EAST LOTHIAN FOURTH STATISTICAL ACCOUNT SOCIETY

Volume Five of the Fourth Statistical Account was launched on 1 August 2007,

featuring the parishes of Inveresk (with Musselburgh), Prestonpans, Tranent (with Cockenzie & Port Seton)

 Watch this space for further details!

Volume Four (launched 2006)

Volume four: The Parishes of Aberlady, Athelstaneford, Direlton (with Gullane), North Berwick, Whitekirk & Tyninghame, edited by Sonia Baker, was published on 1st March 2006. The account provides a readable and fascinating social history for the general reader as well as a wonderful reference tool for students and researchers.

Copies are available from local bookshops and from libraries throughout East Lothian. Contact East Lothian Council Library Service to find out more or download an order form (PDF format) for this and previous volumes.

Price £14.95
Postage & packing:
UK 1st class £3.22
Europe
airmail £4.59
surface mail £3.93
USA, Canada, Australia & South Africa
airmail £7.57
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Volume three (published 2005)

Volume Three: The Parishes of Bolton, Gladsmuir (with Longniddry), Humbie, Ormiston, Pencaitland, Saltoun, edited by Sonia Baker, was published in 2005. It deals in depth with the villages and towns of these parishes and the daily lives of their inhabitants.

Copies are available at local bookshops and from libraries throughout East Lothian.

Price £14.95
Postage and packing:
UK 1^st class £3.77
USA, Canada, Australia & South Africa:
Surface: £4.62
Airmail: £8.00
Europe: Airmail £4.86

Volume Two (Published 2004)

East Lothian 1945 - 2000 Fourth Statistical Volume Two: The Parishes of Garvald, Haddington, Morham, Prestonkirk, Whittingehame, Yester, edited by Sonia Baker, has now been published. Copies are available at local bookshops and from libraries throughout East Lothian.

Volume Two deals in depth with six East Lothian parishes, their villages and towns and the daily lives of their inhabitants.

Price: £14.95
Postage and packing:
UK 1st Class £3.25
USA, Canada, Australia & South Africa:
Surface: £4.00
Airmail: £8.00
Europe Air £4.50

Volume One: the County (published 2003)

The County Volume was published in July 2003. It consists of more than 35 contributions from experts, academics and practitioners in different fields, together with photographs illustrating East Lothian life over the past fifty years. The papers range in length from 500 words to 3,000 words. Extracts from most of the essays are included on this web-site.

                                                                                                                        There will be one further parish volume, Volume 6: Dunbar, Innerwick, Oldhamstocks, Spott, Stenton. Volunteers have worked in each of the 26 parishes under a local co-ordinator to complete the parish returns. Our editor Sonia Baker, like John Sinclair before her, produced a detailed questionnaire for the co-ordinators to work to. In the published volumes, which are generously illustrated, 20,000 words will be devoted to the more populous parishes, and around 6,000 words to the rural ones. Parishes are grouped together on an area basis.

1. An additional volume Growing up in East Lothian 1945-2000 will record the childhood memories of local inhabitants from all walks of life.

The Fourth Statistical Account of East Lothian is published by the East Lothian Fourth Statistical Account Society. The society is a consortium of eleven local history societies in East Lothian, led by the East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists Society. The project was conceived to mark the 50th anniversary of East Lothian's Third Statistical Account, the 200th anniversary of the first Account and the new millennium, and received a grant of £30,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

East Lothian Council Library Service kindly undertook the publication of all seven volumes, though publication of Volume Four was made possible by funding from East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists' Society (ELAFNS).  Some funding has also been provided by the Strathmartine Trust.

You can find out more about the first two statistical accounts and see the survey material for the whole of Scotland at EDINA.

The project has generated far more material than can be included in the published volumes. A CD Rom will contain more extensive versions of the county essays and parish contributions, together with some of the source material such as interviews and oral recordings collected by the researchers.

All the archive material will be deposited with East Lothian Council's Local History Centre in Haddington.

All the project's publications are being published in partnership with East Lothian Council Library Service and will be on sale through local bookshops and libraries.

Foreword by Prof. Rosalind Mitchison.