Awards

• Short-listed for Saltire Society Awards 2022 (UK)

Overview

This book examines individuals, families and communities of craftworkers and their changing experience in town and country. Based on case studies drawn from personal, business, institutional and official records, as well as newspaper reports and visual illustrations, it looks at workplace dynamics and handmade wares shaped by personal consumption, rather than industrial production. Stana Nenadic examines the 'things' that were made and the values they embodied at a time when most Scots were still engaged in hand making either for income or pleasure despite Scotland's emergence as a great industrial powerhouse.

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Reviews

"I have learned more from this fine study than any number of other recent books on modern Scottish history. It is undeniably pioneering, skillfully undermining a number of old orthodoxies about Scotland's craftworkers, and will stand as the standard work on the subject for many years to come.-- ""Professor Emeritus Sir Tom Devine, University of Edinburgh"" This book is a celebration of consolidated scholarly knowledge and passion for a subject which is too often overlooked, though not by this author. [...] The impacts of this book on future scholarship and public celebrations of Scottish cultural and economic history will be anticipated.--Anthony Lewis, Glasgow Life Museums ""The Economic History Review"""

Author Information

Stana Nenadic is Professor of Social and Cultural History at the University of Edinburgh. She studies the social, cultural and economic life of artisans and business owners, the middle ranks, gentry and professionals since the eighteenth century, mainly with reference to Scotland and has a parallel interest in the material and visual cultures of the past. Previous publications include Colouring the Nation: The Turkey Red Printed Cotton Industry in Scotland c.1840-1940 (NMS Publications, Edinburgh, 2013), co-written with Sally Tuckett, Scots in London the Eighteenth Century (Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press, 2010) and Lairds and Luxury: The Highland Gentry in Eighteenth Century Scotland (John Donald, Edinburgh, 2007). She is Director of the Pasold Research Fund (for the history of textiles, dress and fashion) and currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. Nenadic was previously a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 2001-2011.

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