Here are some sample articles from Scottish Local History.

Scottish Involvement in Caribbean Slavery: Bibliography

This article by Eric J Graham appears in Issue 94, published Spring-Summer 2016.

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Compensating Scottish Slave Owners

This article by Keith McClelland & Eric J Graham appears in Issue 81, published August 2011.

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Cromwell’s Highland Stronghold: The Sconce of Inverness

This Birlinn prize-winning article by Allan Kennedy appears in issue 106, published Summer 2020.

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'The Drifty Days’. A Climate Crisis of 1673-4

This Birlinn prize-winning article by John Harrison appears in issue 107, published Autumn 2020.

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Alexander Bain: The Real Father of Television?

This article by Ivan S Ruddock appears in Issue 83, published Summer 2012.

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'Comics' For The Historian

This article by Eric Simpson appears in Issue 83, published Summer 2012.

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The "Black Minstrelsy in Scotland"

This article by Eric J Graham appears in Issue 80, published February 2011.

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Stanley Mills – an early factory village

This article by A J Cooke appears in Issue 45, published Spring 1999.

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