Relevant bibliographies by topics / Royal and Agricultural Society of Scotland

Contents

  1. Journal articles
  2. Dissertations / Theses
  3. Books
  4. Book chapters
  5. Reports

Academic literature on the topic 'Royal and Agricultural Society of Scotland'

Author: Grafiati
Published: 4 June 2021
Last updated: 29 January 2023

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles

Select a source type:

Consult the lists of relevant articles, books, theses, conference reports, and other scholarly sources on the topic 'Royal and Agricultural Society of Scotland.'

Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.

You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.

Journal articles on the topic "Royal and Agricultural Society of Scotland"

1

Cullum, Adrienne. "2 Scotland's Health: Opportunities and Challenges for Scotland's Farming and Food Industries The Rowett Research Institute and The Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. Edinburgh, 7 November 1995." Nutrition Bulletin 20, no. 2 (May 1995): 159–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-3010.1995.tb00594.x.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
2

FORD, BRIAN J. "J. E. BURNETT and A. D. MORRISON-LOW. “Vulgar and Mechanick”. The scientific instrument trade in Ireland 1650–1921. (Royal Dublin Society Historical Studies in Irish science and technology, 8). National Museums of Scotland and Royal Dublin Society, Edinburgh and Dublin; 1989. Pp x, 166; illustrated. Price: IR£15. ISBN 0-86027-026-2." Archives of Natural History 18, no. 2 (June 1991): 286–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.1991.18.2.286a.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
3

BOUD, R. C. "THE HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND AND JOHN MACCULLOCH'S GEOLOGICAL MAP OF SCOTLAND." Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization 22, no. 2 (October 1985): 92–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/8514-157n-074u-6138.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
4

Buiter, Willem H. "Optimal Currency Areas Scottish Economic Society/Royal Bank of Scotland Annual Lecture, 1999." Scottish Journal of Political Economy 47, no. 3 (August 2000): 213–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9485.00161.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
5

Emslie-Smith, D. "Great Doctors and Medical Worthies." Scottish Medical Journal 33, no. 3 (June 1988): 280–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003693308803300315.

Full text
Abstract:
After Harvey's visits to Scotland with Charles I the formation of a united Caroline University in Aberdeen was thwarted by the Civil War. In Oxford Harvey instituted a group of medical scientists, forerunners of the Royal Society, who almost explained the physiology of respiration. Harvey had several things in common with Dr Samuel Johnson. Johnson's medical knowledge and contacts are emphasised, examples of 17th and 18th century health regimens are given and Johnson's friendship with Scottish medical men and some others connected with the Royal College of Physicians and the Harveian Society of Edinburgh are described.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
6

Boud, R. C. "The Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland and the Ordnance Survey of Scotland, 1837-1875." Cartographic Journal 23, no. 1 (June 1986): 3–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/caj.1986.23.1.3.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
7

Dilnot, Andrew. "The Future Welfare Burden; Scottish Economic Society/Royal Bank of Scotland Annual Lecture, 1998." Scottish Journal of Political Economy 46, no. 5 (November 1999): 489–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9485.00144.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
8

Johnes, Geraint. "The Management of Universities; Scottish Economic Society/Royal Bank of Scotland Annual Lecture, 1999." Scottish Journal of Political Economy 46, no. 5 (November 1999): 505–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9485.00145.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
9

Macilwain, Colin. "Royal Society Gauges Global Progress in Science." BioScience 61, no. 7 (July 2011): 576. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/bio.2011.61.7.17.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
10

Skinner, J. D. "Royal Society of South Africa." Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 60, no. 1 (April 2005): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00359190509519185.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
More sources

Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Royal and Agricultural Society of Scotland"

1

Sarich, Christopher E. "Evaluation of "The Australian" farm software competition conducted by the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 1996. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18329.pdf.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
2

Robinson, Anna Christina Mary. "'Children in good order' : a study of constructions of child protection in the work of the Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, in the West of Scotland, 1960-1989." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3506.

Full text
Abstract:
How did the Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children protect children in post war Glasgow? The analysis in this study of the 'construction' of child protection is centred upon three questions relating to the practice of the RSSPCC: What forms did intervention take? Who was the focus of practice? How and why did practice change during the 30 year period, 1960-1990, of this study? The period 1960-1990 witnessed rapid political, economic and social changes which contributed to the recognition by the state of social problems which affected families. The RSSPCC (founded in 1884) was established by the beginning of the twentieth century as the principal arm of the state in the investigation and prosecution of child abuse and neglect throughout Scotland. The Society sustained this key role up to the middle of the 1970s and then lost it completely in 1992. This study is not a history of the RSSPCC. However an historical perspective was adopted to further understanding of the organisation's role in Scottish society and in the lives of families whose standards of parenting were causing concern. The sources of that concern were found often within the family. Many mothers (less often fathers) sought assistance from the RSSPCC only to find themselves subjects of intense scrutiny and intervention. The analysis and conclusions of this study are derived from: the RSSPCC case records of intervention in the lives of 1,500 families, the records of 120 prosecutions of parents for cruelty and or neglect, a selection of Annual Reports from 1889 to 1993, and interviews with 51 RSSPCC staff. A theoretical framework which brought historical sociology, post structuralist models of power and feminism together with the concept of 'Adocentrism' (the unswerving allegiance to adult values) was developed to illuminate the puzzles, paradoxes and complexities of the changing constructions of child protection. This study concludes that the 'construction' of child protection developed and changed in response to a number of factors. However, the power to define and negotiate the subjects and boundaries of intervention was invariably retained by the professionals and furthermore the focus of that intervention was predominantly with and between adults.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
3

Boud, R. C. "The Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland : Episodes in £Tcartographic patronage£T and Government lobbying, 1833-1875." Thesis, Open University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.377363.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
4

Meyer, Paula. "Will the show go on? a marketing concept analysis of the management effectiveness of agricultural show societies in Australia /." View thesis, 2008. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/35888.

Full text
Abstract:
Thesis (M. Commerce (Hons.)) -- University of Western Sydney, 2008.
A thesis submitted to the University of Western Sydney, College of Business, School of Marketing, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Commerce (Honours). Includes bibliographical references.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
5

Marwick, Sandra M. "'Sons of Crispin' : the St Crispin societies of Edinburgh and Scotland." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4195.

Full text
Abstract:
City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries hold a substantial collection of artefacts and record books donated in 1909 by the office bearers of the Royal Ancient Order of St Crispin. This organisation was the final reincarnation of the Royal St Crispin Society established around 1817. From 1932 the display of a selection of these objects erroneously attributed their provenance to the Incorporation of Cordiners of Canongate with no interpretation of the meaning and use of this regalia. The association of shoemakers (cordiners in Scotland) with St Crispin their patron saint remained such that at least until the early twentieth century a shoemaker was popularly called a ‘Crispin' and collectively ‘sons of Crispin'. In medieval Scotland cordiners maintained altars to St Crispin and his brother St Crispianus and their cult can be traced to France in the sixth century. In the late sixteenth century an English rewriting of the legend achieved immediate popularity and St Crispin's Day continued to be remembered in England throughout the seventeenth century. Journeymen shoemakers in Scotland in the early eighteenth century commemorated their patron with processions; and the appellation ‘St Crispin Society' appeared in 1763. This thesis investigates the longevity of the shoemakers' attachment to St Crispin prior to the nineteenth century and analyses the origin, creation, organisation, development and demise of the Royal St Crispin Society and the network of lodges it created in Scotland in the period 1817-1909. Although showing the influence of freemasonry, the Royal St Crispin Society devised and practised rituals based on shoemaking legends and traditions. An interpretation of these rituals is given as well as an examination of the celebration of the saint's day and the organisation and significance of King Crispin processions. The interconnection of St Crispin artefacts and archival material held by Scottish museums and archives is demonstrated throughout the thesis.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
6

Meyer, Paula, University of Western Sydney, College of Business, and School of Marketing. "Will the show go on? : a marketing concept analysis of the management effectiveness of agricultural show societies in Australia." 2008. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/35888.

Full text
Abstract:
Agricultural shows are community-based festivals that represent a majority of festivals staged in rural destinations within Australia. Recent anecdotal evidence indicates their survival is being threatened. Declines in the overall number of shows and visitor attendance have been widely reported, yet an analysis of the reason for these declines has not been investigated. Agricultural shows are managed by volunteers within not-for-profit show societies who are finding it difficult to survive in an increasingly competitive and challenging external environment. Little is understood about these show societies, their volunteer managers and the management effectiveness. This study has addressed these gaps by investigating show society management effectiveness by means of a marketing concept paradigm. A case study method employing qualitative in-depth interviews with key show society members and other stakeholders was conducted on one agricultural show. Findings reveal that this show society is managed by volunteers whose primary involvement motivation is based upon self-interest in one or more components of the show. The majority of these individuals do not have management skills and expertise required to manage a festival and whilst it is important to note their volunteering contribution, it is this lack of skills and knowledge that has prevented a systematic approach to management. There is no attempt at consumer research, strategic planning, organisational planning or volunteer recruitment. The show programs do not change to reflect the current needs of the community, rather what is affordable, who can organise it and what has always been done. As a result, the case study show society is not employing a marketing concept orientation but a product concept orientation. This study concludes that without this focus, the show society will be ill equipped to meet changing customer demands and stay abreast of competitors. To assist agricultural shows to manage future challenges and adopt a marketing concept, a theoretical model has been proposed that incorporates existing frameworks and this study’s findings.
M. Commerce (Hons.)
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

Books on the topic "Royal and Agricultural Society of Scotland"

1

Harvests of change: The Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1838-1988. London: Quiller Press, 1988.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
2

Taking stock: The centenary history of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
3

Cyfri'r da: Hanes canmlynedd Cymdeithas Amaethyddol Frenhinol Cymru. Caerdydd: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 2003.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
4

1947-, Harrison S. John, Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain), eds. Climatic hazards in Scotland: Proceedings of the joint Royal Scottish Geographical Society and Royal Meteorological Society symposium, University of Stirling, June 1984. Norwich: Geo Books, 1985.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
5

Meeting, Royal Society (Great Britain) Discussion. Technology in the 1990s, agriculture and food: Proceedings of a Royal Society Discussion Meeting held on 17 and 18 October 1984. London: The Society, 1985.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
6

'A famous and flourishing society': The history of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1505-2005. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
7

O'r tir i'r tŵr. Caernarfon: Gwasg Gwynedd, 2007.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
8

Hanson, M. A. Contemporary ergonomics 1998: Proceedings of the annual conference of the Ergonomics Society Royal Agricultural College Cirencester 13 April 1998. London: Taylor & Francis, 1998.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
9

Ramsay, Alexander. History of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, With Notices of Antierior Societies for the Promotion of Agriculture in Scotland. Arkose Press, 2015.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
10

Society, Royal Hawaiian Agricultural. Transactions of the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society. HardPress, 2020.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
More sources

Book chapters on the topic "Royal and Agricultural Society of Scotland"

1

Clout, Hugh. "John Terence Coppock 1921–2000." In Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 115 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, I. British Academy, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197262788.003.0010.

Full text
Abstract:
Terry Coppock FBA was a pioneer in three areas of scholarship – agricultural geography, land-use management and computer applications – whose academic career was at University College London and the University of Edinburgh, where he was the first holder of the Ogilvie Chair in Geography. He received the Victoria Medal from the Royal Geographic Society and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1976. Coppock, who was Secretary and then Chair of the Commission on World Food Problems and Agricultural Productivity of the International Geographical Union, served as Secretary Treasurer of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Obituary by Hugh Clout FBA.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
2

MacQueen, Hector L. "Lords’ Courts and Royal Justice." In Common Law and Feudal Society in Medieval Scotland, 33–73. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474407465.003.0002.

Full text
Abstract:
This chapter explores the general relationship between lords’ courts and royal justice in medieval Scotland. The existence and operation of lords’ courts from the twelfth century on is considered, highlighting a Milsomian distinction between their ‘disciplinary’ and ‘proprietary’ jurisdictions. Then the development of royal justice in the same period is examined, stressing its regularisation and its assertion of ultimate control over justice in the lords’ courts without displacing them. Finally, the interaction of royal and lordship courts in the later middle ages is examined. While a theory of the former’s jurisdictional superiority prevailed, that still left a substantial role for private justice in lords’ courts (as well as for arbitration and other informal dispute-settlement mechanisms). But the royal justiciars remained powerful figures in the king’s justice. The systems interacted rather than competed for supremacy.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
3

"Chapter 2 Lords’ Courts and Royal Justice." In Common Law and Feudal Society in Medieval Scotland, 33–73. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781474407472-006.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
4

MacQueen, Hector L. "Conclusions." In Common Law and Feudal Society in Medieval Scotland, 247–69. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474407465.003.0009.

Full text
Abstract:
For most of the medieval period there existed in Scotland a structure of royal legal remedies (brieves) for the recovery of land. The ultimate origin of the system derived from the concepts of the king’s peace and protection. Royal authority was made effective through courts and through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries there was a growing systematisation and regularisation of royal justice. This was not at the expense of lords’ courts but these were clearly subordinate to the king’s. In many respects, however, they were complementary rather than conflicting institutions. At least part of the aim of the system was to ensure that lords complied with established norms in dealing with those who held land of them. The development also owed something to the pressure applied by ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Scottish royal justice (or its common law) was not centralised until the sixteenth century and was built upon local community links. But legal concepts which continue to inform Scots law were clearly first developed in the medieval period. English law was significant for the early development but this legal transplant was matched later by others from the canon law. Legal development was not necessarily the product of social or political change but was nonetheless critical to medieval society.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
5

MacQueen, Hector L. "Men of Law and Books of Law." In Common Law and Feudal Society in Medieval Scotland, 74–104. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474407465.003.0003.

Full text
Abstract:
This chapter examines the ‘men of law’ who figure in later medieval Scottish sources and their books, including in particular Regiam Majestatem and Quoniam Attachiamenta. Although there was no organised secular legal profession in later medieval Scotland comparable to that in contemporary England, the sources show that litigants in the royal and other non-ecclesiastical courts were often represented by laymen, while ecclesiastical lawyers also often appeared in such cases. The royal justiciars and sheriffs were also laymen and it would seem that all these laymen knew the law through experience rather than formal training. Moreover the law was written down in legislation suggesting legal sophistication that is also apparent in the text Regiam Majestatem which, although based on the twelfth-century English text Glanvill, was evidently treated as authoritative by Parliament as well as the courts. The same was true of Quoniam Attachiamenta. Both can therefore be carefully used as a source for the following chapters.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
6

MacQueen, Hector L. "The Brieve of Right." In Common Law and Feudal Society in Medieval Scotland, 188–214. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474407465.003.0007.

Full text
Abstract:
This chapter argues that the brieve of right has its origin in twelfth-century royal commands ‘to do right’, often addressed to lords in their courts and reflecting the king’s protection of their tenants. The invention of novel dissasine and mortancestry in the thirteenth century narrowed the scope of this procedure to cases that fell outside the other two brieves; which however still left ample room for its application under the pleadable brieve rule into the sixteenth century. But the form of the brieve was reworked in the thirteenth century and it is not absolutely clear that thereafter it could be used by persons other than the king’s tenants-in-chief (who had to sue in the sheriff court, not the justiciar’s) and the inhabitants of royal burghs (which had their own courts). But it would seem that the brieve’s wide reach meant that the Scottish common law did not need any equivalent to the English writs of entry.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
7

MacQueen, Hector L. "Introduction." In Common Law and Feudal Society in Medieval Scotland, 1–32. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474407465.003.0001.

Full text
Abstract:
This chapter discusses the contemporary recognition of a ‘common law’ in Scotland in the thirteenth and later medieval centuries which shows that the more recent historiography arguing for a break in the system’s development has been misguided. The chapter also discusses the debate about the early history of the English common law triggered by S F C Milsom, in order to suggest that the same questions can also be profitably raised about near concurrent Scottish developments. In particular, how far does the creation of Scottish brieves equivalent to the English writs of novel disseisin, mort d’ancestor and right (novel dissasine, mortancestry and right) arise from royal attempts to make private lords respect their duties under a tenurial (or ‘feudal’) framework of landholding? The continuous use of these brieves until 1500 also raises questions about the subsequent development of the Court of Session and its jurisdiction in land matters (or ‘fee and heritage’). It is again suggested that English parallels, notably the rise of conciliar courts and an equity system supplementing the common law, require analysis for full understanding of this topic.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
8

Kurt, Andrew. "The Royal Control of Visigothic Minting." In Minting, State, and Economy in the Visigothic Kingdom. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462981645_ch05.

Full text
Abstract:
Chapter Five demonstrates that, although specific record of minting is lacking, there can be little doubt of the ultimate royal authority behind minting, as can be ascertained from numerous numismatic and documentary elements in combination. Minting of gold was the king’s affair, a prerogative based on its fiscal functionality. Gold coinage was the major medium employed to capture the wealth of the agricultural base as well as to assess and levy fines, and on the other end of the cycle to implement royal projects or otherwise make payments. Transfers in kind may still have formed a significant part of Visigothic society, but currency was without doubt a major component of state activity.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
9

Gibbard, Micky. "Small Landholdings and Society: The Legacy of Small Landholder Legislation in the South-west of Scotland, 1911–Present Day." In Land Reform in the British and Irish Isles since 1800, 172–89. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474487689.003.0009.

Full text
Abstract:
The chapter analyses the legal history of agricultural legislation in Wales with particular emphasis on the calls for a separate Land Court for Wales, both prior to and in the years immediately following the Welsh Land Commission (1893-1896). Notwithstanding the Commission's recommendations for the establishment of a Land Court, such a court was never established in Wales. By reference to relevant Hansard debates, the attitude of certain MP's is discussed (notably Tom Ellis and Brynmor Jones) demonstrating a Welsh identity in agricultural matters, both pre and post the years immediately following the Commission's Report. Specific historical agricultural legislation is considered together with a brief overview of contemporary agricultural legislation following the devolution settlement in Wales in respect of agriculture. The history of specific topics such as tenant right, fair rent, succession and arbitration is discussed.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
10

Strachan, Hew. "The Scottish Soldier and Scotland, 1914–1918." In A Global Force. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474402736.003.0004.

Full text
Abstract:
This chapter addresses Scottish military service during the First World War, showing how from having underperformed before the war, Scotland overperformed during the war’s first two years. Particularly striking was how many recruits came from agricultural backgrounds, although in absolute terms the big cities still contributed more men. As the Territorial Army (TA) was the principal Scottish route into the army, the battle of Loos in October 1915 had an enormous local impact: this was Scotland’s equivalent of the Somme. Every Scottish infantry regiment was represented, and both the 9th and 15th Scottish Divisions were TA Lowland Divisions. From Loos came the literary representation of the war, especially Ian Hay’s The First Hundred Thousand and John Buchan’s war poetry. The effect of the First World War, with Scottish infantry regiments raising twenty-plus battalions, was to disseminate those regimental identities much more widely across Scottish society. An enhanced Scottish identity was created, and it emerged in a military context. Overwhelmingly this identity was set within the context of the Union and the empire.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

Reports on the topic "Royal and Agricultural Society of Scotland"

1

Hunter, Fraser, and Martin Carruthers. Iron Age Scotland. Society for Antiquaries of Scotland, September 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.09.2012.193.

Full text
Abstract:
The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under five key headings:  Building blocks: The ultimate aim should be to build rich, detailed and testable narratives situated within a European context, and addressing phenomena from the longue durée to the short-term over international to local scales. Chronological control is essential to this and effective dating strategies are required to enable generation-level analysis. The ‘serendipity factor’ of archaeological work must be enhanced by recognising and getting the most out of information-rich sites as they appear. o There is a pressing need to revisit the archives of excavated sites to extract more information from existing resources, notably through dating programmes targeted at regional sequences – the Western Isles Atlantic roundhouse sequence is an obvious target. o Many areas still lack anything beyond the baldest of settlement sequences, with little understanding of the relations between key site types. There is a need to get at least basic sequences from many more areas, either from sustained regional programmes or targeted sampling exercises. o Much of the methodologically innovative work and new insights have come from long-running research excavations. Such large-scale research projects are an important element in developing new approaches to the Iron Age.  Daily life and practice: There remains great potential to improve the understanding of people’s lives in the Iron Age through fresh approaches to, and integration of, existing and newly-excavated data. o House use. Rigorous analysis and innovative approaches, including experimental archaeology, should be employed to get the most out of the understanding of daily life through the strengths of the Scottish record, such as deposits within buildings, organic preservation and waterlogging. o Material culture. Artefact studies have the potential to be far more integral to understandings of Iron Age societies, both from the rich assemblages of the Atlantic area and less-rich lowland finds. Key areas of concern are basic studies of material groups (including the function of everyday items such as stone and bone tools, and the nature of craft processes – iron, copper alloy, bone/antler and shale offer particularly good evidence). Other key topics are: the role of ‘art’ and other forms of decoration and comparative approaches to assemblages to obtain synthetic views of the uses of material culture. o Field to feast. Subsistence practices are a core area of research essential to understanding past society, but different strands of evidence need to be more fully integrated, with a ‘field to feast’ approach, from production to consumption. The working of agricultural systems is poorly understood, from agricultural processes to cooking practices and cuisine: integrated work between different specialisms would assist greatly. There is a need for conceptual as well as practical perspectives – e.g. how were wild resources conceived? o Ritual practice. There has been valuable work in identifying depositional practices, such as deposition of animals or querns, which are thought to relate to house-based ritual practices, but there is great potential for further pattern-spotting, synthesis and interpretation. Iron Age Scotland: ScARF Panel Report v  Landscapes and regions:  Concepts of ‘region’ or ‘province’, and how they changed over time, need to be critically explored, because they are contentious, poorly defined and highly variable. What did Iron Age people see as their geographical horizons, and how did this change?  Attempts to understand the Iron Age landscape require improved, integrated survey methodologies, as existing approaches are inevitably partial.  Aspects of the landscape’s physical form and cover should be investigated more fully, in terms of vegetation (known only in outline over most of the country) and sea level change in key areas such as the firths of Moray and Forth.  Landscapes beyond settlement merit further work, e.g. the use of the landscape for deposition of objects or people, and what this tells us of contemporary perceptions and beliefs.  Concepts of inherited landscapes (how Iron Age communities saw and used this longlived land) and socal resilience to issues such as climate change should be explored more fully.  Reconstructing Iron Age societies. The changing structure of society over space and time in this period remains poorly understood. Researchers should interrogate the data for better and more explicitly-expressed understandings of social structures and relations between people.  The wider context: Researchers need to engage with the big questions of change on a European level (and beyond). Relationships with neighbouring areas (e.g. England, Ireland) and analogies from other areas (e.g. Scandinavia and the Low Countries) can help inform Scottish studies. Key big topics are: o The nature and effect of the introduction of iron. o The social processes lying behind evidence for movement and contact. o Parallels and differences in social processes and developments. o The changing nature of houses and households over this period, including the role of ‘substantial houses’, from crannogs to brochs, the development and role of complex architecture, and the shift away from roundhouses. o The chronology, nature and meaning of hillforts and other enclosed settlements. o Relationships with the Roman world
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
2

Hall, Mark, and Neil Price. Medieval Scotland: A Future for its Past. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, September 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.09.2012.165.

Full text
Abstract:
The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under five key headings. Underpinning all five areas is the recognition that human narratives remain crucial for ensuring the widest access to our shared past. There is no wish to see political and economic narratives abandoned but the need is recognised for there to be an expansion to more social narratives to fully explore the potential of the diverse evidence base. The questions that can be asked are here framed in a national context but they need to be supported and improved a) by the development of regional research frameworks, and b) by an enhanced study of Scotland’s international context through time. 1. From North Britain to the Idea of Scotland: Understanding why, where and how ‘Scotland’ emerges provides a focal point of research. Investigating state formation requires work from Medieval Scotland: a future for its past ii a variety of sources, exploring the relationships between centres of consumption - royal, ecclesiastical and urban - and their hinterlands. Working from site-specific work to regional analysis, researchers can explore how what would become ‘Scotland’ came to be, and whence sprang its inspiration. 2. Lifestyles and Living Spaces: Holistic approaches to exploring medieval settlement should be promoted, combining landscape studies with artefactual, environmental, and documentary work. Understanding the role of individual sites within wider local, regional and national settlement systems should be promoted, and chronological frameworks developed to chart the changing nature of Medieval settlement. 3. Mentalities: The holistic understanding of medieval belief (particularly, but not exclusively, in its early medieval or early historic phase) needs to broaden its contextual understanding with reference to prehistoric or inherited belief systems and frames of reference. Collaborative approaches should draw on international parallels and analogues in pursuit of defining and contrasting local or regional belief systems through integrated studies of portable material culture, monumentality and landscape. 4. Empowerment: Revisiting museum collections and renewing the study of newly retrieved artefacts is vital to a broader understanding of the dynamics of writing within society. Text needs to be seen less as a metaphor and more as a technological and social innovation in material culture which will help the understanding of it as an experienced, imaginatively rich reality of life. In archaeological terms, the study of the relatively neglected cultural areas of sensory perception, memory, learning and play needs to be promoted to enrich the understanding of past social behaviours. 5. Parameters: Multi-disciplinary, collaborative, and cross-sector approaches should be encouraged in order to release the research potential of all sectors of archaeology. Creative solutions should be sought to the challenges of transmitting the importance of archaeological work and conserving the resource for current and future research.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
You might also be interested in the extended bibliographies on the topic 'Royal and Agricultural Society of Scotland' for particular source types:
Journal articles Books
We offer discounts on all premium plans for authors whose works are included in thematic literature selections. Contact us to get a unique promo code!

To the bibliography