Paperback book `Atlas of Scottish History to 1707` edited by Peter G. B. Macneill and Hector L MacQueen.
Maps, diagrams, plans, charts and tables covering the history of Scotland from the earliest times up to 1707.
2000.225.5
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Dates: 1600s
1998.320.39
Paperback book `Duanaire Colach` by Colm O Baoill.
Anthology of Gaelic poems and songs from Coll between 1537 and 1757.
2001.176.1
Account of the Clark family titled `Tiree Tales`.
Account of the Clark family and their connections to Tiree, with three family trees.
1999.302.8
Paperback book `The People of the Great Faith` by Douglas Ansdell.
The history of the Church in the Highlands 1690-1900.
2000.50.7
Hardback book `The West Highland Galley` by Denis Rixson.
The history of the west highland galley or birlinn.
2000.182.5
Family tree of tacksmen of Tiree 1660-1716 by Major MacLean Bristol.
Family tree of tacksmen of Tiree 1660-1716 by Major MacLean Bristol.
2000.183.3
Photocopied extract `The history of the seaweed industry: a miscellany of industries` by Ernest Booth.
The history of seaweed industry and the uses of agar, carrageen, feeding stuff and fertilisers.
2001.1.4
Paperback book `A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland circa 1695` by Martin Martin, 1703
Written by Martin Martin a native and Gaelic speaker, it casts light on the Hebrides when the old structure of society held sway before the Jacobite rebellions (for Tiree see pp 294-6). Includes Martin Martin`s `A Voyage to St Kilda`, and `A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland` 1549, by Sir Donald Monro, High Dean of the Isles, which presents an account of a pastoral visit to the islands still coping with the turbulent period after the fall of the Lords of the Isles.
1999.134.2
Typewritten family tree for the House of Argyll.
Family tree for the House of Argyll.
1998.323.18
Hardback book `The Scottish Regiments 1633-1996` by Patrick Mileham.
An illustrated history of each of the twelve Scottish regiments.