Margaret Sanderson


Margaret H. B. Sanderson is a Scottish historian and author.

Career

Margaret Sanderson was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire. She gained an MA and a PhD in 1971 at the University of Edinburgh. Sanderson worked at the Scottish Record Office from 1969 and became head of publications and education. She has published on Scottish social history, land tenure, and material culture. In 1986, she published a biography of Cardinal David Beaton.

Publications

A Kindly Place? Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland.Ayrshire and the Reformation: People and Change, 1490–1600.A proper Repository’ The Building of the General Register House.Robert Adam and Scotland: Portrait of an Architect.Cardinal of Scotland.Scottish Rural Society in the Sixteenth Century.Mary Stewart's People: Life in Mary Stewart's Scotland.
  • "Manse and Glebe in the sixteenth century", Scottish Church History Society, pp. 81–82.