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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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Clydeside capital, 1870-1920: a social history of employers
Tuckwell Press
2000
A study of the collective action of employers in the West of Scotland to regulate trade, influence politics, and manage labour.
Promises, promises: marriage litigation in Scotland 1698-1830
NMS Enterprises
2003
A discussion of the issues raised by Scottish law in which, between 1698-1830, if a man and woman agreed they were married, then they were.
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.
The folklore of Orkney and Shetland
B.T. Batsford Ltd
1975
A survey of Orcadian and Shetlandic folklore drawn from oral and written sources.
Meet yourself on Sunday
Naldrett Press
1949
An assessment of what the British do on Sundays.
First year's work 1937-38
Lindsay Drummond
1938
The first report from a scientific survey of the British Islanders, their habits, customs and social life.
People in production: an enquiry into British war production. Part 1
John Murray
1942
An analysis of how the country moved from a peace to a war economy based on what workers said to the team of interviewers.
Puzzled people: a study in popular attitudes to religion, ethics, progress and politics in a London Borough
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1947
A study of religious and kindred beliefs amongst a representative sample of ordinary people in an urban context.
The voter's choice: a special report
Art & Technics Ltd
1950
A study into the reasons behind the voting decisions of the electorate.
The pub and the people: a Worktown survey
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1943
An analysis of the place of the public house in working-class life. From the library of Valerie Tennant.
Browns and Chester: portrait of a shop 1780-1946
Lindsay Drummond Ltd.
1947
A history of one of the oldest shops in one of the oldest parts of one of the oldest cities in England.
History of co-operation in Scotland: its inception and its leaders
Scottish Section of the Co-operative Union
1910
A history of co-operation in Scotland from the Fenwick Weavers in 1769 onwards.
David Dale of New Lanark: a bright luminary to Scotland
Heatherbank Press
1983
A new assessment of David Dale, the predecessor of Robert Owen at New Lanark.
The silver bough: a four volume study of the national and local festivals of Scotland. Volume one, Scottish folk-lore and folk-belief
William Maclellan
1957
A study of Scottish national and local festivals and the symbolic bond between the world we know and the Otherworld.
The people of Calton Hill
Mercat Press
1993
A selection of the diverse residents of the Calton Hill area from the early 19th century to the First World War.
The city in history: its origins, its transformations, and its prospects
Secker & Warburg
1961
A history of the form and function of the city through the ages.
Museum of Childhood, Hyndford's Close, 34 High Street : a descriptive handbook
Edinburgh Corporation Libraries and Museums Committee
1961
A guide to Edinburgh's Museum of Childhood.
The domestic life of Scotland in the eighteenth century
Edinburgh University Press
1952
A social history of eighteenth-century Scotland.
The leviathan of wealth: the Sutherland fortune in the industrial revolution
Routledge & Kegan Paul
1973
An account of what was, in the early nineteenth century, the richest noble house in Britain.
Country house brewing in England 1500-1900
Hambledon Press
1996
Reveals the role that beer played in the life of the country house and the scale and range of operations.
Miners, quarrymen and saltworkers
Routledge & Kegan Paul
1977
An assessment of industrial conditions in mining, quarrying, brick making and other mineral work in the nineteenth century.
Scottish rural society in the 16th century
John Donald Publishers Ltd.
1982
A study of rural social life and the central issues of kindly tenancy and the spread of feu-ferm tenancy.
The time of our life
Billie Smith
2015
An account of an Edinburgh family who moved to Dumfriesshire during the Second World War.
Inside the forties: literary memoirs 1937-1957
Sidgwick & Jackson
1977
A personal narrative describing the literary scene during war-time and post-war Britain.
