Epitaphs & Inscriptions From Burial Grounds & Old Buildings in the North-East of Scotland

Epitaphs & Inscriptions From Burial Grounds & Old Buildings in the North-East of Scotland
Author: John Grant Michie
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781016681988

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The Black Book of Taymouth

The Black Book of Taymouth
Author: William Bowie
Publisher: Edinburgh [T. Constable, printer to Her Majesty
Total Pages: 542
Release: 1855
Genre: Acquisition of property
ISBN:

The Drove Roads of Scotland

The Drove Roads of Scotland
Author: A. R. B. Haldane
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-05-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781912476534

One of the great classics of Scottish history, The Drove Roads of Scotland interweaves folklore, social comment and economic history in a fascinating account of Scotland's droving trade and the routes by which cattle and sheep were brought from every corner of the land to markets in central Scotland. In pastoral Scotland, the breeding and movement of livestock were fundamental to the lives of the people. The story of the drove roads takesthe reader on an engrossing tour of Scottish history, from the lawless cattle driving by reivers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the legitimate movement of stock which developed after the Union of the Crowns, by which time the large-scale movement of stock to established markets had become an important part of Scotland's economy, and a vital aspect of commercial life in the Empire.

Lowland Lairds

Lowland Lairds
Author: James Fergusson, Sir
Publisher: Zeticula
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2003-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780902664791

Sir James Fergusson of Kilkerran Bt (1904-1973), for twenty years Keeper of the Records of Scotland, was a distinguished historian and author whose many original explorations of events, figures and families prominent in Scottish history still bring the past fascinatingly to life. The first of three studies, Lowland Lairds he presents a broad portrait of country gentry in Eighteenth Century Scotland, still backward in accepting and practising the new agriculture. Sir James's account of the work carried out by his own ancestors at Kilkerran in Ayrshire is drawn from his extensive family papers. It tells the story of the development of a country estate typical of many in Scotland at the time.

Scotland in the Age of Improvement

Scotland in the Age of Improvement
Author: Nicholas T. Phillipson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN:

Despite signing the Act of Union in 1707, Scotland remained very much a law unto herself, economically, politically, socially and culturally. This work explores the basis of government, law politics, education, religion and ideology in this fertile period, and offers explanations for some of the cultural and economic achievements this "semi-independent country" witnessed in the 18th century.