The following list of reading might be helpful in further understanding the question of landownership in Scotland. Note also that an extensive body of literature is online at:-

Caledonia Land
Caledonia Social Land
Caledonia Commonweal

Some of the literature is not easily available and over time we intend to create copies which can be downloaded from the site. Where appropriate we provide links.

A.S. Armstrong & A.S. Mather, 1983. Land Ownership and Land Use in the Scottish Highlands. O’Dell Memorial Monograph No. 13. Department of Geography, University of Aberdeen.

G. Boyd & D. Reid, (eds.) 1999. Social Land Ownership. Eight Case Studies for the Highlands & Islands of Scotland. Vol.1. Not-for-Profit Landowners Project Group, Inverness.

G. Boyd & D. Reid, (eds.) 2000. Social Land Ownership. Eight Case Studies for the Highlands & Islands of Scotland. Vol.2. Not-for-Profit Landowners Project Group, Inverness.

G. Boyd & D. Reid, (eds.) 2001. Social Land Ownership. Eight Case Studies for the Highlands & Islands of Scotland. Vol.3. Not-for-Profit Landowners Project Group, Inverness.

G. Bruce and F. Rennie, 1991. The Land Out There: A Scottish Land Anthology. Mercat Press, Aberdeen.

J. Bryden, 1996. Land Tenure and Rural Development in Scotland. The 3rd John McEwen Memorial Lecture, Perth. AK Bell Library, Perth.

Kevin Cahill, 2001. Who Owns Britain. Canongate, Edinburgh.

Robin Callander, 1987. A Pattern of Landownership in Scotland. Haughend Publications, Finzean.

Robin Callander, 1998. How Scotland is Owned. Canongate, Edinburgh.

Callander, R.F. & Wightman, A. 1998. (eds). Understanding Land Reform in Scotland. Proceedings of a Conference organised by the Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland, University of Edinburgh.

E.A. Cameron, 1998. Scottish Land Reform and the Scottish Parliament. Paper presented at Symposium on Land and Land Rights, Manchester Metropolitan University, 6 November 1998.

R.H. Campbell, 1991. Owners and Occupiers: Changes in Rural Society in South-West Scotland before 1914. Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen.

I. Carter, 1975. A Socialist Strategy for the Highlands. In: G. Brown (ed.). The Red Paper on Scotland, EUSPB, Edinburgh.

Auslan Cramb, 1996. Who Owns Scotland Now. Mainstream, Edinburgh.

Centre for Human Ecology, 1996. Access to the Land. A Case Study Approach to Community Access to the Land Resource. Centre for Human Ecology, Edinburgh.

G. Corbett & A. Wightman, 1998. Housing, Homelessness and Land Reform. Report by Shelter, Edinburgh. 20pp.

T.M. Devine, 1994. Clanship to Crofters’ War. The Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands. Manchester University Press, Manchester.

D. Dewar, 1998. Land Reform for the 21st Century. The 5th John McEwen Memorial Lecture, Aviemore. AK Bell Library, Perth.

J. Hunter, 1991. The Claim of Crofting. Mainstream, Edinburgh.

J. Hunter, 1995. Towards a Land Reform Agenda for a Scots Parliament. The 2nd John McEwen Memorial Lecture, Dingwall. AK Bell Library, Perth.

J. Hulbert, (ed.), 1986. Land, Ownership and Use. Andrew Fletcher Society, Edinburgh.

T. Johnston,1909. Our Scots Noble Families, Forward Publishing Co., Glasgow. (reprinted by Argyll Publishing, 1999).

J. Lister-Kaye, 1994. Ill Fares the Land. A Sustainable Land Ethic for the Sporting Estates of the Highlands and Islands. Scottish Natural Heritage Occasional Paper No. 3. Scottish Natural Heritage, Edinburgh.

McCarthy, James, 1996. Scotland, Land & People: An inhabited solitude. Luath Press, Edinburgh.

Magnus Magnusson & Graham White (eds.), 1991. The Nature of Scotland. Landscape, Wildlife and People. Canongate Press, Edinburgh.

D. McCrone, 1997. Land, Democracy and Culture in Scotland. The 4th John McEwen Memorial Lecture, Perth. AK Bell Library, Perth.

J. McEwen, 1971. The Acreocracy of Perthshire. Who Owns Our Land? Perth and Kinross Fabian Society, 1971.

J. McEwen, 1977. Who Owns Scotland. EUSPB, Edinburgh.

B. MacGregor, 1993. Land tenure in Scotland. The 1st John McEwen Memorial Lecture, Aberfeldy. AK Bell Library, Perth.

M.L. Parry & T.R. Slater (eds.), 1980. The Making of the Scottish Countryside. McGill-Queen’s University Press.

A. Paterson, 2002. Scotland’s Landscape. Endangered Icon. Polygon, Edinburgh.

Perth and Kinross Fabian Society, 1971. The Acreocracy of Perthshire. Perth and Kinross Fabian Society, Blairgowrie.

F. Rennie, 1995. The Dingwall Agenda. Ross & Cromarty District Council, Dingwall

Scottish Executive, 1999. Land Reform. Proposals for Legislation. The Stationery Office, Edinburgh.

Scottish Land Commission, 1997. Public Policy Towards Land in Scotland. Scottish Land Commission, Edinburgh.

Scottish National Party, 1999. Land Reform in the Scottish Parliament. Scotland’s Solutions and Scotland’s Opportunities. Scottish National Party, Edinburgh.

Scottish Office, 1998a. Identifying the Problems. Land Reform Policy Group, February 1998.

Scottish Office, 1998b. Identifying the Solutions. Land Reform Policy Group, September, 1998.

Scottish Office, 1999. Recommendations for Action. Land Reform Policy Group, January 1999.

C. Warren, 1999. Scottish Land Reform: time to get lairds a-leaping? Ecos 20 (1).

D. Watson, (1996). What if Land. Paper presented at the 1996 Ross & Cromarty Land Conference, Gairloch.

Andy Wightman, 1996. Who Owns Scotland. Canongate, Edinburgh.

A. Wightman, 1998. The Highland Council Landownership Database. Highland Council, Inverness.

Andy Wightman, 1999. Scotland: Land and Power. The agenda for land reform. Luath Press. Edinburgh.

A. Wightman,1999 - 2003. Various Briefing Papers on Land Reform Bill. Caledonia Centre for Social Development, Inverness.

Briefing Paper 1
Briefing Paper 2
Briefing Paper 3
Briefing Paper 4
Briefing Paper 5

A. Wightman, 1999. Land Reform: Politics, Power and the Public Interest. The 6th John McEwen Memorial Lecture, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh. AK Bell Library, Perth.