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An engaging historical record, in drawings, of Arbroath, and other Scottish harbours in the 1990s. The author addresses people everywhere who feel the call of the sea.

By 1905, Cornelius and Mary Abby Tenney Rogers were used to travelling and each had made other trips - many to Boston, to the greater New York City area and to Springfield, Massachusetts, as well as one to Iowa and St. Louis - but this is the illustrated story of one extraordinary journey which took almost six months and covered many varied kinds of terrain and experience. The tour took in the Plains and Prairies, the Rockies, Puget Sound and ...

This collection of sketches was first published in 1898, the outcome of the English author's 'interesting holiday tramps and leisure hours from business'. It was to excite a desire in the hearts of his countrymen 'to visit the borderland between England and Scotland, haunted by legend, romance, tradition and ballad lore'.

In the eighteenth century, Dumfriesshire and Galloway, and the southern counties of Scotland generally, were particularly prolific in the production of what are called "worthies" or original characters. No district, perhaps, in the whole of Scotland, had a greater plethora of really interesting characters than had Dumfriesshire and Galloway, and in the articles contained in this book, which have been reprinted from the Dumfries and Galloway "C...

With numerous illustrations, Biographical Sketches and portraits of the Members of parliament, Provosts, Distinguished Ministers, &c, , &c, , , also, an Appendix of Charters, Deeds and Documents, relating to the Burgh. Prompted by the proposed absorption of Leith with its neighbour, Edinburgh, the author - solicitor to the Leith council in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century - was able to access the original documents, and to supplement ...

With numerous illustrations, Biographical Sketches and portraits of the Members of parliament, Provosts, Distinguished Ministers, &c, , &c, , , also, an Appendix of Charters, Deeds and Documents, relating to the Burgh. Prompted by the proposed absorption of Leith with its neighbour, Edinburgh, the author - solicitor to the Leith council in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century - was able to access the original documents, and to supplement ...

Constantly reflective and amusing, Gyles Longley reveals a life more influenced by the unexpected than seems reasonable. After a happy childhood and adolescence in Kent, his working life began in 1936. Crystal Palace burned down, and the next day Gyles started work in London with the company from which he would years later retire as the Managing Director of its business in France. In between we read of his wartime experience as a soldier and o...

The 1960s. The decade of upheaval and change. Growing up in Scotland. Paisley. The years that didn't seem to be important but now mean everything. The years that moved so slowly. Were over in an instant. Summers that seemed to stretch forever. Summers that bent the laws of time. The time of being small. Childhood. We took it for granted. Space. Innocence. Lack of knowledge. Everyone would always be here. We'd always be the same age in the same...

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We, your Majesty's Commissioners, appointed to make an Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions connected with or illustrative of the contemporary culture, civilisation, and conditions of life of the people in Scotland from the earliest times to the year 1707, and to specify those which seem most worthy of preservation, humbly present to your Majesty this our fifth Report. During the summer and autumn of 1912, Mr A. ...

Wigtown, officially designated as Scotland's National Book Town in 1998, is rightly conscious of its heritage. This reprint of an 1877 volume - published by a local Bookseller and dedicated 'to all those ...who take an interest in their dear old Burgh' - offers the reader a Nineteenth-Century view of that heritage. Drawing first on published scholarly research, as well as extracts from official Town and Kirk records, Fraser gives a lively desc...

One of two different objects, it seems to me, ought to be kept in view in compiling a summary of the history of any province. On the one hand, a writer may devote himself to collecting and repeating the traditions lingering among the people, and transcribing events from the narratives of former chroniclers, without making too searching inquiry into the evidence on which they rest. On the other hand, he may venture to reject such local lore as ...

In offering this volume to the public, the Editor avails himself of the opportunity it affords of explaining its objects, and the circumstances which led to its publication. A History of Galloway was recently issued, from his press, containing all the most important information relating to the district up to the date of its appearance. For that work he had been at much labour and expense in collecting information, books, manuscripts, &c...The,...

Volume II: from Keanlochbervie to Zetland. The title of this very comprehensive Gazetteeer, published in two volumes in 1851, illustrates the scope of the Editor's remit. The result is over 1200 pages of densely packed information, utilising the best contemporary sources. It was published at the time when the railways had begun to make their mark on the landscape, and to re-shape the way in which people thought about travel. The first Censuses...

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A warm, lively history of the parish of Glencairn, first published in 1910. Its author draws on local records and knowledge to trace the life of an area rich in natural beauty and historic interest. From geological origins to the world of Railways, with detail of place-names, archaeology, religion, war, industries, historic families and more.

John Morgan arrived in New Zealand in 1833 as a Missionary of the Church Missionary Society. He served in Kerikeri before assisting with the founding of nine new stations: Puriri in Thames, (1833), Mangapouri in the Waipa, (1834), Tauranga, (1835) and Kaweranga in Thames, (1837). He helped with the reformation of Rotorua station on Mokoia Island during the war and its removal to the mainland in 1839. He worked at Otawhao, in the Waikato from 1...

John Morgan arrived in New Zealand in 1833 as a Missionary of the Church Missionary Society. He served in Kerikeri before assisting with the founding of nine new stations: Puriri in Thames, (1833), Mangapouri in the Waipa, (1834), Tauranga, (1835) and Kaweranga in Thames, (1837). He helped with the reformation of Rotorua station on Mokoia Island during the war and its removal to the mainland in 1839. He worked at Otawhao, in the Waikato from 1...

Originally published in 1908, this very readable account of the history of one of Scotland's most important counties is a story of ups and downs, of fightings for fredom and faith, of local and feudal jarrings and turmoils, of steady persevering through it all on the pathway of progress. The first volume is given to the history of the politics and social development of the shire. Less detailed than Paterson's History, this is an excellent intr...

Originally published in 1908, this very readable account of the history of one of Scotland's most important counties is a story of ups and downs, of fightings for freedom and faith, of local and feudal jarrings and turmoils, of steady persevering through it all on the pathway of progress. This first volume is given to the history of the politics and social development of the shire, while the second volume is given to the history of the leading...