Scottish Archives

The Association's annual journal, containing papers from SRA conferences, articles on archival collections and research in progress, book reviews and opinion pieces. See below for contents lists for each edition.

Scottish Archives
Volume 1 (1995)

• P Cadell, The Archives of Scotland
• I Morrison, Evidence of Climatic change before and During the Age of Agricultural Improvement
• A A Sclater, Picturesque Privacy: landscape improvement at Culzean from c.1750
• I D Whyte, Before the Improvers: agriculture and landscape change in lowland Scotland c.1600-c.1750
• A Hendry, Archibald Hamilton of Rozelle (1778-1848): the improving hand
  R H Campbell, The Agricultural Revolution of the Twentieth Century
• M M Stewart, 'In Durance Vile': crime and punishment in seventeenth and eighteenth century Dumfries
• M A Crowther, Criminal Precognitions and their Value to the Historian
• I Donnachie, Profiling Criminal Offences: the evidence of the Lord Advocate's papers
• L Yeoman, The Devil as Doctor: witchcraft, Wodrow and the wider world
• J Merchant, The Dundee Maidservants' Agitation 1872
• Around the Archives: The Scottish Theatre Archive

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Scottish Archives
Volume 2 (1996)

• S Connelly, The Proper Place for Archives in the New Scottish Local Authorities
• I G Brown, 'On Classic Ground': records of the Grand Tour
• A J Durie, Sources for the Study of Tourism in Nineteenth Century Scotland
• A Hiley, 'Scotland's Name is Poetry to our Ears': German travellers in Scotland c.1800-1860
• P G Vasey, 'Visitors and Voyages': a personal selection of travel diaries and related material in the Scottish Record Office
• R H Campbell, Irish Paupers in Wigtownshire after 1845
• I Levitt, Henry Littlejohn and Scottish Health Policy, 1859-1908
• L Fryer, The Covenanters' Lost Colony in South Carolina
• Around the Archives: Aberdeen University Archives and the Highland Regional Archives

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Scottish Archives
Volume 3 (1997)

• R H Campbell and M A Crowther, The Scottish Records Advisory Council
• R Saville, Banking Archives and Scottish History
• A Durie, 'Notes Very Much Chattered with Mice': banking records as a source for the study of local history
• S McDonald, Bank of Scotland Archives: past, present and future
• V Wilkinson, Hidden Treasure: a brief insight into the Scottish archives of the royal Bank of Scotland
• B Peters, Coutts & Co. - a Bank of Information
• D J Withrington, Sources for Scottish Schooling Before 1872: challenges and opportunities
• A Lindsay, Sources for the Study of Education in the Scottish Record Office
  W B Marker, Sources for the History of Scottish Teacher Education in the Twentieth Century
• L Moore, Researching the Education of Middle Class Girls: with particular reference to private schools
• F Bigwood, A Database of sources for West Coast fishing and Trading enterprises 1750-1800
• Around the Archives: Clan Donald Archives and Traquair House Archives

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Scottish Archives
Volume 4 (1998)

• A T Wilson, Following Follett: some related issues in Scottish university archives
• I Flett, The Genealogy of Archives: root and branch of the tree of administration
• J Scally, The Hamilton Papers as a source for the history of the British Civil Wars
• W Ferguson, Record Sources for the Electoral History of Scotland
• I G C Hutchison, Archival Sources for the Study of Scottish Political History in the 19th and 20th Centuries
• W H Fraser, Tracing the Rise of Independent Labour in Scotland
• R J Finlay, The Anatomy of the Birth of the Scottish National Party, 1918-1942
• C Burness, Tracing Women in Scottish Politics since 1880
• P R McCleave, Family, Friends and Feminism: a mid-Victorian retrospect
• A Murray, Dirty Work at the Exchequer: Inverness's charter and accounts, 1592-1594
• S Kingston, A Previously Unremarked Clann Eoin Mhoir Genealogy
• Around the Archives: The Scottish Brewing Archives and Aberdeen City Archives

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Scottish Archives
Volume 5 (1999)

• E Reid, Above the Parapet: some thoughts on the future structure of archives in Scotland
• F Maxwell Stuart, Inside View
• G Stamp, It Looks Like Carelessness, or, in Search of Alexander Greek Thomson
• J Lowrey, Archives and Archaeology: the prehistory of Queensberry House, Edinburgh
• I Gray, Dean of Guild Court Records: a unique source for Scottish urban history
• I Gow, Archerfield: the reconstruction of Robert Adam's last interior
• B S Skillen, Land Use and Urban History in the Glasgow Context
• A L Murray, The Town Clerk of Perth's Liber Omne Gaderum 1425
• I Levitt, Scottish Air Services, 1935-75 and the Scottish New Towns, 1943-75: a guide to records at the National Archives of Scotland
• Around the Archives: photographic collections in St Andrews University Library and Scottish twentieth century architectural archives
• Research in Progress: a seventeenth century description of herring fishing off the west coast of Scotland and sources for identifying and accrediting architectural sculpture

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Scottish Archives
Volume 6 (2000)

• C Kitching, Archives at the Millennium: what we learned and how we can take it forward
• P Cadell, Scottish Archives: problems and opportunities
• I Barnes, The Scottish Archive Network and Future Issues for Scottish Archives
• I Flett, Scottish Local Government Archives in the New Millenium: modernity and majesty or meltdown and mediocrity?
• L M Richmond, Determining the Future of Scottish History: the challenge of digital records to Scottish archivists
• R Bigwood, A User's View of the Archives
• I Levitt, Scottish Papers Presented to the British Cabinet 1917-66: their archival and historical significance
• A Jones, Rescued from Oblivion? The case of Mary Burton and Liberton Bank House
• R J Tanner, Outside the Acts: perceptions of the Scottish Parliament
• H Holmes, Viewing an 'Underworld': sources of evidence for Irish potato workers in early twentieth century Scotland
• Around the Archives: Ayrshire Archives and the Scottish Jewish Archive Centre
  Research in Progress: the third duke of Buccleuch, Adam Smith and the Entail Act of 1770

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Scottish Archives
Volume 7 (2001)

• G Mackenzie, Continuity and Change - Challenges in Scottish Archives
• G Dixon, Some Problems in Scottish Archives
• J G Harrison, 'Policing' the Stirling Area, 1660-1706
• M M Stewart, 'A Policeman's Lot' : Police Records in Dumfries and Galloway, 1850-1950
• A Dinsmor and R H J Urquhart, The Origins of Modern Policing in Scotland
• I Levitt, The Scottish Emergencies Organisation, the Scottish Islands and the Seamen's Strike, 1966
• M Storrie, Recovering the Historic Designed Landscape of Islay Estate
• Around the Archives: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, and Heriot-Watt University Archives

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Scottish Archives
Volume 8 (2002)

• M Moss, The Archival Task Force - the charge
• K M Forbes and R H J Urquhart, Records in the National Archives of Scotland Relating to Poor Relief, 1845-1930
• R E Tyson, Poverty and Poor Relief in Aberdeen, 1680-1705
• W W Groves, The New Poor Law in Nineteenth Century Scotland, with special reference to Lanarkshire
• K Wilbraham and C Lodge, Responses to Poverty in Ayrshire, 1574-1845
• J Rock, Richard Cooper, Senior, and the Beginnings of Rococo Taste in Scotland: documents from the Traquair Archives
• M Nix, A Comparison of Published and Unpublished Records Relating to Trade Between Leith and Australia in the Early 1820s
• E Williamson, Schoolboy Scribbles on a Burgh Court Book
• Around the Archives: The Skye and Lochalsh Museums Service, and the Mount Stuart Archive

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Scottish Archives
Volume 9 (2003)

• M.Tyson, Digital Access to the records of Scotland's people
• H.Anderson, ScottishDocuments.com - Testaments online
• E Roads, Four centuries of visual identity: the Archives of the Court of the Lord Lyon
• I G Brown, Filling the Holes in the Todholes Aisle
• D Baptie, Apprentices in the north-east of Scotland
• P MacInnes, The Greenock Cut - Past and Present
• C Jones, The 'Squadrone Volante' deciphered, 1707-1714: the Correspondence of George Baillie of Jerviswood, the Duke of Montrose and the MArquess of Tweeddale, together with the Keys to the Ciphers used
• Around the Archives, ARCHON and Scotland, Arniston House Papers and Blair and Glamis Castle

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Scottish Archives
Volume 10 (2004)

• C Jackson, 'Assize of Error' and the Independence of the Criminal Jury in Restoration Scotland
• F Bigwood, The Courts of Argyll, 1664-1825
• B Longmore, The High Court of Justiciary Databases: a 'Solemn Path' through Crime
• B Inglis, 'Scottish Testamentary Inventories: a neglected source for the study of Scottish agriculture - Dunblane, 1660-1740
• T Clarke, Scottish Soldier's wills, 1857-1965
• D Webster, Little acorns and tall oaks: Project Pont and after
• Around the Archives, The National Register of Archives for Scotland, the House of the Binns and Archival and Manuscript resources for Scottish history in North Carolina repositories
  Includes Indexes to volumes 1 to 10 of Scottish Archives by author and by archive repository.

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