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Scottish Children of the Past
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Mary Ann Mackenzie
A Highland Schoolgirl, 1895
Imagine:
Walking to school barefoot.
Learning in a language you had never heard or spoken before starting school.
Being in constant fear of punishment with a strap for making a mistake in your work, speaking in your own language or being late for registration.
This was the experience of Mary Ann Mackenzie and many other children who attended school in Highland Scotland towards the end of the nineteenth century.
Told through the eyes of nine- year-old Mary Ann, this story is an engaging account of the school day and home life of a real child who lived on Scoraig, a remote peninsular in north west Highlands of Scotland.
The author, Claire Pepper, combines Mary Ann's recollections of her childhood with extensive research, photographs and extracts from the school log books to bring rural childhood in the Scottish Highlands in the late nineteenth century vividly to life.
ISBN 978-1-7385121-0-2
Retail price: £15.99
'Claire’s book will fill a gap in the research that is present both at a local and national level and will act as a baseline for further research.’ Siobhan Beatson, Curator, Ullapool Museum.
‘I cannot recommend this book highly enough in terms of its educational value, but also in terms of its value in preserving the history of a small community and a way of life, which was very common in the Highlands of Scotland during this period.’ Jemma Middleton, Teacher, Ullapool High School.
James and Ann
A Boy Miner and a Schoolgirl,
Leadhills, 1841
This story told through the eyes of James, aged 12 and his sister Ann, 10, describes the home life and work experience and school day of two children growing up in the lead mining village of Leadhills, Lanarkshire in 1841.
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