Contents Image Articles Alexander Fenton and Gavin Sprott, 'The Museum of Scottish Country Life' Alexander Fenton, 'How did the pre-improvement landscape and society work? Reconstructing the past through its material culture' Francois Sigaut, 'Farming and rural society in Europe, late eighteenth to late nineteenth centuries: a general perspective' Alexander S Mather, 'European agriculture 1865-1950: feeding an urban population' Duncan Dornan, 'How did – or didn’t – scientific knowledge get into the farming blood-stream?' John Burnett, 'Bacteria and bureaucracy: science, public health and dairy farming' Gary West, 'Land and lyrics: the dynamics of poetry and music in rural society' Ian Campbell, 'Writing the countryside' Alexander Fenton, 'The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue' Marace Dareau, 'The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: an A-Z of its history and nature' Jane Dawson, '"There is nothing like a good gossip": baptism, kinship and alliance in early modern Scotland' Ian Russell, 'Flute bands and their annual walks in north-east Scotland: music, tradition, and community' Elizabeth Beaton, 'Paper sailors and mermaids as house decorations in coastal moray and Banffshire' Shorter Notes Kathleen Battye, 'Aspects of an English export trade' David W Brown, 'Leaving the land: a job application from 1837' Rob Close, 'A great quantity of glees, duets and songs: a provincial catalogue of sheet music, 1833' This article was published on 2024-08-13