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The Scot of the
Eighteenth Century
His Religion and his Life By John Watson, D.D. (1907) (pdf)
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By-Gone Days in our
Village
By Jean L. Watson (1864) (pdf)
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Scottish Studies
The Scottish Studies Foundation of Toronto.
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The Best
of 25 Years of the Scottish Review
Under the editorship of Kenneth Roy
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20/20 Vision
Scottish Review’s Young Scots of the Year 2019
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Lights and
Shadows of Scottish Life
A selection from the papers of the late Arthur Austin (1822)
(pdf)
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Police, Fire and the
Law
Bringing you information on the Scottish Police, Fire and
Legal system.
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Churchmen and the Problem of Prostitution in
Nineteenth-Century Scotland
By Rev. Ian A. Muirhead, M.A., B.D. (pdf)
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Random
Jottings of
Brian Stephen
Thompson
Reminders of old times in Scotland
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Old
Newspapers
This is where
we store old copies of newspapers that we've scanned in as
images.
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Scottish News Sources
Here we provide you with some news from the BBC and a link
to a page that provides links to the Scottish newspapers and
other news sources.
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The Famous Scottish Haggis
Providing you with all the information you'll need on our
famous Scottish Haggis.
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Health
Proving you some good information on Scottish health and
medicine along with some really old texts on preventative
health care.
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Highland Games
Highland Games & Pipe Bands around the World
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Wedding Guide
A small guide to help you organise your
wedding, check who toasts who, who pays and lots of
interesting information about that special day.
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Writings of Albert Morris
A five-days-a-week column to be grave but gay (in the
old sense), pungent but subtle, learned but light.
Articles by the Scotsman's legendary feature writer,
Albert Morris, from 29 December, 2001 to 8th April,
2005.
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Thistle
and Broom Stories
Stories from Thistle and Broom about the crafts people that
produce their merchandise.
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Household Encyclopaedia
This is an old Household Encyclopaedia that has been in my family
for as long as I can remember (over 50 years) and while not Scottish
I decided to make it available on the site. It is work in progress
and I'll be adding to it over time until it's all up.
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Edinburgh Techniques
Intelligence, Stress, the Learning Process and Accelerated Learning by
Brian Hill
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Scottish and Highland Dancing
Some background and dance books.
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Gardening
Here we give you an introduction to a few of Scotland's native plants and
there uses as well as some gardening tips.
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Gift
Ideas for Special Occasions
Quick and easy gifts you can make yourself.
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A Gaelic Language Primer
This will teach you some phrases for your trip to Scotland.
- Art
Scottish Art and Artists as well as lessons on how to paint and draw.
- Education
A guide to Scottish Education
- Animals
Our wee collection of Scottish animals and pets
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Scottish
Politics
Our Guide to Scottish politics and our political parties.
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Safety
Guide
Guidance given by the Home Office on Safety issues and other links
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Scottish
Clip Art
Where we bring you our own clip art and links to other resources.
- A
Highland Home
Showing you how a Highland home was built and furnished.
- Building a
Clan Davidson Highland House
Instructions on how to build a model of a Highland House.
- Building a Tulloch Castle Model
Instructions on how to build a model of Tulloch Castle.
- Frank
McNie's Fish 'n' Chip Shop
We follow Frank on getting his new restaurant up and running.
- Lamplight
Lamplight’s underlying mission is the prevention of suicide among teens
and young adults. We don’t focus on suicide but on the root causes such
as depression, low self esteem, low self image and other causative
factors.
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Celtic Cookery, Bagpipes and Scottish Dance
Articles by Evan McVey
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Scotch Dress
An old Scotch Dress
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Pavement and Highways
Specimen Days in Strathclyde by William Power (1911) (pdf)
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Andrew Bruce's Boats
Andrew (aged 12) sent us in pictures of the fishing boats you can see in
the North East of Scotland
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Stirling Council Elections 2007 -
Bannockburn Ward
Here we are following the process of trying to be elected to a council
ward in Scotland and in this case we are following Alasdair MacPherson
who will be fighting to become elected for the Bannockburn Ward of
Stirling Council on behalf of the SNP.
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Targes
An targaid Gàidhealach – the Highland
targe
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A Scottish Toast
An old place mat with a Scottish Toast
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Linda
Fabiani MSP
Linda is a Member of the Scottish Parliament and she is doing a weekly
diary for us showing us what life is like for a Scottish Member of
Parliament with the Scottish National Party (SNP).
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Christina McKelvie MSP
Christina is a Member of the Scottish Parliament and this is her weekly
diary of her work as a SNP MSP where the SNP are now the party in power.
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Tasmina Ahmed Sheikh
Superwoman mum and Bollywood actress is putting law career aside to
pursue political ambitions
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Scots Independent Newspaper 80 years old
A few articles from this 80th anniversary issue
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Grand Designs. Isle Of Skye
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A Handbook of Weather Folk-Lore
A Collection of Proverbial Sayings in various languages relating to
the Weatherm wutg explanatory and Illustrative notes by Rev. C. Swainson,
M.A., (1873) (pdf)
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The Folk-Lore of Plants
By T. F. Thiselton Dyer (1889)
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Letters from a gentleman in the north of Scotland to his friend in
London:
Containing the description of a capital town in that northern country:
with an account of many uncommon customs of the inhabitants: likewise an
account of the Highlands, with the customs and manners of the
Highlanders: to which is added, a letter relating to the military ways
among the mountains, began in the year 1726: the whole interspersed with
facts and circumstances entirely new to the generality of people in
England, and little known in the southern parts of Scotland in 2 volumes
(1754)
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Scottish Eccentrics
By Hugh MacDiarmid
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The Imperial
Magazine
Religious, Philosophical, Historical, Biographical, Topographical and General
Knowledge
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Biographical
Sketches 1852—1875
By Harriet Martineau with Autobiographical Sketch (1885) (pdf)
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Weird Tales
Scottish (1888) (pdf)
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A Book of
Ballad Stories by Mary MacLeod
With Introduction by Edward Dowden (188?) (pdf)
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The housekeeper's handbook
of cleaning
by Sarah Josephine MacLeod (1915). Also includes a link to "How to Cook and
Why".
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The House of Fraser
Archive
The Archive is an outstanding source for the history
of British design, fashion, tastes, lifestyles, consumerism and consumption from
the early nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century.
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Alastair's viewing on
YouTube
I watch several channels in the evening on a regular basis and so hope you find
this list useful.
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Brief Reports of Lectures delivered to the
Working Classes of Edinburgh
On the Means in their own Power of Improving their Character & Condition by
James Simpson, Esq., Advocate (1844) (pdf)
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LGBT+ in
Scotland
Some background on LGBT+ rights in Scotland
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Scottish science fiction
Writing Scottish literature back into history by Gavin Miller (2009) (pdf)
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Scottish Place-Names and Scottish Saints
By Ralph Richardson
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Our Holiday Among the Hills
By James and Janet Logie Robertson (1882) (pdf)
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Scottish National Memorials
A Record of the Historical and Archaeological Collection in the Bishops Castle,
Glasgow, 1888 Edited by James Paton.
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A Century of
Artists
A Memorial of The Glasgow International Exhibition 1888
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Sprigs of Heather
The Rambles of 'May-Fly' with Old Friends by Rev. John Anderson, D.D., Minister
of Kinnoull (1884) (pdf)
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British Painters
With eighty examples of their work engraved on wood (1881) (pdf)
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How can the Sanitary
Condition of the Population engaged in the Coast Fisheries of Scotland be
improved?
A paper by William Paul, Advocate in Aberdeen (1877) (pdf)
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The Glenbervie
Journals
Edited and Arranged by Walter Sichel (1910) (pdf)
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The Moulding of the
Scottish Nation
By P. Hume Brown
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Culduthel
An Iron Age Craftworking Centre in North-East Scotland by Candy
Hatherley and Ross Murray (pdf)
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Primitive
Culture
Researches into the development of Mythology, Religion, Language, Art and
Custom by Edward B. Taylor, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., Professor of Anthropology
in the University of Oxford in two volumes (Fourth Edition) (1903)
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The Exploits of Wise
Willie
And Witty Eppie, the Ale-Wife of Buckhaven (pdf)
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Description of the Western Isles of Scotland
By M Martin (1703) (pdf)
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Remember Now
Thy Creator
Scottish Girls’ Samplers, 1700–1872 by Naomi E A Tarrant (2014)
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What has the SNP ever
done for me?
Sent in by Stan Bruce
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Scottish Life
and Poetry
By Lauchlan MacLean Watt (1912)
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Mine Eyes to the Hills
An Anthology of the Highland Forest arranged by Patrick R. Chalmers
illustrated by V. R. Balfour-Browne (1931) (pdf)
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Grey Craigs
Or “Auld Lang Syne” by Jean L. Watson (1880) (pdf)
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William Walkinshaw, an old
Scotch Carrier
By the Rev. George W. Taylor, M.A., Carlops
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Amid the High Hills
By Sir Hugh Fraser (1923) (pdf)
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Mearns Voices
By Mearns Writers. The Mearns Voices Podcast brings you a selection of work from
our Aberdeenshire based writing group. Relax and travel with us in poetry and
short stories
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Round The Grange Farm
Or, Good Old Times by Jean L. Watson (1872) (pdf)
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The Kirk above
Dee Water
By the Rev. H. M. B. Reid (1895) (pdf)
- The
Orphans of Glenulva
By T A Latta (1882) (pdf)
- The
World Pipe Band Championships 2022
All Grade 1 Medleys
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The Book of
Table-Talk
By Charles MacFarlane in two volumes (1836)
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Chamber's
Journal
Popular Literature, Science, and Arts conducted by William and Robert
Chambers, Nos. 1 To 25. January - June, 1854 (pdf)
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The Pronunciation of
English in Scotland
By William Grant, M.A.
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A
Bookman's Letters
By W. Robertson Nicoll (Fourth Edition) (1913) (pdf)
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The Tommiebeg
Shootings
Or A moor in Scotland, a novel by Thomas Jeans with illustrations by
Perceval Skelton (pdf)
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Drink and Society:
Scotland 1870-1914
By Norma Davies Logan in two parts
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Memories of
the Manse
Glimpses of Scottish Life and Character by Anne Breadalbane (1895) (pdf)
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St. Clair of the Isles
Or, Outlaws of Barra, A Scottish Tradition, by Elizabeth Helme, 4 volumes in
1 (1825) (pdf)
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The
Journal of the Textile Institute
Volume XXIII 1932 (pdf)
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My own
story
Or, Autobiography of a Child by Mary Howitt (1844) (pdf)
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Miscellanies Literary
& Historical
By Lord Rosebery in two volumes (1921)
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Chasing the Deer
Hunting Iconography, Literature and Tradition of the Scottish Highlands. A
thesis presented by Andrew E. M. Wiseman MA. (Edin., 1992), M.Phil. (Glas.,
1997) to the Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies in fulfilment of the
requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of
Edinburgh (2007) (pdf)
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Adventures
in Journalism
By Philip Gibbs (1923) (pdf)
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Communism
A Parish Lecture by J. Llewelyn Davies, an article from Good Words (1872)
(pdf)
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Schiehallion - NOT a
"fairy hill" at all
By and © Adrian C Grant 9th February 2021 (pdf)
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The
Isles of Flame
A romance of the Inner Hebrides in the days of Columba by M. E. M. Donaldson
(1913) (pdf)
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The Incredible
Scottish Highlands
A 4 episode series on YouTube
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Reminiscences of Eighty Years
By John Urie (1908) (pdf)
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On Pauperism as produced
by wealth
By J. LL. Davies from an article in Good Words (1872) (pdf)
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Aldersyde
A Border Story of Seventy Years Ago by Annie S. Swan (1887) (pdf)
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Bits
from Blinkbonny
Or Bell o' the Manse, A tale of Scottish Village Life between 1841 and 1851
by John Strathesk (1885) (pdf)
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The Case for
the Classics
From the Aberdeen University Review of 1921
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