Dunse History Society

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BNF Non-Fiction Books

 

1. Selkirk Protocol Books 1511 -1547 transcribed by Teresa Maley and Walter Elliot 1993

2. Berwick Directory of 1806 - Berwick History Society 1999

3. Grantshouse by Jim Crosbie -1999

4. Recipes - Isabella Grant, Cairnbank Duns - 2001.

5. Spottiswoode - Tom Barry and Douglas Hall 1997

6. The Scottish Borderlands - The Place and the People by Richard Allan and Isobel Candlish 1988.

7. Travellers’ Tales from the Borders by Fred Kennington – 2000

8 Full of Egotism being the Diary of Rev John Hastie Minister Edrom 1797 to 1822 published by Borders Family History Society,

9. Various volumes from the History of the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club namely Centenary Volume 1931 with index,(1891 to 1931), Sesquicentenary Volume 1981 with index (1932 to 1980), also volumes 28(1) 29(2), 30(2), 30(3) 31(1) 31(2) 31(3) 32(1) 32(2) 32(3) 33(1) 33(2) 34 (1) 34(2) 34(3) 35(1) 35(2) 35(3) 36(1) 36(2) 38(2) 38(3) 39(2) 40(1) 43(1) 44(3) 46(1) 50(3) 51(1) 51(2) 51(3) 52(1) 52(2) 52(3) 53(1) 53(2) 53(3) 54(1)

10. The Cumledge Chronicle by Jock Wilson Smith 2004 with review Berwickshire News

11. The Berwickshire High School ‘A Century Recalled’ 1896 to 1996 by William Anderson (2 copies)

12. Report of the Land Utilisation Survey of Britain Part 14 Berwickshire 1941

13. Duns Dings A’ by R.G. Johnston 1953 (2 copies)

14. Smallholding Memories by Foulden, Mordington and Lamberton Community Council 2000

15. Coldingham and St. Abbs - a Golf Bazaar Guide’ (with trade and individual index)

16. Polish Soldiers in the Borders 1942 to present day by Brigid McEwen 2006

17. Valuation Roll of the County of Berwick Vol 2 1973-1974

18. The Charterhall Story by J.B. Thompson

19. Chirnside Past and Present by Erica Hunt (3 copies?)

20. Duns Parish Church – book of Quotations Women’s Guild and Friends.

21. The Stepping Stone to Homeopathy by E.H. Ruddock 1874

22. Communion and 1 Prayer Book – Storey Family Duns 1925

23. Rev. Thomas Boston and his Fourfold State by Rev T.D. Miller 1934

24. Duns Football Club – Gone but not Forgotten by Colin G Pike 2009

25. An Ingenious Mechanic of Scotland – James Small by Michael J.H. Robson

26. 1852 Testament (Gospel and Psalms) owned by James Simpson, Whitsome

27. Polwarth, the Historic Kirk, Parish & Village by Marga Hall, Mgt. Totty & Tom Fleming (3 copies)

28. Border Reflections - chiefly on shooting and fishing by Lord Home 1979 (presented by Ramsay Brack).

29. Borders and Berwick - an illustrated architectural guide.

30. McDougall's Public School Arithmetic 1887

31. The Scottish Border and Northumberland - John Talbot White 1973

32. County Railway Routes - St Boswells to Berwick via Duns - Roger Darsley and Dennis Lovett

33. The Autobiography of a Working Man - Alexander Somerville 1848 (photocopy)

34. A Universal History and Literature in a series of Tables G.G. Bredow 1824

35. Book of Days 1899 – Caldcote Towers, Herts

36. Simple Heraldry – Ian Moncrieffe & Don Pottinger – formerly property of Wm Renton, Town Clerk (donated by Sandra Snowie)

37. Burns’ Poems and Letters, previously property of Mrs. David Weir Gavinton (donated by Sandra Snowie

38. Jacobite Songs – G.S. MacQuoid (donated by Sandra Snowie)

39. Lauder and Lauderdale by A Thomson (presented by Lauder History Society)

40. Lauderdale in the Twentieth Century by Norrie McLeish and Fay MacKay do

41. Lauder – a series of Papers by Robert Romanes do

42. Extracts from the Minutes of Meetings of Lauder Town Council 1809 -1898 do

43. do 1894 to 1975 do

44. Langton Parish Church- History and Description 1983

45. Berwickshire Official Guide

46. Berwickshire County Handbook – Ed J Burrow

47. Guide to Berwickshire – Unicorn Publishing c. 1970

48. Berwickshire Official Guide - Victoria Publishing

49. History and Guide to Berwick – Alex C.A. Steven

50. The Archaeological Sites and Monuments of Berwickshire – March 1980

51. Berwickshire – Official County Handbook

52. Atlas, Illustrated London News 1856 (Bound)

53. The Wildflowers of a Berwickshire Bard, (George Henderson Chirnside 1800-1864)

54. Howes and Knowes – an Introduction to Berwickshire place-names by Michael E Braithwaite,

55. The Soldiers Remember - a history of Southfield Auxiliary Hospital Duns

56. Historical Account of Papermaking in Berwickshire – Young Trotter and Son (donated by Ramsay Brack) (2 copies) 57. Transcript of the Minute Book of the Baillie of the Barony and Regality of Dunse by Ronald Morrison

58. Miscellaneous copies of Newsletter of The Berwickshire Civic Society Nos 11 (1990), 12 (1991) 13 (1992) (2 copies) 15 (1994) 18 (1997) 21 (2000) 23 (2002) 24 (2003) 26 (2005). Also magazine 2017.

59. Robert Fortune, A Plant Hunter in the Orient – Alistair Watt 2017 (on loan to K.McL)

60. Robert Fortune, Plant Hunter – David Kay Ferguson

61. Scottish Border Folk Tales – James P. Spence

62. Everyday Phrases – Origins and Meanings – Neil Ewart

63. Junior Pears Encyclopaedia -

64. Tales of the Border Reivers

65. Historic Houses and Gardens

66. Family Bible

67. Memories of Polwarth -R. McLean Calder (The Berwickshire Bard.

67a. Marchmont and the Humes of Polwarth (written by one of their descendants 1894)

68. Statistical Account of Berwickshire 1851

69. The Third Statistical Account of Berwickshire 1992

70. The History of Berwickshire’s Towns and Villages by Elizabeth Laythe 1994

71. The Kirk Yetholm Gypsies by A V Tokely

72. Duns Town Trail – 1999

73. John The Scot – Duns Scotus by Antonella Lothian

74. Borders and Berwick – Charles Alexander Strong

75. The Borderers 2 - Alan Spence

76. Early Settlers in the Borders – SBC – John Dent and Rory McDonald

77. Wilsons Tales of the Borders – 9 Volumes

78. The Scottish Border Laird – Richard Allan & Isobel Candlish

79. Polish Soldiers in the Borders – Brigid McEwen

80. Scottish Education since the Reformation – R D Anderson

81. The People in the Pews – Callum G. Brown

82. Growth and Contraction – Scottish Industry c. 1860-1990 - Peter L Payne

83. Pulpit Discourses – A chapter about Dunse

84. A General Account of my Life – Thomas Boston

85. Wilsons Tales

86. Churches and Graveyards of Berwickshire – Binnie

87. Statistical Account Vol. III Eastern Borders

88. Churches and Graveyards of Berwickshire by James Robson

89. Life at Langton – Laurie Cleat

90. Where Border Hearts Beat – James Denham

91. Duns and the War – J D Smith

92. Concerning Swinton Family Records - Kimmeringhame