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era, with its resulting gangsterism. It is sprinkled with memorable remarks: "I've been married six months. She looks like a million dollars, but she only knows a hundred and twenty words and she's only got two ideas in her head. The other one's hats." The character returns in
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As a writer, Linklater's career took off in 1929. His success began in his early career years. Altogether he published 23 novels, three volumes of stories, two of verse, ten plays, three works of autobiography and 23 of essays and histories. His third novel,
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and identified with the islands, where his father had been born. His maternal grandfather was a Swedish-born sea captain, so that he had Scandinavian origins through both parents. Linklater is an Orcadian name derived from the
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This dubs Parnell's work as "one of the most uncritical biographies I have ever read" and takes issue with Linklater's outdated "Chesterbelloc" style and conservative social and historical assumptions.
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Robert Baikie Linklater (1865–1916), a master mariner, and Mary Elizabeth (c. 1867–1957), daughter of master mariner James Young. He was educated at
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in 1917–1918 before receiving a bullet wound, then became a sniper. His experience of trench warfare is described in his memoir
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in 1957–1963. They had four children, of whom their elder daughter Alison (born 1934) is an artist and their younger daughter,
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raids. By mid-1940 reinforcements were pouring into the Orkney and Shetland defences and Linklater's command was broken up.
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was performed as the 1946 Student Show. Abandoning medical studies in Aberdeen, Linklater spent 1925–1927 in
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on 16 September 1938, but was effective commander. The unit consisted of a single company headquartered at
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Linklater's Orcadian and Scottish sympathies led him to literary and political involvement in the
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in 1945–1948 and received an honorary degree from the university in 1949. He was appointed
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asked Linklater, still a Reserve officer, to raise one of these units, and he chose the '
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The Survival of Scotland: A New History of Scotland from Roman Times to the Present Day
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The author's attitude to war and the moral implications of diplomacy became sharper in
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Public Relations department to write official "instant histories" of the war, such as
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Linklater moved back to the Scottish mainland in 1947 to Pitcalzean House, near
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and served through the winter of 1939/1940, when Orkney received a number of
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The History of the Orkney and Shetland Volunteers and Territorials 1793–1958
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Orkney and Shetland: An Historical, Geographical, Social, and Scenic Survey
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In Search of the Scottish Renaissance: The Reprinting of Scottish Fiction
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Memorial to Eric Linklater in St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney
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at the age of 75. He was buried in the churchyard at St Michael's,
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Civil servants in the Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)
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The Lion and the Unicorn: What England Has Meant to Scotland
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As a well-known author, Linklater was soon employed by the
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Eric Linklater's "Private Angelo" and "The Dark of Summer"
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in 1922, Linklater wrote the first musical comedy for the
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Scottish fiction, history and travel writer, 1899–1974
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Fanfare for a Tin Hat: A Third Essay in Autobiography
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Fanfare for a Tin Hat: A Third Essay in Autobiography
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Their elder son 448:for the War Office as a temporary 352:, culminating in his unsuccessful 14: 1946: 1935:Presidents of the Saltire Society 1443: 1079:Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland 583:The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea 503:On 1 June 1933 Linklater married 335:The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea 1810:20th-century Scottish historians 1600:Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal 1050:"Eric Linklater, man of letters" 948:A Dragon Laughed and Other Poems 795:The Goose Girl and Other Stories 222:, where he was president of the 1311: 1298: 1282: 1269: 1257: 1231: 1218: 1205: 1189: 1174: 808:"Under the hammer and sickle". 405:Orkney Fortress Royal Engineers 135: 1685:Admiral Sir Rhoderick McGrigor 1372:Access tied to a subscription. 1148: 1132: 1120: 1101: 1085: 466: 1: 992: 971:, which includes a review of 559: 403:and second-in-command of the 197: 156:Eric Robert Russell Linklater 40:Eric Robert Russell Linklater 1920:Scottish short story writers 1895:Scottish military historians 1162:. 2 November 1945. p. 4 929:The Voyage of the Challenger 479:Linklater was Rector of the 7: 1885:Scottish children's writers 1076:J. Keay and J. Keay (1994) 1021:. Retrieved 15 August 2012. 224:Aberdeen University Debater 10: 1951: 1640:Viscount Cecil of Chelwood 1452:at slainte.org.uk/Scotauth 1414:Christopher Nicol (2012), 1340:G., R (13 February 1942). 1288:Entry for Private Angelo. 1185:Retrieved 4 November 2012. 955: 493:Royal Society of Edinburgh 399:'. He was commissioned as 358:1933 East Fife by-election 354:National Party of Scotland 286:as an assistant editor of 52:Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan 1550: 1499: 1490: 1482: 1477: 975:, in Murray, Glen (ed.), 905:The Prince in the Heather 773:(1962) – adapted as film 606:(1929) – adapted as film 521:Freeing the Natural Voice 242: 226:. He spent many years in 145: 120: 109: 101: 87: 79: 58: 36: 23: 1875:Royal Engineers officers 1660:Admiral Sir Edward Evans 1428:Michael Parnell (1984), 1404:. Edinburgh: Canongate, 1377:Douglas Gifford (1982), 1156:"Linklater's Book Award" 1114:1 September 2017 at the 1082:. 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Index

CBE
Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan
Aberdeen
Aberdeen Grammar School
University of Aberdeen
Carnegie Medal
Marjorie Linklater
CBE
military historian
travel writer
The Wind on the Moon
children's
fantasy
Carnegie Medal
Library Association
British subject
Penarth
Vale of Glamorgan
Orcadian
Aberdeen Grammar School
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen University Debater
Orkney
Old Norse
Scandinavia
Black Watch
Aberdeen University
Aberdeen Student Show
Bombay
India

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