Railways
Added a video about the history of Edinburgh Waverly Station
Life of Gen. Ben Harrison
By Lew Wallace also Life of Hon. Levi P. Morton by George Alfred
Townsend (1888) (pdf)
Clan Henderson Newsletter
Got in two copies of their newsletter -
Winter 2014-2015 and
Fall
2015.
A Short History of the
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
By Colonel H. C. Wylly, C.B. (late Editor, "Royal United Service Institution
Journal”) With Foreword by Major-General Sir Phillip R. Robertson, K.C.B., C.M.G.
(1924) (pdf)
"We Don't Stop Playing Because We Grow Old" ~
Albert Einstein
The Cyber Era was supposed to release all of us from the daily grind of work
with the promise of increased leisure all round. To learn there are increasing
numbers of Scottish pensioners working well into their eighties when they should
instead be enjoying the fruits of decades of work is worrying. An article by
Bill Magee.
Caledonian
Battles against the Fifers 212 – 230 AD
By and © Adrian C Grant (pdf)
The Legends of the Black Watch
With a history of the famous regiment (pdf). Added this to the foot our page of
the Legends of the Black Watch.
Added our Weekly Newsletter for September 4th, 2026 which you can read as a
pdf file
Black
Watch
By the Author of The Dominie's
Legacy (Andrew Picken) in three volumes (1834)
Staten Island Church Records
Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (1909) (pdf)
Hall, Russell & Co.,
Shipbuilders
Footdee, Aberdeen, The 1870’s by Stan Bruce (pdf)
The Fighting Territorials
By Percy Hurd (1916) (pdf)
The Games of the Match at Chess played between
the London and the Edinburgh Chess Clubs
In 1824, 1825, 1826, 1827, AND 1828; with notes and back-games; as
reported by the Committee of the Edinburgh Chess-Club (1829) (pdf)
The Christian
Doctrine of Prayer
By James Hastings, D.D. (1915) (pdf)
The Children's Great Texts of the Bible
By James Hastings in 6 volumes
Added our Weekly Newsletter for August 28th, 2026 which you can read as a
pdf file
Ernest
Thompson Seton
A biography (Wikipedia pdf)
A contribution from Eric Macfie
Eric sent in his research on Clan MacFie which I've add to the foot of
our Clan MacFie page.
Account of the Family of Vaux, Vans or
De Vallibus 1800
And their Scottish connection (pdf)
Notes on the Origins and
Pedigree of the Clan Scott Chiefs v2
By Adrian C Grant (2026) (pdf)
Memoir of Dr Jamieson
The preserver of the Scots Language including his dictionary in
3 volumes.
James Hastings
A Scottish United Free Church minister and biblical scholar. He is best
known for producing major reference works, including a 5-volume
Dictionary of the Bible and a 13-volume Encyclopędia of Religion and
Ethics, and establishing The Expository Times.
Added our Weekly Newsletter for August 21st, 2026 which you can read as a
pdf file
Dictionary of the
Scottish Language
Im which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by
the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works
in which they occur, and derived from their originals abridged by John
Johnston, a new edition, refined and enlarged by John Longmuir, A.M., LL.D.,
(1867) (pdf)
Buxton the
Liberator
By R. H. Mottram (pdf)
Narratives of John Pritchard, Pierre Chrysologue Pambrun, and Frederick
Damien Heurter respecting the aggressions of the North-West Company against
the Earl of Selkirk's settlement upon the Red River (1819) (pdf)
Leaves from the Annals of the Sisters
of Mercy
In three volumes I. Ireland II. England, Scotland, and the Colonies III.
America by a member of the Order of Mercy (1888)
