Valentine and Sons of Dundee were Scotland's successful photographers. In 1907, at the height of the postcard revolution, the photographs they published showed Scotland in its many guises, and were bought with pride and pleasure. This title collects the best of these photographs in Scotland 1907 with annotations and commentary.

Product Description: In recent years the concept of 'civil society' has become central to the historian's understanding of class, cultural and political power in the nineteenth-century town and city. Increasingly clubs and voluntary societies have been regarded as an important step in the formation of formal political parties, particularly for the working and middle classes...read more

Product Description: R.J. Morris reveals how middle class families survived and surmounted the economic difficulties of early industrial England through an examination of wills, family papers, property deeds, account books and letters from the period...read more

Product Description: First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: This set of essays focuses on the theme of governance, addressing a wide range of questions on the ordering of order and the organization and legitimation of authority. At the heart of the book is a set of topics which have long attracted the attention of urbanists and urban historian all over the world: the growth and reform of urban local government, local-centre relationships, public health and pollution, local government finance, the nature of social elites and of participation in local government...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A study of the evolution of the ILP in Clydeside during the late 19th and early 20th century. The book covers the organization, strategy and political ideology of the ILP and the relationship between the ILP and the Labour Left.

Product Description: Published in association with The Economic and Social History Society of Scotland, this volume provides a scholarly survey of the forces that have shaped modern Scotland.