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• Cluas ri Claisneachd (Ear to Ear) Audio Recordings of Gaelic at DASG — index & images ($)
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Publications

Topic	Time frame	Resource	Locations Covered
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	1800s-1900s	Scotland Street School Museum in Glasgow	Scotland
Marriage traditions	1800s-1900s	Thiselton-Dyer, T. F. Domestic Folk-Lore, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1881.	England, Scotland, Wales
Mining	1840s	Great Britain (British Parliamentary Papers). Children's Employment Commission: first report of the Commissioners, mines. Irish University Press. 1968.	England, Scotland, Wales
Working-class		Johnston, Thomas. The history of the working classes in Scotland. Wakefield: E.P. Pub. [and] Rowman & Littlefield.1976.	Scotland
Daily life	1550-1746	FYFE, JAMES GABRIEL. Scottish diaries and memoirs, 1550 1746 (classic reprint). [Place of publication not identified]: FORGOTTEN Books. 2016.	Scotland
Daily life	1746-1843	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
Daily life, social life and customs	1694-96	Helen and Keith Kelsall. 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
Social life and customs, history		Maxwell, David. Bygone Scotland: historical and social. Salt Lake City, Utah: Digitized by FamilySearch International, 2017	Scotland
Parish life, local history		Edinburgh, Scotland: W. Blackwood. Chronicles of Stratheden: a highland parish of to-day. Edinburgh, Scotland: W. Blackwood, 1881	Scotland
Clans, castles		Chris Tabraham. Clan and Castle: the lives and lands of Scotland's great families. Edinburgh, Scotland: Historic Scotland, 2008	Scotland
Clans and tartans		Lorna Blackie. Clans and tartans: the fabric of Scotland. New York, New York: Gallery Books, 1987	Scotland
Clan costumes		R.R. McIan. The clans of the Scottish Highlands: the costumes of the clans. New York, New York: Crescent books, 1985	Scotland
Daily life, highlands	1650-1914	Eric Richards and Monica Clough. Cromartie: highland life, 1650-1914. Aberdeen, Scotland: Aberdeen University Press, 1989	Scotland
Social life and customs		James MacKinnon. Culture in early Scotland. London, England: Williams and Norgate, 1892	Scotland
Domestic life	1700s	Marjorie Plant. The domestic life of Scotland in the eighteenth century. London, England: Williams and Norgate, 1892	Scotland
Social life and customs		Glen, John. Early Scottish melodies. Salt Lake City, Utah: Digitized by FamilySearch International, 2017	Scotland
Daily life, clans, highlands		Michael Newton. The Everyday Life of the Clans of the Scottish Highlands. Saorsa Media, 2020	Scotland
Daily life, families		Alan J. Gilloran. Family formation in Victorian Scotland. [Godstone, Surrey]: British Thesis Service, 1994	Scotland
Farm life	1840-1914	Ian Carter. Farm life in Northeast Scotland, 1840-1914: the poor man's country. Edinburgh, Scotland: J. Donald, 1979	Scotland
Farm life		Colin Whittemore. Farming Stories from the Scottish Borders: hard lives for poor reward. Sheffield, England: Old Pond Publishing, 2017	Scotland
Festivals, entertainment		Feast 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
Marriage		Iona McGregor. Getting married in Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland: NMS Publishing Limited, 2000	Scotland
Church, social life, highlands		Alexander MacPherson. Glimpses of church and social life in the Highlands in olden times: and other stories. Edinburgh, Scotland: William Blackwood and Sons, 1893	Scotland
Government, social life	1845-1919	Ian Levitt. Government and social conditions in Scotland, 1845-1919. Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish History Society, 1988	Scotland
Highlands, clans		Alistair Moffat. The Highland clans. London, England: Thames and Hudson, 2010	Scotland
History, social life and customs		James Cameron Lees. A history of the county of Inverness (Mainland). Edinburgh, Scotland: W. Blackwood, 1897	Scotland
Society, land		Buchanan, Freda M. The land and people of Scotland. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lippincott, 1962	Scotland
Clans, tartans		Ross, Joshua. The land of the Gael: its story, its clans and its tartans. Glasgow, Scotland: Airlie Press, 1930	Scotland
Language, customs		Pollock, Bill. The language and customs of Scotland. The Urlar - no. 79-89 (1996-1998) - no. 87 (spring 1998), 1998	Scotland
Daily life	1500s	Life in 16th Century Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish Record Office, 199?	Scotland
Daily life		Rosalind Mitchison. Life in Scotland. London, England: B.T. Batsford, 1978	Scotland
Daily life	since 1603	Nichol, Norman. Life in Scotland since 1603. London, England: Adam and Charles Black, 1975	Scotland
Daily life, lowlands	1600s-1800s	T. C. Smout. Life-styles 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
Lifestyles, highlands	1600s-1800s	T. C. Smout. Life-styles 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
Social life and customs, daily life		George Scott-Moncrieff. Living traditions of Scotland. [Edinburgh, Scotland]: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1951	Scotland
Customs, manners, highlands		Sir Walter Scott. Manners, 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. Mary Stewart's people: life in Mary Stewart's Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland: James Thin, Mercat Press, 1987	Scotland
Social life and customs		Dean Ramsay. Reminiscences of Scottish life & character. Edinburgh, Scotland: R. Grant, 1947	Scotland
Social life and customs	1800s	Elizabeth S. Haldane. The Scotland of our fathers: a study of Scottish life in the nineteenth century. London, England: A. Maclehose and Co., 1933	Scotland
Folklore		Ronald Macdonald Douglas. The Scots book of lore and folklore. New York, New York: Beekman House, 1982	Scotland
Social life and customs		Sheila Livingstone. Scottish customs. Edinburgh, Scotland: Birlinn, 1996	Scotland
Rural life	1500s	Margaret H. B. Sanderson. Scottish rural society in the sixteenth century. Edinburgh, Scotland: John Donald, 1982	Scotland
Society	1400s	Jennifer M. Brown. Scottish 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. The Scottish world: history and culture of Scotland. New York, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1981 Scotland
Social life and customs	1700s	Graham, Henry Grey. The social life of Scotland in the eighteenth century. London, England: A. & C. Black, 1906	Scotland
Social life and customs	1700s	Henry Grey Graham. The Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century. Adam and Charles Black, 1906	Scotland
Social life and customs		John Scotney. Scotland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture. Kuperard, 2010	Scotland
Social life and customs	1800s	Edward Bannerman Ramsay . Reminiscences of Scottish life and character. Toronto: Musson, 19-?	Scotland
Social life and customs		Charles Rogers. Social life in Scotland, from early to recent times. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1971	Scotland
Social life and customs		William Sanderson; Henry John Dobson. Scottish life and character. London: A. & C. Black, 1919	Scotland
Abbeys, social life		G G Coulton. Scottish abbeys & social life. Cambridge [England] University Press, 1933	Scotland
Local history, society		Tom Steel; Peta Steel. The life and death of St Kilda: the moving story of a vanished island community. London: HarperPress, 2011	St Kilda
Social life and customs		Mary Macleod Banks. British calendar customs: Scotland. London: Pub. for Folk-Lore Society by W. Glaisher, 1941	Scotland
Customs		Sheila Livingstone. Scottish customs. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2000	Scotland
Social life and customs	to 1603	Madeleine Bingham, Baroness Clanmorris. Scotland under Mary Stuart; an account of everyday life.. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1973	Scotland
Social life and customs		T M Devine; Rosalind Mitchison; W Hamish Fraser; R J Morris; Tony Dickson. 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
Customs, manners, highlands		Walter Scott. Manners, customs, and history of the Highlanders of Scotland. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2004	Scotland

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