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DMT booklets are for sale in the Museum, but the others are sometimes harder to find!

Dingwall Museum booklets:

DMT1 - Kenneth R Clew: The Dingwall Canal

DMT2 - Marjory Harper: Thomas Simpson, Dingwall’s Arctic Explorer

DMT3 - Jack Sinclair: Dingwall Memories

DMT4 - Portrait of a Soldier; Sgt John Meikle VC MM

DMT5 - The Ranker; Major General Sir Hector Macdonald

DMT6 - Jack Sinclair: Old Bailechaul

DMT7 - Kenneth I E Macleod: A Victim of Fate

 

Prehistory, Picts and Vikings

D D MacDonald: Investigating Dingwall as Þingvöllr (2013)

Dr Oliver J T O’Grady: Cromartie Memorial Car Park Dingwall Archaeological Excavation (2012)

Dr Oliver J T O’Grady: St Clement’s Aisle, Dingwall Parish Church – Report on Geophysical Survey Electrical Resistance (Oct 2011)

Olwyn Owen ed: Things in the Viking World (2012)

 

Mediaeval History

The History of the Feuds and Conflicts among the Clans ... (1780)

David Kyle Cochrane-Yu: A Keystone of Contention: The Earldom of Ross 1215-1517 (PhD thesis 2016)

W MacGill: Old Ross-shire and Scotland, as Seen in the Tain and Balnagown Documents (1909)

Rev Alexander MacGregor: The Feuds of the Clans (1907, includes edited version of the 1780 book)

William Mackay ed: Records of the Presbyteries of Inverness and Dingwall 1643-1688 (1896)

Major Harmon Pumpelly Read: Rossiana [descendants of the Earls of Ross in Scotland] (1908)

Francis Nevile Reid: The Earls of Ross and their Descendants (1894)

Timothy Wilks: A Life of Richard, 1st Lord Dingwall and Earl of Desmond (c1570-1628) (2012)

 

Modern History and Geography

Dingwall News & Views Community newsletter (1998-2005; pilot and 35 issues)

The Trial of the Royal British Bank Directors (n.d. c1860. POD reprints available)

David Alston: Ross and Cromarty, a Historical Guide (1999) 

Marinell Ash: This Noble Harbour, a History of the Cromarty Firth (1991)

Robert Bain: History of Ross (1899)

Alfred Barnard: The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom (1887, reprinted several times)

Bernard Byrom: Old Dingwall [selection of photographs] (Stenlake 2022)

Charles Fraser-Mackintosh: Antiquarian Notes, ... Families and Places in the Highlands (1865, POD reprints available)

Frank Gilfeather: Ross County; from Highland League to Hampden (2010)

Michael Gregson and Kay Deas: The Crack and the Cant (1990)

J C Leslie and S J Leslie: The Hospitals of Ross & Cromarty (2023)

Colin MacDonald: Croft and Ceilidh (or) Corra-chagailte (1947)

D D MacDonald: Dingwall Academy (n.d., c1989)

Ian MacDonald: Smuggling in the Highlands (1914)

A MacRae: Royal Burgh of Dingwall (pamphlet, n.d., c 1973)

Norman MacRae: Romance of a Royal Burgh; Dingwall's Thousand Years (1923, reprinted 1974)

Norman MacRae ed: Highland Second-Sight with Prophecies of Coinneach Odhar and the Seer of Petty (n.d., fwd 1908)

Ewan McVicar: A Daunder Down the High Street (2023 reprint of ‘An Inexhaustible Originality’ William C Joass )

Ewan McVicar: Dingwall on the Waters (2017)

Ian R M Mowat: Easter Ross 1750-1850, the Double Frontier (1981)

Donald Omand: The Ross and Cromarty Book (1984)

RCAHMS: Tolbooths and Town-houses; Civic Architecture in Scotland to 1833 (HMSO 1996)

Christopher J Uncles: Easter Ross and the Black Isle (1998)

Christopher J Uncles: Old Ways through Wester Ross (1999, revised 2011)

Terry J Williams: Walking with Cattle, in search of the Last Drovers of Uist (2017)

Andrew P K Wright: Dingwall Conservation Area Character Appraisal (2010)

Anne Turner Simpson and Sylvia Stevenson: Historic Dingwall, the archaeological implications of development (1982)

 

Military, esp Hector MacDonald and the 4th Seaforths

Ross-shire Roll of Honour (1915, reprinted 2014)

The Piper's Day; Regimental Duty Tunes of the Queen's Own Highlanders (1991)

David Campbell: Major General Hector A Macdonald CB DSO LLD (n.d. c1900)

Thomas F G Coates: Hector Macdonald, the Private who Became a General (1900)

Ailean Friseal: Eachan nan Cath (1979)

David Gooderson: So Great a Crime (2013, a play)

Lt-Col M M Haldane: A History of the Fourth Battalion the Seaforth Highlanders (n.d., abt 1927)

D MacDonald and A Polson: The Book of Ross (n.d., appears 1930s)

Ewan McVicar: Hector the Hero of the North (2023. 2nd edition, first published 2018)

John Montgomery: Toll for the Brave, the tragedy of Hector Macdonald (1963)

Trevor Royle: Fighting Mac, the Downfall of Major-General Sir Hector MacDonald (2003; 2nd ed of Death Before Dishonour)

Trevor Royle: Death Before Dishonour; the True Story of Fighting Mac (1982)

Colonel John Sym: Seaforth Highlanders (1962)

 

Reference works

Origines Parochiales Scotiæ Vol2 (1846)

The First (Old) Statistical Account of Scotland: vol III (1792)

The Second (New) Statistical Account of Scotland: Ross & Cromarty Vol 14 (1845)

The Third Statistical Account of Scotland: County of Ross &Cromarty (1987)

Alex. MacBain: Place Names of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland (1922)

Jonathan McColl and Sandy Gillies: Monumental Inscriptions St Clement’s Churchyard Dingwall (HFHS 2nd ed 2002)

Jonathan McColl: The Early National Censuses of Dingwall 1801, 1811, 1821 (2023)

Jonathan McColl: Monumental Inscriptions Fodderty and Kinnettas Burial Grounds (HFHS 2022)

Hew Scott: Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ Vol VII (1928)

W J Watson: Place Names of Ross and Cromarty (1904, reprinted 1976, 1996)

W J Watson: Scottish Place-Name Papers (2002)

 

Dingwall Diaspora

R M Ballantyne: Ungava, a Tale of Esquimau Land (1858, often reprinted)

Alex. MacArthur: A Prairie Tragedy: the Fate of Thomas Simpson the Arctic Explorer (1887, POD reprints available)

John Peach: The Biggest Ever Gold-mining Swindle in the Colonies (2008)

Kim Polley: The Chisholms, from Urray to Murray Street and Beyond (2011)

Kim Polley: The Chisholm Letterss, the Tale of a Town Scavenger (2023)

James Raffan: Emperor of the North – Sir George Simpson and the Remarkable Story of the Hudson’s Bay Company (2007)

Alexander Simpson: The Life and Travels of Thomas Simpson, the Arctic Discoverer (1845, reprints include Canadian Heritage series 1963)

 

The Railways

Malcolm Bangor-Jones: The Making of the Railway from Inverness to Dingwall (2012)

John Christopher and Campbell McCutcheon: Locomotives of the Highland Railway (2014)

Jack Kernahan: The Black Isle Railway (2013)

Anthony J Lambert: Highland Railway Album (1974)

Anthony J Lambert: Highland Railway Album – 2 (1978)

O S Nock: The Highland Railway (1965)

Edward Paget-Tomlinson: The Railway Carriers (1990)

D S Purdom: British Steam on the Pampas (1977)

Neil T Sinclair: Highland Railway: People and Places (2005)

Peter Tatlow: The Dingwall & Skye Railway (2016)

 

The Clans

The Clan Davidson Association: The Davidsons; the Clan, its History and its People (n.d., c2001)

A J Lawrence: The Clan Bain with its Ancestral and Related Scottish Clans (1963, reprinted 2018)

Alexander Mackenzie: The History of the Mackenzies (1894)

Alexander Mackenzie: The History of the Munros of Fowlis (1898)

 

Fiction

Douglas Lindsay: The Art of Dying, Boy in the Well, Song of the Dead (2019 - modern police procedural novels, partially set in Dingwall)

 

Religion

Gordon Bruce and Betty Wilson: Centenary of Castle Street Church of Scotland Dingwall (n.d., c2000)

Rev John Kennedy: The Days of the Fathers in Ross-shire (1927)

David MacDonald: St Clements Looks Back (1976)

Innes Macrae: Dingwall Free Church, the Story of a Hundred Years and More (1970)

 

People

Anon ('by A Friend'): Reminiscences of a Dingwall Centenarian (1908)

Anon: Fearchair-a-Ghunna, the Ross-shire Wanderer (1881, 3rd ed 1908, reprinted 1995)

John H Ballantyne: A Ross-shire Man - Alexander Mackenzie of Millbank (2021)

Graham Clark: John Adam, the Mulbuie Murderer (2013)

S J Fraser ed: Robert (Bob) Gunn Fraser, Livestock Auctioneer and Manager 1921 1954 (privately published 2008)

F R Hart and J B Pick: Neil M Gunn, a Highland Life (1981)

M Macaskill: Pen & Ink Sketches (1897)

Evander Maciver: Memoirs of a Highland Gentleman (1905)

M. McBey: Dingwall Sheriff Court (pamphlet 2004) 

Hay Shennan: A Judicial Maid-of-all-Work (1933)

James M Swank ed: More Busy Days; Dr Andrew Carnegie at Dingwall ... in 1903 (1903)

John Symonds and Kenneth Grant ed: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1979)

Hugh Urquhart: The Bains of Dochcarty (1914)

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