The new history of Orkney / William P.L. Thomson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomson, William P. L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orkney (Scotland)--History.

Orkney (Scotland).

Scotland--Orkney.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 529 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2008.

Summary:

"This new edition of William Thomson's acclaimed book contains a wealth of new material. Important new work sheds light on the Picts, the Vikings, medieval Orkney, the Reformation and the Stewart earldom, as well as many aspects of more recent centuries."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

1. Pictish Orkney

2. Orkneyinga Saga and the Early Jarls

3. Place-names and the Pictish-Norse Transition

4. Earl Sigurd and the Raven Banner

5. Earl Thorfinn and the Christian Earldom

6. Martyrdom of St Magnus

7. St Rognvald and Orkney's Twelfth Century Renaissance

8. Harald Maddadsson

9. Earl John and his Successors

10. King Hakon's Expedition and the Loss of the Hebrides

11. Angus and Strathearn

12. Sinclair Earldom

13. Orkney at the End of the Middle Ages

14. Marriage Treaty and the Pawning of the Islands

15. Taxing and Renting Land in Norse Orkney

16. Under Scottish Rule, 1468-1513

17. Summerdale Years

18. Reformation

19. Earl Robert Stewart

20. Earl Patrick Stewart

21. End of the Earldom

22. Tacksmen, Lairds and Udallers, 1615-1707

23. Old-style Farming

24. False Dawn of Agricultural Improvement

25. Merchant-Lairds and the Great Kelp Boom

26. Linen, Fishing and the 'Nor Wast'

27. Nineteenth Century Agricultural Revolution

28. Orkney Society in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

29. Farming in the Twentieth Century

30. Twentieth Century: War and Peace.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Thomson, William P.L. New history of Orkney.

ISBN:

9781841586960

184158696X

OCLC:

195719532