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April 2007: Volume 12 Issue 1

New related resources for the Statistical Accounts of Scotland

Three additional related resources were recently added to the collection within the Statistical Accounts of Scotland Service.

• Census for the Parish of Stow, 1801: One of the few local returns to survive from the date when the official census of Great Britain was inaugurated, it perfectly complements the description of the parish to be found in the First or ‘Old’ Statistical Account.
• Sir John Sinclair’s Analysis of the Statistical Account of Scotland, 1826: Published in two volumes totalling over 700 pages, this analysis gives an account of Sir John’s purpose in compiling the First Statistical Account, and assesses the information from his statistical enquiries, covering a wide range of topics, such as the longevity of the people of Scotland, the diseases of Scotland, the present state of the population of Scotland, the productive classes, and the commerce of Scotland.
• The Statistical Account and the Stages of Society: An Introduction to Sir John Sinclair’s Specimens of Statistical Reports (1793), by Richard B. Sher (2005) Distinguished Professor of History at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark.

• Statistical Accounts of Scotland web site.