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From 1998 to 2005 film-maker Susan Bain worked on the documentary series The Gathering Place. She has been one of the few outsiders to be granted such exclusive access to the inside story of the new parliament building at Holyrood. This book tells that story. Holyrood has become far more than the story of a building. It is an exploration of Scotland's long anticipated new democracy, hamstrung by its own incumbents and wrecked by the egotism and ingrained agendas of politicians, journalists and other 'interested' parties. Almost everything which has appeared in the public domain over the past five years has been inaccurate -- the result of misinformation, wrong information and deliberate untruth. And all this has had a profound impact on how the parliament building -- intended as a physical manifestation of the new Scotland -- has unfolded. What Holyrood reveals is a nation profoundly self-divided. Powerful, thought-provoking and thoroughly researched, the book explores in great depth the story of Holyrood itself: the first years of devolution and the nature of modern Scotland -- stories for which the Holyrood building has become a potent and revealing metaphor.This is the definitive story of a crucial period in Scotland's history and the controversies that have shaped it. Key Features: *A hard-hitting behind-the-scenes look at the building of the Scottish Parliament *Written by one of the team behind the controversial TV documentary series The Gathering Place
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Susan Bain is a writer, producer and researcher. Her credits include The Gathering Place (an independent production for BBC Scotland), Charles Winsdor's Schooldays and Opinions: Terry Randall (both independent productions for Channel 4).
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IT'S 17 JUNE 1999, and two weeks before Scotland's first parliament in nearly 300 years opens its doors, it's D-Day for the Holyrood project. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
IT'S 17 JUNE 1999, and two weeks before Scotland's first parliament in nearly 300 years opens its doors, it's D-Day for the Holyrood project. Read the first page
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This book is excellent and I would recommend it to all architects, project managers and construction professionals (it should also be required reading for every member of the Scottish press that has expressed a misinformed opinion on the parliament building). The style can be a bit grating by adopting the manner of a page turner, but this woman has had access to material and events that gives her a unique insight into the whole process of the building of the most significant building in Scotland in recent years.
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I would highly recommend this book for those who are studying project management. It contains a lot of information within in it of what a project manager should not do. I recieved the book at the weekend and I am totally captured by it, from the initial conception of the Scottish Parliament building (Holyrood Project) to its completion. There is so much within the book that the project failed to consider.
It also contains a lot of drama and humour content, and it has been written very well by the author (who participated in the BBC documentary filming programme that was banned by scottish parliament from broadcasting it on TV).
It also contains a lot of drama and humour content, and it has been written very well by the author (who participated in the BBC documentary filming programme that was banned by scottish parliament from broadcasting it on TV).
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