Further Reading

Books & Publications

Documents containing historical content applicable to Bathgate & district

 

Author(s)         Title                                           Publisher                        Comments    

Various                    The Bathgate Book                               The Bathgate 2000 Trust           Ed.William F. Hendrie/Allister Mackie

Robert Kerr              History of Bathgate                                                                                Copies held in WL Library - Bathgate

John Penney            Historical Account of Linlithgowshire     Stevenson, Prince's St.              Printer A Balfour & Co. Edinburgh

H. M. Cadell             The Story of the Forth                           Maclehose for Glasow U P         Geology of the Forth Valley

Robert Duncan        The Mineworkers                                   Birlinn Ltd. Edinburgh                Scottish Mineworkers' History 2005

Eve B. Simpson        Sir James Young Simpson                     Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier     Biography of her father. Date: 1896

* Steve Short          Aneirin - The Gododdin                          Llanerch,  Felinfarch                  * Translator.  Date: 1994

J. H. Thomson          Martyr Graves of Scotland                     Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier     Extract in "Our Files"

W. Moir Bryce          The Flodden Wall                                   T & A Constable, Edinburgh      Date 1910

Dane Love               The Covenanter Encyclopaedia             Font Publishing                         Date 2009

A. M. Bisset              Official Guide to West Lothian                                                                Copies held in West Lothian Library

A. M. Bisset              Bathgate Spae Wife                                                                               A play - held in W. Lothian Library

A. M. Bisset              Drumcross Notes                                                                                    Handwritten - held in W .Lothian Library

A. M. Bisset             The Swineabbey Tragedy                                                                       Extract from "Episodes in W. Lothian History" (Covenanters)

A.M. Bisset               History of Bathgate & District                                                                 Copies held in West Lothian Library

A. M. Bisset              Poets & Poetry of Linlithgowshire                                                          Copies held in West Lothian Library

A. M. Bisset              Sangs o Hame                                                                                        ms of  poems & songs held in West Lothian Library