Further Reading for Statistical Accounts of Scotland
Sir John Sinclair, the County Agricultural Surveys and the Collections and Dissemination of Knowledge (1793-1817) (Microsoft Powerpoint .pptx file, 4.2 Mb)
Presented by Dr Heather Holmes at the 17 November 2011 meeting of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society
'Scotland Accounted For': The Old (1791-9) and New (1834-45) Statistical Accounts of Scotland.
Background to the first two Statistical Accounts of Scotland
Scotland, Statistics and Happiness
A brief introduction to the Accounts
Sir John Sinclair's Vision for the Statistical Accounts of Scotland
The original thinking behind the Accounts
Development of the Statistical Accounts Service
How the Accounts came to be online
The Scottish 'Domesday' (PDF file, 2.4 Mb)
Practical Family History magazine article on the Accounts from September 2010.
Bibliography
Essential sources
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