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Abbot, D.M. "'Tug of Love' in the eighteenth century" , in Scottish Genealogist , vol.33 (1986) More details ... |
Abrams, Lynn "From Demon to Victim: The Infanticidal Mother in Shetland, 1699-1899" , in Brown, Yvonne Galloway and Ferguson, Rona edd. Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance in Scotland Since 1400. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2002) More details ... |
Anderson, Michael "Fertility decline in Scotland, England and Wales, and Ireland: comparisons from the 1911 Census of Fertility" , in Population Studies, vol.52:1 (1998) More details ... |
Anderson, Michael Donald, Morse "High Fertility, High Emigration, Low Nuptiality: Adjustment Processes in Scotland's Demographic Experience, 1861-1914" , in Population Studies , vol.47 (1993) More details ... |
Ashford, Z. "The Clandestine marriage of John Bonar (1696-1752) and Jean Smith (1695-1737)" , in Scottish Genealogist , vol.39 (1992) More details ... |
Barrie, James M., in Margaret Ogilvie. (Scribner, New York, 1897) More details ... |
Barrow, Lorna "Agnes Campbell and Finola MacDonnell: a Scottish mother and daughter in sixteenth-century 'British' politics" , in O'Neill., Pamela ed. Nation and Federation in the Celtic World (Sydney Series in Celtic Studies, Sydney, 2003) More details ... |
Blaikie, Andrew "Infant Survival Chances, Unmarried Motherhood and Domestic Arrangements in Rural Scotland, 1845-1945" , in Local Population Studies, vol.60 (1998) More details ... |
Bowles, Paul "John Millar, the four stages theory, and women's position in society" , in History of Political Economy , vol.16:4 (1984) More details ... |
Boyd, A.S., in Glasgow men and women, their children and some strangers within their gates: a selection from the sketches of Twym. (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1905) More details ... |
Breitenbach, Esther "Out of sight, out of mind? :the history of women in Scottish politics" , in Scottish Affairs , vol.2 (1993) More details ... |
Brown, Keith M., in Noble Society in Scotland. Wealth, Family and Culture from Reformation to Revolution. (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2000) More details ... |
Bryce, J.D., in The Glasgow Magdalene Asylum, its past and present: With Relative Facts and Suggestions (David Bryce, Glasgow, 1859) More details ... |
Bryson, Elizabeth , in The History of the League of Mothers in New Zealand (League of Mothers, Wellington, 1959) More details ... |
Cameron, Anne "From Ritual to Regulation? The Development of Midwifery in Glasgow and the West of Scotland c.1740-1840" (University of Glasgow PhD thesis, Glasgow, 2003) More details ... |
Campbell, M.M. "Few Scottish Women's Hospitals from their Foundation to 1948" , in Medical History , vol.27 (1983) More details ... |
Chibnall, Marjorie, in The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother, and Lady of the English. (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1992) More details ... |
Chibnall, Marjorie M. "Public Lives, Private Ties: Royal Mothers in England and Scotland, 1070 -1204" , in Carmi Parsons, John and Wheeler, Bonnie edd. Medieval Mothering (1996) More details ... |
Clark, , HelenElizabeth, Carnegie, eds., in She Was Aye Workin. Memories of Tenement Women in Edinburgh and Glasgow (White Cockade Publishing, Oxford, 2003) More details ... |
Coutts, Winnifred "Wife and widow: the evidence of testaments and marriage contracts c.1600" , in Ewan, Elizabeth and Meikle, Maureen M. edd. Women in Scotland, c.1100-c.1750. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 1999) More details ... |
Cowan, Edward J. "Mistress and Mother as Political Abstraction: The Apostrophic Poetry of James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, and William Lithgow" , in Caie., Graham ed. The European Sun. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2001) More details ... |
Culpeper, N., in Directory for Midwives: or, A guide for women, in their conception, bearing and suckling their children. (Edinburgh, 1651) More details ... |
Davis, GayleRoger, Davidson "'A Fifth Freedom' or 'Hideous Atheistic Expediency'? The Medical Community and Abortion Law Reform in Scotland c.1960--1978" , in Medical History, vol.50:1 (2006) More details ... |
DeVajay, Szabolcs "Agatha, Mother of St. Margaret of Scotland" , in Duquesne Review , vol.7:2 (1962) More details ... |
Dewhurst, J. "The twin pregnancy of Mary Stewart" , in Review of Scottish Culture, vol.3 (1987) More details ... |
Diack, L. "A Woman's Greatest adventure: the development of maternity care in Aberdeen since the 18th century" , in Brotherstone , T. and Withrington., D.J. edd. The City and its Worlds: Aspects of Aberdeen's History since 1794. (Cruithne Press, Glasgow, 1996) More details ... |
Diack, Lesley "Motherhood and Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Aberdeen" , in Terry et al, Brotherstone ed. Gendering Scottish History: An International Approach. (Cruithne Press, Glasgow, 1999) More details ... |
Dow, D.A. "The Royal Samaritan Hospital for Women 1886-1986" , in Scottish Medical Journal , vol.31 (1986) More details ... |
Dow, D.A. "Rival Conceptions: The Origins of the Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital" , in The College Courant, vol.74 More details ... |
Dow, D.A., in The Rottenrow. The History of the Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital 1834-1934 (Parthenon, Camforth, 1984) More details ... |
Downie, Fiona "'Sche is But a Womman' : the queen and princess in Scotland, 1424-63" (PhD thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1998) More details ... |
Drummond, James (selected and introduced by), in Upstairs to Downstairs: Advice to Servant Girls and Weary Mothers: extracts from the magazine of the Onwards and Upwards Association (Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen, 1991) More details ... |
Drummond, James, ed., in Onward and Upward: Extracts (1891-96) from the Magazine of the Onward and Upward Association Founded by Lady Aberdeen for the Material, Mental and Moral Elevation of Women (Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen, 1983) More details ... |
Edwards, J. "Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus" , in Costume , vol.10 (1977) More details ... |
Fitch, Audrey-Beth "Maternal Mediators: saintly ideals and secular realities in late medieval Scotland" , in Innes Review, vol.57:1 (2006) More details ... |
Fitch, Audrey-Beth "Mothers and their sons: Mary and Jesus in Scotland, 1450-1560" , in Boardman, Steve and Williamson, Eila edd. The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2010) More details ... |
Grosjean, Alexia, Siobhan Talbott, Steve Murdoch "Drummer Major John Spens: Letters from a Common Soldier Abroad, 1617-1632" , in Northern Studies, vol.47 (2014) More details ... |
Hay Fleming, D. ed. "The Inventory of Margaret Brown, wife of Donald Cargill, the martyr" , in Records of the Scottish Church History Society, vol.5 (1935) More details ... |
Henderson, LizanneEdward J., Cowan, in Scottish Fairy Belief: A History. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2001) More details ... |
Hollingsworth, T.H. "Illegitimate birth and marriage rates in Great Britain 1841-1911" , in J., Dupaquier ed. Marriage and Remarriage in Populations of the Past (Academic Press, London, 1981) More details ... |
Holohan, A.M. "St. Kilda: childbirth and the women of the Main Street" , in Scottish Medical Journal, vol.30 (1985) More details ... |
Hughes, Annmarie "Working Class Culture. Family Life and Domestic Violence on Clydeside, c.1918-1939: a View from Below" , in Scottish Tradition, vol.27 (2002) More details ... |
Huneycutt, Lois L. "Public Lives, Private Ties: Royal Mothers in England and Scotland, 1070-1204" , in Parsons, John Carmi and Wheeler., Bonnie edd. Medieval Mothering (Garland Publishing, New York and London, 1996) More details ... |
Hunter, Evelyn, in The Scottish Women's Handbook (Stramullion, Edinburgh, 1987) More details ... |
Irwin, M.H., in The Problem of Housework (Scottish Council for Women's Trades (SCWT), Glasgow, 1903) More details ... |
Jamieson, LynnC, Toynbee "Shifting Patterns of Parental Authority, 1900-1980" , in Helen, Corr and Lynn, Jamieson edd. Politics in Everday Life: continuity and change in work and the family (Macmillan, London, 1990) More details ... |
Jamieson, Lynn "Limited Resources and Limiting Conventions: Working-Class Mothers and Daughters in Urban Scotland c. 1890-1925" , in Labour and Love: Women's Experience of Home and Family, 1850-1940 (Oxford, 1986) More details ... |
Kemmer, D. "Values and the Fertility Decline: The Case of Scotland" , in Critical Social Research , vol.2 (1986) More details ... |
Kilday, Anne-Marie "Maternal Monsters: Murdering Mothers in South-West Scotland, 1750-1815" , in Brown, Yvonne Galloway and Ferguson. , Rona edd. Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance in Scotland Since 1400. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2002) More details ... |
Kilday, Anne-Marie "Desperate Measures or Cruel Intentions: Infanticide in Britain since 1600" , in Kilday, Anne-Marie and Nash, David edd. Histories of Crime: Britain 1600-2000 (Palgrave, 2010) More details ... |
Kilday, Anne-Marie "'Monsters of the Vilest Kind': Infanticidal Women and Attitudes to their Criminality in Eighteenth-Century Scotland" , in Family & Community History, vol.11:2 (2008) More details ... |
Landry, Donna, in The muses of resistance: Labouring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739-1796. (Cambridge UP, New York, 1990) More details ... |
Leneman, LeahRosalind, Mitchison, in Sin in the City - Sexuality and Social Control in Urban Scotland 1660-1780. (Edinburgh, 1998) More details ... |
Leneman, LeahRosalind, Mitchison "Girls in Trouble: The Social and Geographical Setting of Ilegitimacy in Early Modern Scotland" , in Journal of Social History, vol.21:3, Spring (1988) More details ... |
Logan, R.A. "Dates in the Life of Flora Macdonald" , in Scottish Genealogist , vol.29 (1982) More details ... |
Macdonald, Isobel, in A Family in Skye, 1908-1916 (Acair, Stornoway, 1980) More details ... |
MacKenzie, Compton, in Prince Charlie and his Ladies. More details ... |
Macleod, R.H. "Lord Loudon and Anne Mackintosh: an intrigue of the '45" , in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness , vol.55 (1980) More details ... |
MacNalty, Sir Arthur "Maladies of Mary, Queen of Scots" , in Medical History, vol.5 (1961) More details ... |
Marshall, R.K. "Three Scottish Brides, 1670-1687" , in Costume , vol.8 (1975) More details ... |
Marshall, Rosalind K "Wet-nursing in Scotland 1500-1800" , in Review of Scottish Culture, vol.1 (1984) More details ... |
Marshall, Rosalind K., in The Days of Duchess Anne: Life in the Household of the Duchess of Hamilton, 1656-1716. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2000) More details ... |
Marshall, Rosalind K. "Wet-nursing in Scotland 1500-1800" , in Review of Scottish Culture, vol.1 (1984) More details ... |
Marshall, Rosalind Kay "Take of dragon's blood two drachms: the treatment of pregnancy and miscarriage in seventeenth-century Scotland" , in The Nursing Mirror, vol.15 (1982) More details ... |
Martin, Lauren "Witchcraft and the Family: what can witchcraft documents tell us about early modern Scottish family life?" , in Scottish Tradition, vol.27 (2002) More details ... |
Milne, G.P. "The History of Midwifery in Aberdeen" , in Aberdeen University Review , vol.47 (1978) More details ... |
Mitchison, RosalindLeah, Leneman, in Girls in Trouble - Sexuality and Social Control in Rural Scotland 1660-1780. (Edinburgh, 1998) More details ... |
Mitchison, RosalindLeah, Leneman, in Sexuality and Social Control: Scotland, 1660-1780. (Blackwell Press, Oxford, 1989) More details ... |
Moody, D. "Together like a horse and carriage: some 18th century examples of love, marriage and divorce" , in Transactions of the East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists Society , vol.20 (1989) More details ... |
Morrice, J., in Female Degradation: The Bane of Society (Peterhead, 1861) More details ... |
Morse, D.J. "The decline of marital fertility in East Lothian" , in East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists Society 19 (1987) More details ... |
Mullan, David G. "Parents and Children in Early Modern Scotland" , in Ewan, Elizabeth and Nugent, Janay edd. Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008) More details ... |
Murray, Lady G. "Facts relating to my Mother's Life - 1749" , in Observations on Y C.J. Fox (London, 1809) More details ... |
Ni Dhonnchadha, Mairin "The Lex Innocentium: Adomnan's Law for Women, Celrics and Youths, 697 A.D." , in O'Dowd, Mary and Wichert., Sabine edd. Chattel, Servant or Citizen: Women's Status in Church, State and Society. (The Institute of Irish STudies, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, 1995) More details ... |
Pritchard, C.B., Tomson "Starting a Family in Aberdeen, 1961-79: The Significance of Illegitimacy and Abortion" , in Journal of Biosocial Science , vol.14 (1982) More details ... |
Purkiss, Diane "Losing Babies, Losing Stories: Attending to Women\'s Confessions in Scottish Witch-trials" , in Mikesell, M. and Seeff., A. edd. Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women. (Univesity of Delaware Press, Newark, 2003) More details ... |
Riddle, Janet, in Last Speech of Jannet Riddle who was Execute for Murthering her Own Child. (Edinburgh, 1702) More details ... |
Robinson, O.F. "Canon law and Marriage" , in Juridical Review , vol.29 (1984) More details ... |
Rosenberg, Tracy S. "A Challenge to Victorian Motherhood: Mona Caird and Gertrude Atherton" , in Women\'s Writing, vol.12:3 More details ... |
Scott-Moncrieff, Robert, ed., in The Household Book of Lady Grisell Baillie 1692-1733. (Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, 1911) More details ... |
Simpson, A.D.C. "James Hamilton\'s \'Lying-in\' hospital at Park House and the status of midwifery instruction in the Edinburgh Medical School" , in Book of old Edinburgh School 3 (1994) More details ... |
Smith, Graham R. "Protest is better for infants: motherhood, health and welfare in a woman\'s town, c.1911-1931" , in Oral History, Vol. 23:1 Spring (1995) More details ... |
Somerville, Martha ed, in Papers regarding Midwifery Cases. (Edinburgh, 1873) More details ... |
Stiubhart, Domhnall Uilleam "Women and gender in the early modern western Gaidhealtachd" , in Ewan , Elizabeth and Meikle., Maureen edd. Women in Scotland c. 1100-c.1750. (East Linton, 1999) More details ... |
Stuart, J., in A Brieff Narration of the Services Done to Three Noble Ladyes (Aberdeen, 1844) More details ... |
Sutherland, Elizabeth, in Five Euphemias: women in medieval Scotland, 1200-1420. (Constable, London, 1999) More details ... |
Swan, A., in The Woman at Home. Annie S. Swan's Magazine (1894) More details ... |
Thompson, Barbara, in Having a first baby: experiences in 1951 and 1985 compared: two social, obstetric, and dietary studies of married primigravidae in Aberdeen (1989) More details ... |
Trotter, Catharine "Introduction" , in Day. , Robert Adams ed. Olinda's Adventures: Or the Amours of a Young Lady. (William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, 1969) More details ... |
Trotter, Catharine ""Olinda's Adventures" in Familiar Letters of Love, Gallantry and Several Other Subjects (2 vols.)" , in Familiar letters of Love, Gallantry and Several Other Subjects (2 Vols.). (Printed for Sam Briscoe, London, 1718) More details ... |
Valentine, J. "Illegitimacy in Aberdeen and Other Large Towns of Scotland" , in Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1859) More details ... |
Walker, W.M. "Infant Suffocation Historical Myth" , in SESH 8 (1988) More details ... |
Washington, G. "Margaret de Lathom or Letham, Wife of Walter de Strickland (1323-1407) of Sizergh" , in Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, vol.63 (1963) More details ... |
Wenham, S. "Margaret Veddar, Orkney, 1788: her household goods and body clothes" , in Review of Scottish Culture 10 (1996) More details ... |
Winter, J. "Widowed mothers and mutual aid in early Victorian Britain" , in Journal of Social History 17 (1983) More details ... |
Wynne, J.H. "Ode on Female Beauty" , in Scots Magazine (1783) More details ... |
Zimmer, B.G. "The impact of social mobility on fertility: a reconsideration" , in Population Studies 35:1 (1981) More details ... |