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BBC – Pitch Invasion How the Scottish and Irish Changed Football (2024)

11/02/2024 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC – Pitch Invasion: How the Scottish and Irish Changed Football (2024)
English | Documentary | Size: 2.53 GB

How the Scottish and Irish changed football. [Read more…]

BSkyB – Boswell and Johnson’s Scottish Road Trip (2020)

13/02/2021 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BSkyB – Boswell and Johnson’s Scottish Road Trip (2020)
English | Size: 1 GB
Category: Documentary

Frank Skinner and Denise Mina travel through Scotland on boats and horses in a bid to recreate literary duo James Boswell and Samuel Johnson’s 1773 trip to the Hebrides. [Read more…]

BBC – Spinning a Yarn The Dubious History of Scottish Tartan (2013)

04/06/2019 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC – Spinning a Yarn: The Dubious History of Scottish Tartan (2013)
English | Size: 928 MB
Category: Documentary

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Queen Victoria was mad for it and Harry Lauder was clad in it. It’s inextricably woven into the history of Scotland, from Bonnie Prince Charlie to the Tartan Army, and has been used to advertise many political and cultural affinities. Tartan is a fabric that tells tales, but not all of them are true.
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