Jack Webster's Aberdeen
Publisher: Birlinn
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781841584782
Subjects: History
Other titles: Aberdeen
Notes: Includes index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction: Towards This Book ...; title: 1. Taste of Aberdeen; title: 2. Where It All Began; title: 3. Man Who Founded King's; title: 4. Town on Fire; title: 5. Robert the Bruce in Aberdeen; title: 6. Was Shnkespeare Here?; title: 7. Reformation; title: 8. Mary, Queen of Scots; title: 9. Troubles; title: 10. From Black Death to Typhoid; title: 11. Finest Square in Scotland; title: 12. From Combs to Crombie Coats; title: 13. Granite Stirs to Life; title: 14. Ship that Ruled the Waves; title: 15. Birth of Banking; title: 16. Davie do a'thing; title: 17. Jacobite Risings; title: 18. How Union Street Began; title: 19. Scandal of Slavery; title: 20. Towards Foresterhill; title: 21. King's and Marischal Unite; title: 22. Panoply of Principals; title: 23. Chain of Lord Provosts; title: 24. First Train Arrives; title: 25. Charm of the Tramcars; title: 26. Mart Day at Kittybrewster; title: 27. City Takes Shape; title: 28. Public Library at Last; title: 29. Co-opy; title: 30. Royal Visitors and Others; title: 31. Thomas Hardy Comes to Town; title: 32. From Fleming to Mitchell; title: 33. Gateway to the World; title: 34. How the Houses Were Built; title: 35. Education for All; title: 36. Independent Schools; title: 37. Rowett and Macaulay; title: 38. Gordon for Me; title: 39. Romance of Gandar Dower; title: 40. City in Two World Wars; title: 41. Industry at War; title: 42. Post-War World; title: 43. Wonder of Oil; title: 44. Place in Our Time; title: 45. Labour Takes Control; title: 46. Fourth Estate; title: 47. Writers and Artists; title: 48. Lord Byron; title: 49. Will Doric Survive?; title: 50. Lillie Langtry Woos the Laird; title: 51. Charlie Chaplin in Town; title: 52. Jewel in the Crown; title: 53. Donald Family; title: 54. Scotland the What?; title: 55. How Cinema Changed Our Lives; title: 56. This is the BBC; title: 57. This Sporting Life; title: 58. And Twal' Mile Roun'; title: 59. Names to Remember; title: 60. So What of the Future?; title: 61. Northern Lights; title: App. Story of Aberdeen's Coal of Arms.