The truth about Scottish beer and brewing. A highly detailed look at Scottish beer between 1840 and 1970, including more than 350 historic beer recipes and endless tables of facts. One for the numbers junkie.

Excerpt from Time, 1885, Vol. 2: A Monthly Magazine of Current Topics, Literature and Art The game was a. Hold one, and succeeded admirably; but a little less cowardice on the rt of Mr. Gladstone, or a little less arrogance on the part of ussia, and even our peace-at-any price statesman could have landed the country in a war with an Asiatic rival, and in two, if not three, quarters of the globe at once. As to France, the incessant stimulus with which Mr. Gladstone's personality and preferences have supplied her rest less ambition is but too obvious. From the moment when her ostentatious friends came into omes, she became, to all intent and purposes, their and our enemy. For the last five years she has steadily set herself to oppose and contrast to Enoland when ever the two nations crossed each other's path; and sine is, at this moment, the soul of that European league against us in Egypt, whose existence and activity constitute one of the most sen ous dangers which the new Government will have to face. But here again the mere change of persons may quite conceivably render the situation more manageable. If France is the seat of the coalition against us in Egypt, Germany is, after all, its heavy hand and the substitution of an English Government which he can get on with, for one which has never made the faintest attempt to get on with him, may have the effect of inducing Prince Bismarck to take an entirely new view of our position there, and of the allowance which should be made for us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) wrote remarkably little about himself, but he has attracted the attention of many writers, politicians, and scholars, both during his lifetime and ever since. His controversial and provocative role in Irish and British affairs had him vilified as a murderer in The Times, and afterwards dramatically vindicated by the Westminster Parliament. It cast him as a romantic hero to the young James Joyce, and a self-serving opportunist to the journalists of the Nation. Parnell has been the subject of court cases, parliamentary enquiries and debates, journalism, plays, poems, literary analysis and historical studies. For the first time all these have been collected, catalogued and cross-referenced in one volume, an invaluable resource for scholars of late nineteenth century Ireland and Britain. Divided into fifteen chapters, including a biographical sketch, the volume contains information on manuscript and archival collections, printed primary sources, Parnell's writing, Parnell's speeches in the House of Commons and outside Parliament, contemporary journalism, contemporary writing, and contemporary illustrations on Irish affairs, and a substantial list of scholarly work, including biographies, books, articles, chapters, and theses. This volume offers readers a clear record of the substantial material already available on Parnell, and in doing so offers resources to future research in this area.

Smith reveals how images of the nude were used at all levels of Victorian culture, from prestigious high-art paintings through to photographs and popular entertainments; and discusses the many views as to whether these were legitimate forms of representation or, in fact, pornography and an incitement to unregulated sexual activity.

This book traces the transformation of history from a Romantic literary pursuit into a modern academic discipline during the second half of the nineteenth century, and shows how this change inspired Victorians to reconsider what it meant to be a historian. This reconceptualization of the ‘historian’ lies at the heart of this book as it explores how historians strove to forge themselves a collective scholarly persona that reflected and legitimised their new disciplinary status and gave them authority to speak on behalf of the past. The author argues that historians used the persona as a replacement for missing institutional structures, and converted book parts to a sphere where they could mould and perform their persona. By ascribing agency to titles, footnotes, running heads, typography, cover design, size, and other paratexts, the book makes an important shift in the way we perceive the formation of modern disciplines. By combining the persona and paratexts, it offers a novel approach to themes that have enjoyed great interest in the history of science. It examines, for example, the role which epistemic and moral virtues held in the Victorian society and scholarly culture, the social organization and hierarchies of scholarly communities, the management of scholarly reputations, the commercialization of knowledge, and the relationship between the persona and the underpinning social, political, economic, and cultural structures and hierarchies. Making a significant contribution to persona studies, it provides new insights for scholars interested in the history of humanities, science, and knowledge; book history; and Victorian culture.