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  2. Scottish fiddling - Wikipedia

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    The Shetland fiddling style is bouncy and lively, with Norwegian influence. [2] It employs ringing open strings above and below the melody line. There is some Irish musical influence due to the influence of working men and seafarers (fishing and merchant).

  3. Niel Gow - Wikipedia

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    Gow was born in Strathbraan, Perthshire, in 1727, as the son of John Gow and Catherine McEwan.The family moved to Inver in Perthshire when Niel was an infant. He started playing the fiddle when very young, and at age 13 received his first formal lessons from one John Cameron of Grandtully.

  4. Women in early modern Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Agnes Douglas, Countess of Argyll (1574–1607), attributed to Adrian Vanson. Women in early modern Scotland, between the Renaissance of the early sixteenth century and the beginnings of industrialisation in the mid-eighteenth century, were part of a patriarchal society, though the enforcement of this social order was not absolute in all aspects.

  5. Music in early modern Scotland - Wikipedia

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    MacKinnon, D., "'I have now a book of songs of her writing: Scottish families, orality, literacy and the transmission of musical culture c. 1500-c. 1800", in E. Ewan and J. Nugent, Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (Ashgate, 2008), ISBN 0-7546-6049-4.

  6. James Scott Skinner - Wikipedia

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    James Scott Skinner's gravestone, Allanvale Cemetery. James Scott Skinner (5 August 1843 – 17 March 1927) was a Scottish dancing master, violinist, fiddler and composer.He is considered to be one of the most influential fiddlers in Scottish traditional music, and was known as "the Strathspey King".

  7. Family in early modern Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Sir Francis Grant, Lord Cullen, and His Family, by John Smybert (1688–1751). The family in early modern Scotland includes all aspects of kinship and family life, between the Renaissance and the Reformation of the sixteenth century and the beginnings of industrialisation and the end of the Jacobite risings in the mid-eighteenth century in Scotland.

  8. BBC prison drama ‘Time’ shows the stark differences for ...

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    Ninety-five per cent of children have to leave their home when their mum goes to jail, and maternal imprisonment is thought to affect around 17,000 children each year in England and Wales.

  9. Gender roles in childhood - Wikipedia

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    The social impacts of imposing gender roles on children become evident very early in life and usually follow the child as they continue their development [citation needed]. It is most observable when they interact with other members of their age group [citation needed]. For example, social environments during childhood have a huge influence on ...