Michael Brander, Essential Guide to the Highland Games (1992) ISBN0-86241-302-8
Emily Ann Donaldson, The Scottish Highland Games in America (Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, LA, 1986). ISBN0-88289-474-9.
Joan F. Flett and Thomas M. Flett, Traditional Dancing in Scotland (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1964, 1985), ISBN0-7102-0731-X
John G. Gibson, Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945 (McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1998). ISBN0-7735-1541-0. See esp. chapter 15, "Highland Games and Competition Piping"
Ian R. Mitchell, "Rheumatism, Romanticism and Revolution: Victoria, Balmorality and 1848" in History Scotland (Vol. 5, #5, September/October 2005)
John Prebble, The King's Jaunt (Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd,1988., 2000), ISBN1-84158-068-6
Hugh Trevor-Roper, "The Invention of Tradition: The Highland Tradition of Scotland." in The Invention of Tradition ed. Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, ISBN0-521-24645-8.
David Webster, Scottish Highland Games (Edinburgh, Scotland 1973)