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Scottish soap opera River City has featured neds such as Shellsuit Bob. [18] Neds is a 2010 film by director Peter Mullan. [19] A 2020 Graeme Armstrong novel, The Young Team, set in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire a few miles east of Glasgow and narrated by a gang member in the local dialect, focuses on the 'ned culture' of the region in the early ...
The Glasgow dialect, also called Glaswegian, varies from Scottish English at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum to the local dialect of West Central Scots at the other. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Therefore, the speech of many Glaswegians can draw on a "continuum between fully localised and fully standardised". [ 3 ]
For many years, Easterhouse has had a poor reputation in Scotland and the UK as a whole. [19] [24] [32] This is partly due to riots in the 1970s that started there and spread to surrounding areas. [citation needed] The crime problems in Easterhouse and many surrounding areas in Glasgow's East End are often associated with "Ned culture".
Neds (also known as Non-Educated Delinquents, stylised as NEDS) is a 2010 coming-of-age drama film directed and written by Peter Mullan.Set in Scotland, the film centres on John McGill (Conor McCarron), a teenager growing up in 1970s Glasgow.
The main purpose of the National Library of Scotland's Moving Image Archive is to locate, preserve and provide access to moving images reflecting Scottish 20th and 21st century culture and history. In addition the Archive collects a wide range of written and photographic materials relating to the development of cinema exhibition and film ...
A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between December 20-27. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules on photography that can be ...
Edward Atkinson Hornel (17 July 1864 – 30 June 1933) was a Scottish painter of landscapes, flowers, and foliage, with children. He was a cousin of James Hornell . His contemporaries in the Glasgow Boys called him Ned Hornel .
Scotland is the "Home of Golf", and is well known for its courses. As well as its world-famous Highland Games (athletic competitions), it is also the home of curling, and shinty, a stick game similar to Ireland's hurling. Scotland has 4 professional ice hockey teams that compete in the Elite Ice Hockey League. Scottish cricket is a minority game.