Social History

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See also: History & Archaeology

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  • Cover scan of Footsteps In The Furrow
    Footsteps In The Furrow
    Andrew Arbuckle - Paperback - Old Pond
    'Footsteps in the Furrow' presents a commentary on Scottish farming life.
  • Cover scan of From The Alleghenies To The Hebrides

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    From The Alleghenies To The Hebrides: An Autobiography
    Margaret Fay Shaw - Paperback - Birlinn
    After studying music Margaret Fay Shaw returned to live on South Uist. The collection of Gaelic lore and song she compiled is unique, and her photography evocative of a vanished world. Her memoirs feature a remarkable life and a plea for Gaelic culture.
  • Cover scan of A Floating Commonwealth
    A Floating Commonwealth: Politics, Culture, And Technology On Britain's Atlantic Coast, 1860-1930
    Christopher Harvie - Hardback - Oxford University Press
    This portrait of society and identity in high industrial Britain focuses on the sea as connector, not barrier, and argues that the port cities and their hinterlands formed a 'floating commonwealth' whose interaction with one another and with nationalist and imperial politics created an intense political and cultural synergy.
  • Cover scan of Fife
    Fife: The Mining Kingdom
    Guthrie Hutton - Paperback - Stenlake
    This history of mining in the Kingdom of Fife contains photographs of the mining areas of the county, such as Longannet and Lochore. There are also pictures featuring other aspects of mining life - housing, bands, rescue teams, quoiting and football.
  • Cover scan of Feuds, Forays And Rebellions
    Feuds, Forays And Rebellions: History Of The Highland Clans, 1475-1625
    John L. Roberts - Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
    This history of the Highland clans describes the fragmentation of Clan Donald and its vassal kinsmen as they resisted the impact of central authority. It charts the fortunes of the major clans, their conflicts and the persecution of Clan Gregor.

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