Project Gutenberg 2024-09-18 Public domain in the USA. 154 MacDiarmid, Hugh 1892 1978 M'Diarmid, Hugh McDiarmid, Hugh Grieve, Christopher Murray Leslie, Arthur 28013559 Albyn; or, Scotland and the future $aLondon :$bKegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., $c1927. To-day and to-morrow series. Aaron Adrignola, Tim Lindell, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "Albyn; or, Scotland and the Future" by Hugh MacDiarmid is a political and cultural critique written in the early 20th century. This work engages with the Scottish Renaissance movement, discussing its complexity, background, and interconnection with political changes following World War I. MacDiarmid explores the various forces contributing to a reawakening of Scottish identity and culture, emphasizing the influence of historical conditions on the country's present and future state. The opening of the work sets the stage for an analysis of the movement towards a Scottish Renaissance, tracing its origins to a literary awakening that eventually incorporates political and religious elements. MacDiarmid notes that this movement aims to reclaim Scotland's distinct identity from centuries of Anglicization, connecting various phenomena such as labour politics, language revival, and religious shifts. He underscores the movement's dual nature—both radical and conservative—while spotlighting the post-war context that has catalyzed a renewed sense of Scottish nationalism. The author effectively critiques the historical forces of the Reformation and the Union with England, arguing that they have suppressed Scottish creativity and identity, a situation he believes is now ripe for change. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.263230 20230316004209grieve 1927 GB Reading ease score: 50.4 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Scotland DA Text Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: History - British Category: Politics 185889 2025-07-29T11:19:11.003753 text/html 161473 2024-09-18T13:03:28 text/html 191492 2025-07-29T11:19:15.985724 application/epub+zip 189816 2025-07-29T11:19:12.378734 application/epub+zip 167708 2025-07-29T11:19:11.676809 application/epub+zip 225035 2025-07-29T11:19:18.642833 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 199734 2025-07-29T11:19:15.487735 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 156100 2025-07-29T11:19:10.590762 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 136123 2024-09-18T13:03:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16400 2025-07-29T11:19:19.345717 application/rdf+xml 6302 2025-07-29T11:19:11.896727 image/jpeg 1713 2025-07-29T11:19:11.787731 image/jpeg 187692 2025-07-29T11:19:11.021736 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia