In a series of letters to a friend Francis Douglas gives us a wonderful picture of the East Coast of Scotland, from Edinburgh to Cullen, visiting St Andrews and Aberdeen universities and describing the trades and manufacture of the large towns    

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This excellent study covers the provision for the poor in Scotland from the middle ages through to the mid 1800s.    

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An almanack. Contains thousands of names, including consuls, politicians, peers, and officers of the army and navy, etc. Excellent source material for genealogists and historians.    

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This volume of the Calendar of State Papers Domestic for the reign of Queen Anne covers the period from May 1704 to October 1705. It includes not only the main series of state papers domestic but also the related series of state papers Ireland, Scotland, military and naval; entry books and Signet Office letter books and docket books.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83145-7

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The definitive early history and description of the whole of Britain. An absolute must for anyone's collection providing invaluable background information for family history research.    

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Treason, Murder, Tumult, Piracy, Forgery, Incest, Adultery, Fornication, Blasphemy, Crimes against religion and the state, Witchcraft. Fascinating reading!    

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Includes: Edinburgh & Leith, Fife, Haddington, Kinross, Linlithgow. Nobility & clergy (all Scotland) and 1825 maps of the whole of Scotland.    

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Includes: Ayr, Clackmannan, Dumbarton, Lanark, Renfrew. Nobility & clergy (all Scotland) and 1825 maps of the whole of Scotland.    

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For decades, the study of Scotland in the fifteenth century has focused on the complex relationships between crown and magnates. However, the importance of the chivalric ideal to the Scottish knightly class, and the use of chivalry as a political tool by the Stewart kings, has been overlooked by scholars. This book aims to fill this gap.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83192-1

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Places well indexed and fully searchable. As well as details of the cases it gives you a good insight into the habits and thoughts of Judges in the early 1800s.    

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An excellent reference book of 1825 listing and describing all of the peerages in Scotland and Ireland.    

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A wonderful record of hundreds of court decisions involving people from all over Scotland.    

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The definitive reference work on this topic. `[The author takes] the Celtic world to include both the European continent and the more recent settlements in the British Isles. The entries, admirably broad in scope, conceive religion and culture as including not only the usual gods and myths but shamanic practices and totems. Maier also provides entries for important scholars of Celtic culture.' CHOICE   paperback   ISBN 978-0-851-15660-6

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Typical accounts of Anglo-Scottish relations over the whole fourteenth century tends to present a sustained period of bitter enmity, described routinely by stock-phrases such as 'endemic warfare', and typified by battles such as Bannockburn [1314], Neville's cross [1346] or Otterburn [1388], border-raiding and the capture of James I of Scotland by English pirates in 1406. However, as this collection shows, the situation was far more complex. Drawing together new perspectives from new and leading researchers, the essays investigate the great complexity of Anglo-Scottish tensions in this most momentous of centuries and in doing so often reveal a far more ambivalent and at times even a peaceful and productive Anglo-Scottish dynamic. The topics treated include military campaigns and ethos; the development of artillery; the leading 'Disinherited' Anglo-Scot, Edward Balliol; Scots in English allegiance and Border Society; religious patronage; Papal relations; the effect of dealings with Scotland on England's government and parliament; identity, ethnicity and otherness; and shared values and acculturation.
Contributors: AMANDA BEAM, MICHAEL BROWN, DAVID CALDWELL, GWILYM DODD, ANTHONY GOODMAN, ANDY KING, SARAH LAYFIELD, IAIN MACINNES, RICHARD ORAM, MICHAEL PENMAN, ANDREA RUDDICK AND DAVID SIMPKIN.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83318-5

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Containing complete lists of Irish gold and silver marks as well as all known Dublin and provincial apprentices, freemen, quarter-brothers and masters, Jackson's publication remains unsurpassed and is still the authoritative publication in the history, work and membership of the Irish, English and Scottish Guilds of Goldsmiths. At more than 750 pages, this publication has no peer in the breadth and depth of material.     ISBN 1-84630-096-7

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This huge government publication of 1842 contains evidence on the employment of children. Evidence is given by interviews with the employers, adult workers and children, relating to the work and lifestyle conditions. It is an extraordinarily rich and vivid resource of detailed information on early 19th century social conditions in the manufacturing areas of Great Britain and Ireland.    

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Transcripts of ancient civil and criminal court proceedings in Aberdeenshire with an excellent index of names.    

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Descriptions of every town, village and hamlet in the whole of Great Britain and Ireland. Excellent maps. 4 CD set    

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Details of the great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland extracted from two returns made by Government rate collectors. The 533 page publication is an essential resource, containing a vast amount of personal and financial detail on owners of land of 3,000 acres worth more that 3,000 a year.     ISBN 1-84630-108-4

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Includes: Aberdeen, Banff, Caithness, Elgin (Morayshire) Inverness, Nairn, Orkneys, Ross & Cromarty, Sutherland. Nobility & clergy (all Scotland) and 1825 maps of the whole of Scotland.    

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A very rare, incredibly useful, early directory. Using a directory like this, which pre-dates civil registration (1837), can often help you to pin down areas to search for possible marriage and baptismal records.    

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This excellent directory not only covers the subjects described in its title, but all associated trades and businesses.    

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These 36 original documents have never been published, and are not deposited with the county record office. These unique documents have now all been scanned, and are available on CD from the Archive CD Books Project.    

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Broghill's years of political influence included a distinctive initiative in Ireland in the early 1650s calling for limits on army power, religious radicalism, and urging closer ties with England; domestic reforms and keen promotion of the Cromwellian regime in Scotland, of which he was president during 1655-6; and in 1656-7 the introduction of the Humble Petition and Advice, which sought to re-establish a civilian state, with Oliver Cromwell as king.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83099-3

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Matilda of Scotland was the daughter of Malcolm II of Scotland and his Anglo-Saxon queen Margaret. Her marriage to Henry I of England in 1100 thus brought to Henry, descendant of the conquering Normans, a direct and politically desirable link to Matilda's ancestor Alfred the Great.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15994-2

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The details given include, date baptised, parents names, place of birth and date born. It is important to note that not only is the Father's name given but also the Maiden name of the Mother.    

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This beautiful set of six books, first published circa 1890, is a fantastically detailed topographical, biographical and historical account of every place in Scotland, from the tiniest Highland hamlet to the great cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. It also contains dozens of absolutely stunning maps and photographs.    

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Histories and illustrations of Britain and Ireland. See More Info for place names.    

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A book for the traveller. Each road has towns, main villages, bridges, crossings, etc. along its route, with distance tables, plus names of prominent people and residences. Contents include: Alphabetical cities, towns and remarkable villages in England & Wales; Scottish Roads; Principal and direct roads in England & Wales; Cross roads; Circuits of the judges; Tide tables, and more.    

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Road routes throughout Great Britain, with distances, information about places passed through on each route, turnpikes etc.    

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Road routes throughout Great Britain, with distances, information about places passed through on each route, turnpikes etc.    

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A wonderful little leather bound book published in 1790 that lists all of the Peerages of England Scotland & Ireland. Many coats of arms illustrated (mainly of the most important families), and thousands of names.    

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A wonderful little leather bound book published in 1790 that lists all of the Peerages of England Scotland & Ireland. Many coats of arms illustrated (mainly of the most important families).    

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Descriptions of the origins of Scottish place names    

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Fully indexed early records of the University of St. Andrews. Includes the Graduation Roll 1413-1579 and the Matriculation Roll 1473-1579.    

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The Matriculation Roll of the University of St. Andrews 1747-1897. This excellent book has also contains information about the history of the university, together with early engravings and photographs. Fully indexed.    

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Records of the Abbey of Cupar. Of great historical and topographical interest, and important in relation to many central Scottish notable families. Details of Scottish husbandry and rural affairs during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how the Pre-Reformation clergy administered their estates, and conducted their affairs. A portrait of social and domestic life.    

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In the twilight years of Scottish independence, the Restoration period witnessed both the triumph of Stuart absolutism and the radical Covenanting resistance of the 'Killing Times' immortalised in presbyterian memory. This is the first account of this fascinating and dramatic period in Scottish history. It begins with the widespread popular royalism that acclaimed Charles II's return to power in 1660 and concludes by examining the collapse of royal authority that occurred under his brother, James VII & II, and the events of the Williamite Revolution of 1688-90. In reconstructing the world of late-seventeenth century Scotland, this book draws on an extensive range of printed and manuscript sources, the majority of which have never been used by historians before. Amidst current interest in Scottish political and parliamentary history before 1707, this book emphasises the dynamic and characteristic cosmopolitanism of Restoration intellectual culture as revealed from a range of national, British and Continental perspectives. In doing so, it challenges numerous historiographical orthodoxies, and modifies conventional understanding of pre-Enlightenment Scotland.
CLARE JACKSON lectures in the history of political thought at the University of Cambridge.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15930-0

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A complete set of all of the Pigot's 1825/6 county directories for Scotland. Original maps. (see below for area directories on separate CDs) Save by buying the whole set.    

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John Stodard gave lectures on many subjects which he then turned into a series of 10 volumes. This is the 9th volume containing his views on Scotland, England and London, enthusiastically describing the history of each place. Beautifully illustrated with black and white sketches and photographs of places and people of interest. A tour around Scotland and England, re-telling fascinating stories from the past.    

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Scottish heraldry can be said to begin in the mid-twelfth century, when material of Scottish interest first appears in a number of English and Continental rolls-of-arms, and as the years passed it developed an increasing complexity and sophistication, establishing itself as a subject in its own right in the seventeenth century with the appearance of the Lyon register. This volume is the first to link heraldry to major events in Scottish history and to thefamilies that took part in them. It uses a wide range of sources to chart its growth, some of which have been rarely explored previously, thus bringing much new material into the corpus of Scottish heraldry. It also covers the major families and clans - Stewarts, Douglas, Murrays, Hamiltons, Gordons and MacDonalds - and examines a host of other issues, both technical and historical. Throughout it is richly illustrated with some two hundred chart pedigreesand fully-coloured coats-of-arms.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83261-4

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A history of Scotland fromm earliest times to the end of the '45 Rebellion, written by Scott for his grandson, Johnny Lockhart..    

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In the early modern period, ordinary subjects began to find a role in national politics through the phenomenon of public opinion: by drawing on entrenched ideological differences, oppositional leaders were able to recruit popularsupport to pressure the government with claimed representations of a national interest.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93289-4

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Includes: Argyll, Bute, Perth, Forfar, Kincardineshire, Stirling. Nobility & clergy (all Scotland) and 1825 maps of the whole of Scotland.    

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Includes: Berwick, Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Peebles, Roxburgh, Selkirk, Wigton. Nobility & clergy (all Scotland) and 1825 maps of the whole of Scotland.    

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A concise A-Z of Surnames in the United Kingdom. The book includes an essay on the origins of our surnames, which discusses such topics as the necessity for distinctive nicknames in Scotland, French surnames, Anglo Saxon and Scandinavian names, Flemish names in S. Wales and more. There is also an appendix of principal foreign names found in British directories.    

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Robert de Brus, the 'conquisitor of Cleveland, Hartness and Annandale', who came into England among the followers of Henry I, was also a close companion and mentor of David I, king of Scots. The lands he acquired from bothkings were divided between his sons, from whom two lines descended: the lords of Skelton, influential Northerners who played an active part during the baronial troubles in the reigns of John and Henry III, and the prominent cross-Border lords of Annandale, co-heirs of the substantial Chester and Huntingdon estates and progenitors of King Robert Bruce. This study takes a fresh approach to the Brus family by assessing the achievements of the two lines in parallel while examining the extent of their power and the development of their lordships; it highlights the inter-relations between the barons of England and Scotland during two hundred years of comparative peace between the kingdoms. Of additional interest is the appendix of an extensive handlist of charters of the Brus family of both lines. It will be a welcome addition to the existing body of works on English baronial families and on Anglo-Scottish cross-Border lords of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83152-5

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The Chronicle of Melrose Abbey is the principal source for Scottish history in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries; it is also a remarkable survival of a chronicle-manuscript that grew for over a century. It is thus of great importance to historians and palaeographers alike.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-906-24529-3

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Contains the names and livings of clergymen in England, Wales and Ireland, the Scottish Episcopal Church, military, naval and prison chaplains, as well as those working all over the British Empire. It also lists the benefices in England and Wales, their values, populations and patrons.    

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An invaluable resource, not only for family historians searching their clergy ancestors, but also for all of the general information relating to churches.    

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Edinburgh is one of Europe's most elegant and cosmopolitan cities, the Old Town rebuilt on the medieval street plan after being burned down by the English in 1544, and the eighteenth-century classical New Town more extensive thananything else of its kind in Europe. Edinburgh was the capital of an independent kingdom for more than two hundred and fifty years, and it has the air of a capital, with buildings where kings were born or where some of their moreprominent subjects were assassinated, streets once trodden by Mary Queen of Scots and Bonnie Prince Charlie, and a rich artistic life that comes into exhilarating full flower in August with the Edinburgh Festival. Edinburgh is also the gateway to some of the most spectacularly beautiful country in Britain: lying southward is the romantic landscape of the Borders, where Alexander Youngson is an admirable guide to the ruined abbeys, the castles thathave withstood countless sieges, and the great houses still owned by families 'that the Flood could not wash away'.A.J. YOUNGSON is former chairman of the Fine Art Commission for Scotland.   paperback   ISBN 978-1-900-63938-5

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An incredibly detailed history of the Pitcairn families of Fife from 1250-1809.    

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From Agricola's invasion to the extinction of the last Jacobite insurrection. Published by William Blackwood & Sons. Edinburgh & London. Originally published betweern 1853-1870, this is the major work of John Hill Burton D.S.L. 1809-1881 Scottish Historian and Lawyer, appointed Historiographer Royal for Scotland in 1867.    

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A record of Scottish Lowlands life and character. Illustrated with photographs of evidence and pictures, such as that of the Spirit of Tweedie, this book covers the origin of the name and family. Tracing the name back to the Scottish Tweedie Clan and with evidence dating back to 1314, this is a must have book for anyone researching the Twedie or Tweedy family.    

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The early years of the reign of James VI and I have been much examined, but this book takes a new approach, via an overall survey rather than focussing on what are traditionally perceived as the most important moments, such as the Hampton Court Conference and the Gunpowder Plot. This enables the author to show how circumstances and events immediately after James' accession were crucial to shaping his approach to ruling England, and provides a fresh understanding of his reign in England.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93272-6

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This book is concerned with political culture, government, and religion during the personal rule of Charles II, the period between the dissolution of his last English Parliament in 1681 and his death in 1685. The author argues that the nature of this phase of Stuart personal rule was different to that of Charles I in 1629-40.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83305-5

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A very large book with beautifully written description of every county, complete with some stunning illustrations.    

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A complete list (in alphabetical order) of every railway station, town, village, hamlet, parish and place in England, Scotland and Wales. Gives population from the 1901 census, locality, post offices, money order and telegraphy offices and more. For those interested with ancestors employed in railways, this book could help you discover for whom they worked. Also ideal for railway enthusiasts.    

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Researchers with an interest in human migration and in the history of Scotland, Ireland or North America will find this an extremely useful resource and thought provoking source, which will stimulate future study. Two volumes (over 1,200 pages) packed with details on the origin and migration of Scottish people over the course of twelve centuries.     ISBN 1-84630-080-0

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This wonderful little book is full of information about the Clans and their tartans. But it goes further than this with short explanations about the Gaelic language, Highland dress and how to wear it, Highland personal names and surnames and a separate section about female names plus a list of Clan septs and dependents (i.e. the clans with which they are connected) and designations of Highland Chiefs and families. Each Clan's history is briefly described with colour illustrations of their tartans and notes about their badge and war cry!    

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A collection of ten specially commissioned essays addressing five themes central to any study of the Scottish Enlightenment: (1) the place (both physical and cognitive) of science and medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment; (ii) the institutionalisation of enlightenment in the universities; (iii) the cultivation of the different branches of 'the science of man' in the Scottish Enlightenment; (iv) the national and international contexts of enlightenment thought in Scotland; and (v) the historiography of the Scottish Enlightenment.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-580-46065-1

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An excellent account of life in Scotland during the 1700s, and therefore of great interest to those with Scottish ancestors.    

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Reflections of Lord Alexander Saltoun, Advocate.    

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Fascinating edition of the travels of two young sprigs of the French aristocracy in search of the secrets of British commercial, industrial and agricultural primacy reaches its climax in this delicious volume... a notable contribution to the topographical and social history of Britain on the eve of the French revolution. COUNTRY LIFE [Richard Ollard]   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15843-3

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These two huge early volumes, published in the 1846 are a gazetteer of all places in Scotland. With a description of each town, village and hamlet and its location and facilities. An excellent reference source for all with history and genealogy interests.    

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This book offers important new insights into the relationship between crime and gender in Scotland during the Enlightenment period. Against the backdrop of significant legislative changes that fundamentally altered the face of Scots law, Dr Kilday examines contemporary attitudes towards serious offences against the person committed by women.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93287-0

Price:  £50.00