Collection: Local Collection Non Fiction

Encyclopedia covering every aspect of Scotland's past : her people, arts, industries, environment and continuing traditions.

"The detailed picture of life in Scotland in 1945 that can be obtained from the nation's newspapers has, we believe, a real value in giving a local and human dimension to the sometimes generalised or impersonal global perspective. Scotland 1945 is a sequel to an earlier Scottish Library Associat...

"The thread that runs through this evocative record of Scotswomen's lives in the first fifty years of the 20th century is that of women struggling to find some expression for their natural talents within the appalling strictures which were imposed on their working and social lives"