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Margaret's Books and other Contributions
Margaret Bennett’s books and articles give voice to ordinary people whose lives reflect Scottish tradition at home and abroad. She weaves many voices of tradition through her extensive research, thus validating the authenticity of genuine tradition. Furthermore, she attempts to explain certain changes, trends and modifications across the centuries and generations. Literary Awards
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Scottish
Customs from the Cradle to the Grave
Second Edition-published by Birlinn, Edinburgh, 04.
A highly readable and absorbing
anthology of traditional Scottish customs and rites of passage,
drawn from a broad range of literary sources dating back
to the sixteenth century. Tape recorded interviews from the
twentieth and twenty-first centuries give voice to tradition
bearers from all walks of life, adding colour to this comprehensive
picture of social behaviour. The most up to date, authoritative
work on the subject, this collection spans several centuries,
and, in three sections, deals with Childbirth and Infancy:
Love, Courtship and Marriage; and Death and Burial...
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It’s
Not the Time You Have’: Notes
and Memories of Music Making with Martyn Bennett.
Published by Grace Note, Edinburgh 06.
Compiled
by Margaret Bennett, has the voices of more than forty
individuals telling what it was like to work with Martyn,
play music with him, or simply share time with him. this
book of bright memories shows the less public side of Martyn.
It may bring a tear to your eye, but it will also make
you smile, or laugh at the hilarious anecdotes woven though
what Margaret calls “Notes,
Ramblings and Other Scribbles”. All the drawings
are by Martyn himself—a gifted artist in every sense... Reviews Edinburgh
Book festival 2006
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See,
When You Look Back....Clydeside reminiscenses of the Home
Front, 1939 - 45. [CD of Wartime songs].
Published by Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 05
Folklorist Dr Margaret Bennett collected these reminiscences
of life in Clydeside at the time of the second World War.
Those sharing their memories and (songs) are the good ladies
of the Kinning Park Over Sixties Club. Gripping, touching,
funny, their stories are an important insight into what it
was like to be on the Home Front in wartime Scotland. The
sections include Rationing, The Blackout, Women at Work,
The Clydebank Blitz, Evacuees, and of course, entertainment
and Songs. There is a CD of the ladies singing and reminiscing
included with the book...
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Oatmeal
and the Catechism: Scottish Gaelic Settlers in
Quebec - Published by Birlinn and McGill-Queen's University
Press, 2004
This
book records
the oral history, folklore and folklife of a
group of emigrants from the Outer Hebrides who settled
in Quebec during the 19th century. Most were
crofting families from the Isle of Lewis who had
suffered the severe effects of the potato famine
of 1846—51. As a solution to the increasing
pressures on landlords and government relief bodies,
they were offered free passage to ‘Lower
Canada’ (Quebec) and given land grants in
the Eastern Townships by the British American Land
Company. To this day, the map of Quebec
shows place names such as Stornoway, Tolsta,
Ness and Dell testifying to the link to the homeland...
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The
Last Stronghold: The Scottish Gaelic Traditions of Newfoundland.
First Edition published by Breakwater Books of Canada and
Canongate Publishing.
NEW
EDITION IN PREPARATION.
The traditions that
have come down to us of the Gaelic diaspora of the 18th
and 19th century rarely mention Newfoundland. Only in a few
anecdotes, attributable to sailors and other travellers,
are there hints that a Gaelic community once flourished in
that remote land. And since our information was confined
to these tantalisingly vague and brief reports, it simply
never occurred to us that Gaelic in Newfoundland might actually
have survived into our own times. Margaret Bennett’s
book has changed all that... reviews
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Recollections
of an Argyllshire Drover” & Other West Highland
Chronicles by Eric R. Cregeen. - Published by Birlinn, Edinburgh 2004.
During
his appointment as Glasgow University Extra-mural department’s
first Resident Tutor in Argyll (1954–66),
Eric Cregeen pioneered groundbreaking research into the
Papers of the Argyll Estate and into the oral tradition
of the West Highlands. His tragically early death in
1983 robbed Scotland of a great scholar and of his proposed
books. This
collection of papers, brought together and edited by Dr Margaret
Bennett, will be welcomed
by a vast range of readers, especially those who share
Eric Cregeen’s
enthusiasm for ‘approaching
the history of the Highlands with a mind alert to the claims
of oral tradition’. The book begins with a masterful
introductory essay by the editor, includes a comprehensive
bibliography of Cregeen’s work...
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Perthshire
Project |
Then Another Thing;.
Remembered in Perthshire, Perth & Kinross Council (Museum),
Perth, 2000 A joint project, with Doris Rougvie.
NEW EDITION IN PREPARATION.
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| List Of Book Contributions & Articles |
Margaret Bennett has worked as a folklorist for more than thirty years, recording, writing about, and performing the oral traditions of Scotland, both Gaelic and Scots. She is passionately committed to conserving the genuineness of Scottish culture...read more |
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