History of Sports in Scotland

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• History of Golf in Scotland
  Index page to our Golf Section
• History of Curling
  A book by John Kerr published in 1890.
• Angling
  Index page to our Angling Section
• The Moor and The Loch
  A book by John Colquhoun (1841) about hunting, fishing and shooting in Scotland
• Shinty
  Shinty's Place and Space in World Sport by Hugh Dan MacLennan, Aberdeen University, Scotland with some additional information supplied by Electric Scotland.
• 25 years of Village Cricket, 1983-2008, in Gargunnock, Stirling Scotland
  By John Henderson
• Scottish Backhold Wrestling
  By Trev Hill
• Football
  From "Old World Scotland".
• History of the Queen's Park Football Club 1867 - 1917
  By Richard Robinson (1920)
• Scottish Moors
  Scenes of Sport in the Lews by Captain J. T. Newall (1889)
• Bowling
  A brief history.
• The Game of Lawn Bowls
  An introduction
• Susie Wolff
  A wee biography of a potential Formula 1 driver.
• Ecurie Ecosse
  Scotland salutes Ecurie Ecosse motor racing team.
• Short Sketches of Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands
  From the Journals of Charles St. John, Esq. (1846)
• Archery
  By C. J. Longman and Col. H. Walrond (1894) (pdf)
• The Sporting Review
  A monthly Chronicle of the Turf, the Chase, and Other Sports edited by "Craven"
• A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe
  On Rivers and Lakes of Europe by J. MacGregor, M.A. (1866)
• Sports and Adventures in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
  By W. H. Maxwell (1857) (pdf)
• Autumns in Argyleshire with Rod & Gun
  By the Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy (1900) (pdf)