Aberdeen Before 1800: A New HistoryE. Patricia Dennison, David Ditchburn, Michael Lynch Dundurn, 2002 - 515 pages This volume, the earlier of the two-volume official History of Aberdeen, provides a comprehensive picture of the development of the two historic burghs of Old Aberdeen and New Aberdeen over their first seven centuries, from 1100 to 1800. As early as the 14th century, Aberdeen was: recognized as one of the 'four great towns of Scotland'. Early settlement, the growing townscape and social change over the centuries are all traced. Aberdeen's contacts with the sea and other towns overseas and its economy and politics, both local and national, are assessed. And Aberdonians themselves, the vital forces behind the history of the two burghs, are highlighted: their faith and culture, homes and health, and their education and pastimes are all rediscovered. |
Contents
Aberdeen Before Aberdeen | 1 |
G W Paterson Old and New Aberdeen 1746 map courtesy of ACA 34 | 3 |
The Growth of Two Towns | 13 |
Life in the Two Towns | 44 |
Health in the Two Towns | 70 |
illustration courtesy of ACA | 91 |
Housing in the Two Towns | 97 |
Provost Skenes House illustration courtesy of City of Aberdeen | 98 |
John Slezer View of New Aberdeen from Torry 1693 AUL | 155 |
Aberdeen and the Sea | 159 |
Elite Society in Town and Country | 181 |
Detail from notarial instrument by Thomas Mollisone town clerk | 194 |
Medieval Politics c 11001500 | 203 |
Sixteenthcentury Politics | 224 |
Aberdeen 16301690 | 238 |
Eighteenthcentury Politics c 16901800 | 267 |
Aberdeen and Futty detail from George Taylors map of Aberdeen | 105 |
People in the Two Towns | 111 |
Burials in Aberdeen 1704 detail from ACA Kirk and Bridge Work | 115 |
Stent roll 1655 pp 67 illustration courtesy of ACA | 125 |
Town and Country | 129 |
Charter of Alexander III 124986 granting Aberdeen an annual fair | 138 |
A list of female brewers in the Green 1509 detail from ACA | 146 |
The Faith of the People | 289 |
Schooling the People | 309 |
Aberdeen and its Universities | 327 |
Town and Country | 347 |
Aberdeen and the Outside World | 377 |
The Growth of a New Town | 408 |
Common terms and phrases
Abdn Counc Aberdeen Doctors Aberdeen Journal Aberdeenshire Aberdonians Alexander bailies bishop Bridge of Dee building burgesses Castle Castlegate Catholic cent centre Chapter church City of Aberdeen court courtesy of ACA Covenanters Covenanting deen disease Dundee earl early modern Edinburgh eighteenth century Elphinstone English exports fifteenth century fish Forbes friary Futty Glasgow Gordon grammar school guild harbour hinterland Hospital Huntly Huntly's Ibid important inhabitants Jacobite Jaffray James John king King's College kirk session land late later London Lord Machar magistrates Marischal College medieval Menzies merchants ministers Montrose north-east Old Aberdeen Old Machar parish period plague Plate political poor population ports probably Protestant provost Quakers records Reformation religious Robert royal burgh Scotland Scots Scottish settlement seventeenth century ships sixteenth Skene society Spalding St Machar's Cathedral St Nicholas Street Thomas Menzies tolbooth town council town's trade urban vessels William women