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DRAMATIC EVENTS
FROM
SCOTTISH HISTORY
VOLUME 1
This special souvenir
booklet features 20
expert guides to some
of Scottish history’s
most dramatic moments
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SCOTTISH HISTORY
VOLUME 1
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History Scotland
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take us from Agricola’s Caledonian campaign, through the centuries to the
early 20th-century unrest in Glasgow’s George Square.
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CONTENTS
IN-DEPTH FEATURES
19
Leadhills Miners’ Library: a world class pioneer
The story of the world’s first subscription
library for ordinary working people, established
in Leadhills in 1741 and a trailblazer in library
provision
30
Classical Allusion and the Jacobites
An exploration of the clandestine allusions in
architecture, text and material culture that Scottish
Jacobites exploited to signal support for, and spread
messages about, the exiled Stuarts
44
For the love of the land
The life and legacy of Gaelic poet Duncan
Bàn
MacIntyre
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54
Dr Blair and the elephant
Part one of a two-part series exploring the remarkable
tale of a dead elephant discovered on a Dundee
roadside in 1706. Where had it come from and what
was its story?
66
The Scottish History Society and its literary legacy
A look at the society’s 20th-century story, especially
previous
NEWS
5
News
The latest history &
heritage news
begin a new life in Van Diemen’s
Land
80
The drama of mid-Victorian
elections
What was the story behind an
alleged assassination attempt in
1860s Linlithgowshire?
88
You had to be there
Facts and description in historical
narratives
91
Bridging the Atlantic
Ardrossan’s key role in the
development of global radio
communications
94
Emigration stone
The poignant story
behind Cromarty’s carved
commemorative stone
12
Bronze Age burial rites
New evidence from a cemetery
discovered near Helensburgh
78
Petardy Archaeology
Community project in east Fife
12
New evidence uncovered for
Bronze Age burial rites
Early Bronze Age cemetery
discovery
REGULARS…
IN EVERY ISSUE
26
Ten minutes on...
The battle of Otterburn
37
Book reviews
74
National Records of Scotland
Film maker John Grierson
84
Scottish Local History Forum
Our regular round-up
85
Family history
Using registration districts
86
Scottish History Society
Scottish cultural Jacobitism
97
Final Word
History Book of the Year
prize winner David Taylor
FEATURES
15
A passion for castles
The lives of David MacGibbon
and Thomas Ross, who created a
magisterial survey of hundreds of
Scottish castles
50
The development of
Stockbridge
The role of Sir Henry Raeburn in
the creation of one of Scotland’s
most successful property
speculations
62
Transported for life
We explore the fate of two
Aberdeen servant girls
transported for life and forced to
ARCHAEOLOGY
8
Dr Frederick Wainwright
The career of an archaeology
pioneer
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SCOTLAND
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Volume 24, Number 2
Spring 2024
Welcom ...
This issue of
History Scotland
marks an important milestone for the magazine. A bi-monthly
publication since its inception in 2001, we are now moving to a quarterly format, with new
issues appearing each February, May, August and November. Since these new quarterly
editions will be longer than the old bi-monthly ones at around 100 pages each, readers will
still be getting just as much fascinating Scottish history content, and we are also planning to
develop a range of exciting new regular features in the months ahead. The future of
History
Scotland,
therefore, looks bright indeed!
For this, the inaugural quarterly issue, we bring you exciting news about two signi cant
archaeological nds related to the bronze age (p.12) and the Roman period (p.28). Our
shorter features cover topics as diverse as the transportation of two Aberdeen servant girls in
the 1830s (p.62), mid-Victorian electioneering (p.80) and the development of global radio
communications (p.91). Our in-depth features, meanwhile, look – among other things – at
working class libraries (p.19), the Gaelic poet Duncan Bàn MacIntyre (p.44), and, in the rst
instalment of a two-part feature, the strange case of a dead elephant that turned
up near Dundee in 1704 (p.54). And, of course, we have all our regular columns,
including a fascinating interview with David Taylor, winner of the 2023 Saltire
Society History Book of the Year award. Happy reading!
“The future of
History Scotland
looks bright indeed!”
Find out more at: http://scot.sh/his-board
Dr Allan Kennedy
Consultant Editor
EDITORIAL BOARD
PATRONS
Dr Kevin James
Dept of History and Scottish
Studies Programme, University
of Guelph, Canada
Dr Catriona MacDonald
Reader in Late Modern
Scottish History
University of Glasgow
Neil McLennan
Writer, education manager
and Past President of the
Scottish Association of
Teachers of History
Prof Angela McCarthy
Scottish and Irish History,
University of Otago
Dr Iain MacInnes
Lecturer in Scottish
History, University of the
Highlands and Islands.
Dr Stephen Mullen
Dr Simon Taylor
Scottish place-names,
University of Glasgow
Dr Fiona Watson
Historian, writer and
broadcaster
Dr Alex Woolf
Senior lecturer in History,
University of St Andrews
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David Breeze
Christopher Smout
Historiographer Royal
Elizabeth Ewan
University of Guelph
Richard Oram
University of Stirling
Murray Pittock
University of Glasgow
Mr Derek Alexander
Archaeologist,
National Trust for Scotland
Dr John Atkinson
Managing Director
GUARD Archaeology Ltd
Medieval and post-medieval
settlement and industry
Dr Michelle D. Brock
Associate Professor of History,
Washington & Lee University
Mark A Hall
Dr Sonja Cameron
Historian, writer and editor
History Officer (archaeology
collections) at Perth Museum
& Art Gallery.
Mr Andrew Dunwell
Director, CFA Archaeology,
Edinburgh (Later prehistory
and Roman)
Dr Murray Cook
Stirling Council archaeologist
Prof Hugh Cheape
Sabhal Mor Ostaig College,
University of the Highlands
and Islands
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Cynthia J. Neville
George Munro
Professor of History and
Political Economy, Dalhousie
University
Professor Aonghus
MacKechnie
Department of Architecture,
University of Strathclyde
Dr Ann MacSween
Head of Planning, Consents
and Advice, Historic
Environment Scotland.
Research Associate in History,
University of Glasgow
Matt Ritchie
Archaeologist,
Forestry and Land Scotland
Mr Geoffrey Stell
Architectural Historian
History Scotland
was launched in October 2001 at the Royal
Museum in Edinburgh by Professor Christopher Smout,
Historiographer Royal, who is now one of the magazine’s
patrons. It is backed by the Scottish history and archaeology
professions with leading representatives from a variety of
different disciplines on the Editorial Board.
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WRITING IN THIS ISSUE
Dr John Crawford
is a library and information historian specialising in Scottish library history. A former
chairman of the Library and Information History Group, he has written extensively on the subject and
presented at conferences, both in Britain and abroad.
On page 19, he takes a look at the history of Leadhills Miners’ Library and its role as a trailblazer in both
library provision and mutual ‘improvement’.
Dr Calum Cunningham
is a graduate of the University of Stirling, where he recently completed a PhD
thesis on the political criminalisation of Jacobitism.
Dr Alan Montgomery
is a Scottish writer and historian who currently lives in London. His book
Classical Caledonia: Roman History and Myth in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
was recently published
by Edinburgh University Press.
In The Jacobites and Classical Allusion (page 30), the co-authors share their research on how
clandestine allusions in architecture, text and material culture were used to signal support for
the Jacobites.
Dr Catriona M.M. Macdonald
is reader in late modern Scottish History at the University of Glasgow.
She has published widely on the social, political and culture history of Scotland in the 20th century,
and is the author of
Whaur Extremes Meet: Scotland’s Twentieth Century
(2009).
On page 66, Dr Macdonald takes us on a journey through the literacy of the Scottish History Society in
the 20th century, looking at its publications and past presidents.
Michiel Roscam Abbing
is an independent scholar living in the Dutch town of Hoorn. He was
awarded his doctorate at Amsterdam University with a thesis on Rembrandt documents in 1999,
and in 2021, he guest-curated the exhibition
Hansken, Rembrandt’s Elephant
in the Rembrandt
House Museum (Amsterdam), accompanied by the publication
Rembrandt’s Elephant: Following in
Hansken’s Footsteps.
Andy Drummond
is a writer living in Edinburgh, whose most recent books concern unbuilt railways
in the north-west of Scotland, and a study of a radical contemporary of Martin Luther. His novel
Elephantina
appeared in 2006, and he maintains a website of unlikely stories and more at www.
andydrummond.net.
The co-authors begin a two-part series on page 54, exploring a strange episode involving an elephant
found on a Dundee roadside in 1706. Where had this unusual visitor come from and what was its story?
Liesbeth Van Hulle
is a graduate of the University of the Highlands and Islands. She obtained an MLitt
in History of the Highlands and Islands and wrote her dissertation on how representative Donnchadh
Bàn Mac an t-Saoir’s poetry is of 18th-century Gaelic society.
To mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir, Liesbeth takes a look at
the Gaelic poet’s life and legacy. Read her research on page 44.
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