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Vol.10 No.4 July/August 2010
New Zealand Special

The Persuaders: Recruiting Scots for New Zealand
Marjory Harper charts the marketing campaigns designed to attract Scots to New Zealand during the 19th and 20th centuries

Mr Doig thinks very highly of New Zealand…
Jim McAloon explores how middle class Scottish immigrants integrated into New Zealand society

A difficult voyage

Angela McCarthy provides an alternative view on emigration to New Zealand, focusing on patients in Dunedin’s lunatic asylums

The Caledonian Society of Otago
Kim Sullivan describes how organised Scottishness was pioneered in Otago

Robert Burns in ‘the Land of the Maoris’

Mark Stocker examines the monuments to Robert Burns found in New Zealand

There’s Nae Place Like Otago Yet

Seán Brosnahan, curator at the Otago Settlers Museum, explains how Scottish culture influenced the Dunedin region of New Zealand

Vol.10 No.3 May/June 2010
 
The Last Mackenzie of Redcastle: Captain Kenneth, an opprobrious life
Graham Clark
 
Threats of Illuminism: 18th-century Scottish Masonic Conspiracy Theories
Mark C. Wallace
 
A Swedish View of Scott's Scotland: Carl Graffman's Skottska Vuer (1830)
Andrew G. Newby
 
The Greatest Clipper Race: How the Men of Fife brought the Tea Home
Len Paterson
 
Land Use History and Biodiversity along the Water of Leith
Rachel Edman and Alistair Hamilton
 
The End of the Lion
David McVey
 
Glen Cinema Disaster
George Prentice
 
Clyde Steamers to the Rescue at Dunkirk
A.J Mullay
 
Linlithgow Union Canal Society
The Lanark Airshow, 1910. Ed Archer
 
Did you ever go on a Harvest Holiday?
 
Archaeology in the community. 
Graeme Cavers and Andy Heald
 

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Vol.10 No.2 March/April 2010
 
The Covenanters of the Northern Highlands:The Covenanted Kirk. (Part 2)
Allan Kennedy
 
The Search for the Lost Volume of the Campbell Canntaireachd Manuscript:  a plea for help
Peter McCalister
 
The Grand Admiral:  Samuel Greig, 1735 - 1788
James Binnie
 
 "Nae Smell, Nae Taste": 150 Years of Pure Water for Glasgow. Part 2
William B. Black
 
Building the West Highland Railway
John McGregor
 
Dookers, Divers and the Great Depression
Eric Simpson
 
Golden Torcs: a remarkable new find of Iron Age gold near Stirling.
Fraser Hunter
 
Scotland's Rural Past.
Brian Wilkinson
 
Curtain up
 
Skin & Bone: Life & Death in Medieval Perth . 
Mark Hall
 
Antiquarian Book Fair
 
Book reviews Events

Vol.10 No.1 January /February 2010
 
Recording the Celtic & Medieval Chapels of Arran
Colin Mills
 
The Covenanters of  the Northern Highlands: Politics, War & Ideology.  Part 1
Allan Kennedy
 
Agriculture & Empire: General Patrick 'Tiger' Duff and the shaping of north-east Scotland
Alistair Mutch
 
Victorian Voices from the Scottish Countryside
Sydney Wood
 
 "Nae Smell, Nae Taste": 150 Years of Pure Water for Glasgow. Part 1
William B. Black
 
Willie Thom: Weaver Bard of Bon-Accord
Ian Mitchell
 
The Aston Hall Bell
Charles Nelson
 
The Lewis Chessmen: new ideas
David H Caldwell, Mark A Hal & Caroline M Wilkinson
 
Scotland's Glass 2010.
 
Reforming Scottish Politics, 1820-32.
D.R. Fisher
 
The Forteviot dagger burial.
Kenneth Brophy, Gordon Noble and Stephen Driscoll

Vol.9 No.6 November/December 2009
 
The Quest for Fame: Heraldry & the Use of Literature for Chivalric Recognition
Lisa Shaw
 
Pursuing Improvement: Public Hygiene in Scottish Burghs, 1500-1700
Leona Skelton
 
Fire and Sword: the Gordon-Crichton Feud, 1630-36
Barry Robertson
 
The Old Steeple, Dundee
Karen Nichols
 
Running the Blockade during the American Civil War.
Eric J Graham & D Richard Torrance
 
They were a bit, ken, 'thon wey. Part 2
Brian Dempsey
 
Lives in the Oil Industry Oral History Archive. 
John Holt
 
The Shale Villages Project. Volunteers needed!
 
Blowing sand, cattle skulls and the 'Westray Wife'
Hazel Moore & Graeme Wilson,

Scotland's First People. Hamburg to Howburn in the Late Upper Palaeolithic period.
 Tam Ward
 

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Vol.9 No.5 September/October 2009
 
The archaeology of the Moat Pit mining complex at Culross, Fife.
Donald Adamson
 
Beloved General: The forgotten story of John Forbes of Pittencrieff  & the founding of Pittsburgh. Part 2.
Fiona Watson
 
Wee Tales: the Beginnings of the Modern Scottish Short Story
Eric Bryan
 
Cattle plague in mid-nineteenth century Scotland.
Marie Robinson
 
They were a bit, ken, 'thon wey' Part 1.
Brian Dempsey
 
News features.
 
Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum, Dunfermline.
Nora Rundell
 
Hidden treasures in our forests.
Fiona Murray
 
Gude Cause.
Fiona Skillen
 
Discover Scotland's architectural assets.
Frances Hendron
 
The Gunnister Man: A life reconstructed.
 
Scottish Archaeology Month.
Mags McCartney
 
Events.
 
Book Reviews.

Vol.9 No.4 July/August 2009
 
Special issue on Scotland and Australia
 
Four Intrepid Scotswomen: Travellers to the Australian Colonies and  their Representations of Aborigines
Barbara Dawson
 
Highlanders Colonising Australia
Eric Richards
 
'Fully Ripe for Transportation':  The Scottish Convict Women sent to Van Diemen's Land
Lucy Frost
 
Personal narratives of Scottish Migration  to Australia in the Twentieth Century
Angela McCarthy
 
Scots in the  Australian  Dictionary  of Biography
Melanie Nolan
 
Scotland's Global Impact: How one small country changed the world.
James Hunter
 
Original Export: Stories of Scottish Emigration
 
Viking Unst. Val Turner
 
Archaeologists discover prehistoric rubbish pit on Iona.
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