Contributors to the Old Statistical Account: Reverend Doctor James Octavius Playfair (1738-1819) This is the second guest blog post from the independent researcher John Moore, who is writing to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of a number of contributors to …Continue reading →

Contributors to the Old Statistical Account: Reverend John Clunie (1757-1819) 2019 is the 200th anniversary of the death of a number of contributors to the Old Statistical Accounts. This provides a perfect opportunity to discover those who wrote the actual …Continue reading →

Crime and punishment in late 18th-early 19th century Scotland: Prisons This is the last post in our series on crime and punishment in late 18th-early 19th century Scotland, this time focusing on prisons. In the Statistical Accounts there is a …Continue reading →

Crime and punishment in late 18th-early 19th century Scotland: Types of punishment In our last two blog posts in our series on crime and punishment we have looked at levels, types, causes and prevention of crime. But, how exactly did parishes in …Continue reading →

Highland Childhoods in the Old Statistical Accounts – Part 2 Guest blog post Here is the second part of the guest post by Helen Barton and Neil Bruce, MLitt students at the University of the Highlands and Islands, who have …Continue reading →

Highland Childhoods in the Old Statistical Accounts – Part 1 Guest blog post It is always wonderful to discover first-hand how people use the Statistical Accounts of Scotland. Two MLitt students of the University of the Highlands and Islands, Helen …Continue reading →

Crime and punishment in late 18th-early 19th century Scotland: Causes of crime and crime prevention This is the second in our series of posts on crime and punishment in 18th-19th century Scotland. This time we are looking at what the parish reporters thought were the …Continue reading →

Crime and punishment in late 18th-early 19th century Scotland: Levels and types of crime This is the first post in an exciting new blog series focusing on crime and punishment in late 18th-early 19th century Scotland. During the next few weeks we will be …Continue reading →

Women in Scotland: the poor and women’s health We continue with the theme of women in Scotland, this time focusing on poor women and what society did to help them, and women’s health. Poor women Many parishes reported …Continue reading →

Women in Scotland: Women in work In the last three of posts on women in Scotland we have discovered that women worked in many sectors, including manufacturing (spinning, weaving, needlework,etc), and the farming and fishing industries. …Continue reading →