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Northern Scotland Index to First Series NORTHERN SCOTLAND AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL FOR STUDY OF SCOTLAND NORTH OF FORTH AND CLYDE INDEX TO FIRST SERIES ARTICLES Volume 1 (1972–3) Articles The Church in Orkney and Shetland and its relations with NorwayandScotlandintheMiddleAges RONALD G. CANT 1–18 The medieval Church in the Diocese of Aberdeen IAN B. COWAN 19–48 North-east Scots in Muscovy in the seventeenth century J. W. BARNHILL and PAUL DUKES 49–63 Abolitionists and abolitionism in Aberdeen: a test case for the nineteenth-century anti-slavery movement C. DUNCAN RICE 65–87 Crofting and fishing in the north-west Highlands, 1890–1914 MALCOLM GRAY 89–114 Aberdeen University and the Reformation GORDON DONALDSON 129–42 Manuscript maps of north-east Scotland by Timothy Pont JEFFREY C. STONE 143–50 The 1806 election in Aberdeenshire JOHN PATRICK 151–76 Mount Stephen: a study in environments HEATHER GILBERT 177–97 Sheep and deer: Highland sheep farming, 1850–1900 JAMES HUNTER 199–222 Reports and Surveys of Archives Reports and surveys of archives in northern Scotland COLIN A. McLAREN 115–25 1 Index to First Series Reports and surveys of archives in northern Scotland COLIN A. McLAREN AND MARGARET STEPHEN 223–33 Reviews Orkney Natural History Society, Stromness: late 19th century photographs and The Orkney Croft MALCOLM GRAY 127 Aberdeen 150 Years Ago, a reprint of James Rettie, Aberdeen Fifty Years Ago (1868) Fenton Wyness, Aberdeen: Century of Change ARTHUR McCOMBIE 127–8 Louise B. Taylor (ed.), Aberdeen Shore Work Accounts, 1596–1670 T. C. SMOUT 235–7 Volume 2 (1974–7) Articles The feuing of Strathisla: a study in sixteenth-century social history MARGARET H. B. SANDERSON 1–11 Linen-spinning in the north of Scotland, 1746–1773 ALASTAIR J. DURIE 13–36 The British Fisheries Society: 1787 questionnaire JEAN DUNLOP 37–55 The Sutherland Clearances I New evidence from Dunrobin ERIC RICHARDS II Sutherland in the Industrial Revolution JAMES HUNTER III Ethics and economics in the Sutherland Clearances STEWART R. SUTHERLAND 57–83 The earldom of Caithness and the kingdom of Scotland, 1150–1266 BARBARA E. CRAWFORD 97–117 The Reformation in the burgh of Aberdeen BRUCE McLENNAN 119–44 ‘To roose the countra fae the caul’ morality o’ a deid moderatism’: William Alexander and Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk IAN CARTER 145–62 The changing geography of smallholdings in northern Scotland DAVID TURNOCK 163–82 2 Index to First Series Reports and Surveys of Archives Reports and surveys of archives in northern Scotland COLIN A. McLAREN and MARGARET A. STEPHEN 85–93 Reports and surveys of archives in northern Scotland COLIN A. McLAREN and MARGARET A. STEPHEN 183–90 Reviews Magnus Magnusson, Viking Expansion Westwards BARBARA E. CRAWFORD 95 The Jacobite Peerage: Baronetage, Knightage and Grants of Honour JEAN DUNLOP 95–6 Alan Small, Charles Thomas, and David M. Wilson, St Ninian’s Isle and its Treasure R. G. CANT 191–2 Frederick J. Pohl, Prince Henry Sinclair: his Expedition to the New World in 1398 T. M. Y. MANSON 192–3 Bruce Lenman, FromEsktoTweed MALCOLM GRAY 193–4 Volume 3 (1977–80) Articles The royal demesne in northern Scotland during the later Middle Ages CRAIG A. MADDEN 1–24 Annexed estates in the eighteenth-century Highlands ANNETTE M. SMITH 25–46 Aberdeen and the early development of the whaling industry, 1750–1800 W. R. H. DUNCAN 47–59 North-east Scotland and the northern whale fishing, 1752–1893 R. C. MICHIE 61–85 Early Scandinavian naming in the Western and Northern Isles W. F. H. NICOLAISEN 105–21 The Aberdeen Ladies’ Educational Association, 1877–1883 L. R. MOORE 123–57 3 Index to First Series Reports and Surveys of Archives Reports and surveys of archives in northern Scotland COLIN A. McLAREN, MARGARET A. STEPHEN, 87–100 ALISTAIR TOUGH Reports and surveys of archives in northern Scotland: the North-Eastern Survey, 1976–1978 WILLIAM DONALDSON 159–72 Reviews A. Allan MacLaren, Religion and Social Class: the Disruption Years in Aberdeen ROBERT E. DUNCAN 101–3 James Shaw Grant, Highland Villages RONALD G. CANT 103–4 Volume 4 (1981) Articles Huntly’s rebellion and the administration of justice in north-east Scotland, 1570–1573 ATHOL L. MURRAY 1–6 Robert Gordon of Straloch: cartographer or chorographer? JEFFREY C. STONE 7–22 Shipbuilding in Aberdeen, 1750–1914 THOMAS DONNELLY 23–42 Reluctant heroes: conscription in Aberdeenshire, 1756–1758 JAMES A. CHEYNE 43–50 Artisans and proletarians: Chartism and working class allegiance in Aberdeen, 1838–1842 ROBERT E. DUNCAN 51–67 Aberdeen and Ceylon. Economic links in the nineteenth century RANALD C. MICHIE 69–82 The retreat of settlement in the Grampian uplands DAVID TURNOCK 83–112 Doctors, paupers and landowners. The evolution of primary medical care in Orkney REX TAYLOR 113–20 4 Index to First Series Reports and Surveys of Archives The papers of the earls of Kintore ALISTAIR TOUGH 121–7 The letters and papers of Dr Alexander J. Keith DOROTHY B. JOHNSTON 127–34 ThepapersofA.A.Cormack DOROTHY B. JOHNSTON 134–8 Reviews M. L. Parry and T. R. Slater, The making of the Scottish countryside DAVID TURNOCK 139–40 J. J. Graham, The Shetland dictionary PAUL BIBIRE 140 I. Whyte, Agriculture and society in seventeenth century Scotland ALISTAIR J. DURIE 141 I. Carter, Farm life in North-East Scotland, 1850–1914 ROBERT E. TYSON 141–2 R. Perren, John Fleming & Company limited 1877–1977 JOHN BUTT 143 Volume 5 (1982–3) Articles Highland emigrants to South Australia in the 1850s ERIC RICHARDS 1–29 Investment for survival: Culter Mills Paper Company Limited, 1865–1914 NEVILLE BARTLETT 31–56 Structural change in Aberdeen and the North East, 1851–1911 ALASTAIR G. J. W. BLAIR 57–79 Continuity and change. The clergy of the diocese of Moray, 1560–74 CHARLES H. HAWS 91–8 Tours in the Scottish Highlands from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries CHRISTOPHER SMOUT 99–121 5 Index to First Series The herring fishery in Shetland in the first half of the nineteenth century JAMES R. COULL 123–40 The 1854 agricultural statistics for north-east Scotland. An analysis J. PHILIP DODD 141–54 The woman’s suffrage campaign in the 1907 Aberdeen by-election LINDY MOORE 155–78 Reports and Surveys of Archives Reports and surveys of archives in northern Scotland DOROTHY B. JOHNSTON 71–9 Reports and surveys of archives in northern Scotland DOROTHY B. JOHNSTON 179–89 Reviews G. W. S. Barrow, Kingship and unity. Scotland, 1000–1306 WENDY B. STEVENSON 81 J. Wormald, Court, kirk, and community. Scotland, 1470–1625 THOMAS I. RAE 82 A. Lindsay, A rutter of the Scottish seas JEFFREY C. STONE 83 F. J. Shaw, The Northern and Western Islands of Scotland R. W. MUNRO 83–4 D. Stevenson, Alasdair MacColla and the Highland problem in the seventeenth century. BRUCE LENMAN 84–5 I. R. M. Mowat, Easter Ross, 1750–1850 MALCOLM GRAY 86 K. J. Logue, Popular disturbances in Scotland, 1780–1815 FIONA A. MONTGOMERY 86–7 W. P. L. Thomson, The little general and the Rousay crofters ALEXANDER FENTON 87–8 A. Martin, The ring-net fishermen MALCOLM GRAY 88–9 J. Ennew, The Western Isles today DONALD MacAULAY 89–90 A. James, Scottish roots,andD.White,Scottish ancestry research JEAN MUNRO 191 6 Index to First Series L. Maclean (ed.), The Middle Ages in the Highlands GRANT G. SIMPSON 191–2 D. H. Caldwell (ed.), Scottish weapons and fortifications, 1100–1800 DAVID STEVENSON 192–3 C. Larner, Enemies of God: the witch hunt in Scotland JUDITH HOOK 193–4 D. Stevenson, Scottish covenanters and Irish confederates ROSALIND MITCHISON 194–5 B. Lenman, Integration, enlightenment, and industrialisation. Scotland, 1746–1832 FIONA A. MONTGOMERY 195–6 F. J. McLynn, France and the Jacobite Rising of 1745 WILLIAM SCOTT 196 A. M. Smith, Jacobite estates of the Forty-Five ALASTAIR J. DURIE 196–8 R. Taylor, George Washington Wilson MICHAEL MOSS 198–9 J. D. Hargreaves, Aberdeenshire to Africa. Northeast Scots and British overseas expansion GEORGE SHEPPERSON 199 A. Bruford (ed.), The Green Man of Knowledge and other Scots traditional tales J. DERRICK McCLURE 200 J. D. McClure (ed.), ‘Our ain leid? The predicament of a Scots writer’ and C. Macafee, ‘Nationalism and the Scots Renaissance now’ PAUL BIBIRE 200–1 Volume 6 (1984–5) Articles: Population Trends in Northern Scotland Introductory note 1 Some factors associated with island depopulation: the example of St Kilda E. J. CLEGG 3–11 Economic and demographic consequences of population decline: Colonsay and Jura, 1841–91 JOHN W. SHEETS 13–32 7 Index to First Series Endogamy and exogamy in the Orkney Islands J. BOYCE 33–44 The structure of population in traditional fishing communities of north east Scotland: Whitehills and Gardenstown, 1855–1974 SUSAN R. BAILLIE 45–61 The social impact of the new urban-rural migration on one of the Orkney Islands DIANA FORSYTHE 63–70 Articles George Hay’s Oration at the purging of King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1569: Translation W. S. WATT 91–6 George Hay’s Oration at the purging of King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1569: Commentary JOHN DURKAN 97–112 The population of Aberdeenshire, 1695–1755: a new approach ROBERT E. TYSON 113–31 ‘The shifting frontier’: the Gaelic-English boundary in the Black Isle, 1698–1881 CHARLES W. J. WITHERS 133–55 More ‘reluctant heroes’. New light on military recruiting in north east Scotland, 1759–1760 ALEXANDER MURDOCH 157–68 Emigration from north east Scotland in the nineteenth century MARJORY HARPER 169–81 James Grant’s The romance of war and the ‘military novel’ ISOBEL MURRAY 183–92 Reports and Surveys of Archives Reports and surveys of archives in northern Scotland DOROTHY B.
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