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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.
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.
Angus country life: a companion to the Angus Folk Museum, Glamis
National Trust for Scotland
1980
An introduction to rural life in Angus.
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 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.
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.
Britain revisited
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1961
An account of the application of the Mass-Observation approach of the thirties to the Worktown of the sixties. Gift inscription from Tom Harrisson on front free endpaper.
Fragrant earth: an autobiography of a land girl
Epworth Press
1947
The true story of a girl who was plunged from a comfortable city life into the rigours of farm labouring.
The eighteen nineties: a review of art and ideas at the close of the nineteenth century
Penguin Books Limited
1950
From Esk to Tweed: harbours, ships and men of the east coast of Scotland
Blackie
1975
An account of the rise and fall of ports on the east coast of Scotland.
Highland superstitions: the druids, fairies, witchcraft, second-sight, Hallowe'en, sacred wells and lochs, with several curious instances of Highland customs and beliefs
Eneas Mackay
1960
A selection of Highland folklore with an accent on magic and superstition.
