| Social History |
| Cameron, David Kerr, “The Ballad and the Plough, Portrait of the Life of the Old Scottish Farmtouns”, Birlinn, Limited (1987) |
| Stone, Lawrence, “The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800 “, Penguin (1990) |
| Devine, T. M. (ed), “Farm Servants and Labour in Lowland Scotland, 1770-1914”, John Donald Publishers Ltd (1996) |
| McGregor, Iona, “Getting Married in Scotland“, NMS Enterprises Limited Publishing (2000) |
| Leneman, Leah & Mitchison, Rosalind, “Girls in Trouble – Sexuality & Social Control in Rural Scotland 1660-1780“, Scottish Cultural Press (1998) |
| Chapman, Colin R., “Marriage Laws, Rites, Records and Customs“, Lochin Publishing, (1996) |
| Livingstone, Sheila, “Scottish Customs“, Birlinn, Limited (1996) |
| Bennett, Margaret, “Scottish Customs: From the Cradle to the Grave”, Polygon, Birlinn, Limited (1996) |
| Kelsall, R. K. & Kelsall, Helen, “Scottish Lifestyle 300 Years Ago”, Scottish Cultural Press (1993) |
| Smout, T. C. & Wood, Sydney, “Scottish Voices 1745-1960: An Anthology”, Fontana Press (1990) |
| Baldick, Robert & Aries, Philippe, “Centuries of Childhood”, Penguin Books, Limited (1996) |
| Scottish Association of Family History Societies, “European Immigration Into Scotland: Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference of the Scottish Association of Family History Societies”, Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society (1992) |
| Franks, Robert Hugh esq (ed Ian Winstanley), “Children’s Employment Commission Report 1842 – East Scotland”, Picks Publishing (1999) [PDF] |
| Fletcher, Joseph esq (ed Ian Winstanley), “Children’s Employment Commission Report 1842 – Lanark and Dumfries”, Picks Publishing (1998) [PDF] |
| Tancred, Thomas (ed Ian Winstanley), “Children’s Employment Commission Report 1842 – West Scotland”, Picks Publishing (1999) [PDF] |
| Weir, Molly, “Trilogy of Scottish Childhood”, Lomond Books (1996) |
| Whatley, Christopher A., “The Industrial Revolution in Scotland”, Cambridge University Press (1997) [SCAN] |
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| Sociology & Demography |
| Devine, T. M. & Mitchison, R. (eds), “People and Society in Scotland Vol 1: 1760-1830”, John Donald Publishers Ltd (1999) |
| Fraser, W. Hamish & Morris R. J. (eds), “People and Society in Scotland Vol 2: 1830-1914”, John Donald Publishers Ltd (2000) |
| Tony Dickson, James H. Treble (eds), “People and Society in Scotland Vol 3 : 1914 to the Present Day”, John Donald Publishers Ltd (1999) |
| Finnegan, Ruth & Drake, Michael (eds), “Studying Family and Community History Vol 1 From Family Tree to Family History”, Cambridge University Press (1994) |
| Pryce, W. T. R. (ed), “Studying Family and Community History Vol 2 From Family History to Community History”, Cambridge University Press (1994) |
| Golby, John (ed), “Studying Family and Community History Vol 3 Communities and Families “, Cambridge University Press (1994) |
| Drake, Michael & Finnegan, Ruth, “Studying Family and Community History Vol 4, Sources and Methods for Family and Community Historians: A Handbook”, Cambridge University Press (1994) |
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| Fife |
| Simpson, Eric, “Dalgety Bay: Heritage and Hidden History”, Dalgety Bay and Hillhead Community Council (1999) |
| Arnot, Robin G. K., “A Fife Parish: Dalgety in the 17th Century”, TJ Books ltd., Padstow (2022) |
| Miller, H. (Reid, Stewart A. compiler), “Old Lochgelly”, Stenlake Publishing, Ochiltree (1988) |
| Pitcairn, Sheila, “The Old “Fitpaths” and Streets of Dunfermline”, Pitcairn Publications, Dunfermline [SCAN] |
| Hunter, Tom, “History of West Fife, the Crossgates Area”, Branksome (2022) |
| Hunter, Tom, “Mining in West Fife The Crossgates Area: Fordell and Halbeath Collieries”, Branksome (2022) |
| Henderson, William D., “Townhill: Dunfermline Coaltown”, Carnegie Dunfermline Trust (1980) |
| Beale, J. M., “A History of the Burgh and Parochial Schools of Fife”, The Scottish Council for Research in Education (1983) [SCAN] |
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| Coal Mining |
| Duckham, Baron, Frederick, “A History of the Scottish Coal Industry: A Social and Industrial History“, David & Charles, United Kingdom (1970) |
| Arnot, R. Page, “A History of the Scottish miners from the earliest times“, Allen & Unwin (1955) |
| Duncan, Robert, “Mineworkers, The “, Birlinn Ltd (2005) |
| Montgomery, George, “A Mining Chronicle: Annals of the coal mining industry of Great Britain from earliest times – 1984“, Newcraighall Heritage Society (1994) |
| National Coal Board, “A Short History of the Scottish Coal-mining Industry”, National Coal Board (Scottish Division)(1958) |
| Bolton, Wilma S., “Black Faces and Tackety Boots: True Stories from the Coal Mines of Lanarkshire”, Wilma S Bolton (2006) |
| John, Prof. Angela V., “By the Sweat of Their Brow: Women Workers at Victorian Coal Mines”, Routledge & Keagan Paul (1984) |
| Griffin, A. R., “The Collier “, Shire Publications; 1st Edition edition (1 May 1982) |
| Reeks, Lindsay S., “Scottish Coalmining Ancestors”, Gateway Press Inc, Baltimore (1986) |
| Terris, Ian, “Twenty Years Down the Mines”, Stenlake Publishing (2001) |
| Hutton, Guthrie, “Fife: The Mining Kingdom”, Stenlake Publishing, Ochiltree (1999) |
| Inglis, J. C. & Inglis, F., “The Fordell Railway”, Self-Published (1946) |
| Duckham, Baron, Frederick, “Life and Labour in a Scottish Colliery 1698-1755 in “The Scottish Historical Review Vol. 47, No. 144“, Edinburgh University Press (1968) [SCAN] |
| Douglas, Robert, “Coal-Mining in Fife in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century Fife from “The Scottish Tradition: Essays in Honour of Ronald Gordon Cant”, Scottish Academic Press, (1974) [SCAN] |
| Smith, Jill, “A Whispering in the Hearth: Lives of Our Coalmining Ancestors”, Self-Published (2002) [SCAN] |
| Durland, Kellogg, “Among the Fife Miners”, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd., London (1904) [SCAN] |
| Holman, Bob, “Behind the Diamond Panes: The Sory of A Fife Mining Community”, West Fife Publishing Company (1952) [SCAN] |
| Moffat, Abe, “My Life with The Miners “, Lawrence & Wishart, London (1965) [SCAN] |
| Mortimer, Jenny, “Our Next of Kin”, self-published |
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| Glasgow History |
| Cory, Kathleen B. A, “Glasgow A History” Kindle Edition. Michael Meighan |
| Gibb, Andrew, “Glasgow the Making of A City”, Croom Helm, London (1983) |
| Pagan, J, “Glasgow, Past and Present, Vol. 1 of 2: Illustrated in Dean of Guild Court Reports, and in the Reminiscences and Communications of Senex, Aliquis, J. B. & C. (Classic Reprint)”, Forgotten Books (2018) |
| Eunson, Eric, “The Gorbals: An Illustrated History“, Stenlake Publishing(1996) |
| Lindsay, Maurice, “Portrait of Glasgow”, Robert Hale, London (1981) |
| Oakley, Charles Allen, “The Second City: Glasgow”, Blackie & Son Limited, Glasgow (1990) |
| Checkland, S. G., “The Upas Tree: Glasgow 1875-1975”, University of Glasgow Press (1981) |
| Ord, John, “The Story of the Barony of Gorbals”, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, London (1919) [SCAN] |
| Smart, Aileen, “Villages of Glasgow: Vol 1”, John Donald Publishers Ltd (1990) |
| Smart, Aileen, “Villages of Glasgow: Vol 2”, John Donald Publishers Ltd (1998) |
| Willing, June & Fairie, J. Scott, “Burial Grounds in Glasgow: A Brief Guide for Genealogists”, Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society |
| Miller, Susan, “A Guide to Glasgow Addresses: 1837-1945“, Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society(1993) |
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| Glasgow Life |
| Miller, H. (Reid, Stewart A. compiler), “1841 Police Return within The City of Glasgow”, Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society (1998) |
| Laidlaw, Stuart I. A., “Glasgow Common Lodging-Houses and The People Living in Them”, ProQuest LLC (2019) [SCAN] |
| Wordsall, Frank, “Glasgow Tenement: A Way of Life”, Richard Drew Publishing Ltd (1993) |
| Glasser, Ralph, “Growing Up in the Gorbals”, Pan Books (1986) |
| Shadow, “Midnight Scenes and Social Photographs: Sketches Of Life In The Streets, Wynds, And Dens Of The City [of Glasgow]”, Forgotten Books (2018) |
| Kenna, Rudolph, “Old Glasgow Streets “, Glasgow City Libraries & Archives; First Edition (1990) |
| Annan, Thomas, “Photographs of the Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, 1868-1877 “, Dover Publications Inc, New York (1997) |
| Faley, Jean, “Up Oor Close: Memories of Domestic Life in Glasgow Tenements, 1910-45”, White Cockade Publishing (1998) |
| Cage, R. A., “The Working Class in Glasgow, 1750-1914”, Routledge (1987) |
| Allen, Robert C., “The Hand Loom Weaver and the Power Loom – A Schumpeterian Perspective”, University of Oxford Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History, Number 142, March 2016 [SCAN] |
| Murray, Norman, “The Scottish Handloom Weavers 1790-1850 – A Social History”, John Donald Publishers, Edinburgh (1978) [SCAN] |
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| Musselburgh |
| Dennison, E. Patricia & Coleman, Russel, “Historic Musselburgh (Scottish Burgh Surveys)”, Scottish Cultural Press (1996) |
| Maughan, William Charles, “Picturesque Musselburgh: And its golf links “, Colville; Reprint edition (1986) |
| Moncrieff Burnet, Jane Elen, “Reason for Inveresk: A Scrapbook of History”, Courtyard P. (1999) |
| “Scotland In Old Pictures: Musselburgh”, Sutton Publishing Limited, Stroud (2000) |
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| Heraldry, Genealogy Guides etc |
| MacKinnon, Charles, “The Observer’s Book of Heraldry“, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. Frederick Warne & Co. (1975) |
| Platts, Beryl, “Origins of Heraldry”, The Procter Press (1980) |
| Platts, Beryl, “Scottish Hazard”, The Procter Press (1990) |
| Robinson, Mairi (ed-in-chief), “The Concise Scots Dictionary“, Aberdeen University Press (1991) |
| Fitzhugh, Terrick V. H., “Dictionary of Genealogy”, Alphabooks (1988) |
| “A Glossary of Household Farming & Trade Terms from 17th-century Probate Inventories (Derbyshire Record Society occasional paper)“, Derbyshire Record Society, Millward, Rosemary, (1986) |
| Saul, Pauline A., “The Family Historian’s Enquire Within”, Federation of Family History Societies (Publications) (1995) |
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| Palaeography |
| Grieve, Hilda, “Examples of English Handwriting, 1150-1750 “, Essex Record Office Publications; 2nd Revised edition (1959) |
| “Facsimiles of Documents of Use to Family Historians”, Federation of Family History Societies (Publications) (1987) |
| McLaughlin, Eve, “Reading Old Handwriting (Guides for Family Historians)”, Federation of Family History Societies (1987) |
| Munby, Lionel, “Reading Tudor and Stuart Handwriting”, British Association for Local History (1988) |
| Simpson, Grant G., “Scottish Handwriting, 1150-1650: Introduction to the Reading of Documents”, Mercat Press (2009) |
| Vera Kaden, Victoria and Albert Museum Staff (Contribution by), Joyce Irene Whalley, “Universal Penman: Survey of Western Calligraphy from the Roman Period to 1980”, HMSO |
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| Genealogy Guides and Record Repositories |
| Public Record Office, “The Nation’s Memory: A Pictorial Guide to the Public Record Office“, Stationery Office Books |
| Sinclair, Cecil, “Tracing Scottish Local History”, Edinburgh HMSO (1994) |
| Herber, Mark D., “Ancestral Trails: Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History”, Sutton Publishing Ltd (2003) |
| Currer-Briggs, Noel & Gambier, Royston, “Debrett’s Family Historian: Guide to Tracing Your Ancestry”, Debrett / Webb & Bower (1981) |
| Currer-Briggs, Noel & Gambier, Royston, “Debrett’s Guide to Tracing Your Ancestry”, Webb & Bower (1990) |
| Colwell, Stella, “Family History Book”, Phaidon Press Limited (1989) |
| Rogers, Colin, “The Family Tree Detective: A manual for analysing and solving genealogical problems in England and Wales, 1538 to the present day”, Manchester University Press (1989) |
| McLaughlin, Eve, “Further Steps in Family History”, Countryside Books (1990) |
| Christian, Peter, “The Genealogist’s Internet”, PRO Publications (2003) |
| Hamilton-Edwards, Gerald, “In Search of Scottish Ancestry”, Phillimore & Co Ltd (1986) |
| Begley, Donal F. (ed), “Irish Genealogy: A Record Finder (Heraldry and genealogy series)”, Heraldic Artists Ltd. (1987) |
| Sinclair, Cecil, “Jock Tamson’s Bairns: A history of the records of the General Register Office for Scotland”, General Register Office for Scotland (2000) |
| Rogers, Colin & Smith, John H, “Local Family History in England 1538-1914”, Manchester University Press (1991) |
| Cox, Jane (ed), “The Nation’s Memory, The: A Pictorial Guide to the Public Record Office “, HMSO London (1988) |
| Humphrey-Smith, Cecil, “The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers”, Phillimore & Co Ltd (1995) |
| Dunkling, Leslie Alan, “Scottish Christian Names”, Johnston & Bacon (Books) Ltd. (1995) |
| Bigwood, Rosemary, “The Scottish Family Tree Detective: Tracing Your Ancestors in Scotland“, Manchester University Press (2006) |
| Durie, Bruce, “Scottish Genealogy”, The History Press Ltd; 3rd Revised (2012) |
| James, Alwyn, “Scottish Roots”, McDonald Publishers (1981) |
| “Collins Tracing Scottish Ancestors”, Bigwood, A. R. (2001) |
| Public Record Office, “Tracing Your Ancestors in the Public Record Office (Public Record Office handbooks: 19)”, Stationery Office Books |
| Ian Maxwell, “Tracing Your Glasgow Ancestors: A Guide for Family and Local Historians (Tracing Your Ancestors) Kindle Edition “, Pen & Sword Family History |
| Sinclair, C., “Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestry Research in the Scottish Record Office”, Scottish Record Office HMSO (1991) |
| Cory, Kathleen B., “Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry”, Polygon (1990) |
| Paton, Chris, “Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry through Church and State Records: A Guide for Family Historians Kindle Edition “, Pen & Sword Family History |
| Paton, Chris, “Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians (Tracing Your Ancestors) Kindle Edition “, Pen & Sword Family History |
| Durie, Bruce, “Understanding Documents for Genealogy & Local History”, The History Press (2013) |
| Blanchard, Gill, “Writing Your Family History: A Guide for Family Historians Kindle Edition “, Pen & Sword Family History (30 Sept. 2014) |
| Moody, David, “Scottish Family History”, B T Batsford, London (1988) |
| Dorward, David, “Scotland’s Place-Names”, James Thin |
| Humphrey, Stephen, “The Story of Rotherhithe (London Borough of Southwark Neighbourhood History), The London Borough of Southwark |
| Begley, Donal F., “Ancestor Trail in Ireland (Heraldry and genealogy series)”, Irish Books & Media |
| McLaughlin, Eve / Federation of Family History Societies, “Annals of the Poor (Guides for Family Historians)”, Federation of Family History Societies (Publicatio |
| Pelling, George, “Beginning Your Family History”, Countryside Books (1987) |
| Gandy, Michael, “Catholic missions and registers 1700-1880”, M. Gandy |
| Gandy, Michael, “Catholic parishes in England, Wales and Scotland: An atlas”, M. Gandy |
| Johnson, Gordon / Federation of Family History Societies, “Census Records for Scottish Families: A Survey of Areas and Related Records Useful in Tracing Scottish Families at Home and Abroad”, Aberdeen & N.E.Scotland Family History Society |
| McLaughlin, Eve, “The Censuses, 1841-91“, Federation of Family History Societies (Publications) (1985) |
| Macquarrie, Alan, “Cille Bharra: The Church of St Finnbarr, Barra: a Short History”, Grant Books (1992) |
| Hawgood, David, “Computers for Family History: An Introduction”, Hawgood Computing |
| Dunsire, Andrew, “Dunsire Families of Fife 1660-1875: A Surname History (Fife Family History Society Publication Club)”, Fife Family History Society |
| Gibson, Jeremy, “Electoral Registers and Burgess Rolls 1832-1948”, Family History Partnership (2008) |
| Reilly, Leonard, “Family History in Southwark: A Guide to Tracing Your Southwark Ancestors”, The London Borough of Southwark (1996) |
| Raymond, Stuart, “Family History on the Web“, Federation of Family History Societies (Publications) |
| “Genealogical and Historical Map of Ireland”, Heraldic Artists (2009) |
| W Gibson, J. S, “The Hearth Tax, Other Later Stuart Tax Lists and the Association Oath Rolls “, Federation of Family History Societies Publications (1985) |
| Hawgood, David, “IGI On Computer: International Genealogical Index from CD-ROM”, Federation of Family History Societies Publications |
| McLaughlin, Eve, “Illegitimacy (Guides for Family Historians)”, Family Tree Magazine (1985) |
| Hawgood, David, “Internet for Genealogy”, Federation of Family History Societies Publications |
| McLaughlin, Eve, “Interviewing Elderly Relatives (Guides for Family Historians)”, Federation of Family History Societies (Publications); 2nd Revised edition (1985) |
| Davis, Bill, “Introduction to Irish Research: Irish Ancestry – A Beginners Guide”, Federation of Family History Societies (Publications) (1992) |
| Cole, Anne, “An Introduction to Poor Law Documents Before 1834”,Federation of Family History Societies (Publications) (2000) |
| Mclaughlin, Eve, “Laying out a Pedigree”, Family Tree Magazine (1988) |
| Lumas, Susan, “Making Use of the Census (Public Record Office Readers Guide)”, P.R.O. Publications (1997) |
| W Gibson, J. S., “Marriage, Census and Other Indexes”, Federation of Family History Societies Publications, (1994) |
| McLaughlin, Eve / Federation of Family History Societies, “Parish Registers (Guides for Family Historians)”, Federation of Family History Societies Publications, (1986) |
| Whyte, Donald, “Scottish Ancestry Research”, Scotpress, U.S.A. (1984) |
| Raymond, Stuart A., “Scottish Family History on the Web”, Federation of Family History Societies Ltd (2010) |
| Burness, Lawrence R., “Scottish Genealogist’s Glossary”, Aberdeen & N.E. Scotland Family History Society (1990) |
| Torrance, D. R. (compiler), “Scottish Trades and Professions”, Scottish Association of Family History Societies (1991) |
| Miller, Susan, “Strathclyde Sources”, Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society (1995) |
| Palgrave-Moore, Patrick, “Understanding the History & Records of Nonconformity”, Federation of Family History Societies Publications (1999) |
| Richards, Tom, “Was Your Grandfather a Railwayman?”, Federation of Family History Societies; 2nd edition (1995) |
| Christian, Peter, “Web Publishing for Genealogy”, David Hawgood, (1999) |
| Escott, Ann, “West of Scotland Census Returns and Old Parochial Records on Microfilm: Directory of Public Library Holdings in the West of Scotland”, Glasgow City Libraries & Archives (1986) |
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| Misc Social History |
| “Book of Airdrie”, Monklands District Library Services |
| Borgstrom H. J. & Mackenzie, Sir Compton , “Book of Barra: Being Accounts of the Island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides Written by Various Authors at Various Times”, Acair Ltd |
| Brander, Michael, “Clan Gleneil”, The Gleneil Press (1996) |
| Laslett, Peter, “The World We Have Lost”, Routledge University Press (1983) |
| Henderson, Ian-Andrew, “The Town Below the Ground: Edinburgh’s Legendary Underground City“, Mainstream Publishing (1999) |
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| Mapping |
| McCannell, Daniel, “Mapping the City: Edinburgh”, Birlinn Ltd. (2014) |
| Moore, John, “Mapping the City: Glasgow”, Birlinn Ltd. (2015) |
| Wyke, Terry & Robson, Brian & Dodge, Martin, “Mapping the City: Manchester”, Birlinn Ltd. (2018) |
| Smith, David, “Maps & Plans for the local historian and collector”, B T Batsford, London (1988) |
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| Chorlton-cum-Hardy |
| Lloyd, John, “Looking Back at Chorlton-Cum-Hardy”, Willow Publishing, Timperley (1986) |
| Simpson, Andrew, “The Story of Chorlton Cum Hardy”, The History Press Ltd (2012) |
| Lloyd, John, “The Township of Chorlton-cum-Hardy”, EJ Morten Publishers; First Edition (1972) |
| Hayes, Cliff, “Britain in Old Photographs: Chorlton-cum-Hardy”, Sutton Publishing Ltd (1999) |
| Simpson, Andrew & Topping, Peter, “The Quirks of Chorlton-cum-Hardy: A history of its people and places”, Topper Productions (2017) |
| Simpson, Andrew & Topping, Peter, “Chorlton-Cum-Hardy : Churches, Chapels, Temples, A Synagogue And A Mosque”, Topper Productions (2018) |
| Simpson, Andrew & Topping, Peter, “Nothing To Do In Chorlton Vol 1 : Chorlton Green and the Ees”, Topper Productions |
| Simpson, Andrew & Topping, Peter, “Nothing To Do In Chorlton Vol 3 : Down Beech Road Looking For Chorlton Row”, Topper Productions |
| Simpson, Andrew & Topping, Peter, “Nothing To Do In Chorlton Vol 4 : The Lych Gate and Grave Situations Beyond”, Topper Productions |
