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==Online Resources==
==Online Resources==


*[https://dasg.ac.uk/audio/ Cluas ri Claisneachd (Ear to Ear) Audio Recordings of Gaelic] at DASG — index & images ($)
*[https://www.1900s.org.uk/index.htm Life in 1900s UK] - includes photos and descriptions of places/items, etc. in 1900s UK<Br>
*[https://www.1900s.org.uk/index.htm Life in 1900s UK] - includes photos and descriptions of places/items, etc. in 1900s UK<Br>
*[https://www.tota.world/culture/scottish/#overview Scottish Culture] - TOTA, gives general information about Scottish Culture
*[https://www.tota.world/culture/scottish/#overview Scottish Culture] - TOTA, gives general information about Scottish Culture
*[https://dasg.ac.uk/fieldwork/ Scottish Gaelic Fieldwork Archive] at DASG — index & images ($)


==Publications==
==Related Publications==
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{| class="wikitable sortable" width="70%"
!Topic!!Time frame!!Resource
!Topic!!Time frame!!Resource
!Locations Covered
!Locations Covered
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|Emigration
|1850-1860
|Andrew C. Holman and Robert B. Kristofferson (eds), ''More of a Man: Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North America.'' Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. Pp. 492. Paper <nowiki>ISBN 978-1-4426-1164-1</nowiki>
|Ayr
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|Emigration
|1848
|Carnegie, Andrew and John C. Van Dyke (ed.). ''[https://www.tota.world/article/2529/ Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie].'' Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
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|Local history
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|Whatley, Christopher A., et al. ''The Life and Times of Dundee''. Edinburgh, Scotland: John Donald. c1993
|Angus, Dundee
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|Local history
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|McCraw, Ian. ''The fairs of Dundee''. Dundee: Abertay Historical Society. 1994.
|Angus, Dundee
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|Farm life
|Farm life
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|[https://www.worldcat.org/title/farm-life-in-northeast-scotland-1840-1914-the-poor-mans-country/oclc/5705975 Carter, Ian. ''Farm life in northeast Scotland, 1840-1914: the poor man's country''. Edinburgh: Donald. 1979.]
|[https://www.worldcat.org/title/farm-life-in-northeast-scotland-1840-1914-the-poor-mans-country/oclc/5705975 Carter, Ian. ''Farm life in northeast Scotland, 1840-1914: the poor man's country''. Edinburgh: Donald. 1979.]
|Grampian
|Grampian
|-
|-
|Farm life
|Farm life
|1770-1840
|1770-1840
|Adams, David G. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/988390754?oclcNum=988390754 Bothy nichts and days: farm bothy life in Angus and the Mearns]''. Edinburgh: J. Donald Publishers. 1992.
|Adams, David G. ''Bothy nichts and days: farm bothy life in Angus and the Mearns''. Edinburgh: J. Donald Publishers. 1992.
|Angus
|Angus
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|Farm life
|Farm life
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|Education
|Education
|1800s-1900s
|19th & 20th centuries
|[https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/venues/scotland-street-school-museum Scotland Street School Museum] in Glasgow
|[https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/venues/scotland-street-school-museum Scotland Street School Museum] in Glasgow
|Scotland
|Scotland
|-
|-
|Marriage traditions
|Marriage traditions
|1800s-1900s
|19th & 20th centuries
|Thiselton-Dyer, T. F. ''[https://www.tota.world/article/3779/ Domestic Folk-Lore]'', Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1881.
|Thiselton-Dyer, T. F. ''[https://www.tota.world/article/3779/ Domestic Folk-Lore]'', Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1881.
|England, Scotland, Wales
|England, Scotland, Wales
|-
|-
|Mining
|Mining
|1840s
|1840's
|Great Britain (British Parliamentary Papers). ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/childrens-employment-commission-first-report-of-the-commissioners-mines/oclc/30286804&referer=brief_results Children's Employment Commission: first report of the Commissioners, mines]''. Irish University Press. 1968.
|Great Britain (British Parliamentary Papers). ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/childrens-employment-commission-first-report-of-the-commissioners-mines/oclc/30286804&referer=brief_results Children's Employment Commission: first report of the Commissioners, mines]''. Irish University Press. 1968.
|England, Scotland, Wales
|England, Scotland, Wales
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|-
|Working-class
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|Johnston, Thomas. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/history-of-the-working-classes-in-scotland/oclc/234090695&referer=brief_results The history of the working classes in Scotland]''. Wakefield: E.P. Pub. [and] Rowman & Littlefield.1976.
|Johnston, Thomas. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/history-of-the-working-classes-in-scotland/oclc/234090695&referer=brief_results The history of the working classes in Scotland]''. Wakefield: E.P. Pub. [and] Rowman & Littlefield.1976.
|Scotland
|Scotland
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|-
|Daily life
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|1550-1746
|
|FYFE, JAMES GABRIEL. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/scottish-diaries-and-memoirs-1550-1746-classic-reprint/oclc/983346928&referer=brief_results Scottish diaries and memoirs, 1550 1746] (classic reprint)''. [Place of publication not identified]: FORGOTTEN Books. 2016.
|FYFE, JAMES GABRIEL. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/scottish-diaries-and-memoirs-1550-1746-classic-reprint/oclc/983346928&referer=brief_results Scottish diaries and memoirs, 1550 1746] (classic reprint)''. [Place of publication not identified]: FORGOTTEN Books. 2016.
|Scotland
|Scotland
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|-
|Daily life
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|1746-1843
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|Fyfe, J. G., and J. D. Mackie. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/scottish-diaries-and-memoirs-1746-1843/oclc/258469231?referer=br&ht=edition Scottish diaries and memoirs, 1746-1843]''. Stirling: Mackay. 1942.
|Fyfe, J. G., and J. D. Mackie. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/scottish-diaries-and-memoirs-1746-1843/oclc/258469231?referer=br&ht=edition Scottish diaries and memoirs, 1746-1843]''. Stirling: Mackay. 1942.
|Scotland
|Scotland
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|Doisy de Villargennes, Adelbert J. ''[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofa00deviiala/page/74 Reminiscences of army life under Napoleon Bonaparte]''. Cincinnati: R. Clarke. 1884.
|Doisy de Villargennes, Adelbert J. ''[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofa00deviiala/page/74 Reminiscences of army life under Napoleon Bonaparte]''. Cincinnati: R. Clarke. 1884.
|Selkirk
|Selkirk
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|Daily life, social life and customs||1694-96||Helen and Keith Kelsall. ''{{FSC|370890|item|disp=An album of Scottish families, 1694-96: being the first instalment of George Home's diary, supplemented by much further research into the Edinburgh and Border families forming his extensive social network''}}. Aberdeen, Scotland: Aberdeen University Press, 1990||Scotland
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|Social life and customs, history||||Maxwell, David. ''{{FSC|2620140|item|disp=Scotland: historical and social''}}. Salt Lake City, Utah: Digitized by FamilySearch International, 2017||Scotland
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|Parish life, local history||||Edinburgh, Scotland: W. Blackwood. ''{{FSC|185840|item|disp=of Stratheden: a highland parish of to-day''}}. Edinburgh, Scotland: W. Blackwood, 1881 ||Scotland
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|Clans, castles|| ||Chris Tabraham. ''{{FSC|4128297|item|disp=Clan and Castle: the lives and lands of Scotland's great families''}}. Edinburgh, Scotland: Historic Scotland, 2008||Scotland
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|Clans and tartans|| ||Lorna Blackie. ''{{FSC|2283077|item|disp=Clans and tartans: the fabric of Scotland''}}. New York, New York: Gallery Books, 1987||Scotland
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|Clan costumes|| ||R.R. McIan. ''{{FSC|2622278|item|disp=clans of the Scottish Highlands: the costumes of the clans''}}. New York, New York: Crescent books, 1985||Scotland
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|Daily life, highlands||1650-1914||Eric Richards and Monica Clough. ''{{FSC|384956|item|disp=highland life, 1650-1914''}}. Aberdeen, Scotland: Aberdeen University Press, 1989||Scotland
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|Social life and customs|| ||James MacKinnon. ''{{FSC|2625564|item|disp=Culture in early Scotland''}}. London, England: Williams and Norgate, 1892||Scotland
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|Domestic life||1700s||Marjorie Plant. ''{{FSC|406338|item|disp=The domestic life of Scotland in the eighteenth century''}}. London, England: Williams and Norgate, 1892||Scotland
|-
|Social life and customs||||Glen, John. ''{{FSC|2806616|item|disp=Scottish melodies''}}. Salt Lake City, Utah: Digitized by FamilySearch International, 2017||Scotland
|-
|Daily life, clans, highlands||||Michael Newton. ''{{FSC|4125449|item|disp=Everyday Life of the Clans of the Scottish Highlands''}}. Saorsa Media, 2020||Scotland
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|Daily life, families||||Alan J. Gilloran. ''{{FSC|696026|item|disp=formation in Victorian Scotland''}}.  [Godstone, Surrey]: British Thesis Service, 1994||Scotland
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|Farm life||1840-1914||Ian Carter. ''{{FSC|346341|item|disp=life in Northeast Scotland, 1840-1914: the poor man's country''}}. Edinburgh, Scotland: J. Donald, 1979||Scotland
|-
|Farm life|| ||Colin Whittemore. ''{{FSC|4128780|item|disp=Stories from the Scottish Borders: hard lives for poor reward''}}. Sheffield, England: Old Pond Publishing, 2017||Scotland
|-
|Festivals, entertainment|| ||{{FSC|670607|item|disp=to festival: the history of entertainment, medieval to modern; a resource based on a Scottish Record Office exhibition''}}. Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish Record Office, 199? ||Scotland
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|Marriage|| ||Iona McGregor. ''{{FSC|1003771|item|disp=married in Scotland''}}. Edinburgh, Scotland: NMS Publishing Limited, 2000||Scotland
|-
|Church, social life, highlands||||Alexander MacPherson. ''{{FSC|295355|item|disp=of church and social life in the Highlands in olden times: and other stories''}}. Edinburgh, Scotland: William Blackwood and Sons, 1893 ||Scotland
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|Government, social life||1845-1919||Ian Levitt. ''{{FSC|659961|item|disp=and social conditions in Scotland, 1845-1919''}}. Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish History Society, 1988||Scotland
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|Highlands, clans||||Alistair Moffat. ''{{FSC|2216264|item|disp=Highland clans''}}. London, England: Thames and Hudson, 2010||Scotland
|-
|History, social life and customs||||James Cameron Lees. ''{{FSC|172102|item|disp=A history of the county of Inverness (Mainland)''}}. Edinburgh, Scotland: W. Blackwood, 1897||Scotland
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|Society, land|| ||Buchanan, Freda M. ''{{FSC|2352082|item|disp=The land and people of Scotland''}}. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lippincott, 1962 ||Scotland
|-
|Clans, tartans|| ||Ross, Joshua. ''{{FSC|144146|item|disp=The land of the Gael: its story, its clans and its tartans''}}. Glasgow, Scotland: Airlie Press, 1930||Scotland
|-
|Language, customs|| ||Pollock, Bill. ''{{FSC|1525933|item|disp=The language and customs of Scotland''}}. The Urlar - no. 79-89 (1996-1998) - no. 87 (spring 1998), 1998||Scotland
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|Daily life||1500s||{{FSC|628767|item|disp=Life in 16th Century Scotland''}}. Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish Record Office, 199?||Scotland
|-
|Daily life||||Rosalind Mitchison. ''{{FSC|397205|item|disp=Life in Scotland''}}. London, England: B.T. Batsford, 1978||Scotland
|-
|Daily life||since 1603||Nichol, Norman. ''{{FSC|271200|item|disp=in Scotland since 1603''}}. London, England: Adam and Charles Black, 1975||Scotland
|-
|Daily life, lowlands||1600s-1800s||T. C. Smout. ''{{FSC|16003|item|disp=in the lowlands of Scotland: seventeenth to nineteenth centuries''}}. [Salt Lake City, Utah]: Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1980||Scotland
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|Lifestyles, highlands||1600s-1800s||T. C. Smout. ''{{FSC|16668|item|disp=in the Scottish Highlands: seventeenth to nineteenth centuries''}}. [Salt Lake City, Utah]: Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1980||Scotland
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|Social life and customs, daily life|| ||George Scott-Moncrieff. ''{{FSC|606147|item|disp=traditions of Scotland''}}. [Edinburgh, Scotland]: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1951||Scotland
|-
|Customs, manners, highlands|| ||Sir Walter Scott. ''{{FSC|55282|item|disp=customs and history of the Highlanders of Scotland ; Historical account of the Clan MacGregor''}}. Glasgow, Scotland: Thomas D. Morison, 1893||Scotland
|-
|Social life and customs|| ||Margaret H. B. Sanderson. ''{{FSC|502186|item|disp=Stewart's people: life in Mary Stewart's Scotland''}}. Edinburgh, Scotland: James Thin, Mercat Press, 1987||Scotland
|-
|Social life and customs||||Dean Ramsay. ''{{FSC|89913|item|disp=of Scottish life & character''}}. Edinburgh, Scotland: R. Grant, 1947||Scotland
|-
|Social life and customs||1800s||Elizabeth S. Haldane. ''{{FSC|139083|item|disp=Scotland of our fathers: a study of Scottish life in the nineteenth century''}}. London, England: A. Maclehose and Co., 1933||Scotland
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|Folklore|| ||Ronald Macdonald Douglas. ''{{FSC|413161|item|disp=Scots book of lore and folklore''}}. New York, New York: Beekman House, 1982||Scotland
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|Social life and customs|| ||Sheila Livingstone. ''{{FSC|674463|item|disp=customs''}}. Edinburgh, Scotland: Birlinn, 1996||Scotland
|-
|Rural life||1500s||Margaret H. B. Sanderson. ''{{FSC|8857|item|disp=rural society in the sixteenth century''}}. Edinburgh, Scotland: John Donald, 1982||Scotland
|-
|Society||1400s||Jennifer M. Brown. ''{{FSC|270997|item|disp=society in the fifteenth century''}}. New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977 ||Scotland
|-
|Social life and customs|| ||Harold Orel, Henry L. Snyder, Marilyn Stokstad. ''{{FSC|99193|item|disp=Scottish world: history and culture of Scotland''}}. New York, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1981 Scotland
|-
|Social life and customs||1700s||Graham, Henry Grey. ''{{FSC|42977|item|disp=The social life of Scotland in the eighteenth century''}}. London, England: A. & C. Black, 1906 ||Scotland
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|Social life and customs||1700s||Henry Grey Graham. ''[https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=-QgPAAAAQAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR2&dq=Scotland+Social+life+and+customs&ots=WKM-CnpfqH&sig=HUQMv0z1vlqXseggnimHLJSVNYU#v=onepage&q=Scotland%20Social%20life%20and%20customs&f=false The Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century'']. Adam and Charles Black, 1906||Scotland
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|Social life and customs|| ||John Scotney. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/1091645194 Scotland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture'']. Kuperard, 2010||Scotland
|-
|Social life and customs||1800s||Edward Bannerman Ramsay . ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/reminiscences-of-scottish-life-and-character/oclc/470748796&referer=brief_results Reminiscences of Scottish life and character'']. Toronto: Musson, 19-?||Scotland
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|Social life and customs|| ||Charles Rogers. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/social-life-in-scotland-from-early-to-recent-times/oclc/112255&referer=brief_results Social life in Scotland, from early to recent times'']. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1971 ||Scotland
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|Social life and customs|| ||William Sanderson; Henry John Dobson. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/scottish-life-and-character/oclc/2109738&referer=brief_results Scottish life and character'']. London: A. & C. Black, 1919||Scotland
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|Abbeys, social life|| ||G G Coulton. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/scottish-abbeys-social-life/oclc/54247488&referer=brief_results Scottish abbeys & social life'']. Cambridge [England] University Press, 1933||Scotland
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|Local history, society|| ||Tom Steel; Peta Steel. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/life-and-death-of-st-kilda-the-moving-story-of-a-vanished-island-community/oclc/973544607&referer=brief_results The life and death of St Kilda: the moving story of a vanished island community'']. London: HarperPress, 2011||St Kilda
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|Social life and customs|| ||Mary Macleod Banks. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/british-calendar-customs-scotland/oclc/845045042&referer=brief_results British calendar customs: Scotland'']. London: Pub. for Folk-Lore Society by W. Glaisher, 1941||Scotland
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|Customs|| ||Sheila Livingstone. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/scottish-customs/oclc/43500419&referer=brief_results Scottish customs'']. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2000||Scotland
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|Social life and customs||to 1603||Madeleine Bingham, Baroness Clanmorris. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/scotland-under-mary-stuart-an-account-of-everyday-life/oclc/586177&referer=brief_results Scotland under Mary Stuart; an account of everyday life.'']. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1973||Scotland
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|Social life and customs|| ||T M Devine; Rosalind Mitchison; W Hamish Fraser; R J Morris; Tony Dickson. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/people-and-society-in-scotland-a-social-history-of-modern-scotland/oclc/464761160&referer=brief_results People and society in Scotland: a social history of modern Scotland Edinburgh'']. John Donald in association with the Economic and Social History Society of Scotland, 1992||Scotland
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|Customs, manners, highlands|| ||Walter Scott. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/manners-customs-and-history-of-the-highlanders-of-scotland/oclc/70822801&referer=brief_results Manners, customs, and history of the Highlanders of Scotland'']. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2004 ||Scotland
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Topic Time frame Resource Locations Covered
Emigration 1850-1860 Andrew C. Holman and Robert B. Kristofferson (eds), More of a Man: Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North America. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. Pp. 492. Paper ISBN 978-1-4426-1164-1 Ayr
Emigration 1848 Carnegie, Andrew and John C. Van Dyke (ed.). Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie. Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
Local history Whatley, Christopher A., et al. The Life and Times of Dundee. Edinburgh, Scotland: John Donald. c1993 Angus, Dundee
Local history McCraw, Ian. The fairs of Dundee. Dundee: Abertay Historical Society. 1994. Angus, Dundee
Farm life 1840-1914 Carter, Ian. Farm life in northeast Scotland, 1840-1914: the poor man's country. Edinburgh: Donald. 1979. Grampian
Farm life 1770-1840 Adams, David G. Bothy nichts and days: farm bothy life in Angus and the Mearns. Edinburgh: J. Donald Publishers. 1992. Angus
Farm life 1840-1850 Muir, John. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth. Houghton Mifflin, 1913. Dunbar
Crofters 1810-1883 Cameron, A. D. Go listen to the crofters. Stornoway: Acair. 2008. Scotland
Education 19th & 20th centuries Scotland Street School Museum in Glasgow Scotland
Marriage traditions 19th & 20th centuries Thiselton-Dyer, T. F. Domestic Folk-Lore, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1881. England, Scotland, Wales
Mining 1840's Great Britain (British Parliamentary Papers). Children's Employment Commission: first report of the Commissioners, mines. Irish University Press. 1968. England, Scotland, Wales
Johnston, Thomas. The history of the working classes in Scotland. Wakefield: E.P. Pub. [and] Rowman & Littlefield.1976. Scotland
FYFE, JAMES GABRIEL. Scottish diaries and memoirs, 1550 1746 (classic reprint). [Place of publication not identified]: FORGOTTEN Books. 2016. Scotland
Fyfe, J. G., and J. D. Mackie. Scottish diaries and memoirs, 1746-1843. Stirling: Mackay. 1942. Scotland
War prisoners 1811-1814 Doisy de Villargennes, Adelbert J. Reminiscences of army life under Napoleon Bonaparte. Cincinnati: R. Clarke. 1884. Selkirk