Margaret Bennett

From The Cradle To The Grave

Scottish Customs

Relying heavily upon oral tradition, the book embraces the diverse disciplines of folklore, history, language, geography, literature, sociology, agriculture, botany, and home economics. It covers emigration history, community and domestic lifestyles, religious and social structure (including songs, poems, legends, and folktales), customs and beliefs, and material culture. Discussions are supported throughout by testimonies of many Townshippers, quoted verbatim, enabling the "voice" of the Gael to continue to be heard. Oatmeal and the Catechism will be of great interest to scholars and students of Gaelic studies and folklore in addition to Quebecers and others whose Scottish ancestors settled in Quebec and eastern Canada and helped carve a country out of the wilderness.

Scottish Gaelic Settlers in Quebec

Oatmeal and the Catechism

Eberhard Bort

"Borne on the Carrying Stream: The Legacy of Hamish Henderson." Hamish Henderson poet, soldier, scholar, folklorist, song-maker and political activist. Eighteen essays engaging with aspects of Hamish Henderson's remarkable contribution to contemporary Scottish culture - from song-writing and song-collecting to poetry and politics. Edinburgh Folk Club's annual Carrying Stream Festival celebrates the life and legacy of Hamish Henderson. A selection of the Festival's Hamish Henderson Lectures, together with the other contributions, paint a fascinating picture of this multi-facetted Scot-'Father of the Scottish Folk Revival'.(http: //www.hendersontrust.org/index.php/en/).

The Legacy of Hamish Henderson

Borne on the Carrying Stream

Tape-recorded interviews from the 20th and 21st centuries give voice to tradition-bearers from all walks of life adding colour to this comprehensive picture of social behaviour.

From the Cradle to the Grave

How to Ski Just a Little Bit

Hellbound is a modern day retelling of The Divine Comedy. The story revolves around the lives of the two main characters, Ariadne Gray and Max Dawson, as well as the lives of their friends. Ariadne and Max stumble unwittingly across the world of angels and demons, and are soon dragged into the timeless conflict of Good versus Evil. After the unthinkable happens and one of Ariadne’s friends loses her soul to the underworld, Ari is forced to journey deep into Hell to reclaim her friend’s soul. . .and to seek her own redemption.

Hellbound

Doris Rougvie

Bennett and long-time friend and fellow-singer, Doris Rougvie, Nell shares a life-time of reminiscences and songs. In recalling the hey-day of an industry that shut down in the 1980s, she constructs an oral history of life in war-time Perthshire. Then, following life's paths with its twists.

Aye Singin an Spinnin Yarns

Nell Hannah

The Peripatetic Diabetic

Cross-country Skiing for the Fun of it

Yet again Margaret Bennett has produced a fascinating book...excellent value for money' - J.C. Massy, Lore and Language 'Margaret Bennett has given us another magic book, brought together from many books of the past as well as hitherto unpublished interview material, private manuscripts, wonderful miniatures of folklore, wise and charming commentary on human personality in a dazzling profusion' - Owen Dudley Edwards A highly readable and absorbing anthology of traditional Scottish customs and rites of passage, Scottish Customs from the Cradle to the Grave draws upon a broad range of literary and oral sources. Scotland has been fortunate to have written accounts of intrepid early travellers such as Martin Martin, Edward Burt and John Lane Buchanan, and extracts from their writing are found alongside modern interviews made by Margaret Bennett and researchers from the School of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh University. This expanded edition includes a large amount of new material. The result is a detailed and comprehensive picture of social behaviour in Scotland over the last 400 years. The book is divided into three sections, each covering a stage in the cycle of life: Childbirth and infancy; Love, courtship and marriage; Death The first edition was originally published by Polygon and was joint runner-up of the 1993 Katharine Briggs Folklore Award.

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