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The Statistical Accounts of Scotland are a series of documentary publications, related in subject matter though published at different times, covering life in Scotland in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The Old (or First) Statistical Account of Scotland was published between 1791 and 1799 by Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster.
Quotation: from Rosalind Mitchison by permission of Oxford University Press
The ‘Statistical Account of Scotland’ was published between 1791and 1799 in 21 volumes. It includes information about the geography, history, economy, and agriculture of most parishes in Scotland.
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland Online provides access to digitised and fully searchable versions of both the Old Statistical Account (1791-99) and the New Statistical Account (1834-45). These are parish reports, written by Church of Scotland ministers, which provide insight into various aspects of social history in Scotland including ...
An Introduction to the Statistical Accounts of Scotland. The first or ‘Old’ Statistical Account (1791-99), under the direction of Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, and the second or ‘New’ Statistical Account (1834-45) are among the best contemporary reports of life during the agricultural and industrial revolutions in Europe.
Sinclair’s project went further than Petty’s “political arithmetic” and Achenwall’s statistiks to include information about the social activities, customs and folklore of Scotland, as well as the country’s natural resources. Indeed, the Statistical Accounts were as much guided by an Enlightenment fascination with antiquarianism, as by an interest in data about the political state ...
The two Statistical Accounts of Scotland, covering the 1790s and the 1830s, are among the best contemporary reports of life during the agricultural and industrial revolutions in Europe. Learn more about the area in which you or your ancestors have lived, or use this key source to study the emergence of the modern British State and the economic ...
