Siobhan Talbott, Beyond 'the Antiseptic Realm of Theoretical Economic Models': New Perspectives on Franco-Scottish Commerce and the Auld Alliance in the Long Seventeenth Century, p. 149
Adam Fox, The Emergence of the Scottish Broadside Ballad in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries, p. 169
Gavin Bowd, Scotland for Franco: Charles Saroléa v. The Red Duchess, p. 195
Huw D. Jones, Susan Galloway, Arts Governance in Scotland: the Saga of Scottish Opera, 1962-2007, p. 220

Book Reviews , p. 242

Editorial Note, iv

Philipp Robinson Ròssner, New Avenues of Trade: Structural Change in the European Economy and Foreign Commerce as Reflected in the Changing Structure of Scotland's Commerce, 1660-1760, p. 1
Michael Anderson, Guesses, Estimates and Adjustments: Webster's 1755 'Census' of Scotland Revisited Again, p. 26
Peter Hillis, The Social Composition of the Cathedral Church of St Mungo in Late Nineteenth-Century Glasgow, p. 46
Johann Gustodis, Exploiting the Enerny in the Orkneys: The Employment ofitalian Prisoners ofWar on the Scapa Flow Barriers during the Second World War, p. 72
Duncan Sim, The Scottish Cornmunity and Scottish Organisations on Merseyside: Development and Decline of a Diaspora, p. 99
Katie Barclay, Siobhan Talboti, New Perspectives on Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Scotland: The Economic and Social History Society of Scotland Conference 2010, p. 119

Book Reviews, p. 134

Contributors, p. iv
Editorial, p. v

Kenneth Collins, A Cominunity on Trial: The Aberdeen Shechita Case, 1893, p. 75
Allan Kennedy, 'A Heavy Yock Uppon Their Necks': Covenanting Government in the Northern Highlands, 1638-1651, p. 93
Angus MacKenzie, Self-Help and Propaganda: Scottish National Development Council, 1931-1939, p. 123
Peter Fletcher, Railway Capital in Northern Scotland, 1844-1874, p. 146
Yukihisa Kumagai, Kirkman Finlay and John Crawfurd: Two Scots in the Campaign of the Glasgow East India Association for the Opening of the China Trade, 1829-1833, p. 175

Contributors, p. iv

Geoffrey Bagott, Melness Farm, Sutherland: The Land Question and the Congested Districts Board, C. 1866-1911, p. 1
Wendy M. Gordon, The Demographics of Scottish Poverty: Paisley's Applicants for Relief, 1861 and 1871, p. 25
Janay Nugent, Megan Clark, A Loaded Plate: Food Symbolism and the Early Modern Scottish Household, p. 43
Stuart Basten, The Impact of the 1783 and 1785 Stamp Duty Acts on Scottish Vital Registration, p. 64

Contributors, p. iv

Ben Braber, Within Our Gates: A New Perspective on Germe Glasgow during the First World War, p. 87
Alison Duncan, The Sword and the Pen: The Role of Correspondence in the Advancement Tactics of Eighteent-Century Military Officers, p. 106
Jim Tomlinson, The Deglobalisation of Dundee, e, 1900-2000, p. 123

Book reviews, p. 141

Contributors, p. iv
Editorial note, p. v

Stuart M. Nisbet, The Making of Scotland's First Industriai Regioni The Early Cotton Industry in Renfrewshire, p. 1
John D. Wood, Robinson Crusoe Untravelled: John Younger (1785-1860) of St Boswells, p. 29 Marie Robinson, Plague and Humiliation: The Ecclesiastical Response to Cattle Plague in Mid-Victorian Britain, p. 52

Book reviews, p. 72

Contributors, p. ii
Editorial, p. iii

Katie Barclay, Negotiating Patriarchy: The Marriage of Anna Potts and Sir Archibald Grant of Monymusk, 1731-1744, p. 83
Rosalind Carr, The Gentleman and the Soldier: Patriotic MascuHnities in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, p. 102
Roger Davidson, 'The Cautionary Tale of Tom': The Male Homosexual Experience of Scottish Medicine in the 1970s and early 1980s, p. 122

News, p. 139

Contributors, p. ii

Women's History Scotland Prize Essay 2007
Cathryn Spence, Women and Business in Sixteenth-Century Edinburgh: Evidence from their Testaments, p. 1

Economie and Social History Society of Scotland, Postgraduate Prize Essay 2007
Mark Towsey, 'Ali Partners may be Enlightened and Improved by Reading them': The Distribution of Enlightenment Books in Scottish Subscription Library Catalogues, 1750-e. 1820, p. 20
W. M. Mathew, Animus, Absenteeism, and Succession in the Keiller Marmalade Dynasty, 1839-1919, p. 44

Conference Reports
Historical Perspectives Conference, Glasgow, May 2007, p. 62
A Woman's Island? Shetland Women: Past, Present and Future, Lerwick, April 2007, p. 64

Book reviews, p. 67

Contributors, p. ii
Editorial, p. iii

Patricia Lucie, The Sinner and the Phrenologist: Davey Haggart meets George Combe, p. 125
Nathalie Rosset, Popular Philosophy in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland, p. 150
Atsuko Betchaku, Thomas Chalmers, David Stow and the St John's Experiment: A Study in Educational Influence in Scotland and Beyond, 1819-C.1850, p. 170

Special Feature
Peter L. M. Hillis, Scottish History in the School Curriculum, p. 191

Contributors, p. ii

Sarah Covington, Royalists, Covenanters and the Shooting of Servants in the Scottish Civil War, p. 1
Christopher A. Whatley and DerekJ. Patrick, Contesting Interpretations of the Union of 1707: The Abuse and Use of George Lockhart of Carnwath's Memoirs, p. 24
Robin Mackie, Counting Chemists: The Distribution of Chemical Expertise in Scotland in the First Half of the Twentieth Century, p. 48
Alison Gihnour, The Trouble with Linwood: Compliance and Coercion in the Car Plant, 1963-1981, p. 75

Special Feature
Film and History: An Interview with Janet McBain, Curator of the Scottish Film Archive, p. 94

Book reviews, p. 105

Contributors, p. ii
Editorial, p. iv

Feature
THE STATE OFWOMEN'S HISTORY IN SCOTLAND
Elizabeth Ewan, A Land Fit for Heroines? The Making of the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, p. 1
Sample Entries from the Biographkal Dictionary of Scottish Women, p. 11
Mary O'Dowd, Review Essay: Scottish Women, p. 14

Research Articles
PRIZE ESSAY: Alasdair Raffe, Episcopalian Polemic, the London Printing Press and Anglo-Scottish Divergence in the 1690s, p. 23
Vivienne S. Dunstan, Glimpses into a Town's Reading Habits in Enlightenment Scotland: Analysing the Borrowings of Gray Library, Haddington, 1732-1816, p. 42
John MacAskill, The Highland Kelp Proprietors and their Struggle over the Salt and Barilla Duties, 1817-1831, p. 60
Som McKinstry, The Positive Depiction of Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in the Novels of Sir Walter Scott, p. 83
John Stewart and John Welshman, The Evacuation of Children in Wartime Scotland: Culture, Behaviour and Poverty, p. 100

Feature
DEBATE: POSTMODERNISM AND HISTORY
Beth Lord and James Tomlinson: Review Essay: History and Postmodernism, p. 121
Response by Willie Thompson, p. 131
Response by Callum Brown, p. 134

News, p. 137

Contributors, p. ii
Martin Rorke, Women overseas traders in sixteenth-century Scotland, p. 81
Douglas Watt, The management of capital by the Company of Scotland 1696-1707, p. 97
Douglas G. Lockkart, Lotted lands in North East Scotland since 1850, p. 119

Review Article, p. 140
Book Reviews, p. 146

PRIZE ESSAY
Katharine Glover, The Female Mind: Scottish Enlightenment Femininity and the World of Letters. A Case Study of the Women of the Fletcher of Saltoun Family in the Mid-eighteenth Century, p. 1
Ian Levitt, Regenerating the Scottish Highlands: Whitehall and the Fort William Pulp Mill, 1945-63, p. 21
David Stewart, Fighting for Survival: the 1980s Campaign to Save Ravenscraig Steelworks, p. 40

Book Reviews, p. 58

Catriona M. M. Macdonald, 'Wersh the wine o' victorie': Writing Scotland's Second World War, p. 105
Ronnie Johnston, Arthur McIvor, The war and the body at work: occupational health and safety in Scottish industry, 1939-1945, p. 113
Wendy Ugolini, The internal enemy 'other': recovering the World War Two narratives of Italian Scottish women, p. 137
Fraser MacDonald, Sharon Macdonald, Julie S. Heath, Margaret A. Mackay, Donald Macleod, Susan Parman, Colloquium: Susan Parman's Scottish Crofters: a historical ethnography of a Celtic Village, p. 159
Callum Brown, Appreciation: Olive Checkland 1920-2004, p. 182

Book Reviews, p. 185
News, p. 194

Contributors, p. II
Editorial, p. III

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Alistair Mutch, Management practice and kirk sessions: an exploration of the Scottish contribution to management, p. 1
Elaine McFarland, Researching death, mourning and commemoration in modern Scotland, p. 20
Lindsay Paterson, The modernising of the democratic intellect: the role of English in Scottish secondary education, 1900-1939, p. 45
Roger Davidson, Gayle Davis, 'A Festering Sore on the Body of Society': The Wolfenden Committee and female prostitution in mid-twentieth century Scotland, p. 80

News, p. 99