Further Reading

List of useful books and sources about the history of the North East of Scotland. You can also check our Library catalogue for copies of a book.

Author

• Aberdeen Civic Society
  - Archibald Simpson Architect of Aberdeen 1790-1847. Aberdeen, 1978.
• Alexander W
  - Northern Rural Life.
  1870, reprinted Finzean, 1980.
• Allan J R
  - The North East Lowlands of Scotland.
  1952.
• Billings R W
  - The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland.
  1852.
• Brogden W
  - Aberdeen: an illustrated architectural guide.
  Edinburgh, 1986.
• Burl HAW
  - The stone circles of the British Isles.
  Yale, 1976.
• Clarke DY, Cowie TG, and Foxon A
  - Symbols of Power at the time of Stonehenge.
  Edinburgh, 1985.
• Clifford T, and Gow I
  - Duff House.
  Edinburgh, 1995.
• Close-Brooks J and Stevenson RBK
  - Dark Age Sculpture.
  Edinburgh, 1982.
• Cordiner C (in a series of letters to Thomas Pennant)
  - Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Scotland.
  1780.
• Cowie TG
  - Magic Metal.
  Aberdeen, 1988.
• Cruden S
  - The Scottish Castle.
  Edinburgh, 1960. Third edition, 1981.
• Davidson J
  - Inverurie and the Earldom of Mar.
  1878.
• Douglas F
  - A general description of the East Coast of Scotland.
  1782.
• Dunbar JG
  - The historic architecture of Scotland.
  London, 1966. Revised edition, 1978.
• Edwards, KJ & Ralston, IBM
  - Scotland - Environment and Archaeology.
  London, 1998.
• Fawcett R
  - Scottish medieval churches.
  Edinburgh, 1985.
• Fenton A and Walker B
  - The rural architecture of Scotland.
  Edinburgh, 1981.
• Forsyth R
  - The Beauties of Scotland.
  1806.
• Garioch Heritage Society
  - A Pictorial History of the Garioch.
  1991.
• Gordon District Council
  - The Stone Circle: Cordon's Early History.
  Inverurie, nd.
• Graham C
  - A Portrait of Aberdeen and Deeside.
  1984.
• Groome F
  - Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland.
  1888/96.
• Hamilton H (ed)
  - Life and Labour on an Aberdeenshire Estate, 1735-50.
  1946.
• Hamilton R
  - The Pluscarden Story.
  Pluscarden, 1977.
• Henshall AS
  - The chambered tombs of Scotland, vols 1-2.
  Edinburgh, 1963 & 1972.
• Howat AJ and Seton M
  - Churches of Moray.
  Elgin, 1981.
• Hume JR
  - The industrial archaeology of Scotland, II.
  The Highlands and Islands, London, 1977.
• Jervise A
  - Epitaphs and Inscriptions.
  1875, 1879.
• Laing A
  - The Donean Tourist.
  1828.
• Leith Hay
  - A The Castellated Architecture of Aberdeenshire.
  1849.
• Lord Cockburn
  - Circuit Journeys.
  1888
• MacGibbon D and Ross T
  - The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland.
  Edinburgh 1897.
• Marren P
  - Grampian Battlefields.
  1990.
• McConnochie A I (ed)
  - The Book of Ellon.
  1901.
• McConnochie A I
  - Donside.
  1901.
• McKean C
  - Banff and Buchan: an illustrated architectural guide.
  Edinburgh, 1990.
• McKean C
  - The District of Moray: an illustrated architectural guide.
  Edinburgh, 1987.
• Munro RW
  - Scottish Lighthouses.
  Stornoway, 1979.
• Ogston A
  - The prehistoric antiquities of the Howe of Cromar.
  Aberdeen, 1931.
• Omand D (ed)
  - The Grampian Book, Goispie.
  1986.
• Pratt J B
  - Buchan
  1858.
• Ralston I and Inglis J
  - Foul Hordes: the Picts in the North-Fast and their background.
  Aberdeen, 1984.
• Ralston I, Sabine K, and Watt
  - 'Later prehistoric settlements in north-east Scotland: a preliminary assessment', in: Chapman JC, and Mytum HC (eds). Settlements in North Britain, 1000 BC-i 000 AD, Oxford, 149-73 (1983).
• Ritchie A
  - Scotland BC.
  Edinburgh 1988.
• Ritchie A
  - Picts.
  Edinburgh, 1989.
• Ritchie G and Ritchie A
  - Scotland: archaeology and early history.
  Edinburgh, 1991.
• Royal Commission
  - Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Archaeological Sites and Monuments Series, nos 15 (South Kincardine) and 21 (North Kincardine),Edinburgh, 1982 and 1984
• Sellar WD (ed)
  - Moray Province and People.
  Edinburgh, 1993.
• Shepherd I A G
  - Powerful Pots: Beakers in north-east prehistory.
  Aberdeen, 1986.
• Shepherd I A G
  - Exploring Scotland's Heritage: Aberdeen and North-East Scotland.
  Edinburgh, 2 ed, 1996.
• Shepherd I A G
  - Gordon: an illustrated architectural guide.
  Edinburgh 1994.
• Shepherd I A G and Greig MK
  - Grampian's Past - its archaeology from the air.
  Aberdeen, 1996.
• Shepherd I A G and Ralston IBM
  - Early Grampian: a guide to the archaeology.
  Aberdeen, 1979.
• Simpson, WD
  - The Earldom of Mar.
  Aberdeen, 1949.
• Simpson WD
  - The Province of Mar.
  Aberdeen, 1944.
• Skinner BC
  - Pluscarden Abbey.
  Pluscarden, 1981.
• Smith JS (ed)
  - Farmfolk and Fisherfolk.
  1989.
• Smith JS (ed)
  - New light on medieval Aberdeen.
  Aberdeen, 1985.
• Stones JA (ed)
  - A Tale of Two Burghs: the archaeology of Old and New Aberdeen.
  Aberdeen, 1987.
• Tabraham C
  - Scottish castles and fortifications.
  Edinburgh, 1986.
• Turreff G
  - Antiquarian Gleanings from Aberdeenshire Records.
  1859.
• Tranter N
  - The Queen's Scotland. The eastern counties, Aberdeenshire, Angus and Kincardine.
  London, 1972.
• Tranter N
  - The Queen's Scotland. The north-east, the shires of Banff Moray, Nairn, with Faster Inverness and Easter Ross.
  London, 1974.
• Watson WH A.
  - Marshall Mackenzie - Architect in Aberdeen.
  Aberdeen, 1985.
• Winram R
  - The Land o'Lonach.
  1986.
• Wood S
  - The shaping of 19th-century Aberdeenshire.
  Stevenage, 1985.
• Wylie D
  - Sand and Silence: lost villages of the North.
  1986.

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