Land to Rail: Life and Times of Andrew Ramage 1854-1917

Part of the Flashbacks series of oral histories. Andrew Ramage was the son of a farm servant and he himself worked on the land in the Lothians and Berwickshire, subsequently became a dock-worker, lorry driver and railwayman.

In Andrew Ramage’s account, left in diaries and notebooks, the uncertain realities of rural employment and dwelling are revealed and challenge the bucolic image often attached to descriptions of 19th-century country life.

He lived through a time of great social and economic change and, later, was a concerned parent during the years of war-time strife.

Publisher NMS Enterprises Ltd – Publishing, co-published with the European Ethnological Research Centre, as part of the Flashbacks series, General Editor Alexander Fenton.