Andrew Drummond

In the 1890s, the people of north-west Scotland grew tired of Government Commissions sent to consider a railway to Ullapool. Despite rock-solid arguments in favour of such a railway, neither government nor the big railway companies lifted a finger to build one. Against the recommendations of its own advisers, the Scottish Office dismissed the project as a quite impossible proposal. In 1918, history repeated itself with another Commission and another failure to build the railway. Drivel is how one local man described the official government inquiry reports. Few disagreed. This book tells the whole sorry tale of the attempt to improve transportation in the north-west Highlands and the resulting government inquiries, set against the regions economic and social problems and civil unrest in the crofting communities. Stories, facts and figures have been unearthed from the archives of government departments and railway companies, from local peoples letters and petitions, from contemporary newspapers and from the plans prepared for the hoped-for railways. Other unbuilt railways to the north-west coast are also described. But this story is not just about planned railways that were never built. It is about the frustrations of the people of the Highlands in the face of government incompetence, railway-company obstructionism, local rivalries and the struggle against the historical injustice of land-ownership.

Una obra amena e interesante que recopila todos los datos históricos de la expansión y posterior caída del Imperio Romano. Historia política y militar, arte y arquitectura, religión y cultura. Los romanos en su trabajo, en sus juegos y diversiones, en su hogar y en el extranjero, descritos en una original presentación dinámica y polifacética. Un texto accesible y ameno narrado por catedráticos especialistas en el tema. Ilustraciones impresionantemente realistas y múltiples fotografías y dibujos artísticos. Amplios mapas históricos y tablas temáticas cronológicas minuciosamente detalladas. Aspectos asombrosos relatados en una reconstrucción única de la vida en tiempos del Imperio Romano.

Pasados ya 500 años de su muerte, la figura de Thomas Müntzer sigue siendo extremadamente controvertida. Nació seguramente hacia 1489, en la región minera del macizo del Harz. De joven estudió teolog