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This is a list of the most recent content added to the site in the past month
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Newhaven
The Scottish Fishing Village That Was Gutted. Added a video to this page.

Falkirk
An Unremarkable Town. Added a video about the town.

History Tour of the Merchant City | Glasgow Scotland
A guided tour of the merchant city in Glasgow Scotland. We walk through the streets and learn about Glasgow's merchant past. Added this video to our Glasgow page.


Added our Weekly Newsletter for 17th January 2025 which you can read as a pdf file or in our Community

The Royal Restaurant (pdf)
An account of this restaurant which I added to our Glasgow page.

Ranald McIntyre
Found a mention of Ranald in his former pupils magazine so included on his page.

Donald McIntyre
Added Memorial to Donald Bertram McIntyre (1923–2009) (pdf)

Grangemouth
Added a video about Grangemouth to our index page for the town.

The Economic History of India in the Victorian Age
From the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to the commencement of the Twentieth century by Romesh Dutt, C.I.E., Lecturer in Indian History at University College, London (fifth edition, 1903) (pdf)

First Steam Ship Built in Aberdeen 1827 (pdf)

The Tron Kirk of Edinburgh
Or, Christ's Kirk at the Tron, A History by the Rev. D. Butler, M.A., Minister of the Tron Parish, Edinburgh

Twenty-One Aberdeen Events of the Nineteenth Century
With Illustrations by John A. Henderson, FSAScot (1912) (pdf) Includes an account of the first steam ship built in Aberdeen.

Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff
Written by himself at different intervals and revised in 1814, published by his son, Richard Watson, LL.N., Prebendary of Landaff and Wells (1817) (pdf)

Catalogue of the McAlpine Collection of British History and Theology
Compiled and Edited by Charles Ripley Gillett, D.D., L.H.D. Librarian, 1883-1908 in two volumes, Volume I: 1500-1640, Volume II: 1641-1652 (1927) and also A Catalogue of the Publications of Scottish Historical and Kindred Clubs and Societies.

Britain’s Appeal to the Gods
By Andrew Carnegie (pdf)

Astoria
Or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving (1868) (pdf)

The Company of Royal Adventurers Trading into Africa
By George Frederick Zook (1919) (pdf)

Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee
With a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa by T. Edward Bowdich. Esq. (1819) (pdf)

Memoir on the Affairs of the East-India Company
A Select Committee has been appointed by each of the Houses of Parliament, to enquire into the present State of the Affairs of the East-India Company, and into the Trade between Great-Britain, the East-Indies, and China, and to report their Observations thereon to the House. (February 1830) (pdf)

The Manuscripts of the Duke of Athole, K.T., and of the Earl of Home
Printed in 1891 (pdf)

Beyond the Enlightenment
Scottish Intellectual Life, 1790-1914 Edited by Aileen Fyfe and Colin Kidd (pdf)

Scottish Society of Indianapolis
Got in there January 2025 newsletter with membership renewal form.


Added our Weekly Newsletter for 10th January 2025 which you can read as a pdf file or in our Community

Scotland must closely scrutinise data cantre overseas overtures
Scotland is endowed with a centuries-old enthusiasm towards practically anything hinting at innovation. An article by Bill Magee.

Tommy Robertson
As he is in the news a lot these days I thought I'd compile a page about him mostly from videos available on YouTube. The videos of course include information on the Grooming Gangs.

Calendar of the Laing Charters
A.D. 854-1837 belonging to the University of Edinburgh, edited by The Rev. John Anderson, Assistant Curator of the Historical Department, H. M. General Register House, Edinburgh (1899) (pdf)

The Bains of psychology
Two Scots, both called Alexander Bain, played instrumental roles in the formative years of psychology, touching on perception, and they have often been confused. (pdf)

Debrett's House of Commons, and the Judicial Bench. (twentieth annual edition) illustrated with 800 Armorial engravings compiled and Edited by Robert Henry Mair, LL.D, (1886) (pdf)

Pioneering in Formosa
Recollections of adventures among the Mandarins, Wreckers, Head-Hunting Savages by W. A. Pickering, C.M.G., with an appendix on British policy and interests in China and the Far East (1898) (pdf)

Mudie, Robert
Miscellaneous writer. Added a page about him and links to a selection of his books such as...

The Picture of Australia
Exhibiting New Holland, Van Diemen's Land, and all the settlements, from the first at Sydney to the last at the Swan River by Robert Mudie (1829) (pdf)

and also...

The Emigrant's Pocket Companion
In British North America by Robert Mudie (pdf)

Historical Account of His Majesty's Visit to Scotland
George IVth by Robert Mudie
The Picture of India
Geographical, Historical and Descriptive by Robert Mudie (third edition) (1830) (pdf)
China and its Resources
And peculiarities, physical, political, social and commercial with a view of the opium question and a notice of Assam by Robert Mudie (1840) (pdf)
The Modern Athens
A Dissection and Demonstration of Men and Things in the Scotch Capital by A modern Greek, Robert Mudie (1825) (pdf)

and many others.

Biographical Notices of Thomas Young, S.T.D.
Vicar of Stowmarket, Suffolk by David Laing,, the editor of Principle Baillie's "Letters and Journals" (1870) (pdf)

The Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC)
By Norman James (pdf)

The First Jenny Wormald Lecture
(Edinburgh, 27 October 2023) by Jane E. A. Dawson (pdf)

The priest, the crofters, and the Uist rocket range
By Neil Bruce, The Innes Review 75.2 (2024): 155–186 (pdf)

Come Under My Plaidie
Scotch song by Hector M'Neil with new pianoforte accompaniment (pdf)

Poems and Songs of James Kennedy Sanquhar
The second edition revised and corrected, with numerous additions (1824) (pdf)

Poem of the Royal Company of Scottish Archers (1713) (pdf)

Scottish Society of Louisville
Got in their January 2025 newsletter

Miscellany of The Scottish History Society
Added the Seventh Volume which contains The Diary of Sir William Drummond of Hawthornden, The Exiled Stewarts in Italy, The Locharkaig Treasure

John Watson Shipbuilder
Whitehills & Banff 1830 to 1879 By Stanley Bruce (pdf)


Added our Weekly Newsletter for 3rd January 2025 which you can read as a pdf file or in our Community

Pioneering Days
In the Labour movement By Thomas Bell (1941)

Wishing you all a Happy New Year

Sir Niall Ferguson
Born in Glasgow, Professor Sir Niall Ferguson is a renowned Scottish
historian, author, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,
Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center of
Science and International Affairs at Harvard.

The Scottish Highlander Carmichaels of the Carolinas
By Major-General Roderick L. Carmichael, United States Army, Retired (1935) (pdf)

Remember Me to All the Members of the Whin Bush Club
Dr. Alexander Hamilton and the Scottish Tavern Club in America by Vaughn Scribner (2024) (pdf)

The Pilgrim's Progress
From this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan with Notes and Memoir, by the Rev. James Inglis, Johnstone (pdf). Found 468 pages on the site with reference to this book so thought I'd provide a copy for you to read.

The Pilgrimes Farewell, To his Natiue Countrey of Scotland
Wherein is contained, in way of Dialogue, The Joyes and Miseries Of Peregrination. With his Lamentado in his second Travels, his Passionado on the Rhyne, Farewels to Noble Personages, And, The Heremites Welcome to his third Pilgrimage By William Lithgow, Imprinted at Edinburgh, by Andro Hart (1618) (pdf)

The Pastoral or Lyric Muse of Scotland
In Three Cantos by Hector MacNeill, Esq. (1808)

The Parables of Jesus
By the Right Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, D.D., D.C.L., Archbishop of York (new American Edition) (1918) (pdf)

Pioneering in the Southwest
By A. J. Holt (1923) (pdf)

The Journal of Thomas Cuningham of Campvere 1640-1654
With his Thrissels-Banner and explication thereof Edited by Elinore Joan Courthope, M.A.(Edin.) (1928) (pdf)

Black Loch of Myrton
An exceptionally well-preserved Iron Age wetland settlement, the first of its type to be identified in Scotland. Added two videos about this site, one of the actual dig and the other a lecture about it which you can watch towards the foot of the page.

The Carpenter
A poem by George MacDonald

A Brief History of a Little Industrial Town: Bo'ness
Added this video to our Bo'ness page.

Scots, Indians and Empire
The Scottish Politics of Civilization 1519-1609 by Arthur H. Williamson (2018) (pdf)



 


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