Item category 1: Local History

As a medical, economic, spiritual, and demographic crisis, plague affected practically every aspect of an early modern community whether on a local, regional or national scale. Its study therefore affords opportunities for the reassessment of many aspects of the pre-modern world. This book examin...

'The Country Houses and Castles of Royal Deeside' combines period photographs with detailed and extended captions about the history of the many properties included. Volume 1 deals with Cults, Bieldside, Murtle, Milltimber, Banchory-Devenick, Maryculter, Torphins, Glassel, Ballogie, Banchory, Durr...