The Little General and the Rousay Crofters: Crisis and Conflict on an Orkney Estate

History

Thomson, William P.L.

Europe

John Donald Publishers

Ireland & Scotland, 1600-1850: Parallels and Contrasts in Economic and Social Development

Originally published over 10 years ago, and now available in paperback, a study of Scottish participation in the Crusades.

Scotland and the crusades, 1095-1560

MacQuarrie, Alan

And It's All Over

Francey, David

The life and times of Berwick-upon-Tweed

LAMONT-BROWN, Raymond

Concerned with historical change, this book is seen through the eyes of the people themselves, through the tools they used, through the food they ate, through the buildings in which they lived and worked. It provides an awareness of the past that has shaped our countryside.

Scottish Country Life

Alexander Fenton

Bruntsfield Links Golfing Society

Travel

Stewart Cruden

<p>Journalist Marian Pallister has brought together historical fact and contemporary reminiscence to give a fascinating insight into the origins and development of human settlement in this beautiful outpost of Scotland. Her record comes from a wealth of documents and first-hand accounts.</p>

Villages of Southern Argyll

Pallister, Marian

The part of Scotland which contains Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park has long been a magnet for visitors. Many, such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mendelssohn, Hand Andersen, Queen Victoria (and many of her subjects) were tourists. They were inspired by its extraordinary natural beauty, and by a wish to visit the settings for the best-selling works of Sir Walter Scott. Others came in the course of duty: early saints brought Christianity, redcoats pursued Rob Roy and engineers came to revive Scotland's fortunes with hyrdo-electricity.In this fascinating book, John Ransom, who has lived in the area for many years, tells the stories of the people who came to it and what they found. He describes how an intricate network of connecting trains, loch steamers and horse-drawn coaches enabled them to move around easily; how Loch Lomond and the fast-flowing River Leven were used as a highway for trade for over a thousand years; how the railway from Dunblane to Crianlarich, where luxurious Pullman cars ran in the 1920s, was closed amidst controversy in the 1960s.Crammed with historical detail and illustrated with numerous modern and period photographs, this is the essential companion to this spectacular corner of Scotland.

Loch Lomond and the Trossachs in History and Legend

P. J. G. Ransom

<p>Between 1651 and 1851 successive clerks to the Kirk Sessions of Cramond carefully recorded the allegations of misbehaviour that were brought against parishioners. Almost all of those who appeared before the session were 'working-class' men and women, and not all of them were as ready to confess and express their repentance as minister and elders wished. So while the eleven volumes of Cramond's session minutes over that time give a vivid picture of the sinners and their unallowable activities (as well as of the neighbours who reported on them), they also reveal the difficulties faced by a group of earnest men (some more likeable than others) who were charged with exercising godly authority over their community. The account is set against the background of national events as they affected Cramond and its kirk. It concludes by sketching some of the changes that have made the modern Edinburgh suburb so different from its forerunner of earlier centuries.</p>

The Sinners of Cramond: The Struggle to Impose Godly Behaviour on a Scottish Community, 1651-1851. Alison Hanham

Hanham, Alison

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