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Online resources
- Videos on Greyfriars from a conference given by Edinburgh World Heritage:
- Mark Hatton: The Different Faces of Greyfriars
- Greyfriars Kirk – official site
- Photos of Greyfriars from the 18th & 19th century
- Canmore photos of Greyfriars
Books
Anderson, William Pitcairn, 1931, Silences that Speak – Records of Edinburgh’s churches and burial grounds, Alexander Brunton, Edinburgh.
Brown, J., Churchyard, 1867, The Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions in Greyfriars Edinburgh, J. Moodie Miller, London, Hamilton, Adams, & Co. MDCCCLXV11.
Basford, K., 1978, The Green Man, Brewer, D.S., Cambridge.
Cullen of Whitekirk, William Douglas Cullen, 1988, The Walls of Edinburgh, Cockburn Association.
Dennison, E. Patricia, 2005, Holyrood and Canongate: a thousand years of history, Edinburgh: Birlinn.
Dingwall, H.M., c1994, Late seventeenth-century Edinburgh: a demographic study, Aldershot: Scolar.
Dingwall, Helen M., 1995, Physicians, Surgeons and Apothecaries: medicine in seventeenth-century Edinburgh, East Linton: Tuckwell Press.
Doel, G & F., 2001, The Green Man in Britain, The History Press, Gloucestershire.
Elizabeth Foyster and Christopher A. Whatley, (eds) 2010, Volume 2, A history of everyday life in Scotland, 1600 to 1800, Edinburgh University Press.
Friends of Greyfriars Kirkyard, 2022, The Dead Centre of Edinburgh, Friends of Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh.
Fry, Michael, 2014, A higher world: Scotland 1707-1815, Edinburgh: Birlinn
Golledge, C., 2018 Greyfriars Graveyard, Amberley.
Hett, F.P., 1932, The Memoirs of Robert Sibbald 1641-1722, Oxford University Press, London.
Lang, Andrew., 1909, Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, King’s Advocate, his life and times, 1636-1691, London.
Lynch, Michael, 1981, Edinburgh and the Reformation, Edinburgh: Donald.
Morton, A.G., 1986, John Hope 1715-1786, Scottish Botanist, Edinburgh Botanic Garden (Sibbald) Trust, Edinburgh.
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Mylne, Robert Scott, Reverent, 1893, The Master Masons to the Crown of Scotland and their works, Edinburgh. Also access via https://electricscotland.com/history/men/mastermasons.pdf
Mylne, Robert, 1955, Robert Mylne, architect and engineer, 1733 to 1811. (Diaries), London.
Paton H., (ed), Register of Interments in the Greyfriars Burying Ground, Edinburgh 1658-1700
Ross, David, 2010, The Killing Time: fanaticism, liberty and the birth of Britain, Edinburgh: Luath.
Royal Commission on the Ancient Monuments of Scotland, 1951, An Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of the City of Edinburgh, His Majesty’s Stationery Office, Edinburgh.
Scott, Walter Sir, 2012, The Works of Sir Walter Scott: The Heart of Midlothian. Volume 1 / by Walter Scott. Milton Keynes: Lightning Source UK Ltd.
Steele, A.J., 1997, William Carstares, churchman and statesman, 1649-1715,
Edinburgh: Society of Friends of the Kirk of the Greyfriars.
Stevenson, R.L., 1954, Edinburgh Picturesque Notes, Rupert Hart-Davies, London.
Story, Robert Herbert, 1874, William Carstares: a character and career of the revolutionary epoch, 1649-1715, London.
Smout, T.C., 1998, A history of the Scottish people, 1560-1830, London: Fontana.
Suzie Lennox, 2016, Bodysnatchers: digging up the untold stories of Britain’s Resurrection Men, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword History.
Watts, Claire, The Covenanters, 2011, NMSE – Publishing Ltd.
Whatley, C.A., 2001, Bought and Sold for English Gold? Explaining the Union of 1707, Tuckwell Press, East Linton.
Willsher, Betty, 2005, Understanding Scottish Graveyards, NMSE – Publishing Ltd.
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