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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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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 Linlithgowshire Gipsies
West Lothian Council Libraries, Local History Library
2005
A reprint of Chapter IV of Simson's 'History of the Gipsies'.
Burntisland: a social history
Burntisland Heritage Trust
2009
The story of the people of Burntisland from 1700 to modern times.
Inside the forties: literary memoirs 1937-1957
Sidgwick & Jackson
1977
A personal narrative describing the literary scene during war-time and post-war Britain.
From lairds to louns: country and burgh life in Aberdeen 1600-1800
Aberdeen University Press
1986
A collection of papers on rural and urban life in post mediaeval Aberdeenshire.
Hill and Adamson's the fishermen and women of the Firth of Forth
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
1991
A collection of photographs from the 1840s, including some newly printed from long neglected negatives.
The settlements of Western Perthshire: land and society north of the Highland line 1480-1851
Pentland Press Ltd.
1990
The result of ten years research into the history of the western corner of Perthshire.
American daughter
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1946
The autobiographical story of a black girl growing up in the West and Middle West of America.
The great acceptance: the life story of F.N. Charrington
Hodder and Stoughton
1912
A biography of the heir to the Charrington brewery business, who renounced his inheritance to devote his life to the goals of the Temperance Movement.
£3,000,000 in pennies: the story of a wartime miracle
Odhams Press Ltd.
1942
The story of a charitable fund established to help British citizens at home and in prisoner of war camps.
Future Books. Volumes 1-4
Collins
1946-1947
A complete set of the Future Books: Overture; The stage is set; The crowded scene; and Transformation. Extensively illustrated and with numerous full-page advertisements.
Happy Valley: memories of Laurieston
Falkirk Council Library Services
1990
A collection of memories of growing up in Laurieston in the 1940s and 1950s.
Agriculture and society in seventeenth century Scotland
John Donald Publishers Ltd.
1979
An analysis of the transition from mediaeval to more modern conditions in rural Scotland.
