Erskine Beveridge Boeken

This meticulously researched and beautifully presented volume offers a rare glimpse into the history of Dunfermline, one of Scotland's most historic and culturally significant towns. With transcriptions of key documents from the period between 1488 and 1584, the book sheds light on the day-to-day life of the town, offering fascinating insights into the lives of ordinary people as well as the ruling elites. With accompanying notes and commentary by the distinguished historian Erskine Beveridge, this is a book that will appeal to anyone interested in the social, cultural and political history of Scotland.

The bibliography serves as a comprehensive resource detailing literature related to Dunfermline and West Fife, compiled by Erskine Beveridge, a notable historian from the area. It lists a variety of writings on local history, archaeology, genealogy, folklore, and literature, alongside a brief history of the region and notable figures associated with it. This work is invaluable for those studying the cultural and historical aspects of Dunfermline and remains a significant reference for scholars and researchers, despite being a facsimile reprint of the original.

First published in 1903, this is the classic account of the history and archaeology of Coll and Tiree and the neighbouring Treshnish Isles

A stranger, upon landing at Lochmaddy - the principal harbour of North Uist - is apt to receive an unfavourable impression from the vastexpanse of bogs occupying its east side, which is also absolutely treeless and relieved only by a few hills of no great elevation and by thetortuous recesses of salt water lochs penetrating its seaboard.Thus Erskine Beveridge opens his classic account of the archaeology and topography of North Uist, the island where he spent much of hislife. Published in a limited edition in 1911 the book fetched extraordinary prices in the antiquarian market. The book was reprinted as a limitededition in 1999 by Birlinn and these are the last few copies of this reprint. The range and quality of Beveridge's work was not surpassed untilthe most recent series of Royal Commission inventories of the 1970s and 1980s and it is all the more extraordinary that this level of expertiseand range of knowledge should be combined in one individual. Adding to the fascination of the book are more than 150 plates showing theisland and its sites in a condition from which many have greatly changed. With sections from earliest times to the post Reformation times, sections on clan history, climate, topography, place names and much else besides, this is not simply the most important book ever written onNorth Uist but one of the finest works of scholarship ever produced on a Hebridean island.