Scotland Social Life and Customs

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• Life in 1900s UK - includes photos and descriptions of places/items, etc. in 1900s UK
  
• Scottish Culture - TOTA, gives general information about Scottish Culture

Publications

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