books by Hugh Cheape

books by Hugh Cheape

books:

Hugh Cheape

Review of Scottish Culture: v. 8

Tuckwell Press Ltd, 1993

Founded in 1984, "ROSC" is well established as a source of information on all aspects of Scottish life, including comparative material from elsewhere in Europe. This book includes reviews by Alisoun Gardner-Medwin, Colleen E. Batey and Dorothy I. Kidd.

Witness to Rebellion: John Maclean's Diary of the Forty-five and the Penicuik Drawings
John Maclean

Tuckwell Press Ltd, 1996

Published to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Culloden, which ended the Stuart dynasty's final attempt to reclaim the British throne, this book presents two new primary sources of evidence - one verbal and one visual. The "Journal of John Maclean" is a first-hand account of the experiences of an officer of Prince Charles ...

Tartan: The Highland Habit

Hugh Cheape

Univ of Washington Pr, 1992

The truth about Tartan
This profusely illustrated little book is an excellent primer on the history of tartan from Roman times to the present. Of particular value are the illustrations and portraits of how tartan garments were worn in times past. Kilts, for instance, are fairly modern. ...

Bagpipes: A National Collection of a National Treasure
Hugh Cheape

National Museums Of Scotland, 2008

The Scottish bagpipe has a romance all its own. Here is the story behind the magnificent collection of bagpipes in National Museums of Scotland.

The Book of the Bagpipe

Hugh Cheape

Appletree Press (IE), 1999

A Fantastic Read!
If you're a piper, Irish, Scottish, or just love the Celtic culture, "The Book of the Bagpipe" is a great book to own! It's full of information about the history of the great Highland bagpipes, bagpipe music, and bagpipers. This book also contains information on ...

Tartan: The Highland Habit
Hugh Cheape

National Museums Of Scotland, 2006

The tartan is perhaps the world's all-time fashion favorite, and this is the third edition of Tartan. A bestseller for years (the last edition came out in 1995), this redesigned book has a larger format , with additional pages, information on women's Highland habit and the results of new scientific tests carried out on the dye of a kilt allegedly

A Very Civil People: Hebridean Folk History and Tradition
John Lorne Campbell

Birlinn Ltd, 1999

Tools and Traditions

National Museums of Scotland, 1993

How do the eating habits of the Scots and Hungarians differ? What are cultural comparisons between the Gaelic peoples of Ireland and Scotland? Here a fascinating array of artefacts is interpreted. Distributed by Woodstocker Books.

Periods in Highland History

I F; Cheape, Hugh Grant

Barnes & Noble, 2000

A rare gem
The book was written by people sympathetic to the region. The mix of history, myth and folklore is refreshing; Gaelic sources were used where possible. Normally books about Scotland deal with the south, the political centre since the fifteenth century and the Highlands ...