A Bibliography of Scottish Economic History during the Last Decade: 1963‐197O1

Abstract

T1 THE third of this series appeared in the Economic History Review, 2nd ser. xvi (i963); it professed to cover publications of the years I95i-62. The interval between compilation and publication and the inaccessibility of some works meant that a few items of the early 'sixties were omitted. The present list, completed in October I970, endeavours to include publications up to that date. The study of Scottish economic history has been further advanced by the expansion of departments in the older universities, and their creation in the newer, notably at Strathclyde under the direction of Prof. S. G. E. Lythe. Popular interest is evinced and encouraged by co-operative amateur research, especially under the auspices of Edinburgh University Adult Education Department, guided by Mr Basil Skinner, which put out a Guide to Local History in Scotland (Edinburgh, i966); Skinner has an article on 'Local History in Scotland', Scottish History Review, XLVII (i968). Older local societies, primarily archaeological, especially those of Dumfries and Galloway, East Lothian and Hawick, occasionally include in their transactions short papers on local economic Several postgraduate students have engaged in research, much as yet unpublished. The new discipline of Industrial Archaeology flourishes; a survey, Industrial Archaeology of Scotland byJohn Butt (Newton Abbot, I 967), has appeared. A few standard volumes long out of print have been republished by Frank Cass and David & Charles (Newton Abbot). The Scottish History Society and the Old Edinburgh Club now extend their scope to the nineteenth century. The Three Banks Review, published by the Royal Bank of Scotland, frequently contains anonymous articles relating to banking The Abertay Society of Dundee has published booklets on local history, several of economic content. The School of Scottish Studies of Edinburgh Universityissues a periodical, which sometimes contains articles on economic history; so also does the Scottish Geographical Magazine. A new series of general histories, the Edinburgh History of Scotland, is in course of publication. Volumes already published are: Scotland: James V to James VII by G. Donaldson (Edinburgh, i965) and Scotland: i689 to the Present Day by W. Ferguson (Edinburgh, i968); both give due attention to economic aspects. This is less true of the one-volume textbooks byJ. D. Mackie, A History of Scotland (i964), and Rosalind Mitchison, A History of Scotland (I970). S. G. Checkland's article 'Scottish Economic History: Recent Work', Economica, XXXI (i 964), reviews publications of the early I 960's (all mentioned below) as illustrating problems of comparative history. Studies in Scottish Business