Research Catalog

Title

A thousand years of Aberdeen / Alexander Keith.

Author

Keith, Alexander, 1895-1978

Publication

• Aberdeen, Scotland : Aberdeen University Press, 1972
• Aberdeen, Scotland : University Press 1972, 1980, 1987
• ©1972.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Henry, Gordon
• Munro, Ian
• Aberdeen University Press, publisher, printer.

Description

viii, 582 pages : illustrations (black- & -white); 22 cm

Alternative Title

• A 1000 years of Aberdeen
• 1000 years of Aberdeen

Subjects

• Ouvrages illustrés
• Histoires locales
• Illustrated works
• Local histories
• History
• illustrated books
• local histories
• Scotland, Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen > History
• Scotland > Aberdeen
• Aberdeen (Scotland) > History

Genre/Form

• local histories.
• illustrated books.
• Local histories.
• Illustrated works.
• History.
• Histoires locales.
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• The burgh taking shape. Background to A.D. 84-1329 ; From darkness to dawn ; Church and charters ; The medieval burgh reconstructed ; The wars of independence: 'Bon-accord' ; The Great Charter ; The middle age, 1320-1559. -- Scotland's principal trading post. Trade and industry ; The Reid Harlaw ; Watch and ward: the Forbes feud ; THe auld blood of the town: the mess of pottage ; Crafts and council: pomp, pageantry and poetry ; Provosts and a poet: the chronicle of Aberdeen ; Grammar school: public and private health ; Cathedral, churches and Sang school ; Lamb of the North ; Order out of chaos, 1560-1745. -- Trials of a Presbyterian revolution. The Reformation ; The church reformed ; The first religious wars ; The toun's College ; Education under difficulties ; The troubles ; More troubles ; Pulpit and printing press ; The goodly town ; Introducing economics
• Genius by inbreeding ; A diversity of creatures ; The burgh pump ; Jacobite escapades ; On to reform, 1746-1860. -- The burgh crosses its rubicon. Modern city making ; Over the Denburn ; All the years round ; Industrial enterprise ; The harbour ; Public institutions and services ; Schools and colleges ; Doctors learned and medical ; The fourth estate ; Concert, stage and studio ; Sodality in war and peace ; The age of limited liability, 1860- -- Aberdeen's efforts to keep in step. The town within living memory ; A new deal for the burgh ; The Victorian Lord Provosts ; Twentieth-century Lord Provosts ; Harbour and fish market ; Ups and down in business ; Railway mania and decay ; Education, Medical services, Welfare state ; The university united ; Townsmen in arms ; The art of writing ; Pursuits of peace

ISBN

• 0900015292
• 9780900015298

LCCN

72197064

OCLC

• ocm00540644
• 540644
• SCSB-202564

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library