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History talks and events 5 - 11 December 2016

29/11/2016

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Upcoming family history talks and events in Scotland, 5 - 11 December 2016

Note that there may be a small charge for some of these events, and some may be for members only. We will be publishing lists of upcoming talks and events regularly - if you are organising a talk or event relating to Scottish genealogy or history, please let us know and we will be happy to add your events to our list.

Monday, December 5 2016, 7 pm for 7.30 pm

Christmas Soirée

Venue: Drummond Community High School, Bellevue Place, Edinburgh

Broughton History Society

Non-members, £2.00.


Monday, December 5 2016, 7.30 pm

Stewarton Night

Venue: John Knox Church Hall, High Street, Stewarton

Stewarton and District Historical Society

Local tales: longer or shorter ones welcome. Come along and find out about the Bonnet Toun or tell us! Christmas drinks and nibbles. Members £1 Non-members £2.


Monday, December 5 2016, 7.30 pm

The Archaeology of the Islands of Loch Lomond

Fiona Baker

Venue: St Andrews Church, Park Road, Milngavie

Milngavie and Bearsden Historical Society

Postponed from last year, we welcome Fiona Baker who is a consultant archaeologist. She was responsible for The Loch Lomond Survey carried out between 1995-98 which was commissioned by the Friends of Loch Lomond. She works all over Scotland at present dealing with river hydro schemes. £4 for non-members


Monday, December 5 2016, 7.30 pm

Death or Glory at the Ends of the Earth

Dave Carson

Venue: Morison Memorial Church, Dumbarton Road, Clydebank

Clydebank Local History Society


Monday, December 5 2016, 8 pm

Unlocking the Union Canal

Alan Forrester

Venue: Dreghorn Loan Hall, Colinton, EH13 0DE

Colinton Local History Society

As an official of the Scottish Waterways Trust Alan Forrester has much to do with the Union Canal and can tell us much about this waterway which passes so close to us.


Tuesday, December 6 2016, 5.30 pm

Screening ‘Govan Young’ by Connelly Clark Films. Followed by a presentation on ‘Govan Old: Seeking a Sustainable Future for an Ancient Monument’

David Archibald (Film & TV) and Stephen Driscoll (Glasgow)

Venue: Room 202, 3 University Gardens, Glasgow

Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies


Tuesday, December 6 2016, 6.45 pm for 7.15 pm

AGM followed by A Unique Concentration? Women living and working in Morningside 1841-1891

Jill Powlett Brown

Venue: Morningside Parish Church Hall

Morningside Heritage Association


Tuesday, December 6 2016, 7.30 pm

Local Boys made Good

Jean Mcdonald

Venue: Fairweather Hall, Barrhead Road, Newton Mearns, G77 6BB

Mearns History Group

The Story of James and Robert Couper


Wednesday, December 7 2016, 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm

The Story Of The Forth

John Reid

Venue: Kincardine Community Centre - Hepburn Room

Kincardine-on-Forth Local History Group


Wednesday, December 7 2016, 7.00 pm

Members evening and social

Venue: Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh

The Old Edinburgh Club

Short presentations to be arranged. Lectures are free to members and open to non-members paying a small fee (currently £5.00).


Wednesday, December 7 2016, 7.30 pm

Christmas Social

Lord Lyon

Venue: Smith Museum and Art Gallery, Dumbarton Road, Stirling

Central Scotland Family History Society


Thursday, December 8 2016

Christmas Party

Venue: Portland Church hall

Troon & Ayrshire Family History Society


Thursday, December 8 2016, 10 am - 12 pm

Local and family history drop-in

Venue: Giffnock Library

East Renfrewshire's Heritage Collection

Have you hit a family history brick wall? Do you need help with local history research? Or would you just like advice on using the heritage resources at Giffnock and Barrhead Libraries? Pop along to our local & family history drop-in where the local studies librarian will be on hand to point you in the right direction.


Thursday, December 8 2016, 7 pm

Christmas Social Evening

Venue: GLO Centre, 78 Muir Street, MOTHERWELL. ML1 1BN

Lanarkshire Family History Society


Thursday, December 8 2016, 7.30 pm

Members' Night

Venue: Haddington Town House

Haddington's History Society


Thursday, December 8 2016, 7.30 pm

Members' Evening

Venue: Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley

Renfrewshire Family History Society


Thursday, December 8 2016, 7.30 pm

Members Christmas Night

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Venue: Abbey Church Hall, Abbey Park Place, Dunfermline

Dunfermline Historical Society

Visitors are charged a fee of £2.00 per meeting and are made very welcome.


Thursday, December 8 2016, 7.30 pm

Hospitals for the Soul

Prof Ray Mcaleese

Venue: MacRobert Hall, The Square, Tarland

Cromar History Group

Prof. Ray McAleese will tell us about the historic spittals, or hospitals, of north-east Scotland, established as bedehouses, almshouses and travellers’ inns.


Thursday, December 8 2016, 7.30 pm

From the Picts Grave to Fingal's Cave: Current archaeological research

Daniel Rhodes

Venue: Dirleton Kirk Hall

Gullane and Dirleton History Society

Catch up on recent developments in archaeology


Thursday, December 8 2016, 7.30 pm

Recent Investigations at Killiecrankie Battlefield

Maureen Kilpatrick, GUARD Archaeology

Venue: The Shawl Gallery, Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley

Renfrewshire Local History Forum

Renfrewshire Local History Forum Lectures are open to non-members with no admission charge but a small donation would be appreciated.


Thursday, December 8 2016, 7.30 pm

Christmas Social

Coldstream and District Local History Society

Photo show, quiz and buffet supper


Thursday, December 8 2016, 7.30 pm

Barry, partner of Ostlere & Shepherd

David Potter

Venue: Kirkcaldy Old Kirk, Kirk Wynd

Kirkcaldy Civic Society


Thursday, December 8 2016, 7.30 pm - 9.00 pm

Christmas Evening

Venue: Johnnie Walker Bond, Strand Street Kilmarnock

East Ayrshire Family History Society


Thursday, December 8 2016, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm

Christmas in Six Objects

Venue: Glen Halls, Neilston

Barrhead & Neilston Historical Association


Friday, December 9 2016, 2 pm - 3 pm

Caring for your family papers

Linda Ramsay

Venue: New Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh

National Records of Scotland

Linda Ramsay, Head of Conservation in NRS, and her colleagues will provide advice on storing, packaging, handling and preserving your family papers, from letters and plans, to photographs and ledgers, including tips on what to do about damp, mould and insects. Come ready with your document dilemmas! (New Register House)


Saturday, December 10 2016, 1 pm - 3 pm

Celebratory event of Cumnock being made a Police Burgh in 1866

Venue: Rothesay House, Cumnock

Cumnock History Group


Saturday, December 10 2016, 2.00pm-4.00pm

Christmas social

Venue: Activities Room, Elgin Library, Cooper Park, Elgin, IV30 1HS

Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society


Saturday, December 10 2016, 2.30pm-4.30pm

Christmas Social

Venue: Unitarian Church Centre

Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society

For all ANESFHS members and helpers


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History talks and events 28 November - 4 December 2016

22/11/2016

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Upcoming family history talks and events in Scotland, 28 November - 4 December 2016

Note that there may be a small charge for some of these events, and some may be for members only. We will be publishing lists of upcoming talks and events regularly - if you are organising a talk or event relating to Scottish genealogy or history, please let us know and we will be happy to add your events to our list.

Monday, November 28 2016, 3 pm

Early Irish Migrations to Scotland - Difficulties, Debates and DNA

Dr Catherine Swift (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)

Venue: Room 208, 2 University Gardens, Glasgow

Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies


Monday, November 28 2016, 7.30 pm

Rossie: The Loch That Disappeared

Prof David Munro

Venue: Age Concern Building, Provost Wynd, Cupar

Cupar Heritage


Monday, November 28 2016, 7.30 pm

Migrants, Benefits and Tax-Avoidance in Glenalmond, 1700-1900

Robin Urquhart, National Records of Scotland

Venue: Pitcairngreen Village Hall

West Stormont Historical Society


Monday, November 28 2016, 7.30 pm

The Pentland Way, a Walk with History

Bob Paterson

Venue: Gibson Craig Memorial Hall, Lanark Road West, Currie

Currie & District Local History Society


Monday, November 28 2016, 7.30 pm

21st Century Archaeology: Trowels, Tourism and High-Tech Trends

Dr Jeff Sanders

Venue: Millennium Room, Cramond Kirk Hall

Cramond Heritage Trust

Dr Jeff Sanders, DigIt 2017, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, on why the past is good for our future and providing a sneak peek ahead of Scotland’s Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology


Tuesday, November 29 2016, 1 pm

Franciszek Smuglewicz’s James Byres of Tonley and His Family: A Scottish Antiquarian Network in Eighteenth-Century Rome

Dr Lucinda Lax (Scottish National Portrait Gallery)

Venue: Room G16, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School

Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies

Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop Series


Tuesday, November 29 2016, 7.30 pm

Fundamentalisms Kilmarnock Origins - Thomas Whitelaw 1840-1917

Mark Nixon

Venue: Kilmarnock College, Hill Street, Kilmarnock

Kilmarnock & District History Group

£2 donation for non-members


Wednesday, November 30 2016, 4 pm

Textiles of the Viking Age

Eva Anderson Strand, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen

Venue: Lecture Theatre (109), Gregory Building

University of Glasgow


Wednesday, November 30 2016, 6 pm

Improvement and Landscape: Landownership in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Micky Gibbard, PhD student, University of Dundee

Venue: Burghfield House, Cnoc an Lobht, Dornoch

University of the Highlands and Islands Centre for History

This seminar is being given as part of the relaunch of the Centre for Scotland’s Land Futures. The evening will commence at 6pm with a wine reception and will be followed by the relaunch and the seminar. More details will follow and booking is essential.


Thursday, December 1 2016, 6 pm - 7.30 pm

Fashion and Function: Costume and textiles from the Dalrymple family collection

Emma Inglis, Curator, NTS

Venue: Newhailes House, Newhailes Road, Musselburgh, EH21 6RY

Newhailes House

£8, including complimentary glass of wine. Limited space, book online


Thursday, December 1 2016, 7 pm

The History of Scottish Gold and Silversmiths & their marks

George Dalgleish

Venue: The 252 Memorial Hall, Betson Street, Markinch

Markinch Heritage Group

Free to members and £2 for non members


Thursday, December 1 2016, 7.30 pm

Wark Castle

Eric Grounds

Coldstream and District Local History Society


Saturday, December 3 2016, 10 am - 12 pm

Health and history: Using medical records in genealogical research.

Louise Williams

Venue: Scottish Genealogy Society Library, 15 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL

Scottish Genealogy Society

Health records can be another source of information to help further your family’s history but they are not found on the usual websites, etc. Louise Williams, Archivist will show what these records contain and where to find them.


Saturday, December 3 2016, 2 pm

To Prove their kindred here The Irish Office of Arms in the 18th Century

Colette O'Flaherty - Chief Herald of Ireland

Venue: Royal Scots Club, Abercromby Place, Edinburgh

The Heraldry Society of Scotland


Saturday, December 3 2016, 7:00pm for 7:45pm

St Andrew Dinner

Elizabeth Roads, LVO - Snawdoun Herald, Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records

Venue: Royal Scots Club, Abercromby Place, Edinburgh

The Heraldry Society of Scotland


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Scottish History Society books online

16/11/2016

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We've written before about the National Library of Scotland's (NLS) massive ongoing digitisation project - the NLS plans to digitise literally millions of items from their collection, and make them available online for free. Well as part of that project, earlier this week they launched their digital versions of the publications of the Scottish History Society. This is great news, unless, like me, you have most of these in the original print form, in which case your book collection has just gone down in value!

The Scottish History Society (SHS) was founded in 1886 with the aim of publishing original sources of Scottish history. It forms part of a rich tradition of publishing clubs in Scotland (and we will be writing about some of the others in another post in the near future), and has become one of the longest-running and most successful of them. Over the last 130 years, the SHS has published over 170 books, covering a very wide range of historical topics. The NLS has now put the complete run on its website. We've added a list of all of the titles available from the SHS below, but we thought we'd highlight some of our favourites.

Arthur Mitchell's monumental work "Contribution to the bibliography of Scottish topography" is a superb reference work. It was published in two volumes: the first is arranged geographically (by county, then by parish), while the second is arranged by subject area. The books list many thousands of articles, books, pamphlets and chapters, and is indispensable for local historians, and extremely useful for family historians as well. Our copy was so heavily used I had to send it to my bookbinder for repairs!

There are two particularly useful titles for those interested in Jacobite history: List of persons concerned in the rebellion, published in 1890, and Prisoners of the '45, published in three volumes in 1928-1929, edited by Sir Bruce Gordon Seton and Jean Gordon Arnot. While certainly not comprehensive, and in many ways superseded by more recent research, they are both very useful starting points.

An intriguing, explicitly genealogical title, albeit one that is not always entirely reliable, is Genealogical collections concerning families in Scotland, made by Walter Macfarlane, 1750-1751. Families covered by this volume include Balfour, Bethune, Munro, Moncrief, Morton of Cambo, Kinnaird of that Ilk and Inchture, Mackenzie, Grant, Maclean, Mackintosh, Leslie, Bisset, Fraser of Lovat, Oliphant, Maule, Lawmond [Lamond], Carnegy, Martine, Schevez, Forbes, Strang, Knox, Spang, Douglas, Robertson of Strowan, Fraser of Dores, Fullarton, Urquhart, Gordon, Rose of Kilravock, Stirling and Kinninmond of that Ilk. As ever with printed genealogies, any information should be treated with a great deal of caution.

As graduates of the University of St Andrews, we are both interested in the history of Scotland's oldest university, and of the town. There are no fewer than three relevant titles in this collection: Rentale Sancti Andree, being the chamberlain and granitar accounts of the archbishopric in the time of Cardinal Betoun, 1538-1546, Early records of the University of St. Andrews The graduation roll, 1413 to 1579, and the matriculation roll, 1473 to 1579, and ​Acta Facultatis Artium Universitatis Sanctiandree, 1413-1588. The first of these is a very useful source for 16th century Fife, while the latter two are among the earliest surviving education records in Scotland.

Another source for sixteenth-century Fife is the Sheriff Court Book of Fife, 1515-1522. This excellent volume includes a full index of people and places. It's worth noting that much of Kinross was at this time under the jurisdiction of the Sheriff of Fife.

There are a number of other early books of court records from around Scotland:
  • Court book of the Barony of Urie in Kincardineshire, 1604-1747
  • Records of the Proceedings of the Justiciary Court Edinburgh, 1661-1678
  • Records of the Baron court of Stitchill 1655-1807
  • Minutes of the justices of the peace for Lanarkshire, 1707-1723
  • Court book of the Barony of Carnwath, 1523-1542
  • Court book of the Burgh of Kirkintilloch 1658-1694
  • Court books of Orkney and Shetland 1614-1615
These are interesting not just for their geographical range, but also for the different types of court they cover. Each volume includes a detailed index, which is obviously very useful.

There are transcriptions and extracts from early church records in Scotland:
  • Records of the Presbyteries of Inverness and Dingwall, 1643-1688
  • Rentale Dunkeldense, Being accounts of the bishopric, A.D. 1505-1517, with Mylin's 'Lives of the Bishops', A.D. 1483-1517
  • Stirling Presbytery records 1581-1587
  • Perth Kirk Session books, 1577-1590
  • Register of the minister, elders and deacons of the Christian congregation of St. Andrews comprising the proceedings of the Kirk Session and of the Court of the Superintendent of Fife Fothrik and Strathearn, 1559-1600
  • Minutes of the Synod of Argyll, 1639-1651 (1652-1661)
Another group of early church records concern Scotland's relations with the Catholic Church and the Vatican. These include some of the earliest surviving references to one of my own families (Carstairs of Fife):
  • Calendar of Scottish supplications to Rome, 1428-1432
  • Calendar of Papal letters to Scotland of Clement VII of Avignon, 1378-1394
  • Calendar of Papal letters to Scotland of Benedict XIII of Avignon, 1394-1419
  • Calendar of Scottish supplications to Rome, 1418-1422 (and 1423-1438)
There are a number of volumes relating to estates, including estate surveys:
  • Survey of Lochtayside, 1769 Made by John Farquharson and John McArthur
  • John Home's survey of Assynt
  • Argyll Estate instructions: Mull, Morvern, Tiree 1771-1805
Several other collections of local records are worth mentioning:
  • Ayr Burgh accounts, 1534-1624
  • Early records of the Burgh of Aberdeen 1317, 1398-1407
  • Aberdeen Guild Court records 1437-1468
  • Selections from the records of the regality of Melrose, 1605-1661 (1662-1676, 1547-1706)
  • Records of the Earldom of Orkney, 1299-1614
Scotland has a long tradition of links to Poland, stretching back hundreds of years. As well as trade, many thousands of Scots settled, particularly in northern Poland. In more recent times, tens of thousands of Poles have moved to Scotland (and indeed I myself lived in southern Poland for a while in the early 1990s). In that context, Papers relating to the Scots in Poland 1576-1793 is a very useful starting point. Research in this area continues to the present day by among others Dr David Worthington of the University of the Highlands and Islands.

The final volume I want to mention is an unusual one. Alexander Webster was a Church of Scotland, born in Edinburgh, although his father was a Covenanting minister from Fife. In 1742, he proposed a pensions scheme for widows of Church of Scotland ministers which, with some adaptations, was eventually adopted, and was one of the pioneering works in actuarial studies. His work drew the attention of the government, which in 1755 commissioned him to produce data for the first population census of Scotland. Unlike later censuses, Webster's work did not include names, but was just a count of the population in each parish. It includes the number of Catholics, the number of Protestants, and the number of "fighting men" in each parish. Webster's work is reproduced, together with population counts for subsequent censuses, in Scottish population statistics. Although not very useful for genealogists, it does provide the earliest population count for most of the parishes in Scotland, and is therefore very useful for historical demographers.

​Scottish History Society Publications

Tours in Scotland 1747, 1750, 1760
By Richard Pococke ... From the original MS and drawings in the British Museum. edited with a biographical sketch of the author by Daniel William Kemp. [With a portrait.]
Published 1887

Diary and general expenditure book of William Cunningham of Craigends ... kept chiefly from 1673 to 1680
edited from the original manuscript by ... James Dodds.
Published 1887

Grameid: an heroic poem descriptive of the campaign of Viscount Dundee in 1689, and other pieces
By James Philip ... edited ... with translation, introduction and notes by ... Alexander D. Murdoch.
Published 1888

Diary of the Reverend John Mill, minister of the parishes of Dunrossness Sandwick and Cunningsburgh in Shetland, 1740-1803. With selections from local records and original documents relating to the district
edited, with introduction and notes by Gilbert Goudie. [With illustrations and a map.]
Published 1889

Narrative of Mr. James Nimmo, written for his own satisfaction to keep in some remembrance the Lord's way, dealing and kindness towards him, 1654-1709
edited from the original manuscript with introduction and notes by W.G. Scott-Moncrieff. [With a genealogical table.]
Published 1889

List of persons concerned in the rebellion, transmitted to the Commissioners of Excise by the several supervisors in Scotland in obedience to a general letter of the 7th May 1746, and a supplementary list with evidences to prove the same
With a preface by the Earl of Rosebery and annotations by ... Walter Macleod.
Published 1890

Book of record - a diary written by Patrick, First Earl of Strathmore, and other documents relating to Glamis Castle, 1684-1689
edited from the original MSS. at Glamis, with introduction and notes by A.H. Millar. [With plates, including a portrait.]
Published 1890

History of Greater Britain, as well England as Scotland
Compiled ... by John Major ... Translated from the original Latin and edited with notes by Archibald Constable; to which is prefixed a life of the author by Aeneas J.G. Mackay.
Published 1892

Court book of the Barony of Urie in Kincardineshire, 1604-1747
edited from the original manuscript, with notes and introduction, by ... Douglas Gordon Barron. [With a plate and a map.]
Published 1892

Memoirs of the life of Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, baronet, Baron of the Exchequer Extracted by himself from his own journals 1676-1755
edited from the manuscript in Penicuik House with an introduction and notes by John M. Gray. [With plates, including portraits.]
Published 1892

Journal of the Hon. John Erskine of Carnock, 1683-1687
edited from the original manuscript, with introduction and notes, by ... Walter Macleod. [With a portrait.]
Published 1893

Miscellany of the Scottish History Society (First volume)
Contents: The library of James VI. In the hand of Peter Young, his tutor, 1573-1583 / G.F. Warner - Documents illustrating Catholic policy in the reign of James VI., 1596-1598 / Thomas Graves Law - Twenty-four letters of Sir Thomas Hope, ... 1627-1646 / Robert Paul - Civil war papers, 1643-1650 / H.F. Morland Simpson - Thirty-four letters written to James Sharp, ... 1660-1677 / John Dowden - The diary of George Turnbull, minister of Alloa and Tyninghame, 1657-1704 / Robert Paul - The Masterton papers, 1660-1719 / V.A. Noel Paton - Accompt of expenses in Edinburgh by Alexander Rose of Kilravock, 1715 / A.H. Millar - Papers about the Rebellions of 1715 and 1745 / Henry Paton - General index - Index to the library of James VI.
Published 1893

Account book of Sir John Foulis of Ravelston, 1671-1707
edited from the original manuscript, with introduction and glossary, by ... A.W. Cornelius Hallen.
Published 1894

Letters and papers illustrating the relations between Charles the Second and Scotland in 1650
edited, with notes and introduction, by Samuel Rawson Gardiner. Spine title: Charles II and Scotland in 1650. 16 pages immediately following text contain List of members of the Scottish History Society, July 1894. Last 16 pages contain Report of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Scottish History Society.
Published 1894

Scotland and the commonwealth. Letters and papers relating to the military government of Scotland, from August 1651 to December 1653
edited, with introduction and notes, by C.H. Firth.
Published 1895

Jacobite attempt of 1719 Letters of James Butler, second Duke of Ormonde, relating to Cardinal Alberoni's project for the invasion of Great Britain on behalf of the Stuarts
edited, with an introduction, notes and an appendix of original documents, by William Kirk Dickson. [With a portrait.]
Published 1895

Records of the Presbyteries of Inverness and Dingwall, 1643-1688
edited, with an introduction, from the original manuscript, by William Mackay. [With a facsimile.]
Published 1896

Diary of Sir Archibald Johnston, Lord Wariston, 1639
Editor: Paul, George Morison, 1839-1926
Contents: The preservation of the Honours of Scotland, 1651-52; Lord Mar's legacies, 1722-27; Letters concerning Highland affairs in the 18th century, by Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Wariston's diary edited by George Morison Paul.
Published 1896

Itinerary of Prince Charles Edward Stuart from his landing in Scotland, July 1745, to his departure in September 1746
Compiled from The Lyon in mourning [by Robert Forbes], supplemented and corrected from other contemporary sources by Walter Biggar Blaikie. Map in pocket: "A map to illustrate the movements of Prince Charles Edward Stuart ..."
Published 1897

Memorials of John Murray of Broughton, sometime secretary to Prince Charles Edward, 1740-1747
edited, with an introduction, notes and an appendix of original documents, by Robert Fitzroy Bell. [With plates, including portraits and a facsimile.]
Published 1898

Compt Buik of David Wedderburne, merchant of Dundee, 1587-1630. Together with the shipping lists of Dundee, 1580-1618
edited from the original manuscripts, with introduction and notes, by A.H. Millar. [With genealogical tables.]
Published 1898

Scotland and the protectorate. Letters and papers relating to the military government of Scotland from January, 1654 to June, 1659
edited, with introduction and notes, by C.H. Firth. [With a map and plans.]
Published 1899

Genealogical collections concerning families in Scotland, made by Walter Macfarlane, 1750-1751
edited from the original manuscripts in the Advocates' Library, by James Toshach Clark.
Published 1900

Journals of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, with his observations on public affairs and other memoranda, 1665-1676
edited with introduction and notes by Donald Crawford. [With portraits.]
Published 1900

Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the service of the United Netherlands, 1572-1782
Extracted by permission from the Government Archives at The Hague, and edited by James Ferguson
Contents: v. 1. The war of independence, 1572-1609. The time of the twelve years' truce, 1609-1621. The thirty years' war, 1621-1648. The age of William of Orange and the British revolution, 1649-1697.-v. 2. The war of the Spanish succession, 1698-1712. The period of peace, 1713-1742. The war of the Austrian succession, 1742-1749. The last days of the Brigade, 1750-1782.-v. 3. The Rotterdam papers, 1709-82. The remembrance: a metrical account of the war in Flanders, 1701-12, by John Scot, soldier.
Published 1901

Papal negotiations with Mary Queen of Scots during her reign in Scotland, 1561-1567
edited from the original documents in the Vatican archives and elsewhere / by John Hungerford Pollen.
Published 1901

Diary of Andrew Hay of Craignethan 1659-1660
edited, with introduction and notes, by Alexander George Reid.
Published 1901

Cromwellian union Papers relating to the negotiations for an incorporating union between England and Scotland, 1651-1652, with an appendix of papers relating to the negotiations in 1670
edited, with introduction and notes, by C. Sanford Terry.
Published 1902

Loyall dissuasive And other papers concerning the affairs of Clan Chattan by Sir Æneas Macpherson, knight of Invereshie, 1691-1705
edited, with notes and introduction, from the originals at Cluny castle, by Alexander D. Murdoch.
Published 1902

Chartulary of the Abbey of Lindores, 1195-1479
edited from the original manuscript ... with translation and abstracts of the charters, illustrative notes and appendices by John Dowden. Documents in Latin with English translation. The introduction contains a history of the abbey, and a biography of the founder, David, earl of Huntingdon.
Published 1903

Letter from Mary Queen of Scots to the Duke of Guise, January 1562 Reproduced in facsimile from the original manuscript in the possession of the late John Scott, of Halkshill, Esq., C.B.
edited, with translation, historical introduction and appendix of original documents, by John Hungerford Pollen.
Published 1904

Miscellany of the Scottish History Society (Second volume)
Editor: Firth, C. H. (Charles Harding), 1857-1936
Contents: The Scottish king's household and other fragments from a 14th century manuscript / Mary Bateson - The Scottish nation in the University of Orleans, 1336-1538 / John Kirkpatrick - Muster-roll of the French garrison at Dunbar, 1553 / Robert S. Rait - The antiquity of the Christian religion among the Scots, 1594 / Henry D.G. Law - The apology for William Maitland of Lethington, 1610 / Andrew Lang - Some letters and correspondence of George Graeme / L.G. Graeme - A Scottish journie, being an account in verse of a tour from Edinburgh to Glasgow in 1641, by P.J. / C.H. Firth - Narratives illustrating the Duke of Hamilton's expedition to England in 1648 / C.H. Firth - Certain papers of Robert Burnet ... Gilbert Burnet ... and Robert Leighton / H.C. Foxcroft - Letters and documents relating to Robert Erskine, physician to Peter the Great, 1677-1720 / Robert Paul - The will of Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany, 1789 / Francis Steuart - Index.
Published 1904

Letters of John Cockburn of Ormistoun to his gardener 1727-1744
edited, with introduction and notes, by James Colville.
Published 1904

Records of a Scottish cloth manufactory at New Mills, Haddingtonshire, 1681-1703
edited from the original manuscripts, with introduction and notes, by W. R. Scott.
Published 1905

Chronicles of the Frasers The Wardlaw manuscript entitled 'Polichronicon seu Policratica temporum, or, the true genealogy of the Frasers', 916-1674 / by James Fraser
edited from the original manuscript with notes and introduction, by William Mackay.
Published 1905

Records of the Proceedings of the Justiciary Court Edinburgh, 1661-1678
edited, with introduction and notes from a ms. In the possession of John W. Weston, esq., by W.G. Scott-Moncrieff and with additional notes by the owner of the manuscript.
Published 1905

Records of the Baron court of Stitchill 1655-1807
transcribed by George Gunn ; edited by Clement B. Gunn. "Introduction" by George Gunn: p. ix-xxxix.
Published 1905

Statutes of the Scottish Church, 1225-1559 Being a translation of Concilia Scotiae: Ecclesiae Scoticanae statuta tam provincialia quam synodalia quae supersunt.
With introduction and notes by David Patrick.
Published 1907

Ochtertyre House booke of accomps, 1737-1739
edited with introduction and a glossary by James Colville. [With a genealogical table.]
Published 1907

Charters, bulls and other documents relating to the Abbey of Inchaffray. Chiefly from the originals in the charter chest of the Earl of Kinnoull
edited by William Alexander Lindsay ... John Dowden ... John Maitland Thomson ... With map and facsimiles.
Published 1908

Selection of Scottish forfeited estates papers. 1715; 1745
edited from the original documents, with introduction and appendices, by A.H. Millar.
Published 1909

De Unione Regnorum Britanniae Tractatus
By Sir Thomas Craig. edited from the manuscript in the Advocates' Library, with a translation and notes by C. Sanford Terry.
Published 1909

Household book of Lady Grisell Baillie 1692-1733
edited, with notes and introduction, by Robert Scott-Moncrieff.
Published 1911

Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708
edited, with introduction and annotations, by James Grant.
Published 1912

Rentale Sancti Andree, being the chamberlain and granitar accounts of the archbishopric in the time of Cardinal Betoun, 1538-1546
Translated and edited by Robert Kerr Hannay. [With a facsimile.]
Published 1913

Records of the Earldom of Orkney, 1299-1614
edited with introduction and notes by J. Storer Clouston.
Contents: Early records - Decrees, and other records, of the courts - Dispositions of land in Orkney - Dispositions of tenements in Kirkwall - A few miscellaneous documents.
Published 1914

Letter-book of Bailie John Steuart of Inverness 1715-1752
edited by William Mackay.
Published 1915

Rentale Dunkeldense Being accounts of the bishopric, A.D. 1505-1517, with Mylin's 'Lives of the Bishops', A.D. 1483-1517.
Translated and edited by Robert Kerr Hannay. And a note on the cathedral church by F.C. Eeles.
Published 1915

Letters relating to Scotland in the reign of Queen Anne
By James Ogilvy, First Earl of Seafield, and others. edited by P. Hume Brown.
Published 1915

Papers relating to the Scots in Poland 1576-1793
edited with an introduction by A. Francis Steuart. A collection made by and in part edited by Miss Beatrice Baskerville; translations from Latin by J. Mackay Thomson - Preface.
Published 1915

Origins of the 'Forty-five And other papers relating to that rising
edited by Walter Biggar Blaikie.
Published 1916

Contribution to the bibliography of Scottish topography
By Sir Arthur Mitchell and C.G. Cash. Edinburgh : Printed by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society, 1917. 2 volumes: 2nd series, volumes 14 and 15.
Published 1917

Papers relating to the Army of the Solemn League and Covenant, 1643-1647
edited with an introduction by Charles Sanford Terry.
Published 1917

Miscellany of the Scottish History Society
Contents: Dundee court-martial records, 1651 / edited by Godfrey Davies - The bishop of Galloway's correspondence, 1679-1685 / edited by William Douglas - The diary of Sir James Hope, 1646-1654 / edited by Sir James Balfour Paul - Instructions for the trial of Patrick Graham, 1476 / edited by Robert Kerr Hannay - The Scottish contributions to the distressed church of France, 1622 / edited by D. Hay Fleming - The Forbes baron court book, 1659-1678 / edited by J. Maitland Thomson.
Published 1919

Diary of George Ridpath, minister of Stitchel, 1755-1761
edited with notes and introduction by Sir James Balfour Paul.
Published 1922

Mary Queen of Scots and the Babington plot
edited [With introduction], from the original documents in the Public Record Office, the Yelverton MSS. ... by John Hungerford Pollen.
Published 1922

Papers from the collection of Sir William Fraser
edited by J.R.N. Macphail.
Published 1924

Papers relating to the ships and voyages of the company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies, 1696-1707
edited by George Pratt Insh.
Published 1924

Early records of the University of St. Andrews The graduation roll, 1413 to 1579, and the matriculation roll, 1473 to 1579
transcribed and edited by James Maitland Anderson.
Published 1926

Miscellany of the Scottish History Society (Fourth volume)
Editor: Campbell, Herbert and Seton, B. G. (Bruce Gordon), Sir, 1868-1932
Contents: Commentary on the expedition to Scotland made by Charles Edward Stuart, Prince of Wales / by Guilio Cesare Cordara ; edited by Sir Bruce Seton - The manuscript history of Craignish / by Alexander Campbell ; edited by Herbert Campbell - Miscellaneous charters, 1165-1399, from transcripts in the collection of the late Sir William Fraser / edited by William Angus.
Published 1926

Scottish correspondence of Mary of Lorraine Including some three hundred letters from 20th February 1542-3 to 15th May 1560
edited by Annie I. Cameron.
Published 1927

Journal of Thomas Cuningham of Campvere, 1640-54, with his thrissels-banner and explication thereof
edited by Elinor Joan Courthope. [With plates, including a facsimile.]
Published 1928

Sheriff Court Book of Fife, 1515-1522
Transcribed and edited, with an introduction, notes, and appendices, by William Croft Dickinson.
Published 1928

Minutes of the justices of the peace for Lanarkshire, 1707-1723
Transcribed and edited by Charles A. Malcolm.
Published 1931

Warrender papers
edited by Annie I. Cameron ... with an introduction by Robert S. Rait.
Published 1931

Flodden papers
Diplomatic correspondence between the courts of France and Scotland 1507-1517. edited by Marguerite Wood.
Published 1933

Miscellany of the Scottish History Society (Fifth volume)
Editor: Greig, J. Y. T. (John Young Thomson), 1891-1963; Dickson, William Kirk, 1860-1949; Marchmont, Hugh Hume, Earl of, 1708-1794; Dunlop, Annie I., 1897-1973; and Tayler, Henrietta, 1869-1951
Contents: Miscellaneous charters, 1315-1401, edited from transcripts in the collection of the late Sir William Fraser / William Angus - Bagimond's roll for the Archdeaconry of Teviotdale, from a thirteenth-century transcript in the Vatican archives / Annie I. Cameron - Letters from John, Earl of Lauderdale, and others, to Sir John Gilmour, President of session / Henry M. Paton - Letters to John MacKenzie of Delvine from the Rev. Alexander Monro / William Kirk Dickson - Jacobite papers at Avignon / Henrietta Tayler - Marchmont correspondence relating to the '45 / G.F.C. Hepburne Scott - Two fragments of autobiography, by George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal of Scotland / J.Y.T. Greig.
Published 1933

Warrender letters Correspondence of Sir George Warrender, Bt., Lord provost of Edinburgh, and member of Parliament for the city, with relative papers, 1715
transcribed by Marguerite Wood ... ; edited with an introduction and notes by William Kirk Dickson.
Published 1935

Commentary on the rule of St. Augustine
By Robertus Richardinus. edited by G.G. Coulton. [With facsimiles.] Text based on a transcript from the original 1530 edition. Transcription of original t.p.: Exegesis in canonem diui Augustini rece[n]s aedita, per Fratre[m] Robertum Richardinum, celebris Ecclesiase Cambuskenalis canonicum. Lvtetiae, In aedibus Christiani VVechel sub scuto Basiliensi. 1530.
Published 1935

Survey of Lochtayside, 1769 Made by John Farquharson and John McArthur
edited with an introduction by Margaret M. McArthur. [With maps.] "The documents published in this volume represent the written part and two of the plans of a survey of the Breadalbane estates lying on the north side and the south side of Loch Tay, made in 1769 by John Farquharson and John McArthur."-Page vii.
Published 1936

Early letters of Robert Wodrow, 1698-1709
edited ... with notes and extracts from the answers to these letters ... by L.W. Sharp.
Published 1937

Ayr Burgh accounts, 1534-1624
Transcribed and edited, with an introduction, by George S. Pryde.
Published 1937

Court book of the Barony of Carnwath, 1523-1542
edited with an introduction by William Croft Dickinson.
Published 1937

Scottish Chronicle known as the Chronicle of Holyrood
edited by Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson ... With some additional notes by Alan Orr Anderson.
Published 1938

Jacobite court at Rome in 1719 From original documents at Fettercairn House and at Windsor Castle
edited by Henrietta Tayler. [With a portrait.]
Published 1938

Charters of the Abbey of Inchcolm
edited by D.E. Easson ... and Angus Macdonald. [With folding maps.]
Published 1938

Miscellany of the Scottish History Society (Sixth volume)
Editor: Dunlop, Annie I., 1897-1973; Easson, David Edward, 1897-; Paton, Henry M.; and Dickson, William Kirk, 1860-1949
Contents: Bagimond's Roll : statement of the tenths of the Kingdom of Scotland / edited by Annie I. Dunlop. -Foundation-charter of the Collegiate Church of Dunbar / edited by D.E. Easson. -Letters from John, Second Earl of Lauderdale, to John, Second Earl of Tweeddale, and others / edited by Henry M. Paton. -Memories of Ayrshire about 1780, by the Reverend John Mitchell, D.D. / edited by William Kirk Dickson. Includes report of the 52nd annual meeting of the Scottish History Society.
Published 1939

Miscellany of the Scottish History Society (Seventh volume)
Editor: Meikle, Henry W. (Henry William), 1880-1958; Stewart, Helen Catherine; and Hamilton, Marion F.
Contents: Diary of Sir William Drummond of Hawthornden, 1657-1659 / edited by Henry W. Meikle - The exiled Stewarts in Italy, 1717-1807 / edited by Helen Catherine Stewart - The Locharkaig treasure / edited by Marion F. Hamilton.
Published 1941

Two missions of Jacques de la Brosse An account of the affairs of Scotland in the year 1543 (by Jacques de la Brosse and Jacques Menage); and, the journal of the Siege of Leith, 1560
edited by Gladys Dickinson. [With a facsimile.]
Contents: Consists of two documents, in the original French with English translation. The first, Discours des affaires du Royaume descosse, by Jacques de La Brosse and Jacques Menage, is printed from ms. fonds francais no. 17890, folios 29-34, in the Bibliotheque nationale, Paris. The second, the Journal, by an unidentified author, is printed from Memoires et documents, Angleterre, reg. 15, folios 154-182, in the Archives of the Foreign office, Paris. cf. Pref.
Published 1942

Selections from the Monymusk Papers, 1713-1775
Transcribed and edited by Henry Hamilton. [With maps.]
Published 1945

Charters of the Abbey of Coupar Angus
Transcribed and edited by D.E. Easson. 2 volumes.
Published 1947

Accounts of the collectors of thirds of benefices, 1561-1572
edited by Gordon Donaldson.
Published 1949

Miscellany of the Scottish History Society (Eighth volume)
Editor: Easson, David Edward, 1897-; Mackie, J. D. (John Duncan), 1887-1978; Pryde, George S. (George Smith); Tayler, Henrietta, 1869-1951; and Armstrong, C. A. J. (Charles Arthur John)
Contents: Miscellaneous monastic charters / edited by D.E. Easson. -A letter of James III to the Duke of Burgundy / edited by C.A.J. Armstrong. -The English Army at Flodden / edited by J.D. Mackie. -Lord Chancellor Glamis and Theodore Beza / edited by Gordon Donaldson. -Documents relating to Prince Charles Edward's grandson / edited by Henrietta Taylor. -Papers relating to a Refrewshire farm, 1822-30 / edited by George S. Pryde.
Published 1951

Scottish population statistics, including Webster's Analysis of population, 1755
By James Gray Kyd.
Published 1952

Letters of James the Fourth, 1505-1513
Calendared by Robert Kerr Hannay ; edited, with a biographical memoir, and an introduction by R.L. Mackie ; assisted by Anne Spilman. "Report of the sixty-fourth annual meeting of the Scottish History Society": 8 p. at end.
Published 1953

Early records of the Burgh of Aberdeen 1317, 1398-1407
edited by William Croft Dickinson.
Published 1957

Miscellany of the Scottish History Society (Ninth volume)
Contents: Papers relating to the captivity and release of David II.-Accounts of Sir Duncan Forestar, comptroller, 1495-99.-Report by De la Brosse & D'Oysel on conditions in Scotland, 1559-1560.-Diary of Sir James Hope, 1646.-Proceedings from Prince Charles' landing to Prestonpans.
Published 1958

Wigtownshire Charters
edited by R.C. Reid. [With a genealogical table.]
Published 1960

John Home's survey of Assynt
edited by R.J. Adam, with a map drawn by K.M. MacIver.
Contents: Introduction.-The survey of Assynt.-Home's accounts.-Appendix A. Tenants and inhabitants of Assynt.-Appendix R. Alexander Mackenzie of Ardloch's accounts as factor of Assynt, 1764-1773.
Published 1960

Court book of the Burgh of Kirkintilloch 1658-1694
edited by George S. Pryde.
Published 1963

Argyll Estate instructions: Mull, Morvern, Tiree 1771-1805
edited by Eric R. Cregeen. With a portrait and maps. The maps are in a pocket on the back cover. Includes the report of the 77th annual meeting of the Scottish History Society.
Published 1964

Acta Facultatis Artium Universitatis Sanctiandree, 1413-1588
edited by Annie I. Dunlop. 2 volumes. "First published for the University Court of the University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews University publications no. LVI)-by Oliver and Boyd, 1964."
Published 1964

Miscellany of the Scottish History Society
Editor: Murray, Athol L. (Athol Laverick) and Burns, Charles
Contents: E.W.M. Balfour-Mellville (1887-1963), a memoir / by D.B. Horn. - Bagimond's roll for the diocese of Moray / edited by Charles Burns - Accounts of the King's Pursemaster, 1539-1540 / edited by Athol L. Murray. - Papers of a Dundee shipping dispute, 1600-1604 / edited by W.A. McNeill - A scottish liturgy of the reign of James VI / edited by Gordon Donaldson - Lists of schoolmasters teaching Latin, 1690 / edited by Donald J. Withrington - Letters of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun and his family, 1715-1716 / edited by Irene J. Murray - Sir John Clerk's observation on the present circumstances of Scotland, 1730 / edited by T.C. Smout - A Renfrewshire election account, 1832 / edited by William Ferguson.
Published 1965

Letters of John Ramsay of Ochtertyre, 1799-1812
edited by Barbara L.H. Horn.
Published 1966

Court books of Orkney and Shetland 1614-1615
Transcribed and edited by Robert S. Barclay.
Contents: [Illustrated.] Includes Scottish History Society, 1886-1966: a commemorative record.
Published 1967

Minutes of Edinburgh Trades Council, 1859-1873
edited by Ian MacDougall.
Published 1968

Dundee textile industry, 1790-1885 From the papers of Peter Carmichael of Arthurstone
edited by Enid Gauldie.
Published 1969

Calendar of Scottish supplications to Rome, 1428-1432
edited by Annie I. Dunlop and Ian B. Cowan.
Published 1970

Papers on Sutherland Estate Management 1802-1816
edited by R.J. Adam. 2 volumes. Map in pocket of Volume 1.
Published 1972

William Melrose in China, 1845-1855 The letters of a Scottish tea merchant
edited by Hoh-cheung Mui and Lorna H. Mui.
Published 1973

Papers on Scottish electoral politics, 1832-1854
edited by J.I. Brash.
Published 1974

Calendar of Papal letters to Scotland of Clement VII of Avignon, 1378-1394
edited [and translated from the Latin] by Charles Burns. Annie I. Dunlop (1897-1973) : a memoir / by Ian B. Cowan. Includes the annual report of the Society.
Published 1976

Calendar of Papal letters to Scotland of Benedict XIII of Avignon, 1394-1419
edited [and translated from the Latin] by Francis McGurk. Includes the annual report of the Society.
Published 1976

Scottish industrial history A miscellany
edited by Rae, Thomas I. And Smout, T. C. (T. Christopher)
Published 1978

Papers on Peter May, land surveyor, 1749-1793
edited by Ian H. Adams. Includes bibliographic references and index..
Published 1979

Autobiography of John McAdam (1806-1883) With selected letters
edited by Janet Fyfe.
Published 1980

Stirling Presbytery records 1581-1587
edited by James Kirk.
Published 1981

Government of Scotland under the Covenanters, 1637-1651
edited by David Stevenson.
Contents: Introduction - Conventions, abbreviations and glossary - Calendars. Committee of Estates, October to November 1645 - Committee of Estates, May 1648 - Committee for Dispatches, January to March 1649 - Committee for Dispatches, May to August 1649 - Committee for Managing the Affairs of the Army, April to May 1651 - Appendices. Sessions of Parliament and the Convention of Estates - Presidents of Parliament - General Executive Committees (Committees of Estates and for Dispatches) - Army Committees of Estates - Financial Committees - Session General Preparative Committees -Clerks of the Committee of Estates etc. - Financial officials - Committee records.
Published 1982

Knights of St John of Jerusalem in Scotland
edited by Ian B. Cowan, P.H.R. Mackay and Alan Macquarrie.
Published 1983

Scottish firm in Virginia 1767-1777 W. Cuninghame and Co
edited by T.M. Devine.
Published 1984

Jacobean Union Six tracts of 1604
edited by Bruce R. Galloway and Brian P. Levack
Contents: Introduction - Of the union of Britayne / by R. Pont - A treatise about the union of England and Scotland - A treatise of the happie and blissed unioun / by J. Russell - A brief consideracion of the unyon of twoe kingedomes / by J. Doddridge - Of the union / by Sir H. Spelman -Historicall collections / by Sir H. Savile - Appendix: Tracts and treatises on the union, 1603-1605. The Regal Union of England and Scotland took place in March 1603 when James VI of Scotland acceded to the English throne. In order to strengthen the regal union James set out to reduce these differences. As a result, a large number of tracts were written on "the union" in both countries. The main purpose of this volume is to expand the amount of readily accessible material by printing six of the more important treatises - Introd.
Published 1985

Acts of the lords of the Isles, 1336-1493
edited by Jean Munro and R.W. Munro.
Published 1986

Scottish texts and calendars An analytical guide to serial publications
by David and Wendy B. Stevenson.
Published 1987

Government and social conditions in Scotland, 1845-1919
edited by Ian Levitt.
Published 1988

Letters of George Lockhart of Carnwath, 1698-1732
edited by Daniel Szechi.
Published 1989

Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, Volume 11
Editor: Scott, Andrew Murray
Contents: Thomas Ian Rae, 1926-1989, a memoir / by Ian B. Cowan - A plea roll of Edward I's army in Scotland, 1296 / edited by C.J. Neville - Letters of John Graham of Claverhouse / edited by Andrew Murray Scott - Some late seventeenth-century building contracts / edited by J.G. Dunbar and Katherine Davies - Correspondence relating to Millburn Tower and its garden, 1804-1829 / edited by Clare Taylor.
Published 1990

Calendar of Fearn Text and additions, 1471-1667
edited by R. J. Adam. Includes the Society's 104th annual report, Dec. 8, 1990.
Published 1992

Scottish Office Depression and reconstruction 1919-1959
edited by Ian Levitt.
Published 1992

History of the union of Scotland and England
By Sir John Clerk of Penicuik ; extracts from his MS "De Imperio Britannico" translated and edited by Douglas Duncan.
Published 1993

Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, Volume 12
edited by A.A.M. Duncan and others.
Contents: A question about the succession, 1364 / edited by A.A.M. Duncan - Autobiography, 1626-1670, of John Hay, 2nd earl of Tweeddale / edited by Maurice Lee, Jr. - Letters of Lord Balmerino to Harry Maule, 1710-1713, 1721-1722 / edited by Clyve Jones - Strike bulletins from the General Strike in Scotland, 1926 / edited by Ian MacDougall.
Published 1994

George Buchanan The political poetry
edited with translation and commentary by Paul J. McGinnis and Arthur H. Williamson. Edinburgh : Printed for the Scottish History Society by Lothian Print, 1995. Text in English and Latin on facing pages; notes and commentary in English.
Published 1995

Campbell letters 1559-1583
edited by Jane E.A. Dawson.
Published 1997

Religious controversy in Scotland 1625-1639
edited by David George Mullan.
Published 1998

Scotland and the Americas, c. 1650 - c. 1939 A documentary source book
edited by Allan I. Macinnes, Marjory-Ann D. Harper & Linda G. Fryer.
Published 2002

Mid and East Lothian Miners' Association minutes 1894-1918
edited by Ian MacDougall.
Published 2003

Miscellany of the Scottish History Society XIII
Contents: Eight thirteenth-century texts / edited by W.W. Scott - Dunfermline gild court book, 1433-1597: missing folios / edited by E. Patricia Dennison - A memorandum on the customs, 1597 / edited by Athol L. Murray - The trial of Geillis Johnstone for witchcraft, 1614 / edited by Michael B. Wasser & Louise A. Yeoman - An early seventeenth-century Scottish conversion narrative / edited by David G. Mullan - Fiscal Feudalism in seventeenth-century Scotland / edited by Julian M. Goodare - Witchcraft cases from the register of commissioners of the privy council of Scotland, 1630-1642 / edited by Louise A. Yeoman - John Hay, earl of Tweeddale, 'Relatione of the wrangs done to the Ladie Yester, 1683' / edited by Maurice Lee, Jr - Colin Maclaurin's Journal of the 'Forty-five / edited by Bruce A. Hedman.
Published 2004

Aberdeen Guild Court records 1437-1468
edited by Elizabeth Gemmill.
Published 2005

Chronicle of Melrose Abbey A stratigraphic edition. Vol. 1, Introduction and facsimile edition
Dauvit Broun & Julian Harrison.
Published 2007

Perth Kirk Session books, 1577-1590
edited by Margo Todd.
Published 2012

Travels in Scotland 1788-1881 A selection from contemporary tourist journals
edited by Alastair J. Durie. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Scottish History Society in association with The Boydell Press, 2012.
Contents: Introduction: Tourist travels in Scotland ; Elizabeth Diggle: Journal of a tour from London to the Highlands of Scotland, 19 April to 7 August 1788 ; Adam Bald: Journal of travels and commonplace book, 1790-99 ; Anon: Tours to the Highlands, 1817 and 1818 ; Thomas Adam: Journal of an excursion to Loch Maree, 24 June to 13 July 1857 ; Henry Underhill: Tour in Scotland, Autumn 1868 ; Mary Allison: Uncle and Aunt's trip to Butterbridge, July 1881.
Published 2012

Register of the minister, elders and deacons of the Christian congregation of St. Andrews comprising the proceedings of the Kirk Session and of the Court of the Superintendent of Fife Fothrik and Strathearn, 1559-1600
Transcribed and edited from the original manuscript with preface and notes by David Hay Fleming.
Published 1889-1890

Records of the Commissions of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland holden in Edinburgh in the years 1646 and 1647[-1652]
edited from the original manuscript by Alexander F. Mitchell and James Christie ... With an introduction by the former. 3 volumes. [The third volume edited by James Christie, with an introduction by Lord Guthrie.]
Published 1892-1909

Lyon in mourning, or, A collection of speeches, letters, journals etc. relative to the affairs of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
By Robert Forbes. edited with a preface by Henry Paton.
Published 1895-1896

Diplomatic correspondence of Jean de Montereul and the brothers de Bellievre, French ambassadors in England and Scotland, 1645-48
edited, with an English translation, introduction and notes, by J.G. Fotheringham.
Published 1898-1899

Geographical Collections relating to Scotland
Made by Walter MacFarlane. edited from Macfarlane's transcript in the Advocates' Library by Sir Arthur Mitchell. In three volumes. Illustrations, folded facsimile.
Published 1906-1908

Diary of Sir Archibald Johnston of Wariston, 1650-1654
edited from the original manuscript, with notes and introduction, by George Morison Paul, (David Hay Fleming, James D. Ogilvie). 3 volumes: Series 1, volume 61, Series 2, volume 18; Series 3. volume 34. (See also DOD ID 125651999 and DOD ID 125885870.)
Published 1911-1940

Diary of Sir Archibald Johnston of Wariston, 1655-1660
edited from the original manuscript, with notes and introduction, by George Morison Paul, (David Hay Fleming, James D. Ogilvie). 3 volumes: Series 1, volume 61; Series 2, volume 18; Series 3, volume 34. (See also DOD ID 125651999 and DOD ID 126513633.)
Published 1911-1940

Diary of Sir Archibald Johnston of Wariston 1632-1639
edited from the original manuscript, with notes and introduction, by George Morison Paul. 3 volumes: Series 1, volume 61; Series 2, volume 18; Series 3, volume 34. (See also DOD ID 126513633 and DOD ID 125885870.)
Published 1911-1940

Selections from the records of the regality of Melrose, 1605-1661 (1662-1676, 1547-1706)
edited from the original volumes in the Register House, Edinburgh, and in the hands of Mr. James Curle (the Earle of Haddington, and others) by Charles S. Romanes.
Published 1914-1917

Highland papers
edited by J. R. N. MacPhail. Edinburgh : Scottish History Society, 1914-1934. 4 volumes: 2nd series, volumes 5, 12 and 20; 3rd series, volume 22.
Published 1914-1934

Highland papers
edited by J.R.N. Macphail.
Published 1914-1934

Register of the consultations of the ministers of Edinburgh and some other brethren of the ministry
edited by Rev. William Stephen.
Published 1921-1930

Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine, Queen of Scotland, from the originals in the Balcarres papers
edited by Marguerite Wood.
Published 1923-1925

Prisoners of the '45
edited from the state papers by Sir Bruce Gordon Seton ... and Jean Gordon Arnot. 3 volumes: 3rd series; volumes 13-15.
Published 1928-1929

Calendar of Scottish supplications to Rome, 1418-1422
edited by E.R. Lindsay and A. I. Cameron. (1423-1428. edited by Annie I. Dunlop.).
Published 1934-1956

Minutes of the Synod of Argyll, 1639-1651 (1652-1661)
edited by Duncan C. MacTavish.
Published 1943-1944

Account of the proceedings of the Estates in Scotland, 1689-1690
edited by E.W.M. Balfour-Melville.
Published 1954-1955

British Linen Company, 1745-1775
edited by Alastair J. Durie.

Journal of my life and everyday doings 1879-81, 1885-92
By James Wilson, farmer in Banffshire ; edited by Peter Hillis.
Contents: James Wilson's foreword - Vol. 1, Jan. 1879-Dec. 1881 - Vol. 3, June 1885-May 1888 - Vol. 4, May 1888-Jan. 1892 - Appendix 1. A selection of poems by James Wilson - Appendix 2. Lectures and essays given to the Deskford and Ballindalloch Mutual Improvement Associations - Appendix 3. A short story by James Wilson.

Protestant piety in early-modern Scotland Letters, lives and covenants, 1650-1712
edited by David George Mullan.

Scottish planned villages
edited by Douglas G. Lockhart.

Scottish schools and schoolmasters 1560-1633 John Durkan
edited and revised by Jamie Reid-Baxter
Contents: Schools before the Reformation - The impact of the Reformation - Schools after the Reformation - Schoolbooks, grammarians and schoolmaster poets - Subjects other than grammar - Schoolmasters and their status - Schooling in the Highlands - considerations and conclusions. Appendices: Scottish university matriculations 1560-1633 - Pointers for local history research - List of schools and schoolmasters in Scotland 1560-1633 - Supplementary list: schools and schoolmasters 1634-1660.

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History talks and events 21-27 November 2016

15/11/2016

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Upcoming family history talks and events in Scotland, 21 - 27 November 2016

Note that there may be a small charge for some of these events, and some may be for members only. We will be publishing lists of upcoming talks and events regularly - if you are organising a talk or event relating to Scottish genealogy or history, please let us know and we will be happy to add your events to our list.

Monday, November 21 2016, 4.30 pm

Scottish identity and empire: from the 18th to the 20th centuries

Prof John MacKenzie (University of St Andrews)

Venue: Room 1.10, St Katharine’s Lodge, St Andrews

Institute of Scottish Historical Research


Monday, November 21 2016, 7 pm for 7.30 pm

Earlier Records

Venue: Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh

Scottish Genealogy Society

Non-members welcome from whom a small donation would be appreciated.


Monday, November 21 2016, 7.30 pm

The Sunday Post

Bill Hicks and Jill Scott

Venue: Morison Memorial Church, Dumbarton Road, Clydebank

Clydebank Local History Society


Monday, November 21 2016, 7.30 pm

The Making of Italian Scotland

Ronnie Convery

Venue: Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow

Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society


Monday, November 21 2016, 7.30 pm

People's History: Exploring Oral History in the Community

Dr. S. Morrison, Strathcyde University

Venue: St John's TocH, Largs

North Ayrshire Family History Society

Joint meeting with Largs Historical Society


Tuesday, November 22 2016, 7.30 pm

Aylmer Hunter Weston - An Ayrshire General at Gallipoli

Venue: West Kilbride Community Centre, Corse Street, West Kilbride, KA23 9AX

West Kilbride Civic Society


Wednesday, November 23 2016, 2 pm

Monifieth in World War 1

Elspeth Johnson

Venue: Monifieth Community Cabin, South Union Street, DD5 4JG

Monifieth Local History Society


Wednesday, November 23 2016, 4 pm

Being in the World With Witches: exploring alternative ontologies in early modern Scotland

Morgana McCabe, University of Glasgow

Venue: Lecture Theatre (109), Gregory Building

University of Glasgow


Wednesday, November 23 2016, 7.30 pm

Highland Homecomings: Peter Fraser, John Diefenbaker and 20th century Highland Imperial Connections

Dr Jim MacPherson

Venue: Highland Archive Centre, Bught Park, Inverness

Highland Family History Society


Wednesday, November 23 2016, 7.30 pm

Celts: Art and Identity

Dr Fraser Hunter, National Museums Scotland

Venue: Volunteer Hall, Galashiels

Old Gala Club


Thursday, November 24 2016

Celts: Art and Identity

Dr Fraser Hunter, National Museums Scotland

Venue: Blue Room, Town Hall, Ayr

Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society


Thursday, November 24 2016, 2 pm - 4 pm

Find Your Ain Folk Drop in Service

Venue: Community Room, Largs Library, Allanpark Street, Largs

North Ayrshire Family History Society


Thursday, November 24 2016, 5.15 pm for 5.30 pm

James VI and noble power: New thoughts on an old theme

Dr Miles Kerr-Peterson and Dr Steven Reid (University of Glasgow)

Venue: New Seminar Room, St John’s House, 71 South Street, St Andrews

Institute of Scottish Historical Research


Thursday, November 24 2016, 6 pm - 7.30 pm

Paper Obsessions: Books and book collectors in Enlightenment Scotland

Kelsey Jackson Williams, University of St Andrews

Venue: Newhailes House, Newhailes Road, Musselburgh, EH21 6RY

Newhailes House

£8, including complimentary glass of wine. Limited space, book online


Thursday, November 24 2016, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm

Robert Burns

Jim Law

Venue: Glen Halls, Neilston

Barrhead & Neilston Historical Association


Thursday, November 24 2016, 7.45 pm

Waterloo - a Stirlingshire mystery!

David Smith Education Officer at the Smith Museum, Stirling

Venue: Drymen Village Hall, Main Street, Drymen, Glasgow, G63 0BP

Drymen & District Local History Society

Was Marshall Ney a local lad? Come and hear the evidence!


Friday, November 25 2016, 2 pm - 3.30 pm

The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry’s Scottish archives

Crispin Powell

Venue: New Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh

National Records of Scotland

Crispin Powell (Archivist to Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry). Crispin will talk about the rich archives still held at Drumlanrig Castle and Bowhill House, in addition to the pleasures and challenges of his role as the first professional archivist to look after the Duke’s collections in Scotland and England. Cataloguing, conservation and access are key elements of Crispin’s work, and he will outline the progress that has been made so far, and what plans he and the Duke have for the future. (New Register House)


Sunday, November 27 2016

Soldiers' Wills

Dr Tristram Clarke

Venue: Corn Exchange & Ormiston Institute, Market Square, Melrose, TD6 9PN

Borders Family History Society

An introduction to the collection of Soldiers' Wills, mainly from the First World War which have been digitised and are preserved in the National Records of Scotland.


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Feeding the poor

12/11/2016

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We've written before about the evolution of Poor Law in Scotland. The 1845 Poor Law (Scotland) Act established detailed rules for the provision of poor relief, with a central body - the Board of Supervision - responsible for monitoring its implementation. Before 1845, poor relief, such as it was, was greatly decentralised - parishes were responsible for their own paupers, and the rules were rarely outlined in much detail.

However, a meeting of the heritors, minister and Elders of the parish of Forgue parish in Aberdeenshire did record the rules for poor relief as established by an earlier meeting of freeholders of the county held in Aberdeen on June 6 1751.

Like many Kirk Session minutes, the entry starts with a preamble detailing the sederunt (i.e. the names of those in attendance), and the reason for the meeting:
​At Manse of Forgue the 28th of June 1751 years, being the time fixed for the meeting of the heritors, minr & elders of the parish of Forgue for taking the state of the poor of sd Parish under consideration, in consequence of the repeated Intimations of the Sherriff Substitute of the County of Abdn, there being pnt Theod Morison of Bogny, Alexr Duff of Hatton, Mr Willm Irvine of Corniehaugh, George Phyn of Corse, Mr Alexr Forbes minr, And Harper, Geo Morison, Alexr Horn, Jas Anderson & Alexr Muir elders; When the Resolutions of the freeholders of the County of Abdn met at Abdn the 5th of June curt anent Vagrants & begging poor, wt abstracts of the Laws & proclamations of Council on that Subject were laid before the said Meeting; and in consequence of the sd Laws, Resolutions and repeated Intimations of the Sherriff, the Meeting thought it incumbent and necessary for ‘em to make a Record containing the Resolutions as to the Managemt of the poor, the publick funds and Collections of sd Parish, Present State of the poor and quarterly allowance formerly given ‘em; and to settle what further will be necessary for maintenance of such poor as will be subsisted by the parish of Terms of sd Laws, Proclamations and Resolutions.
One little thing that struck me about this passage - and it's repeated throughout the rest of the minute - is the use of 'em for them. Like many minutes of this period, the text is full of abbreviations - paper was expensive (and perhaps some clerks were keen to minimise their workload), but this is the earliest use of 'em I've come across.

The rules as laid out show some of the same preoccupations as contemporary framing of welfare systems, such as benefit fraud:
​1. The Heritors, minr and Elders agree to use all possible means to detect all Impostors, and to prevent any person from being entered upon the poor Roll of sd parish but such as are unable & uncapable to maintain emselves either in whole or in part.
The next clause is reminiscent of modern concerns about the "workshy":
​2. That such as are able to work for a part of their Subsistence either at Husbandry or Manufactures, shall be obliged to do it, & supply’d for the remainder only; and if they refuse to work confirm to their Ability, that they are to have no Relief and to be prosecuted as Law directs.
Families were expected to look after their own:
​3. That parents when able are to maintain their children, and children their parents, in whole or in part, which if they refuse to do they are to be prosecuted before the Sherriff in terms of Law.
The fourth clause shows that paupers were expected to repay their benefits, even after death. Parish accounts often include details of roups (auctions) of the goods of paupers who died, showing that poor relief was often a loan, rather than a grant:
​4. That all Persons before they be put upon the Poors Roll be made to convey to the Kirk Session of the Parish whatever effects they shall be possessed of or intituled to at Death (unless on the event of their circumstances being altered by succession or legacies sometime before their Death, or upon their repaying to the Session the full Extent of what was given out for their former support), in which Event the Session is to repone em, but in no other event are they to repone who once accept of a full subsistence; and such as accept of a partiall subsistence may be reponed by the Session at any time upon prepaying what was formerly given them.
We have 18th-century benefit caps:
​5. That no more shall be allowed to any person but one peck of meal for each week, or the value thereof, unless upon extraordinary occasion & when done by consent of heritors, minr and Elders.
And "work for benefits". These sort of schemes were quite common - we've come across one parish that turned this approach into a competition, with a premium (meaning a prize) for the best spinners/weavers:
​6. And in order to afford work to such of the poor as have not trades to buy flax or wool to ‘emselves, the Session agrees, that if no manufacturers will trust em, they will be Caution to such manufacturers or Merts for the value of the wool or Lint given to such Poor by their Advice, if not returned when manufactured, in order to put such poor people aworking what they can for their own Support, that the Parish may be relieved.
Parishes were keen to avoid liability for incomers, instead returning them to their parish of origin. (Resetter in this context means someone providing support, shelter or protection).
​7. The meeting further agree that none shall be received upon the poors Roll but such as have resided three years in the Parish; and if any poor shall intrude the Constable for the District be called to remove ‘em; and that the Resetters of any such be prosecuted.
Landholders were liable for checking the papers of their tenants, and - if they fell ill and became unable to work - for returning them to their home parishes:
​8. The Meeting also agree that every Heritor, tenent or subtenent that shall bring in any person upon the Parish who shall become uncapable to maintain emselves before the three years of Residence shall expire, by which they are intituled to Charity, whoever brings them into the parish shall be bound to maintain such Persons untill he transmit ‘em to their legall place of Residence for their maintenance; and that none shall be resett as a tenent or subtenent, but such as bring along with them certificates from the Parishes where they formerly resided.
Children found begging and orphans could be forced into bonded labour in return for food and clothing:
9. And as by the Laws it is enacted, that if Children be found begging under the age of fifteen, any person may take such Children before the Heritors, minr & Elders, & record their Names & enact emselves to educate such Child to trade or Work, such Child shall be oblidged to serve the person until the 30th year of his or her age for meat & cloath, and this not only to extend to the Children of Beggars but also to poor Children whose Parents are dead, or with consent of the parents if alive; if any such Children be found, the meeting agree that the Law in Relation to ‘em take place.
Poor relief was funded from church collections. Even in 1751 - nearly a century before the Poor Law (Scotland) Act was passed - there was concern that collections were insufficient to meet the needs of poor relief. (In fact, the 1845 Act was at least partly a consequence of the Disruption of 1843 and the formation of the Free Church - Church of Scotland parishes were responsible for poor relief for everyone in the parish, regardless of which church they belonged to: the Disruption meant that an ever-smaller number of people (Church of Scotland congregations) were responsible for poor relief. The 1845 Act stipulated that where a mandatory assessment was levied, responsibility for poor relief was transferred from Kirk Sessions to the newly established Parochial Boards:
​10. They further resolve, that in the Event of the Congregation withdrawing the ordinary Collection, which formerly was the only support the poor had, every labouring servant if draws ten pounds scots of fee or above, shall be yearly assessed in six shillings Scots, and every servt that draws ten merks in thre shillings Scots, and every Grassman that pays 20 merks & below in 3 shillings Scots, and from 20 pounds to fifty merks yearly rent in 6 shill Scots, the masters to be accountable for the servt’s proportions which is to be put to accts of their wages; and it is not doubted by the principal Tacksmen will continue their Collections as formerly, as the maintenance of the poor will at last recur upon ‘emselves.
The final clause stipulated that penalties for moral transgressions were to be fixed, and used for poor relief. This particular clause is a little unusual, in that it makes explicit that "sinners" could avoid ritual public humiliation by paying an additional penalty, an option that would only be available to relatively well-off parishioners. It was in fact a common practice, but it's usually not explicitly mentioned in the records.
​11. They further agree that the least fine that shall be exacted from any fornicator shall be five pounds Scotch; and it is the Opinion of the Heritors that the minr and Sess when they think fit may dispense with the public appearances upon the stool for paymt of a Guinea each; which sums when so paid, are to be annually applyd for maintenance of the Poor. And that the minr and session before Absolution require the Parents of Children thus begotten to enact emselves & find Caution to free the Parish of the Charge of the Children; and in Case of their Refusal, to cause the Constable summon every Person refusing before the Sherriff of Abdn and transmit to the pro[curato]r fiscal an Extract of their judicial confession in order to have the law there anent enforced.
It's striking to see many of the current concerns about benefits payments reflected in rules laid down over 250 years ago. These rules help clarify the position many people found themselves in the 18th century, usually through no fault of their own. It's also a useful guide to the practical operation of poor law in Scotland 90 years before national rules were codified in the 1845 Act for The Amendment and better Administration of the Laws Relating to the relief of the Poor in Scotland.
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If only all clerks were so considerate

11/11/2016

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Kirk Session records can be a very fruitful source for family history, but they can also be immensely frustrating. As well as the usual bugbears regarding erratic survival of records, sometimes the session clerk was less than assiduous in his work. Handwriting problems can usually be overcome, but that's not the only problem. Some clerks were plainly not keen on doing a thorough job - perhaps understandably, given that they generally weren't paid well for their efforts.

Clearly, though, some clerks were more conscientious. The following instructions come from St Cuthbert's Kirk Session in Edinburgh, and although not specifically dated, the relevant volume covers 1696-1700.
Notanda generalia
or
Directions for keeping a church session book methodicall & in good order

Primo. Let all things be keeped in dependence either by reporting new diligence, or by removing the appointment or continuing the same, or delaying it till such time as shall be convenient, or limiting the time which after follows in the minutes, or laying it aside till further consideration, so that whatever matters comes first in the minutes, let it be either discussed, delayed, continued, referred, recommended or determined. Then afterwards new matters & purposes as they come in the minutes. So keeping up the threed of affairs, it shall cause the session records to be more easie, pleasant, profitable and their conclusions to be more readily & easily found outt.

2. Wherever any session act is made, let it be marked in majusculis and a rational narrative made before it for ane introduction shewing the cause of it.

3. Let the day of the month when the Session is kept be still mentioned.

4. As the sederunt is marked, so let excuses for absents be inserted.

5. Let there be a good margin left in the book in which some of the principall purposes or acts contained in the book may be inserted and be carefull that no blanks blotts or interlinings be in the book, and take a care to page the book exactlie.

​6. Give the reason when no session is keeped.
The instructions make clear that there was concern not just for properly recording relevant events, the session were also thinking of people looking through the records in future. (Although granted I very much doubt they would have anticipated me reading their comments on a computer over 300 years later!). If only all session clerks were as considerate ...
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History talks and events, 14 - 20 November 2016

8/11/2016

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Upcoming family history talks and events in Scotland, 14 - 20 November 2016

Note that there may be a small charge for some of these events, and some may be for members only. We will be publishing lists of upcoming talks and events regularly - if you are organising a talk or event relating to Scottish genealogy or history, please let us know and we will be happy to add your events to our list.

Monday, November 14 2016, 4 pm

The Stone Sculptor and his Craft

Prof Roger Stalley, Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College, Dublin

Venue: Lecture Theatre (109), Gregory Building

University of Glasgow

Dalrymple Lecture series, 14-17 November


Monday, November 14 2016, 6.30 pm

Ireland and the art of stone carving in early medieval Europe. Lecture 1

Prof Roger Stalley, Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College, Dublin

Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow (corner of Gibson Street and University Avenue)

Glasgow Archaeological Society

The sculptor and his craft: the major crosses of Ireland were remarkable pieces of engineering, something that has an important bearing on their function and the nature of their patronage. This talk will for the first time investigate how they made, tracking progress from quarry to finished product, a journey involving quarrying techniques, tools, transport, cranes and scaffolds.


Monday, November 14 2016, 7.30 pm

Edinburgh and the Act of Union 1707

Eric Melvin

Venue: Gibson Craig Memorial Hall, Lanark Road West, Currie

Currie & District Local History Society


Monday, November 14 2016, 7.30 pm

Discovering the lost Medieval Castle of Partick

Bob Will, Guard Archaeology

Venue: Partick Burgh Hall, room 1, 3-9a Burgh Hall Street, Glasgow, G11 5LN

Scottish Pottery Society


Monday, November 14 2016, 7.30 pm

Beatrix Potter’s Scotland: Her Perthshire Inspiration

Lynne McGeachie

Venue: Bankfoot Church Centre

West Stormont Historical Society

Joint Meeting with Dunkeld and Birnam Historical Society


Tuesday, November 15 2016, 2.00pm-4.00pm

Researching Your Military Ancestors

Venue: National War Museum, Edinburgh Castle

National Museum of Scotland

Free, but places are limited and booking is essential. To book your place call 0131 247 4137 or email [email protected]


Tuesday, November 15 2016, 6.30 pm

Ireland and the art of stone carving in early medieval Europe. Lecture 2

Prof Roger Stalley, Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College, Dublin

Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow (corner of Gibson Street and University Avenue)

Glasgow Archaeological Society

The search for meaning: the crosses were major investments but who commissioned them and why? The panels of figure sculpture offer some clues, but the iconographies can be difficult to interpret and their meanings likewise obscure. This talk will offer a critique of past approaches and suggest some new avenues of investigation.


Tuesday, November 15 2016, 7.30 pm

A Musical Introduction to the Scots Language

Fred Freeman

Venue: Kilmarnock College, Hill Street, Kilmarnock

Kilmarnock & District History Group

£2 donation for non-members


Tuesday, November 15 2016, 7.30 pm

Emigration in the late 19th Century

Andrew Muirhead

Venue: Kilmarnock College, Hill Street, Kilmarnock

Kilmarnock & District History Group

£2 donation for non-members


Wednesday, November 16 2016, 6.30 pm

Ireland and the art of stone carving in early medieval Europe. Lecture 3

Prof Roger Stalley, Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College, Dublin

Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow (corner of Gibson Street and University Avenue)

Glasgow Archaeological Society

Artistic Identity: sharp distinctions in style are to be found amongst the sculptors, reflecting individual personalities and diverse experience; this talk will show that major craftsmen were clearly individuals of status, men like the so-called ‘Muiredach Master’, pre-eminent amongst the sculptors of early medieval Europe.


Wednesday, November 16 2016, 7.30 pm

The North Berwick Witches – the attempt on the life of James VI which began the Scottish Witch Hunt in general

Robert Pugh, Dunbar

Venue: Coastal Communities Museum, School Road, North Berwick, East Lothian EH39 4JU

Coastal Communities Museum

Organised by the Friends of the Coastal Communities Museum the current annual charge for membership is £10 for an individual or £18 per couple, which includes these Talks. Visitors are more than welcome to attend for a nominal entrance charge of £2 per person.
if you would like to find out more about the Talks or proceed to become a Friend of the museum, please contact, Ian Goodall, our Trustee who looks after the Friends administration: Tel: 01620 894313, e-mail: [email protected]


Wednesday, November 16 2016, 7.30 pm

Finding Richard the Third

Philippa Langley, President of the Scottish Branch of the Richard the Third Society

Venue: Chalmers Hall, Linlithgow Bridge

West Lothian History and Amenity Society


Wednesday, November 16 2016, 7.30 pm

From Grangemouth to Gallipoli

Neil Whyte

Venue: Falkirk Trinity Church

Falkirk Local History Society


Thursday, November 17 2016

Robert Bruce & his association with Ayrshire

Tom Barclay

Venue: Portland Church hall

Troon & Ayrshire Family History Society


Thursday, November 17 2016, 10 am - 12 pm

Local and family history drop-in

Venue: Barrhead Foundry

East Renfrewshire's Heritage Collection

Have you hit a family history brick wall? Do you need help with local history research? Or would you just like advice on using the heritage resources at Giffnock and Barrhead Libraries? Pop along to our local & family history drop-in where the local studies librarian will be on hand to point you in the right direction.


Thursday, November 17 2016, 2 pm for 2.30 pm

Carolina, Lady Nairne – songs and history

Nicola Cowmeadow and Syd House

Venue: Sandeman Room, AK Bell Library

Friends of PKC Archives

£5 for non-members


Thursday, November 17 2016, 2.30 pm

The Story of the Tinkers' Heart

Jess Smith

Venue: Moulin Hall, Moulin

North Perthshire Family History Group

Visitors £3.00


Thursday, November 17 2016, 6 pm - 8 pm

The National Covenant and the Scottish People

Dr Laura Stewart

Venue: New Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh

National Records of Scotland

Dr Laura Stewart (University of York). The National Covenant of 1638 is one of Scotland’s most controversial documents: for some, an expression of the people’s right to choose their own religion; for others, a statement in religious intolerance whose influence has lasted into modern times. Although the text has been heavily debated by scholars, very little attention has been given to its reception. This talk examines for the first time how the Covenant was taken by the people in the parishes. It sheds new light on its contested meanings and offers fresh reflections on its significance for understanding Scottish political identity. Dr Stewart is author of ‘Rethinking the Scottish Revolution: Covenanted Scotland, 1617-53’ (Oxford UP, 2016). New Register House.


Thursday, November 17 2016, 7 pm

The Songs of Robert Burns

Dr Fred Freeman

Venue: Rothesay House, Cumnock

Cumnock History Group

Dr Fred Freeman – presents the songs of Robert Burns. Fred is professor of Scottish Music at the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow. There will be musical accompaniment and some communal singing!


Thursday, November 17 2016, 7.30 pm

Ireland and the art of stone carving in early medieval Europe. Lecture 4

Prof Roger Stalley, Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College, Dublin

Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow (corner of Gibson Street and University Avenue)

Glasgow Archaeological Society

Stone carving in the early medieval world. In the nineteenth century the high crosses were regarded as a spectacular proof of the civilization of ancient Ireland; but were they an indigenous development or dependent on models introduced from abroad from late Antiquity or Carolingian Europe? This talk will demonstrate that, when it comes to artistic expression, the importance of the local environment must never be underestimated.


Thursday, November 17 2016, 7.30 pm

If the Kaiser came to Haddington: how Haddingtonshire would have defended itself in World War One

Allen Kilpatrick

Venue: Haddington Town House

Haddington's History Society


Thursday, November 17 2016, 7.30 pm

Flanders Field 1914

Alexander Hall

Venue: Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley

Renfrewshire Family History Society


Thursday, November 17 2016, 7.30 pm

Jute, Jack and Journeyings

Derek Larkman

Venue: Abbey Church Hall, Abbey Park Place, Dunfermline

Dunfermline Historical Society

Visitors are charged a fee of £2.00 per meeting and are made very welcome.


Friday, November 18 2016, 7.30 pm

AGM

Venue: Aytoun Hall, High Street, Auchterarder

Auchterarder and District Local History Association


Friday, November 18 2016, 7.30 pm

Holmwood House

Ian MacGillvray, National Trust for Scotland

Venue: Best Western Eglinton Arms Hotel, Eaglesham

Eaglesham History Society

Non-members welcome, £3 on the door


Saturday, November 19 2016, 2.00 pm

Workshop

Venue: Manchester Central Library

Anglo-Scottish Family History Society


Saturday, November 19 2016, 2.00pm-4.00pm

Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis

Chris Paton

Venue: Renfield Saint Stephen's Church Centre

Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society


Saturday, November 19 2016, 2.30pm-4.30pm

TBA

Fiona Musk

Venue: Unitarian Church Centre

Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society


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Poor relief in the time of cholera

6/11/2016

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We reported yesterday on the Scottish Records Association conference on healthcare in Scotland before the NHS. One of the speakers discussed cholera outbreaks and the measures taken to deal with them. There was a major outbreak of cholera in Scotland in 1832, traces of which can be found in a variety of record sources - there was a spike in mortality, which can be traced in burial registers; newspapers of the time feature regular reports of cholera cases and attempts to cope with the consequences; and Kirk Session records often at least mention the epidemic.

Inchinnan, in Renfrewshire, was no exception. The Kirk Session and heritors were so concerned that they formed a committee of health to try to cope with the health crisis:
At a meeting of the heritors and Kirk Session held at Inchinnan on the 26th day of January 1832

The meeting considering the prevailing alarm on the subject of Cholera authorise the Kirk Treasurer to place at the disposal of the following Gentlemen as a Committee, such as Sum as they may find it necessary to expend in medicines, clothing, or such other way as they may consider most likely to promote the health and comfort of the poor of the Parish.

​The following are named as a committee for the above purpose.
Mr Lockhart, Minr
Mr Fulton
Mr Gibson, Brownsfield
Mr Snodgrass, Portnauld
Mr Alexander, Craigend
Mr Willm Kelloch, Freeland
Mr Galloway, the Schoolmaster
Mr Lockhart, to be convener.
The committee didn't waste much time - they met again four days later, having carried out an inspection of much of the parish:
​At Inchinnan, the thirtieth day of January 1832. We the Committee appointed at the meeting of Heritors and Kirk Session to inspect the different dwelling houses in the Parish, for the purpose of removing nuisances and providing for the comfort of the indigent, report that we this day commenced our survey at the Manse, and visited all the families to the North of the old Greenock road, as far as Peter Barr’s Gateside, and in addition Greenhead, Broomlands, and Luckensford.
Generally speaking the appearance of the Houses and people was satisfactory but we found it necessary to order as follows.

1. Widow Paul, 2 flannel dresses to be made by Miss Norris.
2. Widow Barr, whose case was noticed at the meeting of Heritors and Kirk Session, one cart of coals also two flannel dresses, made as above.
3. At the Old Schoolhouse, found the apartments very clean and neat, but the walls of the Schoolroom were so damp as to have led the mistress to abandon it and teach in her Kitchen, adjourning which was a dark closet, so damp and unwholesome that we ordered a small window to be placed in the back wall.
4. William Smith at Broomlands to remove a heap of saw dust and rubbish which produced an unpleasant smell.
5. Henry Mcfarlane’s house to receive an opening in the back Widow. Pighouse and dunghill to be removed as far as his limits.
6. William Allan. Back window to be made to open, potatoes below the Bed to be removed.
7. Rober Cowan – to remove potatoes as above.
8. Hugh Mirren to remove potatoes from under bed, to receive six yards of flannel and a pair of blankets.
9. Mrs Carswell – window to be made to open, dunghill to be removed.
10. Euphemia McArthur, to remove dunghill and to receive one cart of coals.
11. Mrs Smith, the Landlord’s wife, dunghill to be removed.
12. William Paton, to remove dunghill & necessary
13. Bernard Duffy, to remove his pig house and to receive a pair of blankets and six yards of flannel
14. Daniel Carmichael, the last of fifteen children, has his mother residing with him, whom he supports as well as he can; to remove his pigs, and his mother to receive a pair of blankets and six yards of flannel.
15. William Thompson’s window to be made to open, and dunghill to be removed.
16. James Allison – window in a bad state, dunghill to be removed
17. Laird Scott to remove off the rubbish before his houses
18. John Ruxton – Pighouse and dunghill to be removed. To receive six yards of flannel for children at Miss Norris’ discretion.
19. Robert Crawford to remove dunghill from behind his house and pighouse from before.
20. Widow Slater – Her house to be thoroughly cleaned, without expense to herself, to receive one pair of blankets, two flannel dresses and one cart of coals.
21. James Cameron to remove his dunghill
22. Robert McAllister to receive two flannel shirts and a coat of shepherd’s cloth lined with plaiding. To remove his ashes pit.
23. Widow Blackwood’s window, Barshill to be made to open, and two dunghills to be removed.
24. Widow Clark’s window to be made to open, potatoes to be removed from under her bed.
25. James Gilmour’s house unwholesome from damp
26. James Caldwell – Dunghill to be removed.

The Committee, that no delay might take place in removing the nuisances reported, requested Mr Snodgrass to instruct the two men who are now working by his order on the road to superintend and give assistance during said operation. The foot path opposite Broomlands was found strewed with excrement, and the Committee considered it indispensable that one or more necessaries be erected forthwith.
This is a mix of reasonable preventive measures and concern for the general well-being of the poor of the parish, but I have to admit I was a little surprised to learn the heritors agreeing to build a "necessary", essentially a public toilet, although it was likely very basic, perhaps little more than a hole in the ground. The notion of potatoes causing cholera was somewhat more surprising though.

The Committee met again the next day, having completed their inspections:
Inchinnan, Feb 1 1832
2nd day
The Committee resumed their labours this day and finished inspecting all the dwelling houses in Inchinnan. They ordered as follows:

1. Newmains – Window to be opened in shoemaker’s house
2. John Whitelaw to receive a pair of blankets and plaiding trousers.
3. Jean Reid, the blind pauper, to receive a pair of blankets and six yds of flannel
4. Linburn – Mrs McArthur. Dunghill to be removed & to receive a pair of blankets.
5. Mrs Hughes to receive a pair of blankets and remove a dunghill.
6. John Leech, pauper, residing in Paisley, to receive a pair of blankets, and to get a temporary addition to his aliment of two shillings per month.
Two weeks later, the Committee met again. Clearly, their concern had increased. They ordered a printed circular to be printed, giving advice to parishioners, and used poor funds to buy a stock of medicines for the use of the poor in the parish - an interesting example of public health care provision before the 1845 Poor Law required local authorities to do so.
3d day.
At Inchinnan Schoolhouse
The seventeenth day of Feb 1832 – the Members of Committee met owing to the near approach of cholera they considered it expedient to associate the following individuals with them, viz

Messrs James Donaldson, Willm Smith, James McKean & Willm Craig, who readily agreed to give what assistance may be in their power in the event of the disease breaking out in this place.

Mr Lockhart reported that he had ordered directions to be printed for the use of the Parish. Also a set of medicines as recommended by the different boards of health. The Committee approved of these steps, and authorized Mr Galloway to defray the expenses thus incurred.

The Committee requests Mr Lockhart to intimate from the Pulpit the places where the medicines were deposited, and also to warn the people against harbouring or serving vagrants, and that the laws will be put in force againsst those trespassing.

It was reported by a member of committee that the people had in general complied with the instructions in regard to cleanliness, ventilation &c.

​It was agreed that the Committee should from time to time examine the places from which the nuisances had been removed, also that they should use their influence in their respective neighbourhoods to rouse the prejudiced from their apathy, and disountenance the false reports so generally circulated against the medical profession.
By now the parish authorities were concerned about strangers bringing the disease to Inchinnan, and were warning parishioners to have no dealings with vagrants and unlicensed hawkers. Interestingly, they were also ordering follow-up inspections of places they'd previously visited where they'd ordered the removal of "nuisances".

Four days later the printed circular was ready for distribution to every house in the parish:
At Inchinnan Feb 21st 1832
The Committee of health met and examined printed directions, as annexed, which had been formerly ordered – they approved of the same, and directed the Parish Officer to be employed to distribute a copy to every Family in the Parish, and to receive two shillings and sixpence for his trouble.
The text of the circular makes interesting reading:
​CHOLERA
Preventives – Be clean in your person. Wear flannels next the skin. Keep the bowels well defended from cold, and never sit down with wet or cold feet. Abstain from small beer, and use spiritous liquours very moderately. Use no water that is not pure. The use of strong broth and butcher meat is salutary. Avoid raw vegetables, and boil well what you eat. Do not go out in the morning without breaking your fast. Avoid getting wet, or going out at night. Avoid also large towns, infected places, and public houses.
Piggeries, Dunghills, and Cess-pools ought to be at some distance and frequently cleaned. Let the house be regularly ventilated, and well swept. When you wash it, choose a sunny day, and do it in the morning, so that there may be no damp when you shut up at night. Keep your doors dry.
Symptoms and treatment – Cholera generally begins with giddiness, languour, and uneasiness in the bowels, accompanied by looseness more or less. When such symptoms appear, no time ought to be lost in sending for medical advice – but in the mean time, 30 drops of Laudanum, and 3 teaspoonfuls of Castor Oil may be taken in a little hot brandy and water. Go to bed immediately, and keep yourself warm. Heated bricks or hot bottles may be applied, or bags of hot bran or salt. Place a mustard blister on the stomach. Let your drink consist of warm barley-water in small portions. Cold water is dangerous, and Salts must on no account be taken.
Should the Castor Oil &c be thrown up, take 30 drops of plain Laudanum.
Families ought to provide themselves with Laudanum and the other articles, as all depends on taking the disease at the first.
Inchinnan, 18th February 1832.
Laudanum of course was a tincture of opium. While it could certainly ease the most obvious symptom of cholera - diarrhoea - it really wasn't a cure, and as one of the speakers at the SRA conference pointed out, opium poisoning was a significant problem in Scotland in the 19th century.

The next entry is three weeks later. It would appear that the exhortations to parishioners not to deal with vagrants and unlicensed hawkers had not had the desired effect, as the heritors decided to hire a Constable to patrol the road to keep strangers out:
Inchinnan March 12th 1832
At the Schooolhouse, met this day the members of the Committee of health, and appointed Mr Gibson & Mr Willm Killoch to employ and station a Constable at Walkinshaw Bridge to prevent beggars & unlicensed hawkers from passing out from Paisley. Mr Lockhart & James Snodgrass to arrange with the toll keeper at Inchinnan Bridge so as to prevent vagrants from getting into the Parish by that quarter.

The meeting agree to give Willm Brisbane the remaining pair of blankets, his body clothes and bedding having been burned along with Mr McKean’s shop where he lodged.
Unfortunately, there are no further minutes of the health committee, so it's not clear what the outcome was, but it is clear that there was concern for the health of paupers, at least in one parish in Renfrewshire, although doubtless there was likely an element of self-interest in preventing an outbreak.

That cholera was not eradicated is however made clear by the fact that immediately below a copy of the printed circular in the Kirk Session minute book is a note, in a different hand from the surrounding entries, and dated some years later, with suggested treatments for cholera outbreaks:
Recommendations
Glasgow Constitutional, Jany 6th 1849. Dr Laurie Eevery person shd have Laudanum in the house, and after a sudden or more than usually copious stool, he shd resort to it, & especially in the morning. Take one teaspoonful of Laudanum, as an injection in half a glass of water, and ½ a tea spoonful of Laudanum by the mouth. He shd do this without waiting for the Doctor until the Dr did come.
After Laudanum has been used, as already stated, it has been found beneficial to administer opium, & afterwards, opium and valerial together.
Dr Campbell, Calton – found that in every case by doses of Laudanum & essences of peppermint, the disease was checked, if early administered, if within 25 minutes after the attack, he had found it invariably successful.
Dr J Adams – According to the opinion of ¾ of the profession, Laudanum was the best thing to administer at the outset. Every family should have it in the house. From 3 o’clock til 10 a hundred drops of Laudanum had been given.
Dr Boag stated the great importance of getting the houses in affected districts cleansed & the removal of the families to some place of Refuge while the cleansing was getting done.
Evidently, treatment of cholera hadn't advanced much in the intervening years.
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Healthcare in Scotland before the NHS

5/11/2016

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The Scottish Records Association (SRA) held its annual conference in the Soutar Theatre in Perth on Friday on the theme of Public Healthcare Before the NHS. The ten speakers covered a wide range of topics, although they complemented each other, providing a comprehensive overview of public healthcare before the formation of the NHS after WWII.

The conference was ably chaired by Professor Marguerite Dupree, of the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow, who introduced the speakers and fielded questions from the floor (as well as posing a few of her own).
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Marguerite Dupree introducing the speakers in the first session
​The first speaker was Dr Deborah Brunton, from The Open University, who gave an interesting introduction to the history of healthcare in Scotland. She argued that pre-NHS healthcare in Scotland had acquired a bad reputation that was not fully merited. Although coverage was often patchy (the word of the day, as it turned out), an important principle was established which is arguably the founding principle of the NHS – that a range of quality healthcare should be available to those unable to pay. The charitable hospitals founded across Scotland in the 19th century and earlier offered a reasonable standard of care – by contemporary standards – to their poor patients. The 1845 Poor Law (Scotland) Act established the expectation, if not always the reality, that parishes should provide healthcare to poor people. Dr Brunton cited several examples of public health campaigns in the 1800s: an outbreak of “fever” (probably typhus) in Edinburgh in 1817 led to the cleaning and fumigation of hundreds of houses in the Old Town; and at the height of the 1832 epidemic of cholera, 900 quarts of soup a day was provided free to poor people in Perth. Indeed soup kitchens were established in many towns across Scotland.
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Deborah Brunton giving an overview of the history of healthcare in Scotland
Dr Brunton was followed by Emeritus Professor John Stewart of Glasgow Caledonian University, who spoke about the provision of health care under the Scottish poor law in late 19th century central Scotland. As Dr Brunton pointed out, the 1845 Poor Law (Scotland) Act required local authorities to provide medical relief. Local medical officers were often under considerable pressure to grant medical relief, even if it was not strictly required. One of the difficulties in studying this period is that the survival of poor law records is patchy (that word again). That said, medical relief spending grew more than tenfold between 1846 and 1900, although the social stigma associated with applying for medical relief meant that some people applied for support too late. Medical care was also often dependent on cooperation between local authorities and voluntary organisations, which was not always forthcoming. Furthermore, there was also tension between the local authorities and the local heritors, who were liable for funding relief – this was particularly the case in rural parishes where there may have only been a few landowners to provide funding.

The last paper of the morning session was presented by Sarah Bromage of the University of Stirling and Alison Scott, from Glasgow Life. They described the archives of the Royal Scottish National Hospital (RSNH), held by the University of Stirling. The RSNH was established in 1863 in Larbert to care for children with learning disabilities. As its name suggests, it took in patients from all over Scotland. One of the most interesting parts of the archive is the applications for admission, of which 3014 survive from 1865 to the 1940s. Most of the early applications include plentiful information on the applicant’s family’s circumstances as well as the child’s health, behavioural and educational abilities. Another unusual part of the collection consists of some letters written by the children themselves. More information on the archive can be found here and here.

After a short break for coffee (and industrial quantities of fine cake), the next speaker was Dr Jenny Cronin, who discussed convalescent institutions with particular emphasis on the Schaw Convalescent Home at Bearsden. The movement to establish convalescent homes in Scotland began in 1860, in part as a means of easing the problem known in modern terms as “bed blocking”. They expanded considerably – from around 4,000 admissions in 1871 to over 33,000 in 1934. Intriguingly, the Schaw home in Bearsden had a smoking room for men, but a basement work room for women!
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The RHSC archives include many photos of nurses and patients
​Dr Iain Hutchison, University of Glasgow, then described the records of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, which he’d studied as part of a four year research project. The minute books record – in a sanitised form – the infighting that sometimes arose in charitable endeavours. Dr Hutchison supplemented the sometimes patchy surviving records with fascinating oral histories, which provided unofficial perspectives on nursing training – one nurse said that the officials “hated us having fun, but we did so anyway”. It took nearly 20 years from the idea being first raised before a children’s hospital was finally established, and it expanded rapidly – from around 500 patients a year in the early 1880s to 10,000 in 1888. Surviving records include Minute books (1861-1948), Annual Reports (1883-1947), Admission Registers (1893-1929), Patient Casenotes (1883-1914), Nursing Records (1882-1948), Records of the Yorkhill Nursing League, and photographs. Interestingly there are not many photographs of doctors, but there are plenty of photos of nurses and patients.

​The first talk after lunch was given by Ross McGregor, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG) on William Macewen, a Glasgow Police Surgeon of the 1870s. As a police surgeon, Macewen was called out to a very wide range of cases, and he was a pioneer in a variety of surgical techniques, often going against established practices. He later went on to establish the Erskine Hospital. McGregor described cases ranging from high-profile murders to rotten fish, and described Macewen’s papers which are held by the RCPSG, the University of Glasgow Archives and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Archives. Macewen was clearly an interesting character – an article he wrote on a case of opium poisoning – a common occurrence – included a quotation of French poetry.
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Next up was Fiona Bourne, from the Royal College of Nursing Archives, who described the history of the Royal College of Nursing and its celebrations to mark its centenary in 2015. The RCN library is based in London, but the archives are held in Edinburgh. The RCN has always had a dual role, as a training institution and as a trade union for nurses, and has expanded enormously over the last 100 years. I was particularly taken by the lego nurse they built as part of their centenary exhibition! They had a very well received audience engagement plan as part of the centenary celebrations, and learned a great deal about the history of the RCN in the process.

The last talk of the first afternoon session was given by Dr Lindsey Reid, on midwifery, and specifically the circumstances surrounding the 1915 Midwives (Scotland) Act. Before the 1915 Act, midwives in Scotland – commonly known as howdies, a term that seems to have arisen in Edinburgh – were entirely unregulated, and often lacking in training. Before then, many howdies didn’t recognise a thermometer when shown one! One possible consequence of the 1915 Act was the steep decline in home births – from 95% in 1900 to only a tiny percentage in modern times. After 1915, unqualified midwives were allowed to continue practising, but were supposed to be accompanied by doctors, although this was not always followed, particularly it seems in the Hebrides, where there was a particularly high rate of “emergency” births – perhaps because the howdies wanted to make sure they got paid!
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Decline in home births in Scotland 1900-2000
​The final talk of the conference was given by Caroline Brown of the University of Dundee, standing in for her colleague Dr Patricia Whatley, who was unfortunately not able to attend. (Caroline did an excellent job – it can’t be easy to give someone else’s talk). This talk was on the Highlands and Islands Medical Service, often considered a precursor to the NHS. The HIMS was established in 1913 following the Dewar report, which examined the poor state of healthcare in the Highlands, where a combination of poverty, distance and dispersed populations made healthcare provision challenging. Highland doctors were often very poorly paid (if at all), and might have to travel for days to see a patient. The HIMS was therefore set up as a public service, with government grants for medical practitioners, district nursing associations to employ nurses, direct employment of doctors and nurses and the provision of support services. Unlike the NHS, it wasn’t free at the point of need for everyone, but its role as a precursor to the NHS is very evident.

Overall – a few very minor technical difficulties aside – this was an excellent conference, and I’d like to thank Kirsteen Mulhern and Robin Urquhart for all their hard work in putting on a great day. I would thoroughly recommend the Scottish Records Association and their conference to anyone interested in Scottish history. I may have even volunteered to speak at next year’s conference as well …
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History talks and events 7 - 13 November 2016

1/11/2016

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Upcoming family history talks and events in Scotland, 7 - 13 November 2016

Note that there may be a small charge for some of these events, and some may be for members only. We will be publishing lists of upcoming talks and events regularly - if you are organising a talk or event relating to Scottish genealogy or history, please let us know and we will be happy to add your events to our list.

Monday, November 7 2016, 7 pm for 7.30 pm

The Pentland Way – A Walk with History

John Stirling and Bob Paterson

Venue: Drummond Community High School, Bellevue Place, Edinburgh

Broughton History Society

Non-members, £2.00.


Monday, November 7 2016, 7.30 pm

Galston Memories

Elijah Beattie

Venue: John Knox Church Hall, High Street, Stewarton

Stewarton and District Historical Society

Mr Beattie shares his childhood memories of the town and may tell us about Brunawn and Galston Handball. Members £1 Non-members £2.


Monday, November 7 2016, 7.30 pm

The Key to the Punjab - the Great Sikh Fortress of Govindgarh, Amritsar

Tom Addyman

Venue: St Andrews Church, Park Road, Milngavie

Milngavie and Bearsden Historical Society

Tom Addyman is an archaeology expert and involved in a major project to preserve a “Unique Indian Fortress” adjacent to the major city of Amritsar – famed for its golden temple. £4 for non-members


Monday, November 7 2016, 7.30 pm

Through the Lens Dating Photos Through Costume

Valerie Reilly

Venue: Morison Memorial Church, Dumbarton Road, Clydebank

Clydebank Local History Society


Tuesday, November 8 2016, 10.15 - 11.45 am

U3A Family History Group

Venue: Turriff Library, Grange Villa, The Square, Turriff, AB43 5AE

Aberdeenshire Libraries

For further details, please contact Turriff Library.


Tuesday, November 8 2016, 2.30 pm - 4 pm

Introduction to Ancestry

Venue: Mearns Library

East Renfrewshire's Heritage Collection

Ancestry Library Edition is a must for anyone doing their family history and you can get access to this fabulous resource in your local East Renfrewshire library, without spending a penny. This informal session will help you master the basics and you'll soon be searching with ease through millions of world-wide records.
Free, book at the venue.


Tuesday, November 8 2016, 7 pm for 7.30 pm

Plastics and Poo – Threats to Scottish Wildlife

Matt Barnes, Volunteer & Community Engagement Manager Scotland, Marine Conservation Society

Venue: Montrose Museum, Panmure Place, Montrose DD10 8HE

Montrose Natural History and Antiquarian Society

£3 for non-members


Tuesday, November 8 2016, 7.30 pm

Tarves Tales Through Time: 6 Owners, 5 Centuries

Lindsay Mathewson

Venue: Buchan Hotel, Ellon

Ellon and District Heritage Society

Entrance £3


Tuesday, November 8 2016, 7.30 pm

On the Road: the artefact assemblage from Charlie Hoy’s Cramond excavations 1970-1986

Dawn McLaren

Venue: 23a Fettes Row, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society


Tuesday, November 8 2016, 7.30 pm

The Archaeology of Jutland

Dr Innes McCartney

Venue: Orkney College

Orkney Archaeology Society

Dr. Innes McCartney will give an exciting and informative lecture on the Battle of Jutland on Tuesday 8th November at 7.30pm in the lecture theatre of Orkney College.


Tuesday, November 8 2016, 7.30 pm

Fife Pilgrim Way

Sarah Kettles

Venue: Volunteer House (Vonef Centre) in 69 Crossgate Cupar KY15 5AS

Fife Family History Society


Tuesday, November 8 2016, 7.30 pm

Hair Styles: Male and Female throughout the Ages

E D Bremner

Venue: Community Room, Largs Library, Allanpark Street, Largs

North Ayrshire Family History Society


Tuesday, November 8 2016, 7.30 pm

Scotland v Italy: an early battle on home ground?

Dr John Reid

Venue: Auditorium, Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre, Peebles

Tweeddale Society

Four miles south-east of Lockerbie lies Burnswark Hill in Dumfriesshire, rising to nearly 1,000 feet from the surrounding countryside. It is one of the most prominent landmarks of the Solway basin. On the tabletop summit the remains of a 17-acre Roman hillfort have been uncovered. Their configuration is unique in Britain, and attempts to understand their significance have provoked considerable controversy for over half a century, with the purpose of these complex earthworks confounding archaeologists.
Excavations at Burnswark have revealed a greater number and variety of Roman missiles than anywhere else in Britain, while recent investigations and new techniques suggest this could be the site of one of the earliest conflicts between the Roman Empire and the Caledonians. John will bring us up-to-date with the results of the latest research.
Dr John Reid is Chairman of The Trimontium Trust, Melrose, which runs a series of activities for members and the general public including lectures, outings and other activities.


Tuesday, November 8 2016, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm

Engine of Destruction: The 51st (Highland Division) in the Great War

Colin Campbell

Venue: Masonic Halls, Collier Street, Johnstone

Johnstone Historical Society


Wednesday, November 9 2016, 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm

The Harry Lauder Story

Ian Tennent

Venue: Kincardine Community Centre - Hepburn Room

Kincardine-on-Forth Local History Group


Wednesday, November 9 2016, 4 pm

Local Politics and the Adoption of Empire in the Gobi Region

Joshua Wright

Venue: Lecture Theatre (109), Gregory Building

University of Glasgow


Wednesday, November 9 2016, 6.30 pm

Dundee in the Great War: three short talks

Linda Nicoll (Friends of Dundee City Archives), David Wilkinson & Matthew Jarron (University of Dundee)

Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee

Abertay Historical Society


Wednesday, November 9 2016, 7.00 pm

The Templelands of Edinburgh

Norah Carlin

Venue: Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh

The Old Edinburgh Club

Lectures are free to members and open to non-members paying a small fee (currently £5.00).


Wednesday, November 9 2016, 7.30 pm

The 1884 Reform Agitation in East Lothian

Mark Nixon

Venue: Gullane Village Hall

Gullane and Dirleton History Society

Pressure for voting reform turned violent in Haddington in 1884


Wednesday, November 9 2016, 7.30 pm

Aberdeen and North East Resources

Buzzy Garden

Venue: Smith Museum and Art Gallery, Dumbarton Road, Stirling

Central Scotland Family History Society


Wednesday, November 9 2016, 7.30 pm

Auxiliary Units - Churchill's Secret Army

David Blair

Venue: Volunteer Hall, Galashiels

Old Gala Club

Joint meeting with Selkirk Antiquarians


Wednesday, November 9 2016, 7.30 pm

Habbie to Jeely Eater

Ian Miller

Venue: Concord Community Centre (next to the Denny Theatre), Dumbarton, G82 1LJ

Lennox Heritage Society

“A man of the cloth. An entertainer. A man who welcomed all denominations, anytime. A man who has married, christened and buried the great the good and the lowly with equal gravitas and humanity”. (Paul Murdoch). This is his life-story and the title of his book.


Wednesday, November 9 2016, 7.45 pm

Keir Hardie

Stanley Sarsfield

Venue: RAF Club, Ardgowan Square, Greenock

Inverclyde Historical Society


Thursday, November 10 2016

Scotland’s Early Silver

Alice Blackwell, Glenmorangie Research Fellow, National Museum of Scotland

Venue: Blue Room, Town Hall, Ayr

Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society


Thursday, November 10 2016, 5.15 pm for 5.30 pm

The Scottish Disruption and the politics of colonial Auckland

Dr Valerie Wallace (Victoria University of Wellington)

Venue: New Seminar Room, St John’s House, 71 South Street, St Andrews

Institute of Scottish Historical Research


Thursday, November 10 2016, 6 pm - 7.30 pm

Two Syllables Only: Feuds and frictions within the Scottish Enlightenment

Mark McLean, learning officer, Newhailes

Venue: Newhailes House, Newhailes Road, Musselburgh, EH21 6RY

Newhailes House

£8, including complimentary glass of wine. Limited space, book online


Thursday, November 10 2016, 6.30 pm

Rich Folk Poor Folk - Life in Victorian Cumnock

Venue: Baird Institute, 3 Lugar Street, Cumnock, East Ayrshire, KA18 1AD

Cumnock History Group


Thursday, November 10 2016, 7 pm

Glasgow Cinemas

Tom Marchant

Venue: GLO Centre, 78 Muir Street, MOTHERWELL. ML1 1BN

Lanarkshire Family History Society


Thursday, November 10 2016, 7.30 pm

Scottish Education in the 19th Century

Janet Byth

Venue: MacRobert Hall, The Square, Tarland

Cromar History Group

Janet Byth will tell us about her researches into 180 years of a single Scottish School at Fintry and the changes that took place over time.


Thursday, November 10 2016, 7.30 pm

Paisley Abbey Digs – the story so far

Bob Will, Senior Project Manager, GUARD Archaeology

Venue: The Shawl Gallery, Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley

Renfrewshire Local History Forum

Renfrewshire Local History Forum Lectures are open to non-members with no admission charge but a small donation would be appreciated.


Thursday, November 10 2016, 7.30 pm

Edinburgh and Musselburgh Trams

Gavin Booth

Venue: St Peter's Church Hall, High Street, Musselburgh

Musselburgh Conservation Society


Thursday, November 10 2016, 7.30 pm - 9.00 pm

The Last Miners of Ayrshire's Doon Valley

Donald Reid

Venue: Johnnie Walker Bond, Strand Street Kilmarnock

East Ayrshire Family History Society


Friday, November 11 2016, 2 pm - 3.30 pm

‘Something Sensible for a Change’ : The National Register of Archives for Scotland, 1946-2016

Dr Alison Rosie (Registrar of NRAS)

Venue: New Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh

National Records of Scotland

Dr Alison Rosie (Registrar of the NRAS) outlines the history of the NRAS and what it does to help owners and users of archives today. Bring along your own documents for an opportunity after her talk to find out more about them and get advice on their care and preservation. (New Register House)


Friday, November 11 2016, 2.00pm-3.30pm

Smuggling in East Lothian and Berwickshire c1740-1790

Derek Janes

Venue: John Gray Centre

Friends of the John Gray Centre

Take pleasure in listening to some incredible stories about smuggling in the area, ask daring questions and marvel at the hair-raising details intertwined with important facts and additional information.


Friday, November 11 2016, 7.30 pm

Scratching the surface and digging deeper: an on-going journey through art and archaeology

Margaret Struckmeier, Potter and Archaeologist

Venue: German Speaking Church, Chalmers Crescent, Edinburgh, EH9 1TW

Scottish Pottery Society


Friday, November 11 2016, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm

You're Wanted, Lads: Frontline Voices from WWI

Venue: Scottish Storytelling Centre, Netherbow Theatre, Royal Mile, Edinburgh

School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh

The impact & experience of the war to end wars, from those who were there. Hear from the testimonies of ordinary soldiers from Perthshire & Aberdeenshire, collected over many painstaking years by Jock Duncan in Jock's Jock, a one act play featuring Scott Gardiner, Chris Wright, Charlie West and Gary West. Also experience the poems & tunes of Seaforth Highlander E. Alan Mackintosh, with biographer Colin Campbell plus Neil MacLure and Linn Phipps. A special marking of Armistice Day for the Carrying Stream Festival, in association with Edinburgh University's School of Scottish Studies Archive. Tickets: £10 (£8 concessions) from http://www.carryingstreamfestival.co.uk/


Saturday, November 12 2016

Our Urban Heritage: Natural and Cultural

Venue: Stirling University

Forth Naturalist and Historian


Saturday, November 12 2016, 10 am - 12 pm

WWI

Ken Nisbet

Venue: Scottish Genealogy Society Library, 15 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL

Scottish Genealogy Society

Ken Nisbet, our resident expert on all things military, will take this class. Ken will show what resources are available both online and offline to begin and to further your research. This will course will focus more on Army records than previously.


Saturday, November 12 2016, 2.00pm-4.00pm

Moray Burial Ground Research Group

Keith and Helen Mitchell, MBGRG

Venue: Dumbarton Room, Royal Scots Club, 29 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, EH3 6QE

Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society


Saturday, November 12 2016, 2.00pm-4.00pm

Medals and how to research them

Venue: Activities Room, Elgin Library, Cooper Park, Elgin, IV30 1HS

Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society


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