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Set on a Hill

by Robin Bell

ISBN: 9781841589947
Imprint: Birlinn
Publication Date: May 2012
Format: Paperback
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: not yet published

The story begins in the first century AD, when the Strathearn area lay near the northern frontier of the Roman empire, and continues through the age of Picts, Scots and Britons and Vikings to the coming of Christianity and the medieval Church. Robin Bell then traces Auchterarder’s history through the Renaissance, Enlightenment, the Agricultural and Industrial revolutions, the improvements of the Victorian era, the two world wars and ends in 2005, when the world-famous Gleneagles hotel hosted the G8 summit. Set on a Hill highlights an area that has been of surprising strategic historical importance for thousands of years, and shows how international events affect a local community and how it often turns round and effects them right back.

Robin Bell grew up near Auchterarder and spent many years as a writer and broadcaster in New York and London. He won the Sony Radio Academy Award for best British Documentary with Strathinver: A Portrait Album 1945–1953 and the Creative Scotland Award for How to Tell Lies, his fables on political processes of the G8. He also translated and edited Bittersweet within My Heart, the bestselling collected poems of Mary, Queen of Scots.

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