1932, James John Clyde, The Rt Hon. the Lord Clyde of Briglands, was a judge with a distinguished career who made a major contribution to the building of modern public law across the United Kingdom.This biography charts James¿s life, in which he initially aimed to replicate that of his father and grandfather, who both became Lord President, the most senior position in the Scottish legal profession. However, as his career u...

Knowing What to Write brings together new and recent research and theory exploring the cognitive processes involved in retrieving, ordering and creating knowledge during text production. Contributions from cognitive psychology, text linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computer science combine to provide a sophisticated and wide-ranging picture of the ways in which writers develop and structure their ideas. This book is recommended both to writ...

A history of 'hidden' nationalism in Scottish party politics This book reassesses the relationship between 'nationalism' and 'unionism' in Scottish politics, challenging a binary reading of the two ideologies with the concept of 'nationalist unionism'. Scottish nationalism did not begin with the SNP in 1934, nor was it confined to political parties which desired independent statehood. Rather it was more dispersed, with the Liberal, Conservativ...

David Torrance combines nationalist theory with empirical historical and archival research to reassess the relationship between 'nationalism' and 'unionism' in Scottish politics, challenging a binary reading of the two ideologies with the concept of 'nationalist unionism'.

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Explores the history and ideas of the Scottish Conservative Party since its creation in 1912

This timely book addresses the problem of the family in crisis and challenges us to look at family values from a biblical perspective. Some of these are hard questions and we will not all agree on how to tackle them, but God, Family and Sexuality is a wonderful place to start." --Linden Bowing, CARE "Christian faith should be marked by a distinctive lifestyle. Nowhere in our culture is that distinctiveness being challenged more than in the are...

This book while presenting the contribution of a variety of scholars also presents important statements of Churches today on the Jewish people and her place in God's purpose for the world. It also gives statistics of Jewish communities. "This book is written because the contributors, although at times differing in Biblical interpretation, are persuaded of the importance of the witness of the Jews to God. Its aim is not to present only one inte...