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| birth_name = Mary Soutar<ref name="odnb">{{cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-54394|title= Brooksbank [née Soutar], Mary Watson (1897–1978), revolutionary and songwriter|accessdate=27 December 2020|last=Smith|first=Graham|date=23 September 2004|doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/54394|isbn= 978-0-19-861412-8}}</ref>
| birth_name = Mary Soutar
| birth_date = 15 December 1897
| birth_date = 15 December 1897<ref name="odnb"/>
| birth_place = [[Aberdeen]]
| birth_place = [[Aberdeen]]<ref name="odnb"/>
| death_date = 16 March 1978
| death_date = 16 March 1978 (aged 80)<ref name="odnb"/>
| death_place = [[Ninewells Hospital]], [[Dundee]]
| death_place = [[Ninewells Hospital]], [[Dundee]]<ref name="odnb"/>
| nationality = [[Scotland|Scottish]]
| nationality = [[Scotland|Scottish]]<ref name="odnb"/>
| other_names =
| other_names =
| occupation = [[Jute mill|Mill worker]]
| occupation = [[Jute mill|Mill worker]], songwriter<ref name="odnb"/>
| known_for = [[Socialism|Socialist activism]] and [[trade unionism]]
| known_for = [[Socialism|Socialist activism]], [[trade unionism]] and songwriting<ref name="odnb"/>
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'''Mary Brooksbank''' (born '''Soutar'''; 15 December 1897 &ndash; 16 March 1978) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[jute mill|mill worker]], [[socialist]] and [[trade unionist]]. She was an active member of the [[Communist Party of Great Britain]] between 1920 and 1933, and spent three periods in prison as a result of her agitation. She attended [[John Maclean (Scottish socialist)|John Maclean]]'s last meetings at the [[Scottish Labour College]].<ref name="ap">{{cite web|url=http://www.alternative-perth.co.uk/marybrooksbank.htm|title=Mary Brooksbank - Revolutionary, Poet and Songwriter|publisher=Alternative Perth|accessdate=1 September 2014}}</ref>
'''Mary Brooksbank''' (born '''Soutar'''; 15 December 1897 &ndash; 16 March 1978) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[jute mill|mill worker]], [[socialist]], [[trade unionist]] and songwriter.<ref name="odnb"/> She was an active member of the [[Communist Party of Great Britain]] between 1920 and 1933, and spent three periods in prison as a result of her agitation.<ref name="odnb"/><ref name="Bambery2014">{{cite book|author=Chris Bambery|title=A People's History of Scotland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EbpvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA240|accessdate=27 December 2020|year=2014|publisher=Verso Books|isbn=978-1-78168-284-5|pages=240–}}</ref> She attended [[John Maclean (Scottish socialist)|John Maclean]]'s last meetings at the [[Scottish Labour College]].<ref name="odnb"/><ref name="Bambery2014"/><ref name="ap">{{cite web|url=http://www.alternative-perth.co.uk/marybrooksbank.htm|title=Mary Brooksbank - Revolutionary, Poet and Songwriter|publisher=Alternative Perth|accessdate=1 September 2014}}</ref>


She is remembered today as a prominent figure in [[Dundee]]'s [[labour movement]]. She founded the Working Women Guild to fight for better health and social services in Dundee, securing a membership of over 300, and was heavily involved in October 1934 with the National Unemployed Workers Movement county march to Forfar, to lobby the County Council; contingents were raised from Dundee, Blairgowrie, Montrose, Ferryden, and Arbroath.<ref name="gs">{{cite web|url=http://www.grahamstevenson.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70:mary-brooksbank&catid=2:b&Itemid=98|title=Brooksbank Mary|accessdate=1 September 2014|last=Stevenson|first=Graham}}</ref>
She is remembered today as a prominent figure in [[Dundee]]'s [[labour movement]].<ref name="odnb"/> She founded the Working Women Guild to fight for better health and social services in Dundee, securing a membership of over 300, and was heavily involved in October 1934 with the National Unemployed Workers Movement county march to [[Forfar]], to lobby the County Council; contingents were raised from Dundee, [[Blairgowrie and Rattray|Blairgowrie]], [[Montrose, Angus|Montrose]], [[Ferryden]] and [[Arbroath]].<ref name="odnb"/><ref name="gs">{{cite web|url=http://www.grahamstevenson.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70:mary-brooksbank&catid=2:b&Itemid=98|title=Brooksbank Mary|accessdate=1 September 2014|last=Stevenson|first=Graham}}</ref>

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More information about Mary Brooksbank can be found in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography <ref name="grs">{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/54394|title= Brooksbank [née Soutar], Mary Watson (1897–1978), revolutionary and songwriter|accessdate=25 October 2014|last=Smith|first=Graham}}</ref>


== Early life ==
== Early life ==


Mary Brooksbank was born in an Aberdeen slum, the oldest of either five<ref name="dwt" /> or ten<ref name="gs" /> children, and came to Dundee when she was eight or nine years old. She began working illegally in Dundee's jute mills as a bobbin shifter <ref>{{Cite book|title=Lives of Scottish women|last=Knox|first=William|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|year=2006|isbn=9780748617883|location=Edinburgh|pages=205}}</ref> by the age of 12, and had her first experience of trade unionism at the age of 14, when the girls at her jute mill successfully marched for a 15% pay rise.<ref name="dwt">{{cite web|url=http://www.dundeewomenstrail.org.uk/womens-trail/mary-brooksbank/|title=Mary Brooksbank|publisher=Dundee Women's Trail|accessdate=1 September 2014}}</ref>
Mary Brooksbank was born in an Aberdeen slum, the oldest of either five or ten children, and came to Dundee when she was eight or nine years old.<ref name="Bambery2014"/><ref name="gs" /><ref name="dwt" /> She began working illegally in Dundee's jute mills as a bobbin shifter by the age of 12, and had her first experience of trade unionism at the age of 14, when the girls at her jute mill successfully marched for a 15% pay rise.<ref name="dwt">{{cite web|url=http://www.dundeewomenstrail.org.uk/womens-trail/mary-brooksbank/|title=Mary Brooksbank|publisher=Dundee Women's Trail|accessdate=1 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Lives of Scottish women|url=https://archive.org/details/livesscottishwom00knox|url-access=limited|last=Knox|first=William|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|year=2006|isbn=9780748617883|location=Edinburgh|pages=[https://archive.org/details/livesscottishwom00knox/page/n210 205]}}</ref>


Mary's father, Sandy Soutar (who died in 1953, aged 86), was from St Vigeans, Arbroath, near Dundee, and had been an active trade unionist amongst the dock workers, working with James Connolly. Her mother, Rose Ann Soutar née Gillan was a fisher lassie and domestic servant. It is said that the Soutar family was "effectively blacklisted in Dundee because of their trade union activities".<ref name="dwt" />
Mary's father, Sandy Soutar (who died in 1953, aged 86), was from [[St Vigeans]], Arbroath, and had been an active trade unionist amongst the dock workers, working with James Connolly.<ref name="odnb"/><ref name="Bambery2014"/> Her mother, Rose Ann Soutar, née Gillan, was a fisher lassie and domestic servant.<ref name="odnb"/><ref name="Bambery2014"/> It is said that the Soutar family was "effectively blacklisted in Dundee because of their trade union activities".<ref name="dwt" />


== Political life ==
== Political life ==


At 21, Mary Brooksbank rejected [[Roman Catholicism]], became an atheist and was inspired by John McLean to join the Communist Party to fight for women's rights, equality, and the demise of capitalism. She is famously quoted as saying:<ref name="dwt" />
At 21, Brooksbank rejected [[Roman Catholicism]], became an atheist and was inspired by John McLean to join the Communist Party to fight for women's rights, equality, and the demise of capitalism.<ref name="Bambery2014"/> She is quoted as saying:<ref name="dwt" />


<blockquote>“I have never had any personal ambitions. I have but one: to make my contribution to destroy the capitalist system.”</blockquote>
:“I have never had any personal ambitions. I have but one: to make my contribution to destroy the capitalist system.”


She later drifted from the Communist Party as she was critical of [[Stalin]], and became more sympathetic to [[Scottish nationalism]]. John Maclean, whose classes she attended in Glasgow, was a major proponent of an [[Scottish independence|independent]] "Scottish workers republic".
She was expelled from the Communist Party in 1933 as she was critical of [[Stalin]], and became more sympathetic to [[Scottish nationalism]].<ref name="odnb"/> John Maclean, whose classes she attended in Glasgow, was a major proponent of an [[Scottish independence|independent]] "Scottish workers' republic".

She continued to be politically active to the end of her life, in campaigning for better housing and for pensioners' rights.<ref name="Bambery2014"/>


== Music ==
== Music ==


Family sing-a-longs nurtured Mary Brooksbank's love of music. She sang, played the violin and wrote songs. When money was low, she would ride the ferry from Dundee to Tayport and sing for money in the street.
Family sing-a-longs nurtured Brooksbank's love of music.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} She sang, played the violin and wrote songs.<ref name="odnb"/> When money was low, she took the ferry from Dundee to [[Tayport]] and sang for money in the street.<ref name="odnb"/> In the 1960s and 1970s she sang on radio and television.<ref name="odnb"/>


Most of her songs were about the life of the working-class mill workers of Dundee, mostly women. She called these songs "Mill Songs". They were full of detail and sympathy for the struggle with which these hard-working, poorly paid women were engaged just to feed and care for their families. <ref>Dundee Women's Trail: 25 Footsteps over 4 Centuries, Mary Henderson, 2008.</ref>
Most of her songs were about the life of the working-class mill workers of Dundee, mostly women.<ref name="odnb"/> She called these songs "Mill Songs". They were full of detail and sympathy for the struggle in which these hard-working, poorly paid women were engaged to feed and care for their families.<ref>[https://www.dundeewomenstrail.org.uk/ The Dundee Women’s Trail celebrates just a few amazing women whose lives touched this city.] Dundee Women's Trail: 25 Footsteps over 4 Centuries, Mary Henderson, www.dundeewomenstrail.org.uk 2008.</ref>


Her most famous song was "Jute Mill Song" or "Oh Dear Me".
Her most famous song was "Jute Mill Song" or "Oh Dear Me".:<ref name="odnb"/><ref>Scots Language Centre</ref>


<ref>Scots Language Centre</ref>Jute Mill Song
:''Jute Mill Song (Mary Brooksbank)
(Mary Brooksbank)


Oh dear me, the mill's gannin' fast
:Oh dear me, the mill's gannin' fast
The puir wee shifters canna get a rest
:The puir wee shifters canna get a rest
Shiftin' bobbins coorse and fine
:Shiftin' bobbins coorse and fine
They fairly mak' ye work for your ten and nine
:They fairly mak' ye work for your ten and nine


Oh dear me, I wish the day was done
:Oh dear me, I wish the day was done
Rinnin' up and doon the Pass it is nae fun
:Rinnin' up and doon the Pass it is nae fun
Shiftin', piecin', spinnin' warp weft and twine
:Shiftin', piecin', spinnin' warp weft and twine
Tae feed and clad my bairnie affen ten and nine
:Tae feed and clad my bairnie affen ten and nine


Oh dear me, the warld is ill divided
:Oh dear me, the warld is ill divided
Them that works the hardest are the least provided
:Them that works the hardest are the least provided
I maun bide contented, dark days or fine
:I maun bide contented, dark days or fine
For there's nae much pleasure livin' affen ten and nine
:For there's nae much pleasure livin' affen ten and nine
Repeat 1
:Repeat 1


You can hear it sung by Mary Brookshanks and then by later folksingers at the Scots Language Centre: http://www.scotslanguage.com/Work_Songs.
You can hear it sung by Brookshanks and later folksingers at the Scots Language Centre: [http://www.scotslanguage.com/Work_Songs Scotslanguage.com - Work Songs].


Her original notebook of songs and poems is held by the archives at the [[University of Dundee]].<ref name="Archive">{{cite web|title=MS 103/3/6/1 'Poems and Songs'|url=http://arccat.dundee.ac.uk/dserve.exe?&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=4&dsqSearch=((text)=%27brooksbank%27)|website=Archive Services Online Catalogue|publisher=University of Dundee|accessdate=23 February 2016}}</ref>
Her original notebook of songs and poems is part of the Kinnear Collection held by the archives at the [[University of Dundee]].<ref name="Archive">{{cite web|title=Item MS 103/3/6/1 - 'Poems and Songs'|url=https://archives.dundee.ac.uk/ms-103-3-6-1|website=University of Dundee Archive Catalogue|publisher=University of Dundee|accessdate=2 August 2023}}</ref> The same institution also holds a collection of her papers.<ref name="BrooksbankMS442">{{cite web |title=Collection MS 442 - Mary Brooksbank |url=https://archives.dundee.ac.uk/ms-442 |website=University of Dundee Archive Catalogue |publisher=University of Dundee |access-date=2 August 2023}}</ref> [[Ewan MacColl]] recorded some of her songs.<ref name="odnb"/>


== Death ==
== Death ==


Mary Brooksbank died at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee on 16 March 1978. A library in Dundee was named in her honour.<ref name="ap" /> When the library was closed, the Brooksbank Centre on Pitairlie Road was named after her.<ref name="gs" /> As well, a verse from her famous Jute Mill Song is inscribed in [[Iona]] marble on the [[Scottish Parliament Building]]'s [[Canongate Wall]], which displays quotations from many famous Scottish writers and poets.<ref>[http://www.parliament.scot/visitandlearn/21013.aspx Canongate Wall quotations]</ref>
Brooksbank died at [[Ninewells Hospital]] in Dundee on 16 March 1978.<ref name="odnb"/> A library in Dundee was named in her honour.<ref name="odnb"/><ref name="Bambery2014"/><ref name="ap" /> When the library was closed, the Brooksbank Centre on Pitairlie Road was named after her.<ref name="gs" /> A verse from her ''Jute Mill Song'' is inscribed in [[Iona]] marble on the [[Scottish Parliament Building]]'s [[Canongate Wall]], which displays quotations from Scottish writers and poets.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.parliament.scot/visitandlearn/21013.aspx|title=Canongate Wall quotations|date=30 December 2019|website=www.parliament.scot}}{{deadlink|date=December 2023}}</ref>

== Commemoration ==

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A rearrangement of the ''Jute Mill Song'' or ''Oh Dear Me'' was created by the American artists [[Brian House]] and Sue Huang of collaborative [[Knifeandfork]] for a performance installation at West Ward Works and [[Verdant Works]] in 2016 for the NEoN Digital Arts Festival.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://northeastofnorth.com/knifeandfork-neon-digital-arts/ |title=Knifeandfork fuse music and technology at NEoN Digital Arts Festival |date=2 February 2017 |website=northeastofnorth.com |access-date=25 December 2023}}</ref>


In 2022, to mark the 125th anniversary of her birth, the [[Abertay Historical Society]] published a collection of essays celebrating her life and work.<ref name="AbertayBook">{{cite book |editor1-last=Farley |editor1-first=Erin |editor2-last=Tolland |editor2-first=Siobhan |title=In One Woman’s Life – Celebrating Mary Brooksbank |date=2022 |publisher=Abertay Historical Society |location=Dundee |isbn=978-0-900019-64-7}}</ref><ref name="P&J15Dec2022">{{cite news |last1=Ritchie |first1=Gayle |title=Mary Brooksbank: Political firebrand-turned-songwriter from Aberdeen on a mission to destroy the capitalist system |url=https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/5170270/mary-brooksbank-songwriter-aberdeen-dundee/ |access-date=2 August 2023 |work=The Press and Journal |date=15 December 2022}}</ref>
== In popular culture ==


In September 2023, Knights Theatre held a celebration event “Oh Dear Me: The Inspirational Mary Brooksbank” at Dundee Fringe and a creative writing workshop at Verdant Works Museum. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.knightstheatre.co.uk/|title=HOME|website=KNIGHTS THEATRE}}</ref>
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A rearrangement of the "Jute Mill Song" or "Oh Dear Me" was created by the American artists [[Brian House]] and Sue Huang of collaborative [[Knifeandfork]] for a performance installation at West Ward Works and Verdant Works in 2016 for the NEoN Digital Arts Festival. A series of musicians situated along a path winding through the historic jute mills of the Blackness area of Dundee, Scotland passed along messages as encoded song fragments that were then decoded at end terminals.<ref>[https://northeastofnorth.com/knifeandfork-neon-digital-arts/]</ref>


== References ==
== References ==
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Latest revision as of 18:49, 20 April 2024

Mary Brooksbank
Born
Mary Soutar[1]

15 December 1897[1]
Aberdeen[1]
Died16 March 1978 (aged 80)[1]
Ninewells Hospital, Dundee[1]
NationalityScottish[1]
Occupation(s)Mill worker, songwriter[1]
Known forSocialist activism, trade unionism and songwriting[1]

Mary Brooksbank (born Soutar; 15 December 1897 – 16 March 1978) was a Scottish mill worker, socialist, trade unionist and songwriter.[1] She was an active member of the Communist Party of Great Britain between 1920 and 1933, and spent three periods in prison as a result of her agitation.[1][2] She attended John Maclean's last meetings at the Scottish Labour College.[1][2][3]

She is remembered today as a prominent figure in Dundee's labour movement.[1] She founded the Working Women Guild to fight for better health and social services in Dundee, securing a membership of over 300, and was heavily involved in October 1934 with the National Unemployed Workers Movement county march to Forfar, to lobby the County Council; contingents were raised from Dundee, Blairgowrie, Montrose, Ferryden and Arbroath.[1][4]

Early life

[edit]

Mary Brooksbank was born in an Aberdeen slum, the oldest of either five or ten children, and came to Dundee when she was eight or nine years old.[2][4][5] She began working illegally in Dundee's jute mills as a bobbin shifter by the age of 12, and had her first experience of trade unionism at the age of 14, when the girls at her jute mill successfully marched for a 15% pay rise.[5][6]

Mary's father, Sandy Soutar (who died in 1953, aged 86), was from St Vigeans, Arbroath, and had been an active trade unionist amongst the dock workers, working with James Connolly.[1][2] Her mother, Rose Ann Soutar, née Gillan, was a fisher lassie and domestic servant.[1][2] It is said that the Soutar family was "effectively blacklisted in Dundee because of their trade union activities".[5]

Political life

[edit]

At 21, Brooksbank rejected Roman Catholicism, became an atheist and was inspired by John McLean to join the Communist Party to fight for women's rights, equality, and the demise of capitalism.[2] She is quoted as saying:[5]

“I have never had any personal ambitions. I have but one: to make my contribution to destroy the capitalist system.”

She was expelled from the Communist Party in 1933 as she was critical of Stalin, and became more sympathetic to Scottish nationalism.[1] John Maclean, whose classes she attended in Glasgow, was a major proponent of an independent "Scottish workers' republic".

She continued to be politically active to the end of her life, in campaigning for better housing and for pensioners' rights.[2]

Music

[edit]

Family sing-a-longs nurtured Brooksbank's love of music.[citation needed] She sang, played the violin and wrote songs.[1] When money was low, she took the ferry from Dundee to Tayport and sang for money in the street.[1] In the 1960s and 1970s she sang on radio and television.[1]

Most of her songs were about the life of the working-class mill workers of Dundee, mostly women.[1] She called these songs "Mill Songs". They were full of detail and sympathy for the struggle in which these hard-working, poorly paid women were engaged to feed and care for their families.[7]

Her most famous song was "Jute Mill Song" or "Oh Dear Me".:[1][8]

Jute Mill Song (Mary Brooksbank)
Oh dear me, the mill's gannin' fast
The puir wee shifters canna get a rest
Shiftin' bobbins coorse and fine
They fairly mak' ye work for your ten and nine
Oh dear me, I wish the day was done
Rinnin' up and doon the Pass it is nae fun
Shiftin', piecin', spinnin' warp weft and twine
Tae feed and clad my bairnie affen ten and nine
Oh dear me, the warld is ill divided
Them that works the hardest are the least provided
I maun bide contented, dark days or fine
For there's nae much pleasure livin' affen ten and nine
Repeat 1

You can hear it sung by Brookshanks and later folksingers at the Scots Language Centre: Scotslanguage.com - Work Songs.

Her original notebook of songs and poems is part of the Kinnear Collection held by the archives at the University of Dundee.[9] The same institution also holds a collection of her papers.[10] Ewan MacColl recorded some of her songs.[1]

Death

[edit]

Brooksbank died at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee on 16 March 1978.[1] A library in Dundee was named in her honour.[1][2][3] When the library was closed, the Brooksbank Centre on Pitairlie Road was named after her.[4] A verse from her Jute Mill Song is inscribed in Iona marble on the Scottish Parliament Building's Canongate Wall, which displays quotations from Scottish writers and poets.[11]

Commemoration

[edit]

A rearrangement of the Jute Mill Song or Oh Dear Me was created by the American artists Brian House and Sue Huang of collaborative Knifeandfork for a performance installation at West Ward Works and Verdant Works in 2016 for the NEoN Digital Arts Festival.[12]

In 2022, to mark the 125th anniversary of her birth, the Abertay Historical Society published a collection of essays celebrating her life and work.[13][14]

In September 2023, Knights Theatre held a celebration event “Oh Dear Me: The Inspirational Mary Brooksbank” at Dundee Fringe and a creative writing workshop at Verdant Works Museum. [15]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Smith, Graham (23 September 2004). "Brooksbank [née Soutar], Mary Watson (1897–1978), revolutionary and songwriter". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54394. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 27 December 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Chris Bambery (2014). A People's History of Scotland. Verso Books. pp. 240–. ISBN 978-1-78168-284-5. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Mary Brooksbank - Revolutionary, Poet and Songwriter". Alternative Perth. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
  4. ^ a b c Stevenson, Graham. "Brooksbank Mary". Retrieved 1 September 2014.
  5. ^ a b c d "Mary Brooksbank". Dundee Women's Trail. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
  6. ^ Knox, William (2006). Lives of Scottish women. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 205. ISBN 9780748617883.
  7. ^ The Dundee Women’s Trail celebrates just a few amazing women whose lives touched this city. Dundee Women's Trail: 25 Footsteps over 4 Centuries, Mary Henderson, www.dundeewomenstrail.org.uk 2008.
  8. ^ Scots Language Centre
  9. ^ "Item MS 103/3/6/1 - 'Poems and Songs'". University of Dundee Archive Catalogue. University of Dundee. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  10. ^ "Collection MS 442 - Mary Brooksbank". University of Dundee Archive Catalogue. University of Dundee. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  11. ^ "Canongate Wall quotations". www.parliament.scot. 30 December 2019.[dead link]
  12. ^ "Knifeandfork fuse music and technology at NEoN Digital Arts Festival". northeastofnorth.com. 2 February 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  13. ^ Farley, Erin; Tolland, Siobhan, eds. (2022). In One Woman’s Life – Celebrating Mary Brooksbank. Dundee: Abertay Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-900019-64-7.
  14. ^ Ritchie, Gayle (15 December 2022). "Mary Brooksbank: Political firebrand-turned-songwriter from Aberdeen on a mission to destroy the capitalist system". The Press and Journal. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  15. ^ "HOME". KNIGHTS THEATRE.
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