Ian MacDougall, a long-standing research worker of the Scottish Working People's History Trust, has played a pivotal role in recording for posterity the experience of working people's lives, in editing and publishing their stories and in persuading trade unions, co-operatives and activists to deposit their papers with Scottish archives and libraries. He is the author of several works of social history including Voices from War, Voices from Work and Home, Voices from the Spanish Civil War, Bondagers and Through the Mill.