Dunse History Society

1) Selkirk Protocol Books 1511 -1547 transcribed by Teresa Maley and Walter Elliot 1993.
2) Berwick Directory of 1806 - Berwick History Society 1999.
3) Grantshouse by Jim Crosbie - 1999.
4) Recipes - Isabella Grant, Cairnbank, Duns - 2001.
5) Spottiswoode - Tom Barry and Douglas Hall 1997.
6) The Scottish Borderlands - The Place and the People by Richard Allan and Isobel Candlish 1988.
7) Travellers’ Tales from the Borders by Fred Kennington - 2000.
8) Various volumes from the History of the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club namely Centenary Volume 1931 with index Sesquicentenary Volume 1981 with index also volumes 28(1) 29(2), 30(2), 30(3) 31(1) 32(2) 31(3)32(1) 32 (2) 33(1) 33(2) 34 (1) 34(2) 34(3) 35(1) 35(2) 35(3) 36 (1)36(2) 38 (2) 38(3) 39(2) 40 (1) 43 (1) 44 (3) and 46 (1).
9) The Cumledge Chronicle by Jock Wilson Smith 2004 with review Berwickshire News.
10) Full of Egotism being the Diary of Rev John Hastie, Minister Edrom 1797 to 1822 published by Borders Family History Society
11) Berwickshire High School - A Century Recalled’ 1896 to 1996 by William Anderson.
12) Report of the Land Utilisation Survey of Britain Part 14 Berwickshire 1941.
13) Duns Dins A’ by R.G. Johnston 1953.
14) Smallholding Memories by Foulden, Mordington and Lamberton Community Council 2000.
15) Coldingham and St. Abbs - a Golf Bazaar Guide’ (with trade and individual index).
16) Polish Soldiers in the Borders 1942 to present day by Brigid McEwen 2006.
17) Valuation Roll of the County of Berwick Vol.2 1973-1974.
18) The Charterhall Story by J.B. Thompson.
19) Chirnside Past and Present by Erica Hunt 1975.
20) Duns Parish Church - book of Quotations Women’s Guild and Friends.
21) The Stepping Stone to Homeopathy by E. H. Ruddock 1874.
22) Communion and 1 Prayer Book – Storey Family Duns 1925.
23) Rev. Thomas Boston and his Fourfold State by Rev T. D. Miller 1934.
24) Duns Football Club - Gone but not Forgotten, by Colin G Pike 2009.
25) An ingeniuos mechanic of Scotland - James Small by Michael J.H. Robson 1989.
26) 1852 Testament (Gospel and Psalms) owned by James Simpson, Whitsome.
27) Polwarth, the Historic Kirk, Parish and Village by Marga Hall, Margaret Totty and Tom Fleming.
28) Border Reflections - chiefly on shooting and fishing by Lord Home 1979.
29) Borders and Berwick - an illustrated architectural guide.
30) McDougall's Public School Arithmetic 1887.
31) The Scottish Border and Northumberland - John Talbot White 1973.
32) County Railway Routes - St. Boswells to Berwick via Duns - Roger Darsley and Dennis Lovett.
33) The Autobiography of a Working Man - Alexander Sommerville 1848 (photocopy).
34) A Universal History and Literature in a series of Tables - G. G. Bredow 1824.
35) Book of Days 1899 - Caldcote Towers, Herts.
36) Simple Heraldry - Ian Moncrieffe and Don Pottinger.
37) Burns' Poems and Letters.
38) Jacobite Songs - G.S. MacQuoid.
39) Lauder and Lauderdale by A Thomson (presented by Lauder History Society)
40) Lauderdale in the Twentieth Century by Norrie McLeish and Fay Lauder do
41) Lauder - A Series of papers by Robert Romanes do
42) Exracts from the Minutes of Meetings of Lauder Town Council 1809 - 1898 do
43) do 1874 to 1975 do
44) Langton Parish Church - History and Description 1983
45) Berwickshire Official Guide
46) Berwickshire County Handbook - Ed J Burrow
47) Guide to Berwickshire - Unicorn Publishing c. 1970
48) Berwickshire Official Guide - Victoria Publishing
49) History and Guide to Berwick - Alex C.A. Steven
50) The Archaeological Sites and Monuments of Berwickshire - March 1980
51) Berwickshire - Official County Handbook
52) A History and Guide to Berwick upon Tweed
53) The Wildflowers of a Berwickshire Bard - George Henderson of Chirnside
54) Howes and Knowes - an Introduction to Berwickshire Place Names
55) The Soldiers Remember - a history of Southfield Auxiliary Hospital Duns

56) Historical Account of Papermaking in Berwickshire – Young Trotter and Son (donated by
Ramsay Brack) (2 copies)
57) Transcript of the Minute Book of the Baillie of the Barony and Regality of Dunse by Ronald
Morrison
58) Miscellaneous copies of Newsletter of The Berwickshire Civic Society Nos 11 (1990), 12
(1991) 13 (1992) (2 copies) 15 (1994) 18 (1997) 21 (2000) 23 (2002) 24 (2003) 26 (2005). Also
magazine 2017.
59) Robert Fortune, A Plant Hunter in the Orient – Alistair Watt 2017 (on loan to K.McL)
60) Robert Fortune, Plant Hunter – David Kay Ferguson
61) Scottish Border Folk Tales – James P. Spence
62) Everyday Phrases – Origins and Meanings – Neil Ewart
63) Junior Pears Encyclopaedia -
64) Tales of the Border Reivers
65) Historic Houses and Gardens
66) Family Bible (to renumber labeled as 60)
Atlas, Illustrated London News 1856 (Bound)
Chambers Dictionary, Working Mens Inst. Library?
67) Memories of Polwarth -R. McLean Calder (The Berwickshire Bard.
68) Marchmont and the Humes of Polwarth (written by one of their descendants 1894)

69) Statistical Account of Berwickshire 1851
70) The Third Statistical Account of Berwickshire 1992
71) The History of Berwickshire’s Towns and Villages by Elizabeth Laythe 1994