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NORTHERN SCOTLANDAN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL FOR STUDY

OF SCOTLAND NORTH OF FORTH AND CLYDE

INDEX TO FIRST SERIES

ARTICLES

Volume 1 (1972–3)

Articles

The Church in Orkney and Shetland and its relations withNorway and Scotland in the Middle AgesRONALD G. CANT 1–18

The medieval Church in the Diocese of AberdeenIAN B. COWAN 19–48

North-east Scots in Muscovy in the seventeenth centuryJ. W. BARNHILL and PAUL DUKES 49–63

Abolitionists and abolitionism in Aberdeen: a test case for thenineteenth-century anti-slavery movementC. DUNCAN RICE 65–87

Crofting and fishing in the north-west Highlands, 1890–1914MALCOLM GRAY 89–114

Aberdeen University and the ReformationGORDON DONALDSON 129–42

Manuscript maps of north-east Scotland by Timothy PontJEFFREY C. STONE 143–50

The 1806 election in AberdeenshireJOHN PATRICK 151–76

Mount Stephen: a study in environmentsHEATHER GILBERT 177–97

Sheep and deer: Highland sheep farming, 1850–1900JAMES HUNTER 199–222

Reports and Surveys of Archives

Reports and surveys of archives in northern ScotlandCOLIN A. McLAREN 115–25

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Index to First Series

Reports and surveys of archives in northern ScotlandCOLIN A. McLAREN AND MARGARET STEPHEN 223–33

Reviews

Orkney Natural History Society, Stromness: late 19th centuryphotographs and The Orkney CroftMALCOLM GRAY 127

Aberdeen 150 Years Ago, a reprint of James Rettie, Aberdeen FiftyYears Ago (1868) Fenton Wyness, Aberdeen: Century of ChangeARTHUR McCOMBIE 127–8

Louise B. Taylor (ed.), Aberdeen Shore Work Accounts, 1596–1670T. C. SMOUT 235–7

Volume 2 (1974–7)

Articles

The feuing of Strathisla: a study in sixteenth-century social historyMARGARET H. B. SANDERSON 1–11

Linen-spinning in the north of Scotland, 1746–1773ALASTAIR J. DURIE 13–36

The British Fisheries Society: 1787 questionnaireJEAN DUNLOP 37–55

The Sutherland ClearancesI New evidence from DunrobinERIC RICHARDSII Sutherland in the Industrial RevolutionJAMES HUNTERIII Ethics and economics in the Sutherland ClearancesSTEWART R. SUTHERLAND 57–83

The earldom of Caithness and the kingdom of Scotland,1150–1266BARBARA E. CRAWFORD 97–117

The Reformation in the burgh of AberdeenBRUCE McLENNAN 119–44

‘To roose the countra fae the caul’ morality o’ a deid moderatism’:William Alexander and Johnny Gibb of GushetneukIAN CARTER 145–62

The changing geography of smallholdings in northern ScotlandDAVID TURNOCK 163–82

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Reports and surveys of archives in northern ScotlandCOLIN A. McLAREN and MARGARET A. STEPHEN 85–93

Reports and surveys of archives in northern ScotlandCOLIN A. McLAREN and MARGARET A. STEPHEN 183–90

Reviews

Magnus Magnusson, Viking Expansion WestwardsBARBARA E. CRAWFORD 95

The Jacobite Peerage: Baronetage, Knightage and Grants of HonourJEAN DUNLOP 95–6

Alan Small, Charles Thomas, and David M. Wilson, St Ninian’sIsle and its TreasureR. G. CANT 191–2

Frederick J. Pohl, Prince Henry Sinclair: his Expedition to theNew World in 1398T. M. Y. MANSON 192–3

Bruce Lenman, From Esk to TweedMALCOLM GRAY 193–4

Volume 3 (1977–80)

Articles

The royal demesne in northern Scotland during the laterMiddle AgesCRAIG A. MADDEN 1–24

Annexed estates in the eighteenth-century HighlandsANNETTE M. SMITH 25–46

Aberdeen and the early development of the whaling industry,1750–1800W. R. H. DUNCAN 47–59

North-east Scotland and the northern whale fishing, 1752–1893R. C. MICHIE 61–85

Early Scandinavian naming in the Western and Northern IslesW. F. H. NICOLAISEN 105–21

The Aberdeen Ladies’ Educational Association, 1877–1883L. R. MOORE 123–57

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Reports and surveys of archives in northern ScotlandCOLIN A. McLAREN, MARGARET A. STEPHEN,ALISTAIR TOUGH

87–100

Reports and surveys of archives in northern Scotland:the North-Eastern Survey, 1976–1978WILLIAM DONALDSON 159–72

Reviews

A. Allan MacLaren, Religion and Social Class: the Disruption Yearsin AberdeenROBERT E. DUNCAN 101–3

James Shaw Grant, Highland VillagesRONALD G. CANT 103–4

Volume 4 (1981)

Articles

Huntly’s rebellion and the administration of justice in north-eastScotland, 1570–1573ATHOL L. MURRAY 1–6

Robert Gordon of Straloch: cartographer or chorographer?JEFFREY C. STONE 7–22

Shipbuilding in Aberdeen, 1750–1914THOMAS DONNELLY 23–42

Reluctant heroes: conscription in Aberdeenshire, 1756–1758JAMES A. CHEYNE 43–50

Artisans and proletarians: Chartism and working class allegiancein Aberdeen, 1838–1842ROBERT E. DUNCAN 51–67

Aberdeen and Ceylon. Economic links in the nineteenth centuryRANALD C. MICHIE 69–82

The retreat of settlement in the Grampian uplandsDAVID TURNOCK 83–112

Doctors, paupers and landowners. The evolution of primarymedical care in OrkneyREX TAYLOR 113–20

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The papers of the earls of KintoreALISTAIR TOUGH 121–7

The letters and papers of Dr Alexander J. KeithDOROTHY B. JOHNSTON 127–34

The papers of A. A. CormackDOROTHY B. JOHNSTON 134–8

Reviews

M. L. Parry and T. R. Slater, The making of the Scottish countrysideDAVID TURNOCK 139–40

J. J. Graham, The Shetland dictionaryPAUL BIBIRE 140

I. Whyte, Agriculture and society in seventeenth century ScotlandALISTAIR J. DURIE 141

I. Carter, Farm life in North-East Scotland, 1850–1914ROBERT E. TYSON 141–2

R. Perren, John Fleming & Company limited 1877–1977JOHN BUTT 143

Volume 5 (1982–3)

Articles

Highland emigrants to South Australia in the 1850sERIC RICHARDS 1–29

Investment for survival: Culter Mills Paper Company Limited,1865–1914NEVILLE BARTLETT 31–56

Structural change in Aberdeen and the North East, 1851–1911ALASTAIR G. J. W. BLAIR 57–79

Continuity and change. The clergy of the diocese of Moray,1560–74CHARLES H. HAWS 91–8

Tours in the Scottish Highlands from the eighteenth to thetwentieth centuriesCHRISTOPHER SMOUT 99–121

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The herring fishery in Shetland in the first half of the nineteenthcenturyJAMES R. COULL 123–40

The 1854 agricultural statistics for north-east Scotland. AnanalysisJ. PHILIP DODD 141–54

The woman’s suffrage campaign in the 1907 Aberdeenby-electionLINDY MOORE 155–78


Reports and surveys of archives in northern ScotlandDOROTHY B. JOHNSTON 71–9


Reviews

G. W. S. Barrow, Kingship and unity. Scotland, 1000–1306WENDY B. STEVENSON 81

J. Wormald, Court, kirk, and community. Scotland, 1470–1625THOMAS I. RAE 82

A. Lindsay, A rutter of the Scottish seasJEFFREY C. STONE 83

F. J. Shaw, The Northern and Western Islands of ScotlandR. W. MUNRO 83–4

D. Stevenson, Alasdair MacColla and the Highland problem in theseventeenth century.BRUCE LENMAN 84–5

I. R. M. Mowat, Easter Ross, 1750–1850MALCOLM GRAY 86

K. J. Logue, Popular disturbances in Scotland, 1780–1815FIONA A. MONTGOMERY 86–7

W. P. L. Thomson, The little general and the Rousay croftersALEXANDER FENTON 87–8

A. Martin, The ring-net fishermenMALCOLM GRAY 88–9

J. Ennew, The Western Isles todayDONALD MacAULAY 89–90

A. James, Scottish roots, and D. White, Scottish ancestry researchJEAN MUNRO 191

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L. Maclean (ed.), The Middle Ages in the HighlandsGRANT G. SIMPSON 191–2

D. H. Caldwell (ed.), Scottish weapons and fortifications, 1100–1800DAVID STEVENSON 192–3

C. Larner, Enemies of God: the witch hunt in ScotlandJUDITH HOOK 193–4

D. Stevenson, Scottish covenanters and Irish confederatesROSALIND MITCHISON 194–5

B. Lenman, Integration, enlightenment, and industrialisation. Scotland,1746–1832FIONA A. MONTGOMERY 195–6

F. J. McLynn, France and the Jacobite Rising of 1745WILLIAM SCOTT 196

A. M. Smith, Jacobite estates of the Forty-FiveALASTAIR J. DURIE 196–8

R. Taylor, George Washington WilsonMICHAEL MOSS 198–9

J. D. Hargreaves, Aberdeenshire to Africa. Northeast Scots and Britishoverseas expansionGEORGE SHEPPERSON 199

A. Bruford (ed.), The Green Man of Knowledge and other Scotstraditional talesJ. DERRICK McCLURE 200

J. D. McClure (ed.), ‘Our ain leid? The predicament of a Scotswriter’ and C. Macafee, ‘Nationalism and the Scots Renaissancenow’PAUL BIBIRE 200–1

Volume 6 (1984–5)

Articles: Population Trends in Northern Scotland

Introductory note 1

Some factors associated with island depopulation: the exampleof St KildaE. J. CLEGG 3–11

Economic and demographic consequences of population decline:Colonsay and Jura, 1841–91JOHN W. SHEETS 13–32

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Endogamy and exogamy in the Orkney IslandsJ. BOYCE 33–44

The structure of population in traditional fishing communitiesof north east Scotland: Whitehills and Gardenstown, 1855–1974SUSAN R. BAILLIE 45–61

The social impact of the new urban-rural migration on oneof the Orkney IslandsDIANA FORSYTHE 63–70

Articles

George Hay’s Oration at the purging of King’s College,Aberdeen, in 1569: TranslationW. S. WATT 91–6

George Hay’s Oration at the purging of King’s College,Aberdeen, in 1569: CommentaryJOHN DURKAN 97–112

The population of Aberdeenshire, 1695–1755: a new approachROBERT E. TYSON 113–31

‘The shifting frontier’: the Gaelic-English boundary in theBlack Isle, 1698–1881CHARLES W. J. WITHERS 133–55

More ‘reluctant heroes’. New light on military recruitingin north east Scotland, 1759–1760ALEXANDER MURDOCH 157–68

Emigration from north east Scotland in the nineteenth centuryMARJORY HARPER 169–81

James Grant’s The romance of war and the ‘military novel’ISOBEL MURRAY 183–92




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Reviews

V. E. Durkacz, The decline of the Celtic languagesDONALD MacAULAY 81–2

E. Cruickshanks (ed.), Ideology and conspiracy: aspects of Jacobitism,1689–1759ANNETTE M. SMITH 83–4

J. M. Bumsted, The people’s clearance, 1770–1815MARJORY HARPER 84–5

W. Orr, Deer forests, landlords and croftersMALCOLM GRAY 85–6

J. D. McClure (ed.), Scotland and the Lowland tonguePAUL BIBIRE 86–7

MISCELLANY: books and pamphletsDAVID STEVENSON 87–90

A. Fenton (ed.), ROSC. Review of Scottish culture, no. 1A. Fenton and G. Stell (eds), Loads and roads in Scotland and beyondDAVID STEVENSON 201

D. Buchan (ed.), Scottish tradition: a collection of Scottish folk literatureJ. DERRICK McCLURE 201–3

P. D. Anderson, Robert Stewart, earl of Orkney, lord of Shetland,1533–1593BRIAN SMITH 203–4

C. W. J. Withers, Gaelic in Scotland, 1698–1981: the geographicalhistory of a languageCOLM Ó BAOILL 204–6

D. Turnock, The historical geography of Scotland since 1707:geographical aspects of modernizationJAMES B. CAIRD 206–7

E. Richards, A history of the Highland clearances: agrariantransformation and the evictions, 1746–1886PETER ROEBUCK 207–9

H. Gilbert, As a tale that is told: a Church of Scotland parish,1913–1954JOHN SIMPSON 209–10

H. Jones (ed.), Population change in contemporary ScotlandS. R. BAILLIE 210–11

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Volume 7 (1986–7)

Articles

The Kirk and the Highlands at the ReformationJAMES KIRK 1–22

Trade and Traders: some links between Sweden and the portsof Montrose and Arbroath, 1742–1830J. G. DUNCAN 23–37

Papers relating to game poaching on Deeside, 1766–1832ADAM WATSON and ELIZABETH ALLAN 39–45

Crofter colonization in Canada, 1886–1892: the Scottishpolitical backgroundSTUART MACDONALD 47–59

The place-names of Canisbay, CaithnessDOREEN J. WAUGH 99–111

The travels of Richard James in Scotland, c. 1615DAVID STEVENSON 113–18

The Northern Highland covenanter clans, 1639–1651EDWARD M. FURGOL 119–31

Scots in ‘Little London’: Scots settlers and cultural developmentin Gothenburg in the eighteenth centuryGÖRAN BEHRE 133–50

Gavin Greig’s lecture to the Scottish National Song Society,November 1909. A failure of nerve?IAN A. OLSON 151–8


The Duff genealogical papers of Alistair and Henrietta TaylerDOROTHY B. JOHNSTON 61–9

Reports and surveys of archives in northern Scotland.Highland Regional ArchiveALAN B. LAWSON 159–61

Reviews

A.Fenton, The shape of the pastR. ROSS NOBLE 71–2

A.Fenton & H. Pálsson, The Northern and Western Isles in theViking WorldROSEMARY POWER 72–3

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B. E. Crawford (ed.), Essays in Shetland historyALBERT BIL 73–6

A. Grant, Independence and nationhood: Scotland 1306–1469TREVOR CHALMERS 76–7

B. Walker & W. S. Gauldie, Architects and architecture on TaysideANNETTE M. SMITH 78

H. D. Smith, Shetland life and trade, 1550–1914T. C. SMOUT 79–81

J. R. Coull, The evolution of settlement in the Buchan district ofAberdeenshireIAN D. WHYTE 81–2

R. H. Campbell, Scotland since 1707: the rise of an industrial societyALASTAIR J. DURIE 82–3

D. Johnson, Scottish fiddle music in the eighteenth centuryMORAG ANNE ELDER 83–4

T. M. Devine (ed.), Farm servants and labour in Victorian Scotland,1770–1914ALASTAIR J. DURIE 85–6

S. A. Knox, The making of the Shetland landscapeR. H. CAMPBELL 86–7

J. F. Campbell, Popular tales of the West Highlands, orally collectedCOLM Ó BAOILL 88–9

J. C. Stone, The Northeast of Scotland. A philatelic miscellanyT. REILLY 89–90

E. R. Hay & Bruce Walker, Focus on fishing. Arbroath and GourdonJAMES R. COULL 90–1

A. Munro, The folk music revival in ScotlandALAN BRUFORD 92–3

R. Miller, The county of Orkney and J. R. Coull,The county of ShetlandGORDON DONALDSON 94–5

MISCELLANY: books and pamphlets receivedDAVID STEVENSON 96–7

B. Smith (ed.), Shetland archaeology: new work in Shetland in the 1970sIAN A. G. SHEPHERD 163–4

J. F. Flett & T. M. Flett, Traditional dancing in Scotland.C. Quigley, Close to the floor: folk dance in NewfoundlandA. M. STEWART 164–5

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L. J. Macfarlane, William Elphinstone and the kingdom of Scotland,1431–1514: the struggle for orderMICHAEL LYNCH 165–6

J. M. Hill, Celtic warfare, 1595–1763DAVID H. CALDWELL 166–7

F. McLynn, The JacobitesANNETTE M. SMITH 167

R. Black, Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair: the Ardnamurchan yearsCOLM Ó BAOILL 168

E. Richards, A history of the Highland clearances, II: emigration,protest, reasonsR. H. CAMPBELL 168–70

S. Wood, The shaping of 19th century AberdeenshireT. M. DEVINE 170–1

MISCELLANY: books and pamphlets receivedDAVID STEVENSON 171–3

Volume 8 (1988)

Articles

Badenoch and Strathspey, 1130–1312. 1: Secular and politicalG. W. S. BARROW 1–15

Hector Boece and ‘claik’ geeseALASDAIR M. STEWART 17–23

The boom in the herring fishery in the Shetland Islands,1880–1914JAMES R. COULL 25–38

Government agencies and land development in the ScottishHighlands: a centenary surveyALEXANDER S. MATHER 39–50

The ‘sawdust fusiliers’: the impact of the Canadian ForestryCorps in the Scottish Highlands in World War IIWILLIAM C. WONDERS 51–68


Forbes and Hay of Seaton papers, 1746–1886RACHEL M. HART 69–71

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Reviews

A. Small (ed.), The Picts. A new look at old problemsIAN A. G. SHEPHERD 73–4

H. Pálsson and P. Edwards (translators), Magnus’ Saga: the life ofSt MagnusJOHN SIMPSON 74–5

K. J. Stringer (ed.), Essays on the nobility of medieval ScotlandA. K. McHARDY 75–6

L. Leneman, Living in Atholl, 1685–1785ROSALIND K. MARSHALL 76–7

W. Donaldson, Popular literature in Victorian Scotland;W. Alexander, The laird of Drammochdyle, ed. W. DonaldsonDAVID S. ROBB 78–9

MISCELLANY. Books and pamphlets receivedDAVID STEVENSON 79–81

Volume 9 (1989)

Articles

Badenoch and Strathspey, 1130–1312. 2: The ChurchG. W. S. BARROW 1–16

John and Andrew Cadiou: Aberdeen notaries of the fifteenth andearly sixteenth centuriesHAROLD W. BOOTON 17–20

Highland migration to Aberdeen, c. 1649–1891CHARLES W. J. WITHERS 21–44

The beginning of Gaelic preaching in Scotland’s citiesIAN R. MacDONALD 45–52

Transient tradesmen: Aberdeen emigrants and the developmentof the American granite industryMARJORY HARPER 53–75

Borgie: a debatable gift to the nation?LEAH LENEMAN 77–82


Letters and papers of Dr Robert HamiltonRACHEL M. HART 83–5

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Reviews

L. J. Macgregor and B. E. Crawford, Ouncelands and pennylandsROBERT A. DODGSHON 87–8

J. Bannerman, The Beatons: a medical kindred in the classicalGaelic traditionA. I. MACINNES 88–9

C. A. Whatley, The Scottish salt industryALASTAIR J. DURIE 90–1

E. Richards etc., That land of exiles: Scots in AustraliaMARJORY HARPER 91–2

S.MacNeill and F. Richardson, Piobaireachd and its interpretationDAVID WATERHOUSE 92–3

D. S. Robb, George MacDonaldJ. DERRICK McCLURE 94–5


Volume 10 (1990)

Articles

Affrichtment and riot: student violence in Aberdeen, 1659–1669COLIN A. McLAREN 1–17

Aspects of Highland and Lowland Catholicism on DeesideALASDAIR ROBERTS 19–30

Depopulation by clearances and non-enforced emigration in theNorth East HighlandsADAM WATSON and ELIZABETH ALLAN 31–46

The Peterhead Institute, 1857–67DAVID M. BERTIE 47–71

The last successful Scottish land raidLEAH LENEMAN 73–6

Reviews

H. L. Diack, North East rootsJEAN MUNRO 77

W. P. L. Thomson, History of OrkneyBARBARA E. CRAWFORD 77–9

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B. E. Crawford, St Magnus Cathedral and Orkney’s twelfth centuryrenaissanceA. K. McHARDY 79–80

R. D. Cannon, The Highland bagpipe and its musicDAVID WATERHOUSE 80–3

J. Wormald, Mary Queen of ScotsIAN B. COWAN 83–4

L. Leneman, Perspectives in Scottish social historyROBERT E. TYSON 84–5

E. Richards and M. Clough, Cromartie. Highland life, 1650–1914T. M. DEVINE 85–6

P. Hopkins, Glencoe and the end of the Highland warJEAN MUNRO 87–8

W. Donaldson, The Jacobite songMURRAY G. H. PITTOCK 88–9

T. M. Devine and R. M. Mitchison, People and society in Scotland,vol. 1ALASTAIR DURIE 89–91

W. S. Coker and T. D. Watson, Indian traders of the SoutheasternSpanish borderlandsE. RANSON 91–2

M. D. Harper, Emigration from North East ScotlandALASTAIR DURIE 93–4

H. P. Rheinheimer, Topo. The story of a Scottish colony near CaracasM. D. HARPER 94–5

T. M. Devine, The great Highland famineR. H. CAMPBELL 95–7

P. L. Payne, The HydroR. H. CAMPBELL 97–8


Volume 11 (1991)

Articles

A Scottish trading house in eighteenth century Gothenburg:Carnegy and ShepherdJ. G. DUNCAN 1–9

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James Beattie and his students at Marischal College, AberdeenDOROTHY B. JOHNSTON 11–28

The women’s suffrage movement in the north of ScotlandLEAH LENEMAN 29–43

Differences in the response of two Aberdeenshire fishing villagesto large scale changes within the herring fishery, 1880–1914D. W. SUMMERS 45–54

Valuations of Scottish hill sheep stocks before 1946R. H. CAMPBELL 55–72


Duff House/Montcoffer papers (MS 3175)RACHEL M. HART 73–6

Reviews

Grant G. Simpson (ed.), Scotland and Scandinavia, 800–1800T. C. SMOUT 77–9

Rosalind Mitchison and Leah Leneman, Sexuality and social control:Scotland 1660–1780R. E. TYSON 79–80

Gillian Nelson, Highland bridgesTHOMAS DAY 80–1

Leah Leneman, Fit for heroes? Land settlement in Scotland afterWorld War IJOHN S. GIBSON 81–2

John D. Hargreaves with Angela Forbes (eds), Aberdeen University1945–1981: regional roles and national needsC. H. LEE 83–4

Volume 12 (1992)

Articles

The early urban site of New Aberdeen: a reappraisal ofthe evidenceE. P. D. TORRIE 1–18

The pirate, the policeman and the pantomime star: Aberdeen’salternative economy in the early fifteenth centuryDAVID DITCHBURN 19–34

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The formation of new settlements in the Perthshire Highlands,1660–1780ALBERT BIL 35–66

Shetland and the Greenland whaling industry, 1780–1872RICHARD J. SMITH 67–87

Tourism and commercial photography in Victorian Scotland:the rise and fall of G. W. Wilson & Co., 1852–1908ALASTAIR J. DURIE 89–104

From Aberdeen to Cobourg: a lad o’ pairts in AustraliaMALCOLM D. PRENTIS 105–16

The development of the fishery districts of ScotlandJ. R. COULL 117–31


Burnett of Leys papers (MS 3361)RACHEL M. HART 133–4

Reviews

Norman Macdougall (ed.), Scotland and war AD 79–1918JOHN S. SMITH 135–7

John S. Smith (ed.), Old Aberdeen: Bishops, burghers and buildingsMICHAEL LYNCH 137–8

Norman Macdougall, James IVDAVID DITCHBURN 138–9

Albert Bil, The Shieling, 1600–1840T. M. DEVINE 140

Helen & Keith Kelsall, An album of Scottish families 1694–96LESLEY DIACK 141

R. J. Brien, The shaping of Scotland: eighteenth century patterns ofland use and settlementROBERT E. TYSON 141–2

David G. Adams, Bothy nichts and days. Farm bothy life in Angusand the MearnsWILLIAM DONALDSON 142–5

John Kerr, Highland highways: old roads in AthollTHOMAS DAY 145

R. H. Campbell, Owners and occupiers: changes in rural society insouth-west Scotland before 1914R. PERREN 145–6

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W. Hamish Fraser and R. J. Morris (eds), People and society inScotland, vol. II, 1830–1914ROBERT TYSON 146–7

Albert W. Harding, Pullars of PerthPETER L. PAYNE 147–8

William Donaldson, The language of the people: Scots prose from theVictorian revivalCOLIN MILTON 148–51

Lindy Moore, Bajanellas and semilinas: Aberdeen University and theeducation of woman 1860–1920MARJORY HARPER 151–2

Cecil Sinclair, Tracing your Scottish ancestors: a guide to ancestryresearch in the Scottish Record OfficeLESLEY DIACK 152–3

Volume 13 (1993)

Articles

The craftsmen of Aberdeen between 1400 and 1550HAROLD BOOTON 1–19

Elgin notaries in burgh society and government, 1540–1660JANE E. THOMAS 21–30

Crown, clans and fine: the ‘civilizing’ of Scottish gaeldom,1587–1638ALLAN I. MACINNES 31–55

The Banchory-Stonehaven turnpike road, the Slug road,1800–1878THOMAS DAY 57–74

Brought to a wilderness: the Rev. David Mackenzie of Farr andthe Sutherland clearancesDAVID M. M. PATON 75–101

Opposition in the shadows of an emerging conflict: the AberdeenTrades Council, government policy and voicing dissent in theCold War, 1945–1955TILL GEIGER 103–35

Reviews

T. C. Smout (ed.), Scotland and the seaJOHN S. SMITH 137–9

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Grant G. Simpson (ed.), The Scottish soldier abroad 1247–1967ANDREW RUTHERFORD 140–1

Sinclair Ross, The Culbin sands – fact and fictionCHRISTINE THOMPSON 141–2

A. Riches and G. Stell (eds), Materials and traditions in ScottishbuildingA. FENTON 142–3

Murray G. H. Pittock, The invention of Scotland: the Stuart mythand the Scottish identity, 1638 to the presentMARJORY HARPER 143–4

Mowbray Pearson (ed.), Flitting the flakes: the diary of J. Badenach,a Stonehaven farmer 1789–1797ROBERT TYSON 144–5

Douglas Willis, The story of crofting in ScotlandJAMES HUNTER 145–6

T. M. Devine, The great Highland Famine: hunger, emigration andthe Scottish Highlands in the nineteenth centuryMARJORY HARPER 146–7

John Ord, Ord’s bothy songs and ballads of Aberdeen, Banff, andMoray, Angus and the MearnsDAVID BUCHAN 148–50

Iain D. Levack and H. A. F. Dudley (eds), Aberdeen RoyalInfirmary: the people’s hospital of the north-eastM. A. CROWTHER 150–1

Christine Johnson (ed.), Scottish Catholic secular clergy, 1879–1989ALLAN WHITE 152–3

A. Dickson and J. H. Treble (eds), People and society in Scotlandvol. III, 1914–1990ROBERT TYSON 153–4

Volume 14 (1994)

Articles

The history of the ferries across the River Dee at AberdeenSTEWART D. REDWOOD 1–26

The political influence of Highland landowners: a reassessmentEWEN A. CAMERON 27–45

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Jefferson Davis’s 1869 and 1871 visits to Scotland: culturalsymbols of the Old and New SouthsFERENC M. SZASZ 47–54

The whaling controversy in Shetland and the Hebrides in theearly twentieth centuryJ. R. COULL 55–68

Crofter colonists in Canada: an experiment in empire settlementin the 1920sMARJORY HARPER 69–108


Papers of Thomas Gordon of Cairness (1788–1841)AGLAIA E. KASDAGLI 109–12

Explorations in the use of Sources

The importance of sasines for Scottish history: an analysis of aRegister from the Royal Burgh of Banff, 1768–1784ANDREW K. MASON 113–33

Reviews

Druggets and uglies, crotal and cailleachan: remembering therecent past. A review articleANDREW BLAIKIE 135–45

T. C. Smout (ed.), Scotland since prehistory: natural change andhuman impactDONALD A. DAVIDSON 147–8

G.W. S. Barrow, Scotland and its neighbours in the middle agesLESLIE J. MACFARLANE 148–50

Alexander Grant and Keith J. Stringer (eds), Medieval Scotland.Crown, lordship and community. Essays presented to G. W. S. BarrowCYNTHIA J. NEVILLE 150–3

T. M. Devine (ed.), Scottish emigration and Scottish societyDONALD J. WITHRINGTON 153–4

Ian Adams and Meredyth Somerville, Cargoes of despair and hope:Scottish emigration to North America, 1603–1803MARJORY HARPER 154–6

Jennifer Carter and Donald Withrington (eds), Scottish universities:distinctiveness and diversityMICHAEL SANDERSON 156–8

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Callum G. Brown, The people in the pews: religion and society inScotland since 1780DONALD J. WITHRINGTON 158–9

David Buchan (ed.), Folk tradition and folk medicine in Scotland. Thewritings of David RorieIAN A. OLSON 159–60Sir Maitland Mackie, A lucky chap: orra loon to Lord Lieutenant.Autobiography of Sir Maitland MackieRICHARD PERREN 160–4

Volume 15 (1995)

Articles

Robert Barclay of Ury and East New JerseyLINDA G. FRYER 1–17

The history of the Rothiemurchus Woods in the eighteenthcenturyT. C. SMOUT 19–31

Fishing village sites in East Aberdeenshire: the importance ofcoastal types and estatesDAVID W. SUMMERS 33–43

The Aberdeen University local examinations 1880–1911LINDY MOORE 45–61

BBC Radio in Scotland, 1923–1939: devolution, regionalismand centralizationADRIENNE SCULLION 63–93

Northern ties: Shetland and Scandinavia over the yearsWILLIAM C. WONDERS 95–121


An Inventory of King’s College, 1634Colin A. McLAREN 123–7

The Bibliotheck of KirkwallMYRTLE ANDERSON-SMITH 127–34

Explorations in the Use of SourcesA cultural resource: early children’s literature and its contextSTUART HANNABUSS 135–50

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Reviews

Colleen E. Batey, Judith Jesch and Christopher D. Morris (eds),The Viking Age in Caithness, Orkney and the North AtlanticROSEMARY POWER 151

Michael Brown, James ISIMON APPLEYARD 151–4

Christopher A. Whatley, ‘Bought and Sold for English Gold’?Explaining the Union of 1707ALLAN I. MACINNES 154–5

John Sibbald Gibson, Lochiel of the ’45: The Jacobite Chief and thePrinceBRUCE P. LENMAN 155–7

Jim Skelton, Speybuilt, the story of a forgotten industryANDREW MASON 157–9

Ian Hustwick, Moray Firth ships and trade during the nineteenthcenturyANDREW MASON 157–9

Carolyn Pennington, The modernization of medical teaching atAberdeen in the nineteenth centuryM. A. CROWTHER 159–60

Isobel Rae and John Lawson, Doctor Grigor of NairnANDREW MASON 160–2

Tom Donnelly, The Aberdeen granite industryC. H. LEE 162–3

John D. Hargreaves, Academe and empire: some overseas connectionsof Aberdeen University, 1860–1970RANALD MICHIE 163–5

Sheena Blackhall, Braeheid, a farm an its fowk an ither Doric talesISOBEL MURRAY 165

Christopher Harvie, Fool’s gold. The story of North Sea oilPETER L. PAYNE 166–7

Volume 16 (1996)

Articles

Lordship in the north-east: the Badenoch Stewarts, I. AlexanderStewart, Earl of Buchan, Lord of BadenochSTEVE BOARDMAN 1–29

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Regional lordship in north-east Scotland: the BadenochStewarts, II. Alexander Stewart, Earl of MarMICHAEL BROWN 31–53

Private vices, public acrimony: the divorce of William Gordonand the renewal of the Scots Staple in the Netherlands in the1690sRAB HOUSTON 55–72

The political thought of Lord Forbes of PitsligoMURRAY G. H. PITTOCK 73–86

‘Gentlemen contractors’: the Farquharsons of Monaltrie and theconstruction of Ballater’s bridges, 1775–1812THOMAS DAY 87–106

James Nicol at the University of Berlin, 1840–1841STUART WALLACE 107–26

Scotland, Abraham Lincoln, and the American Civil WarFERENC M. SZASZ 127–40

The Congested Districts Boards of Ireland and ScotlandDONALD MACKAY 141–73

Reports and Surveys of ArchivesSecretary Thomas Reid and the early listing of his manuscripts;or, did the librarians make matters worse?IAIN BEAVAN 175–85

Explorations in the Use of Sources

The King’s customs administration in Aberdeen, 1750–1815TOM DONNELLY 187–98

Reviews

David Turnock, The making of the Scottish rural landscapeJOHN S. SMITH 199–201

G. Jackson and S. G. E. Lythe (eds), The port of Montrose. Ahistory of its harbor, trade and shippingJOHN S. SMITH 201–03

Linda G. Fryer, Knitting by the fireside and on the hillside. A historyof the Shetland hand knitting industry, c. 1600–1950PETER L. PAYNE 203–4

Ian R. Macdonald, Glasgow’s Gaelic churches: Highland religion inan urban setting 1690–1995CHARLES W. J. WITHERS 204–5

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John R. and Margaret M. Gold, Imagining Scotland. Tradition,representation and promotion in Scottish tourism since 1750ALASTAIR J. DURIE 206–7

Robert Clyde, From rebel to hero. The image of the Scottish highlander,1745–1830ALASTAIR J. DURIE 206–7

The making of modern Orkney. Centre for Continuing Education,University of AberdeenJOHN S. SMITH 207–8

Gilbert Schrank, An Orkney estate. Improvements at Graemeshall,1827–1888WILLIAM P. L. THOMSON 208–9

Angus Duncan, Hebridean island: memories of ScarpJOHN A. R. SMITH 209–10

Edward Ranson, The mad hatter of Aberdeen. The life and times ofSamuel MartinSYDNEY WOOD 211–12

Alexander Fenton, Craiters . . . or twenty Buchan talesWILLIAM DONALDSON 212–14

Volume 17 (1997)

Articles

Conrack, New Leslie and the suppression of the Catholic northIAN B. D. BRYCE and ALASDAIR ROBERTS 1–16

The Auskerry whale, 1777: processing and economyOLE LINDQUIST 17–32

Change and invariance in the traditional performing artsWILLIAM DONALDSON 33–54

The State, the family and the Scottish health problem, the workof Dr Leslie MacKenzie, 1891–1928IAN LEVITT 55–72

The North Sea link – Aberdeen and ScandinaviaWILLIAM C. WONDERS 73–127


Local pamphletsMYRTLE ANDERSON-SMITH 129–33

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The Militia: an aspect of Highland temporary migration 1871–1907JEANETTE M. BROCK 135–51

A Highland hotel venture: the case of the Doune ofRothiemurchus, 1935–1942DAVID CALVERT and ROBERT A. LAMBERT 153–72

Reviews

Ian Shepherd, Exploring Scotland’s heritage: Aberdeen and north-eastScotlandMAGNUS FLADMARK 173–4

J. R. Hunter, Fair Isle. The archaeology of an island communityJOHN S. SMITH 174–5

Norman Emery, Excavations on Hirta 1986–90IAN RALSTON 175–6

Claus Bjorn, Alexander Grant and K. J. Stringer (eds), Nations,nationalism and patriotism in the European pastDAVID DITCHBURN 177–8

Colm McNamee, The wars of the Bruces: Scotland, England andIreland, 1306–1328STEVE BOARDMAN 178–9

S. Boardman, The early Stewart kings: Robert II and Robert III,1371–1406FIONA WATSON 179–81

Janet Hadley Williams (ed.), Stewart style 1531–1542: essays on theCourt of James VCAROL EDINGTON 181–3

John Kerr, The living wilderness – Atholl deer forestsJOHN A. R. SMITH 183–4

Ian Hustwick, The ‘Peggy & Isobella ’. The story of an eighteenthcentury Orkney sloopPETER L. PAYNE 184–5

W. S. Hewison (ed.), The diary of Patrick Fea of Stove, Orkney1766–96JOHN A. R. SMITH 185–6

T. Brotherstone and D. J. Withrington (eds), The city and itsworlds: aspects of Aberdeen’s history since 1794ALLAN MACLAREN 186–8

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Dick Jackson (ed.), The Speyside line: the railway from Craigellachieto Boat of GartenJ. J. WATERMAN 188–9

E. A. Cameron, ‘Land for the People?’ The British government andthe Scottish Highlands c. 1880–1925DONALD MACKAY 189–91

Donald G. Mackay, Scotland’s rural land use agenciesM. G. LLOYD 191–2

Volume 18 (1998)

Articles

Witchcraft and the Kirk in Aberdeenshire, 1596–97P. G. MAXWELL-STUART 1–14

Robert Gordon and the making of the first Atlas of ScotlandJEFFREY C. STONE 15–29

Cape Breton, Canada’s ‘Highland’ Island?STEVE MURDOCH 31–42

Herring fisheries in OrkneyJ. R. COULL 43–55

The British approach to disaster management: a fresh look at theTay Bridge disaster, 1879IAN HENDERSON 57–74

Sumburgh airport: the ups and downs of Shetland’s air gatewayWILLIAM C. WONDERS 75–95


Raban and his successors: local printing (1622–1800) held inAberdeen UniversityIAIN BEAVAN 97–104

The Helena Mennie Shire Papers, AUL MS 3407C. SIAN YATES 104–8

Reviews

R. Andrew McDonald, The Kingdom of the Isles – Scotland’s westernseaboard, c. 1100–c.1336JOHN S. SMITH 109–12

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D. D. R. Owen, William the Lion – kingship and culture,1143–1214SONJA CAMERON 112–13

Alan Young, Robert the Bruce’s rivals: the Comyns, 1212–1314CYNTHIA J. NEVILLE 113–15

Norman Macdougall, James IVLESLIE MACFARLANE 116–18

William P. L. Thomson, Lord Henry Sinclair’s 1492 rental of OrkneyBARBARA E. CRAWFORD 118–19

Allan I. Macinnes, Clanship, commerce and the house of Stuart,1603–1788R. A. DODGSHON 119–21

Alexander Fenton, The Northern Isles: Orkney and ShetlandJ. A. SMITH 121–2

By royal appointment: Aberdeen’s pioneer photographer.George Washington Wilson, 1823–1893PETER L. PAYNE 122–3

Michael St John, The demands of the people: Dundee radicalism1850–1870TERRY BROTHERSTONE 123–5

William Alexander, My uncle the Baillie and Johnny Gibb ofGushetneukCOLIN MILTON 125–7

Alfred H. Forbes, Time does Transfix: recollections of a ForresrailwaymanJ. J. WATERMAN 127

W. Gordon Lawrence, Roots in a northern landscape: celebrations ofchildhood in the north east of ScotlandJ. A. SMITH 128

Vincent McKee, Gaelic nations. Politics of the Gaelic language inScotland and Northern Ireland in the twentieth centuryIAN HENDERSON 129–30

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Volume 18 (Special ElphinstoneInstitute Issue) (1999)

Articles

Aims, theory and method in the ethnology of Northern ScotlandJAMES PORTER 1–25

The North East – wrought in stoneJOHN SMITH 27–32

Stone circles: perceptions from inside and outside the ringELIZABETH CURTIS 33–42

‘Going out with the tide’: three generations of Scotsmenand the seaVALENTINA BOLD 43–54

Some geographic and cultural patterns in the lexical/semanticstructure of ScotsROBERT McCOLL MILLAR 55–65

The earliest English place names in north east ScotlandW. F. H. NICOLAISEN 67–82

‘Some scraps of Donside verse’: Charles Murray and theGreig-Duncan folksong collectionCOLIN MILTON 83–102

‘You make me dizzy Miss Lizzie’: Elizabeth Stewart’s uptempotraditional balladsTHOMAS A. McKEAN 103–15

The Christie family of Monquhitter: preservation and‘refinement’ of traditional music and songMARY ANNE ALBURGER 117–33

Preservation, publication and promotion: the University libraryand the culture of north east ScotlandCOLIN A. McLAREN 135–45

Volume 19 (1999)

Articles

David I and the Scottish conquest and colonisation of MorayRICHARD D. ORAM 1–19

Captain Lauchlin Campbell and early Argyllshire emigrationto New YorkROBERT A. A. McGEACHY 21–46

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Peter Williamson and the eighteenth century Scottish-AmericanconnectionFERENC M. SZASZ 47–61

Landlord policies and population change in north-east Scotlandand the Western Isles, 1755–1841ROBERT E. TYSON 63–74

Aberdeen’s churches in the late eighteenth centuryIAN R. MACDONALD 75–83

The creation of the Highlands and Islands Development Board,1935–65IAN LEVITT 85–105

Early days of the Department of Extra-Mural Studies,University of AberdeenROY E. H. MELLOR 107–14


The Diocesan LibraryJENNIFER KINNEAR 115–18

Reviews

Studies in the history of the Scottish Church. A review articleJOHN A. R. SMITH 119–24

Robert A. Lambert (ed.), Species history in Scotland: introductionsand extinctions since the Ice AgeMARTYN GORMAN 125–6

Fiona Watson, Under the hammer: Edward I and Scotland,1286–1328DAVID DITCHBURN 126–7

Margaret Bennett, Oatmeal and the catechism. Scottish Gaelic settlersin QuebecROBERT McGEACHY 127–8

Denis Fairfax, The basking shark in Shetland: natural history,fishery and conservationDAVID SIMS 128–9

D. H. A. Boyd, Amulets to isotopes. A history of medicine in CaithnessCAROLYN J. PENNINGTON 129–30

J. N. Bartlett, Davidsons of Mugiemoss: a history ofC. Davidson & Sons, makers of wrapping papers, paper bags,plasterboard and plasterboard linerPETER L. PAYNE 130–1

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Volume 20 (2000)

Articles

Men for all seasons? The Strathbogie earls of Atholl and the Warsof Independence, c. 1290–c. 1335ALASDAIR ROSS 1–30

The apogee of the ‘Auld Alliance’ and the limits of policy,1369–1402ALASTAIR J. MACDONALD 31–46

The Qualified Episcopal Chapels of the north-east ofScotland 1689–1898PATRICK JONES 47–69

The impact of the American Revolutionary War on Scottishnorthern whaling: the Dunbar factorCHESLEY W. SANGER 71–86

‘Taking a gamble’: The Scottish Office, Whitehall and theHighlands and Islands Development Board, 1965–67IAN LEVITT 87–111

Conservation, recreation and tourism: Craigellachie NationalNature Reserve, Aviemore, 1950–1980ROBERT A. LAMBERT 113–24

Scenes of ecclesiastical theatre in the Free Church of Scotland,1981–2000FRASER MACDONALD 125–48

A bibliography of the Revd Walter Gregor’s publicationsSTEPHEN MILLER 149–65


Manuscript material in the University of Aberdeen for thestudy of pipingWILLIAM DONALDSON 167–78

Reviews

Migration and cultural identity: within and beyond the nation.A review articleANDREW BLAIKIE 179–88

John H. Ballantyne and Brian Smith (eds), Shetland documents1195–1579BARBARA E. CRAWFORD 189–90

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Edward D. Ives, The Bonny Earl of Moray: the man, the murder,the balladJAMES PORTER 190–2

T. M. Devine and J. R. Young (eds), Eighteenth century Scotland:new perspectivesR. H. CAMPBELL 192–4

Anthony Cooke, Ian Donnachie, Ann Macsween andChristopher Whatley (eds), Modern Scottish history: 1707 tothe present. 5 volumesROBERT E. TYSON 194–6

John Watts, Scalan: the forbidden college 1716–1799JOHN S. SMITH 196–7

William Donaldson, The Highland Pipe and Scottish society,1750–1950JACK TAYLOR 197–9

Ian R. MacDonald, Aberdeen and the Highland Church(1785–1900)JOHN A. R. SMITH 199–201

Isobel Grant, Tales of the Braes of Glenlivet (compiled byAlasdair Roberts)JOHN S. SMITH 201–2

Don Aldridge, The rescue of Captain ScottPETER L. PAYNE 202–3

Volume 21 (2001)

Articles

Men for all seasons? The Strathbogie Earls of Atholl and theWars of Independence, c.1290–c.1335. Part 2ALASDAIR ROSS 1–15

The Aberdeenshire witchcraft panic of 1597JULIAN GOODARE 17–37

Changes in foreign trade from the customs ports of north-eastScotland, 1743–1826KATHRYN L. MOORE 39–56

The river Avon water schemeT. R. JAMIESON 57–78

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‘Its own little share of service to the national cause’:the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland’s chaplains in theFirst World WarJAMES LACHLAN MacLEOD 79–97

A hostile environment: the National Trust for Scotland,the Cairngorm Trust and early ski developments inthe Cairngorm mountains, 1961–1967ROBERT A. LAMBERT 99–120

Interdisciplinary studies at the University of Aberdeen, 1985–95:cultural history and the Thomas Reid InstituteJOAN H. PITTOCK WESSON 121–8


‘Neatness and Order’: the diaries and papers of William Knight,Professor of Natural Philosophy, Marischal College, 1823–1844IAIN BEAVAN 129–39

University of Aberdeen Oral History ArchiveJANE PIRIE 141–5

Reviews

Brian Smith, Toons and tenants: settlement and society in Shetland,1299–1899WILLIAM P. L. THOMSON 147–8

Robert A. Dodgshon, From chiefs to landlords: economic and socialchange in the western Highlands and Islands, c. 1493–1820ANDREW MACKILLOP 149–50

T. C. Smout and R. A. Lambert (eds), Rothiemurchus. Nature andpeople on a Highland estate 1500–2000HUGH G. MILLER 150–1

David George Mullan, Scottish Puritanism 1590–1638WILLIAM G. NAPHY 151–2

Ian Hustwick, The George of Port SetonJOHN F. EDWARDS 153–4

T. C. SMOUT, Nature contested. Environmental history in Scotlandand northern England since 1600CHRIS MULLINS 155–6

R. A. Houston, Madness and society in eighteenth-century ScotlandR. H. CAMPBELL 156–8

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Christopher A. Whatley, Scottish Society 1707–1830.Beyond Jacobitism to industrializationR. H. CAMPBELL 158–60

Duncan A. Downie, Street names in the village of Kemnay.Duncan A. Downie, From the wilderness to ParadiseJOHN S. SMITH 160–1

Ewen A. Cameron, The life and times of Charles Fraser Mackintosh,Crofter MPMARJORY HARPER 161–3

Krisztina Fenyo, Contempt, sympathy and romance:Lowland perceptions of the Highlands and the Clearances duringthe Famine years, 1845–1855ANDREW MACKILLOP 163–4

Recent publications of the Aberdeen & North East of ScotlandFamily History Society together with Diane Baptie (ed.),Registers of the Secession Churches in ScotlandR. E. TYSON 164–6

Volume 22 (2002)

Articles

‘In Fines Borestorum’: reconstructing the archaeologicallandscapes of prehistoric and proto-historic MorayBARRI JONES and IAN KEILLAR 1–25

Ouncelands and pennylands in the west Highlands and IslandsWILLIAM P. L. THOMSON 27–43

Mapmaker or minister? Timothy Pont’s ecclesiastical contextALAN R. MacDONALD 45–61

The good, the bad and the anonymous: a preliminary survey ofScots in the Dutch East Indies 1612–1707STEVE MURDOCH 63–76

Seasonal migration in the Caithness herring fisheryJAMES R. COULL 77–97

Free Church constitutionalists and the Establishment principleJOHN A. R. SMITH 99–119

Aberdeen’s competitive music festivals, 1909–1913ALISON SHIEL 121–52

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The Frasers of Castle Fraser (1550–1976)HELEN R. CHAVEZ 153–7


Within their sphere? Women correspondents to Aberdeendaily newspapers 1900–1914SARAH PEDERSEN 159–66

Reviews

Ian C. Cunningham (ed.), The nation survey’d. Essays onlate sixteenth-century Scotland as depicted by Timothy PontLAWRIE McLEAN 167–72

P. G. Maxwell-Stuart, Satan’s conspiracy: magic and witchcraft insixteenth-century ScotlandMICHAEL WASSER 172–3

Michael Fry, The Scottish EmpireROSEMARY TYZACK 173–4

James Lachlan MacLeod, The second Disruption: the Free Church inVictorian Scotland and the origins of the Free Presbyterian ChurchJOHN A. R. SMITH 174–7

Michael Byrne (ed.), Collected poems and songs ofGeorge Campbell Hay (Deòrsa M ac Iain Dheòrsa)DERRICK McCLURE 177–80

T. C. Smout (ed.), Nature, landscape and people since theSecond World WarCHRISTOPHER BEAR 180–1

Volume 23 (2003)

Articles

The southern frontier of Norse settlement in north Scotlandplace-names and historyBARBARA E. CRAWFORD and SIMON TAYLOR 1–76

The depiction of routeways and bridges by Timothy PontJEFFREY STONE 77–84

Pilot whales, udal law and custom in Shetland: legal red herringsBRIAN SMITH 85–97

John Anderson, ‘The Wizard of the North’ and popularentertainment in the Victorian eraFERENC M. SZASZ 99–106

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Fashionable dancing – the dance manuals of James Scott SkinnerPAT BALLANTYNE 107–16

Reviews

Barbara E. Crawford (ed.), The Papar in the North Atlantic:environment and history and Barbara E. Crawford (ed.),Papa Stour and 1299WILLIAM P. L. THOMSON 117–20

Denis Rixon, Arisaig and Morar. A historyJEFFREY C. STONE 120–1

Roy Bridges, People and places in Newmachar past and presentCHRISTOPHER BEAR 121–2

James Miller, The dam builders. Power from the glens andEmma Wood, The hydro boys. Pioneers of renewable energyPETER L. PAYNE 122–3

Volume 24 (2004)

Articles

The House of Huntly and the First Bishops’ WarBARRY ROBERTSON 1–15

Whisky and priests in the HighlandsALASDAIR ROBERTS 17–44

Peter Williamson: fakerB. BRUCE-BRIGGS 45–52

The haaf fishery of the Shetland islands: an inevitable method oforganizing fishing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?JAMES R. COULL 53–73

The Treasury, public investment and the development ofhydro-electricity in the north of Scotland, 1951–64IAN LEVITT 75–92

Reviews

James M. Irvine, The Orkney poll taxes of the 1690sROBERT E. TYSON 93–5

Peter Aitchison & Andrew Cassell, The Lowland Clearances.Scotland’s silent revolution, 1760–1830JOHN S. SMITH 95

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Hugh Miller, The cruise of the Betsey and Rambles of a geologist.With an introduction and notes by Michael Taylor anda preface by T. C. Smout, Historiographer Royal in ScotlandJOHN A. R. SMITH 96

William C. Wonders, Frontiersmen and settlers. The Bells in Scotland,Ireland and CanadaMARJORY HARPER 96–8

Volume 27 (2007)

EditorialTERRY BROTHERSONE (guest editor) v

I. History in the Highlands and Islands Todayand TomorrowHistory: its key place in the future of the Highlands and IslandsJAMES HUNTER 1–14

II. North Sea Oil, c. 1965–c. 2005

North sea oil, its narratives and its history: an archive of oraldocumentation and the making of contemporary BritainTERRY BROTHERSTONE AND HUGO MANSON 15–41

The evolution of occupational health and safety law on the UKContinental Shelf, 1964–2006JOHN PATERSON 43–67

Employment relations and union recognition in the North Seaindustry since 1997ANDY CUMBERS 69–79

A historiography of the impact of North Sea oil onnorthern ScotlandDAVID NEWLANDS and ALEXANDRA BREHME 81–97

III. Scotland at Home and Abroad since theLate Nineteenth CenturyBoarding out at home and abroad: rescuing and rehabilitatingScotland’s destitute children from the 1860s to the 1960sMARJORY HARPER 99–115

Conservatism and radicalism in the Highland press: the strangecases of the Highlander and the Northern ChronicleEWEN A. CAMERON 117–29

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The legend of the Brahan Seer: the use of a historical resourcesince c. 1875ALEX SUTHERLAND 131–46

The Jews of Aberdeen: a revolving door community since 1893and its antecedents.NATHAN ABRAMS 147–68

From the slums of Red Clydeside to the campaigning world ofAmerican communism: a quest to reconstruct the life ofEllen Dawson (1900–67)DAVID LEE McMULLEN 169–85

IV. Research Reports and Documents

History in the Highlands: a report on the work of theUHI Millennium Institute Centre for HistoryJAMES HUNTER, HUGO MANSON andANDREW PERCHARD

187–90

Women offshore: two voicesCATHERINE O’BYRNE 191–203

V. Review Articles and Reviews

At sea with an Oxford CompanionI. C. B. Dear and Peter Kemp (eds), The Oxford Companionto ships and the seaA. D. M. FORTE 205–10

Looking northPeter Davidson, The idea of the NorthC. DUNCAN RICE 210–12

History and heritage: National Trust for Scotland guidebooksHilary Horrocks (ed.), House of the Binns; Hugh Miller Museumand Birthplace Cottage; NewhailesANDREW MACKILLOP 212–15

The Union’s cracksTerry Brotherstone, Anna Clark and Kevin Whelan (eds), TheseFissured Isles: Ireland, Scotland and British history, 1798–1848ANDREW KINCAID 215–18

Toil, science and faith: a Victorian witnessMichael A. Taylor, Hugh Miller: stonemason, geologist, writerBEN MARSDEN 218–20

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Class struggle in the HighlandsNeville Kirk, Custom and conflict in the ‘Land of the Gael’:Ballachulish, 1900–1910ANDREW PERCHARD 221–3

VI. Short Notices

N. M. McQ. Holmes, Sylloge of coins of the British Isles 58:Scottish coins in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh,Part I, 1526–1603DANIEL McCANNELL 225–6

Colin A. McLaren, Aberdeen students 1600–1860J. D. PICKLES 226–8

Robert A. A. McGeachy, Argyll 1730–1750: commerce,community and culture.JOHN A. R. SMITH 228–9

Volumes 25 and 26 were not published.

Back numbers are available at £10 per volume and can be ordered from ProfessorMarjory Harper, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, The University ofAberdeen, Crombie Annexe, King’s College, Old Aberdeen, AB24 3FX.

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JONES, Barri 22:1JONES, Patrick 20:47KASDAGLI, Aglaia E. 14:109KEILLAR, Ian 22:1KINCAID, Andrew 27:215KINNEAR, Jennifer 19:115KIRK, James 7:1LAMBERT, Robert A. 17:153;

20:113; 21:99LAWSON, Alan B. 7:159

LEE, C. H. 11:83; 15:162LENEMAN, Leah 9:77; 10:73;11:29LENMAN, Bruce 5:84; 15:155LEVITT, Ian 17:55; 19:85; 20:87;

24:75LINDQUIST, Ole 17:17LLOYD, M. G. 17:191LYNCH, Michael 7:165; 12:137MacAULAY, Donald 5:89; 6:81McCANNELL, Daniel 27:225McCOMBIE, Arthur 1:127;MacDONALD, Alan R. 22:45MACDONALD, Alastair J. 20:31MACDONALD, Fraser 20:125MACDONALD, Ian R. 9:45; 19:75MACDONALD, Stuart 7:47MACFARLANE, Leslie J. 14:148;

18:116McGEACHY, Robert A. A. 19:21,

127McHARDY, A. K. 8:75; 10:79MacINNES, Allan I. 9:88; 13:31;

15:154MACKAY, Donald 16:141McKEAN, Thomas 18E:103MACKILLOP, Andrew 21:149;

27:212MACLAREN, Allan 17:186McLAREN, Colin A. 1:115, 223;

2:85, 183; 3:87; 10:1; 15:123;18E:135

McLENNAN, Bruce 2:119McLEAN, Lawrie 22:167MacLEOD, James Lachlan 21:79McCLURE, J. Derrick 5:200; 6:201;

9:94; 22:177McMULLEN, David Lee 27:169MADDEN, Craig A. 3:1MANSON, Hugo 27:1, 187MANSON, T. M. Y. 2:192MARSDEN, Ben 27:218MARSHALL, Rosalind K. 8:76

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MASON, Andrew K. 14:113;15:157, 160

MATHER, Alexander S. 8:39MAXWELL-STUART, P. G. 18:1MELLOR, Roy E. H. 19:107MICHIE, Ranald C. 3:61; 4:69;

15:163MILLAR, Robert McColl 18E:55MILLER, Hugh G. 21:150MILLER, Stephen 20:149MILTON, Colin 12:148; 18:125;

18E:83MITCHISON, Rosalind 5:194MONTGOMERY, Fiona A. 5:86,

195MOORE, Kathryn L. 21:39MOORE, Lindy R. 3:123; 5:155;

15:45MOSS, Michael 5:198MULLINS, Chris 21:155MUNRO, Jean 5:191; 10:77, 87;MUNRO, R. W. 5:83MURDOCH, Alexander 6:157MURDOCH, Steve 18:31;22:63MURRAY, Athol L. 4:1MURRAY, Isobel 6:183;15:165NAPHY, William G. 21:151NEVILLE, Cynthia J. 14:150;

18:113NEWLANDS, David 27:81NICOLAISEN, W. F. H. 3:105;

18E:67NOBLE, R. Ross 7:71Ó BAOILL, Colm 6:204; 7:88,

168O’BYRNE, Catherine 17:191OLSON, Ian A. 7:151; 14:159ORAM, Richard D. 19:1PATERSON, John 27:43PATON, David M. M. 13:75PATRICK, John 1:151

PAYNE, Peter L. 12:147; 15:166;16:203; 17:184; 18:122; 19:130;23:122

PEDERSEN, Sarah 22:159PENNINGTON, Carolyn J. 19:129PERCHARD, Andrew 27:187, 221PERREN, Richard 4:143; 12:145;

14:160PICKLES, J. D. 27:226PIRIE, Jane 21:141PITTOCK, Murray G. H. 10:88;

16:73PITTOCK WESSON, Joan H.

21:121PORTER, James 18E:1; 20:190POWER, Rosemary 7:72; 15:151PRENTIS, Malcolm D. 12:105RAE, Thomas I. 5:82RALSTON, Ian 17:175RANSON, E. 10:91REDWOOD, Stewart D. 14:1REILLY, T. 7:89RICE, C. Duncan 1:65; 27:210RICHARDS, Eric 2:57; 5:1ROBB, David S. 8:78ROBERTS, Alasdair 10:19; 17:1;

24:17ROBERTSON, Barry 24:1ROEBUCK, Peter 6:207ROSS, Alasdair 20:1; 21:1RUTHERFORD, Andrew 13:140SANDERSON, Margaret H. B. 2:1SANDERSON, Michael 14:156SANGER, Chesley W. 20:71SCOTT, William 5:196SCULLION, Adrienne 15:63SHEETS, John W. 6:13SHEPHERD, Ian A. G. 7:163; 8:73SHEPPERSON, George 5:199SHIEL, Alison 22:121SIMPSON, Grant G. 5:191SIMPSON, John 6:209; 8:74SIMS, David 19:128

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SMITH, Annette M. 3:25; 6:83;7:78, 167

SMITH, Brian 6:203; 23:85SMITH, John A. R. 16:209; 17:183,

185; 18:121; 19:119; 22:99, 174;24:96; 27:228

SMITH, John S. 12:135; 13:137;16:199, 201, 207; 17:174; 18:109;18E:27; 20:196; 24:95

SMITH, Richard J. 12:67SMOUT. T. Christopher 1:235;

5:99; 7:79; 11:77; 15:19STEPHEN, Margaret A. 1:223; 2:85,

183; 3:87STEVENSON, David 5:192; 6:87,

201; 7:96, 113, 171; 8:79; 9:95;10:98

STEVENSON, Wendy B. 5:81STEWART, A. M. 7:164; 8:17STONE, Jeffrey C. 1:143; 4:7; 5:83;

18:15; 23:77, 120SUMMERS, David W. 11:45; 15:33SUTHERLAND, Alex 27:131SUTHERLAND, Stewart R. 2:57SZASZ, Ferenc M. 14:47; 16:127;

19:47; 23:99TAYLOR, Jack 20:197TAYLOR, Rex 4:113TAYLOR, Simon 23:1THOMAS, Jane E. 13:21

THOMPSON, Christine 13:141THOMSON, William P. L. 16:208;

21:147; 22:27; 23:117TORRIE, E. P. D. 12:1TOUGH, Alistair 3:87; 4:122TURNOCK, David 2:163; 4:83,

139TYSON, Robert E. 4:141; 6:113;

10:84; 11:79; 12:141, 146; 14:144,153; 19:63; 20:194; 24:93

TYZACK, Rosemary 22:173WALLACE, Stuart 16:107WASSER, Michael 22:172WATERHOUSE, David 9:92;

10:80WATERMAN, J. J. 17:188WATSON, Adam 7:39; 10:31WATSON, Fiona 17:179WATT, W. S. 6:91WAUGH, Doreen J. 7:99WHITE, Allan 13:152WHYTE, Ian D. 7:81WITHERS, Charles W. J. 6:133;

9:21; 16:204WITHRINGTON, Donald J.

14:153, 158WONDERS, William C. 8:51;

15:95; 17:73; 18:75WOOD, Sydney 16:211YATES, C. Sian 18:104

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