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Social history
This collections includes books on social structures, the lived experience of the individual and distinct groups of individuals, and interactions between such groups and with the state.
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The Bible in seventeenth-century Scottish life and literature
Allenson & Co. Ltd.
1936
An assessment of the impact of the Bible on aspects of Scottish life.
A history of the Scottish miners from the earliest times
George Allen & Unwin Ltd
1955
A survey of how miners organised and defended themselves to gain improved working conditions.
Portable utopia: Glasgow and the United States 1820-1920 with a comprehensive biographical list of the Scots and Americans who created the connection
Aberdeen University Press
1984
A survey of the close ties that developed between Glasgow and America in the nineteenth century with a biographical list of Scots and Americans who created and sustained the relationship.
Examples of printed folk-lore concerning Northumberland
David Nutt for the Folk-Lore Society
1904
A collection of superstitions, traditional customs, traditional narratives, and folk sayings related to Northumberland.
Icelandic feasts and holidays
Iceland Review
1980
A catalogue of Icelandic celebration, past and present
Books, buildings, and social engineering: early public libraries in Britain from past to present
Ashgate
2009
An assessment of the development and influence of British public libraries.
A second highland chapbook
Eneas Mackay
1948
A selection of Highland folklore with an accent on magic and superstition.
Drinking the waters: creating an American leisure class at nineteenth-century mineral springs
Smithsonian Institution Press
2002
A dscussion of the rise of a fledgling aristocracy based on wealth rather than tradition.
Angus country life: a companion to the Angus Folk Museum, Glamis
National Trust for Scotland
1980
An introduction to rural life in Angus.
Industry, trade and people in Ireland 1650-1950: essays in honour of W.H. Crawford
Ulster Historical Foundation
2005
A collection of essays on Irish economic, social, and regional development.
Ochtertyre house booke of accomps 1737-1739
Scottish History Society
1907
A transcription of the household account books of a Scottish country house and estate.
Central Scotland: land, wildlife, people
Forth Naturalist and Historian
1993
A survey of the natural, economic and social history of Central Scotland.
That favourite resort: the story of Bray, Co. Wicklow
Wordwell
2007
A history of the popular Irish holiday resort.
The transformation of rural Scotland: social change and the agrarian economy 1660-1815
John Donald Publishers Ltd
1999
A detailed exploration of the process of transition in the rural lowlands of Scotland from peasant to capitalist agriculture
The criminal and the community
John Lane : Bodley Head
1912
A discussion of the criminal, the factors in the causation of crime, and the treatment of the criminal. With an appended 16 page 'Catalogue of John Lane's fiction'.
Hydropathic highway to health: women and water-cure in antebellum America
Greenwood Press
1986
An analysis of the development of water-cures for women in America prior to the Civil War.
Historic New Lanark: the Dale and Owen industrial community since 1785
Edinburgh University Press
1993
A study of the cotton-spinning village famous for pioneering technology and social change in the Industrial Revolution.
Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750
Tuckwell Press
1999
A collection of papers given at a conference on Scottish women's studies.
Up oor close: memories of domestic life in Glasgow tenements, 1910-1945
White Cockade in association with Springburn Museum Trust
1995
Based on the memories of tenement dwellers highlighting the challenges of living in cramped accommodation.
Wholesale co-operation in Scotland: the fruits of fifty years' efforts (1868-1918) : an account of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, compiled to commemorate the Society's golden jubilee
Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited
1920
A history of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society.
A history of Scottish farming
Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd
1952
A history of Scottish farming showing how Scotland's farmers struggled to copy but then surpassed English farming methods.
Scottish urban history
Aberdeen University Press
1983
A collection of nine critical, and previously unpublished, studies on urban history.
The Victorian clergy
Croom Helm
1984
An analysis of how the clergy's place in society aleterd over the Victorian period.
Edinburgh: the fabulous fifties
Evening News in association with Archive Publications Ltd
1988
A pictorial record, with commentary, of 1950s Edinburgh.
