Aberdeen in 100 Dates
Aberdeen in 100 Dates

Author: Elma McMenemy

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2016-05-02

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 0750968834

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15th August 1903 - On this day Aberdeen Football Club played its first match, holding Stenhousemuir to a 1-1 draw. 21st April 1943 - Luftwaffe bombers dropped 130 bombs on Aberdeen, killing ninety-seven civilians and twenty-seven soldiers. 15th August 1963 - On this day Henry John Burnett was hanged at Craiginches Prison, Aberdeen – the last execution to take place in Scotland. Experience 100 key dates that shaped Aberdeen's history, highlighted its people's genius (or silliness) and embraced the unexpected. Featuring an amazing mix of pivotal, social, criminal and sporting events, this book reveals a past that will fascinate, delight and even shock both residents and visitors to this Scottish city.

Bloody Scottish History: Aberdeen
Bloody Scottish History: Aberdeen

Author: Elma McMenemy

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2014-02-03

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 0750951559

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Aberdeen has been inhabited for 8,000 years, since the first Hunter-Gatherers settled on the banks of the River Dee. 4,000 years later, Bronze Age peoples left their mark on the landscape by constructing a huge number of recumbent stone circles, once thought to be places of sacrifice. Invaders including Celts, Romans and Vikings met violent, bloody resistance, and the victorious Roman army left thousands of Caledonian corpses for the crows following the Battle of Mons Graupius. From the slaughter of Aberdeen Castle's English garrison (part of a citizens' uprising in support of Robert the Bruce) to all-out assaults on the city by Kings, Royalists and Nazis, no century has left the city unmarked. Plague, wars, clan feuds, murderers, witches, covenanters and slavers – all have stained the silver city red with blood!

Growing Up in Northfield Aberdeen
Growing Up in Northfield Aberdeen

Author: Mike Sheran

Publisher:

Published: 2017-04-04

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 9781520997728

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A few stories by Mike growing up in Northfield, Aberdeen. All money made from this book goes to the kids at Northfield Community Centre.

Aberdeen Before 1800
Aberdeen Before 1800

Author: E. Patricia Dennison

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9781862321144

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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.