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Castles and Abbeys/Churches
Clans
Costume History
Culture and Folklore
'Forty-five (Rising of 1745)
Gaelic and Scots
History
Magazines
Maps and Travel Books
Medicine
Nature
Videos and Movies

 
Castles & Abbeys/Churches
Blair Castle Guidebook
Cantlie, Hugh. Ancestral Castles of Scotland.  London: Collins & Brown, 1992.
Doune Castle Guidebook
Edinburgh: a Guide to the Royal Mile and Old Town
Edinburgh Castle Guidebook
Fawcett, Richard.  Scottish Cathedrals.  (Historic Scotland) London: B. T. Batsford, 1997.
Fawcett, Richard.  Stirling Castle.  (Historic Scotland) London: B. T. Batsford, 1995.
Fraprie, Frank Roy. Castles and Keeps of Scotland.  New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993.
Fry, Plantagenet Somerset. Castles of Britain and Ireland.  New York: Abbeville Press, 1996.
Linlithgow Palace Guidebook
MacIvor, Iain. Edinburgh Castle.  (Historic Scotland) London: B. T. Batsford, 1997.
Palace of Holyroodhouse Official Guide
Ross, Susan.  Chambers Guide to the Castles of Scotland.  Chambers. 
Stair-Kerr, Eric. Stirling Castle: Its Place in Scottish History. Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons, 
     1913.
Stirling Castle Guidebook
Tabraham, Chris.  Scotland's Castles (Historic Scotland) London: B. T. Batsford, 1997.
Urquhart Castle Guidebook
Wallace, Joyce M.  Historic Houses of Edinburgh.  Edinburgh: John Donald, 1987.

 
Clans
Clan Cameron Museum Guidebook
Bartholomew Maps: Clan Cameron
Blackie, Lorna. Clans and Tartans: the Fabric of Scotland.  New York: Gallery Books, 1987.
Clan Cameron (Your Clan Heritage Books)  Jedburgh: Cascade Publishing, 1983.
Clan Macgregor (Your Clan Heritage Books) Jedburgh: Cascade Publishing, 1983.
Dunlop, Jean.  The Clan Mackenzie.  Stirling: Johnston & Bacon, 1987.
Fraser of Reelig, Charles Ian. The Clan Cameron.  Stirling: Johnston & Bacon, 1987.
Fulton, Alexander. Scotland and Her Tartans.  New Yoyk: Gallery Books, 1991.
Grant, James.  Clans and Tartans of Scotland.  Wordsworth Editions, 1992.
Grant, Neil.  Scottish Clans and Tartans.  Crescent Books, 1987.
Grimble, Ian.  Scottish Clans and Tartans.  New York: Harmony Books, 1973.
Kernack, W. R.  The Clan Macgregor: the Nameless Clan.  Edinburgh: Johnston & Bacon, 1972.
Lenman, Bruce.  The Jacobite Clans of the Great Glen 1650-1784.  London: Metheun, 1984.
Maclean, Charles. Clan Almanac.  New York: Crescent Books, 1990.
Maclean, Fitzroy.  Highlanders: a History of the Scottish Clans.  NY: Penguin, 1995.
Macgregor, Forbes. Clan Gregor.  Edinburgh: Clan Gregor Society, 1977.
McKerral, Andrew. Clan Campbell.  Stirling: Johnston & Bacon, 1984.
Moncrieffe, Sir Iain. Highland Clans (revised edition)  New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1982.
Pine, L. G.  The Highland Clans.  Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1972.
Stewart of Ardvorlich, John. The Camerons: a History of Clan Cameron. Clan Cameron Association.
Stewart of Ardvorlich, John. The Stewarts.  Stirling: Johnston & Bacon, 1987.
Way of Plean, George and Romilly Squire.  Collins Scottish Clan and Family Encyclopedia.  Glasgow: 
     HarperCollins, 1994.

 
Costume History
Bird, Linda. The Scots.  Grand Rapids, OH: Smoke and Fire News, 1996.
Dunbar, John Telfer. Highland Costume.  Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1983.
Maxwell, Stuart, and Robin Hutchinson. Scottish Costume 1550-1850. Dufour, 1959.
McIan, R. R.  The Clans of the Scottish Highlands: the Costumes of the Clans.  New York: Knopf, 1980.
Tartans: the Facts and Myths.  Norwich: Jarrold Publishing, 1990.
 

Culture & Folklore
Bennett, Margaret. Scottish Customs from the Cradle to the Grave. Edinburgh: Polygon, 1992.
Campbell, John Gregorson. Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.  Detroit: Singing
     Tree Press, 1970.
Cannon, Roderick D.  The Highland Bagpipe and Its Music. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1988.
Carmichael, Alexander.  Carmina Gadelica.  Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1928.
Carter, Jenny and Janet Roe. Chambers Guide to Traditional Crafts of Scotland.  Edinburgh: 
     Chambers, 1988.
Davidson, Thomas.  Rowan Tree and Red Thread.  Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1949.
Douglas, Ronald MacDonald. The Scots Book.  London: Bracken Books, 1995.
Early Scottish Poetry.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1971.
Finlay, Ian.  Scottish Crafts.  New York: Chanticleer Press.
Flett, J. P. & T. I. Traditional Dancing in Scotland.  London: Routledge & Paul Kegan, 1985.
Frazer, Sir James George. The Golden Bough.  New York: Macmillan, 1963.
Graham, Henry Gray.  Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century.  London: A & C Black, 
     1928.
Grant, I. F. Highland Folk Ways.  London: Routledge, 1961.
Highland Folk Museum Guidebook
Handley, James E.  Scottish Farming in the Eighteenth Century. London: Faber & Faber.
Hazlitt, W. Carew.  Faiths and Folklore of the British Isles.  Benjamin Blom.
Jarvie, Grant.  Highland Games: the Making of the Myth.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991.
Lamont-Brown, Raymond. Scottish Superstitions.  Edinburgh: Chambers, 1990.
Livingstone, Sheila. Scottish Customs.  Edinburgh: Birlinn, 1996.
Maclean, Virginia.  Much Entertainment: a Visual and Culinary Record of Johnson and Boswell’s 
     Tour of Scotland in 1773.  New York: Liveright, 1973.
Macgregor, Alexander. Highland Superstitions.  Bruceton Mills, WV: Unicorn Ltd., 1991.
Marriage and Property.  Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1984.
McPhee, John.  The Crofter and the Laird.  New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1970.
Milligan, Jean C. and D. G. MacLennan. Dances of Scotland.  New York: Chanticleer Press.
Plant, Marjorie.  The Domestic Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh 
     University Press, 1952.
Ross, Anne. The Folklore of the Scottish Highlands.  London: B. T. Batsford, 1990.
Scots Book of Lore and Folklore.  New York: Beekman House, 1982.
Scott, Walter. Manners, Customs, and History of the Highlanders of Scotland and the Historical
     Account of the Clan MacGregor. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993.
The Scottish World: History and Culture of Scotland.  New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981.
Shepherd, Robbie. Let's Have a Ceilidh.  Edinburgh: Canongate Press, 1992.
Swire, Otta F.  The Highlands and Their Legends.  Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1963.
Taylor, G. Douglas.  Some Traditional Scottish Dances.  London: Imperial Society of Teachers of 
     Dancing, 1955.
Thompson, Francis. Supernatural Highlands.  Edinburgh: Luath Press, 1997.
Thurston, H. A.  Scotland’s Dances.  London: G. Bell and Sons, 1955.
Wimberly, Lowry Charles.  Folklore in the English and Scottish Ballads.  Chicago: University of 
     Chicago Press, 1928.
Withers, Charles W. J.  Gaelic Scotland: the Transformation of a Culture Region.  New York: Routledge, 
     1988.


 
The ’Forty-five
The ’45 to Gather an Image Whole.  Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1988.
1745: Charles Edward Stuart and the Jacobites
Black, Jeremy. Culloden and the '45.  Phoenix Mills, UK: Alan Sutton, 1990.
Chambers, Robert.  History of the Rebellion of 1745-1746.  London: W. & R. Chambers, 1869.
Collected Papers of the Jacobite Risings.  New York: Manchester University Press, 1971.
Craig, Maggie. Damn' Rebel Bitches: the Women of the '45.  Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1997.
Culloden: the Swords and the Sorrows.  National Trust of Scotland, 1996.
Daiches, David.  The Last Stuart.  New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Dalgleish, George, and Dallas Mechan. ‘I am Come Home’: Treasures of Prince Charles Edward 
     Stuart.  National Museum of Antiquities of  Scotland, 1985.
Erikson, Carolly.  Bonnie Prince Charlie.  New York: William Morrow, 1989.
The Final Campaign
The ‘Forty-five: the last Jacobite Rebellion
Gibson, John Sibbald. Lochiel of the '45: the Jacobite Chief and the Prince.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh 
     University Press, 1995.
Harrington, Peter. Culloden 1746: the Highland Clans’ Last Charge (Campaign Series)  Oxford: 
     Osprey, 1991.
Hibbert, Christopher.  The Tower of London.  New York: Newsweek, 1971.
Highland Songs of the Forty-five.  Edinburgh: Scottish Gaelic Texts Society, 1984.
Hook, Michael, & Ross, Walter. The 'Forty-five: the Last Jacobite Rebellion.  Edinburgh: HMSO,
     1995.
The Jacobite Army in England in 1745
Johnstone, Chevalier de.  The Memoirs of the Rebellion in 1745 and 1746.  London: Longman Hurst 
     Rees Orme & Brown, 1820.
Kybett, Susan Maclean. Bonnie Prince Charlie.  New York: Dodd, Mead, 1988.
Lang, Andrew.  Pickle the Spy or the Incognito of Prince Charles. New York: AMS Press, 1970.
Lenman, Bruce.  The Jacobite Risings in Britain 1689-1746.  London: Eyre Metheun, 1980.
Linklater, Eric. Prince in the Heather.  London: Grafton Books, 1965.
MacKenzie, Agnes Mure.  The Passing of the Stewarts.  Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd.
McLynn, Frank.  Charles Edward Stuart: a Tragedy in Many Acts. New York: Routledge, 1988.
Platt, Colin and Mike McCarthy. Carlisle Castle.  English Heritage, 1992.
Prebble, John. Culloden.  London: Penguin, 1961.
Preston, Diana.  The Road to Culloden Moor: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the ’45 Rebellion.  London: 
     Constable, 1996.
The Prisoners of the ’45.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1928.
Reid, Stuart. Like Hungry Wolves: Culloden Moor 16 April 1746. London: Windrow and Greene, 
     1994.
Reid, Stuart. 1745: a Military History of the Last Jacobite Uprising. New York: Sarpedon, 1966.
Selby, John.  Over the Sea to Skye: the Forty-five.  New York: St. Martins, 1973.
Smith, Annette M.  Jacobite Estates of the Forty-five.  Edinburgh: John Donald, 1982.
Speck, W. A.. The Butcher: the Duke of Cumberland and the Suppression of the ’45.  Caernarfon: 
     Welsh Academic Press, 1995.
Thomson, Mrs.  Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745.  London: Richard Bentley, 1845.
Tomasson, Katherine.  The Jacobite General.  Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1958.
Tomasson, Katherine and Frances Buist.  Battles of the ’45.  London: B. T. Batsford, 1962.
Willmott-Dixon.  The Jacobite Episode in Scottish History and Its Relative Literature.  Edinburgh:
     John Menzies, 1894.
1745: Charles Edward Stuart and the Jacobites.  Edinburgh: HMSO, 1995.

 
Gaelic & Scots
The Concise Scots Dictionary.  Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1991.
Macdonald, J. A.  Gaidhlig BHEO (National Extension College - v1, units 1-8).  An Comunn 
     Gaidhealach, 1976.
MacKay, Charles. Auld Scots Dictionary.  Glasgow: Lang Syne Publishers, 1992.
MacClennan, Malcolm. Gaelic Dictionary.  Acair & Mercat Press, 1992.
Robertson, Boyd, and Iain Taylor. Teach Yourself Gaelic.  NTC Publishing Group, 1993.
 

History
Bannockburn Guidebook and Storybook
Bingham, Caroline. Beyond the Highland Line: Highland History and Culture.  London: Constable, 
     1998.
Blundell, Nigel. Ancient Scotland.  New York: Chartwell Books, 1996.
Brander, Michael.  The Making of the Highlands.  London: Constable, 1980.
Burnett, Charles J., and Christopher J. Tabraham.  The Honours of Scotland.  Historic Scotland.
Cameron, Joy.  Prisons and Punishment in Scotland from the Middle Ages to the Present
     Edinburgh: Cannongate, 1983.
Campbell, John Gregorson. Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
     Detroit: Singing Tree Press, 1970.
Collins Encyclopedia of Scotland.  London: HarperCollins, 1994.
Cunningham, A. D. History of Rannoch. 1989.
Donnachie, Ian & George Hewitt. Companion to Scottish History: Reformation to Present.  New York: 
     Facts on File, 1989.
Fairbairn, Neil and Michael Cyprien. A Traveler's Guide to the Battlefields of Britain. Harrisburg: 
     Historical Times, 1983.
Fawcett, Richard. The Architectural History of Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994.
Fisher, Andrew.  A Traveler's History of Scotland.  New York: Interline, 1990.
Graham, Ian Charles Carrel. Colonists from Scotland: Emigration to North America, 1707-1783
     Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, 1956.
Grant, I. F., & Hugh Cheap. Periods in Highland History.  London: Shepherd-Walwyn, 1997.
Hanley, Cliff. History of Scotland.  Greenwich, CT: Dourest Press, 1986.
Hanley, Cliff.  The Scots.  New York: New York Times Books, 1980.
Howell, Hazlitt.  Highland Constable: the Life and Times of Rob Roy Macgregor.  Edinburgh: 
     Blackwood and Sons, 1950.
Hill, James Michael. Celtic Warfare 1595-1763.  Edinburgh: John Donald, 1986.
The Jacobite Challenge.  Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1988.
Jennifer, Michael.  Scotland Through the Ages.  Michael Joseph, 1987.
Larder, Christina.  Enemies of God: the Witching in Scotland. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1981.
Mackinaw of Dunking, Charles. Scottish Highlanders.  New York: St. Martins, 1984.
Maclean, Fitzroy.  A Concise History of Scotland.  Viking Press, 1970.
Maclean, Fitzroy. Highlanders.  New York: Viking Studio Books, 1995.
Macleod, John. Highlanders: a History of the Gaels.  Hotter and Stoughton, 1997.
Maclean, Ann, & Mica Sharp. Prehistoric Scotland.  New York: New Amsterdam, 1989.
Meter, Dune.  The Highland Scots of North Carolina 1732-1776. Chapel Hill: University of North 
     Carolina Press, 1961.
Hutchinson, Rosalind.  A History of Scotland.  Mouthed & Co, 1970.
Moody, David. Scottish Local History: an Introductory Guide. London: B. T. Batsford.
Museum of Scotland Guidebook
Porringer, Geoffrey.  Witchcraft: European and African.  London: Faber & Faber, 1963.
Plainer, Radomír.  The Celtic Sword.  Oxford: Clarkson Press, 1993.
Prebble, John. Glencoe: the Story of the Massacre.  London: Penguin, 1968.
Reid, Stuart. Highland Clansmen 1689-1746 (Warrior Series)  Oxford: Osprey, 1997.
Saddler, John. Scottish Battles from Mons Graupius to Culloden. Edinburgh: Canongate, 1996.
Scottish Weapons and Fortifications 1100-1800.  Edinburgh: John Donald, 1981.
Sharpie, Charles Kirkpatrick. A Historical Account of the Belief in Witchcraft in Scotland.  New York: 
     Barnes & Noble, 1972.
Summers, Giblet J.  Rob Roy Macgregor Rogue or Romantic Hero? Norwich: Jarrold, 1986.
Tabraham, Chris, and Doormen Grove. Fortress Scotland and the Jacobites (Historic Scotland) 
     London: B. T. Batsford, 1996.
Trainer, Nigel. Rob Roy Macgregor.  New York: Barnes & Nobel, 1995.
Warner, Philip.  Famous Scottish Battles.  New York: Barnes & Noble, 1975.


 
Magazines
Antonio, A. E.  “'Hand fasting' in Scotland,” The Scottish Historical Review (October 1958, XXXVII:124).
Dalriada Quarterly issues 1997-2000
Douglas, Hugh.  “Bonnie Prince Charlie,” British Illustrated History (July 1977, IV:2, pages 18-31).
In Britain
Mills, Eric.  “Romancing the Stone: a Scottish Sport is Hot on Maryland Ice,” Maryland Magazine
     (Winter 1992, 25:2, pages 24-29).
Realm
Scottish Life
U. S. Scots - Autumn 1998 (Heavy Athletics)
U. S. Scots - Summer 1999 (Living Languages)
 

Maps & Travel books
Bartholomew Maps: Scotland Touring
Bartholomew Maps: Northwest Scotland
Bartholomew Maps: Southeast Scotland
Bartholomew Maps: Northeast Scotland
Bartholomew Maps: Southwest Scotland
Baxter, John, David Winpenny, and Charles Aithie.  Scottish Highlands and Islands.  Passport 
     Books, 1997.
Best of the Highlands: a Tourist Guide to Fort William and Lochaber. Jarrold Publishing, 1992.
Blake, George, and others. Scotland’s Splendour.  Glasgow: Collins, 1960.
Crowl, Philip A.  The Intelligent Traveller’s Guide to Historic Scotland.  New York: Congdon and Weed, 
     1986.
Daiches, David.  Edinburgh.  Granada, 1978.
Fodor’s Scotland
Giddie, John.  Edinburgh.  London: Black and Sons.
Gifford, John, and Collin McWilliam and David Walker.  Edinburgh. New York: Penguin Books, 1984.
Insight Guide: Scotland.  APA Publications, 1990.
Linklater, Eric.  Edinburgh.  New York: Macmillan, 1961.
Mackenzie, W. C.  The Highlands and Isles of Scotland.  Edinburgh: Moray Press.
Miers. Cadogan Guide: Scotland. London: Cadogan Books, 1991.
Morris, Jan, and Paul Wakefield. Scotland: the Place of Visions. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1986.
Murray, W. H.  The Companion Guide to the West Highlands of Scotland.  Prentice Hall, 1984.
Naismith, Robert J.  Story of Scotland’s Towns.  Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1989.
National Trust for Scotland Guide. London: Jonathan Cape, 1976.
The Raising of the Standard – Glenfinnan.  National Trust of Scotland. 
Ruthven Barracks, Badenoch.
Scotland in Pictures.  Lerner, 1991.
The Scottish Lochs.  London: Constable, 1980.
Summers, Gilbert. Exploring Rural Scotland.  Lincolnwood, IL: Passport Books, 1990.
Sutherland, Dorothy B.  Scotland (Enchantment of the World). Childrens Press, 1985.
Thomson, David.  Nairn in Darkness and Light.  London: Hutchinson, 1987.
Tomes, John.  Blue Guide: Scotland.  New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.


 
Medicine
Comrie, John D.  The History of Scottish Medicine to 1860.  London: Baillière, Tindall & Cox, 1927.
Coupland, Robin M.  Amputation for War Wounds.  Geneva: International Committee of the Red 
     Cross, 1992.
Hamilton, David.  The Healers: a History of Medicine in Scotland.  Edinburgh: Canongate, 1981.
Kolb, Laurence.  The Painful Phantom: Psychology, Physiology & Treatment. Springfield, IL: 
     Charles C. Thomas, 1954.
Page, David W.  Body Trauma.  Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest, 1996.
Reid, William, and John G. Pollack. The Surgeon’s Management of Gangrene. Baltimore: University 
     Park Press, 1978.
Warren, David J.   Old Medical and Dental Instruments.  Princess Risborough, UK: Shire Publications, 
     1999.

 
Nature
Archibald, Malcolm. Scottish Animal and Bird Folklore.  Edinburgh: St. Andrews Press, 1996.
Britain's Wildlife, Plants, and Flowers.  London: Reader’s Digest, 1987.
Darling, F. Fraser.  Wild Country: a Highland Naturalist’s Notes and Pictures.  Cambridge University 
     Press, 1938.
Darwin, Tess. The Scots Herbal: the Plant Lore of Scotland. Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1997.
Fairweather, Barbara. Highland Plant Lore.
Highland Wildlife Park Explorers Guide.
Prior, Colin, & Magnus Linklater. Highland Wilderness.  London: Constable, 1993.
Stephen, Donald.  Scottish Wild Life.  London: Hutchinson & Co., 1964.
Thom, Valerie, M.  Birds in Scotland.

 
Videos & Movies
Battle of the Clans
Bonnie Prince Charlie – starring David Niven
Castles of Scotland
Clan Cameron
Culloden 1746: the Last Highland Charge
Ghosts of Ireland, Scotland, and England
Great Castles of Europe: Highland Castles
The Highlanders
The Jacobites
Legends of the Isles: Bonnie Prince Charles
Master of Ballantrae – starring Errol Flynn
Rob Roy – starring Liam Nieeson
Rob Roy: the True Story
Scotland
Touring Scotland

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