Learn more about the area in which you or your ancestors have lived, or use this key source to study the emergence of the modern British State and the economic and social impact of the world’s first industrial nation.
These two Statistical Accounts of Scotland, covering the 1790s and the 1830s, are among the best contemporary reports of life during the agricultural and industrial revolutions in Europe. Based largely on information supplied by each parish church minister, the original (first) Statistical Account and the New (second) Statistical Account provide a rich record of a wide variety of topics: wealth, class and poverty; climate, agriculture, fishing and wildlife; population, schools, and the moral health of the people.
The online service features include:
- scanned images for browsing
- transcribed text enabling copy and paste
- page and volume search
- the accounts presented in published order
- key word searching and display of results in order
- bookmarking of parishes or page citations
- PDF download for parish reports
- selected original manuscripts
- resources related to the preparation and publication of the Accounts
- parish links to the Gazetteer for Scotland
- index to compilers of parish reports
Glow users (login required) have full access to the website for The Statistical Accounts of Scotland.
Go to the link, and choose to log in via the UK federation. Choose Glow Scotland from the drop down list and press select. Then the screen will prompt you to enter your Glow username and password. You will then be able to access the accounts.
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