Scottish Sports Books

There are remarkably few books which offer serious coverage of Scottish sporting development and history in general. There is clearly a gap in the market for an Encyclopedia of Scottish Sport...

These are listed in date order, any further suggestions welcome.

Stories of Scottish Sports (1881). 'Rockwood', 176 pages.

Sports and Pastimes of Scotland (1891). Robert Scott Fittis, 212 pages.

The Sporting Scots of Nineteenth-Century Canada (1982). Gerald Redmond, 347 pages.

Alive in the 1900s, with Reminiscences of the Scottish Council of Physical Recreation (1979). May Brown, 110 pages.

Scottish Sport in the Making of the Nation - 90 minute patriots? (1994). Grant Jarvie and Graham Walker (eds), 200 pages.

Sporting Scotland (1995). John Burnett, 80 pages.

Riot, Revelry and Rout: Sport in Lowland Scotland before 1860 (2000). John Burnett, 287 pages.

Sport, Scotland and the Scots (2000). Grant Jarvie and John Burnett (eds), 277 pages.

Scotland's Sporting Buildings (2014). Nick Haynes, 108 pages.


Regional studies

Old Leith at Leisure (1976). James Scott Marshall, 96 pages.

Oban - United in Sport (2007). Alan Hill & Donald M Skinner, 260 pages.

Played in Glasgow (2010). Ged O'Brien, 228 pages.


Annuals

The Scottish Sports Book (1985/86, 1986/87, 1987/88). Compiled by Alex Hosie, 224-280 pages.