After attending school at Strathaven she studied history at the University of Glasgow, being awarded a first class honours in 1919.
[1] She then wrote a doctoral thesis on Bishop Kennedy of St Andrews at the University of Edinburgh which was awarded on 17 July 1924.
[2] Cameron worked at the Scottish Record Office and in 1938 married George Dunlop, proprietor of the Kilmarnock Standard.
[4] Marcus Merriman, a historian of the Rough Wooing, acknowledged Annie Cameron, Marguerite Wood, and Gladys Dickinson for their work publishing 16th-century primary sources.
He praised Cameron for her "stunning" edition of the Scottish correspondence of Mary of Guise, "placing in the hands of the researcher something formidably useful.