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Discover all the foul facts about the history of the highlands with history's most horrible headlines: Scottish edition.The master of making histo...
View full detailsDiscover history at your finger tips. While historical fiction allows you to take in the grand sweep of history through the lens of an intimate story, there’s so much that the genre leaves out. The true scale of the passing of time is, more often than not, best addressed in by the greatest of our history writers. We don’t need contrived plots or imagined dialogues between the Greats of our history in order to really delve into the past – all we need is a gifted writer who knows how to breathe life into history through their prose.
Thankfully, we have all that and more! As one of the larger sections here at East Neuk Books, we pride ourselves in carrying a large stock of history books ranging through all major periods of our nation’s past. Are you looking to do some research on the great clans of old? A great number of our books will help you do just that. Searching for glimpses into Scottish history before and after the Unification with England? No problem! Hoping for a deep dive into the personalities and histories of larger-than-life figures like Robert the Bruce of Mary, Queen of Scots? If so, you’ve come to the right place.
We live and breathe Scottish history at East Neuk Books, and nothing makes us happier than helping locals rediscover their past. They say that you can’t know the future without knowing the past, and that has never been easier with the flood of great writers and academics doing create research and writing on all periods of our history.
So no matter if you’re looking for a glimpse into a particular decade or a brisk tour of the north’s great history, it’s never been simpler to find great volumes or buy history books online. This weekend, curl up with your next fantastic read and get to know the major figures of our history!
Discover all the foul facts about the history of the highlands with history's most horrible headlines: Scottish edition.The master of making histo...
View full detailsTanks on the streets, local regiments confined to barracks and the imposition of martial law. This was not Petrograd, but Glasgow in 1919. Revolt ...
View full detailsFor more than 2000 years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Its society was viable, even Utopian; but in the nineteenth century...
View full detailsAt the time when the prehistoric kingdom of Dalriada flourished, Ireland was one of the richest countries in the world with trade links as far afie...
View full detailsThe Neolithic village known as Skara Brae was continuously occupied for about 300 to 400 years, before being abandoned around 2500 BC. Despite seve...
View full detailsA very popular book by a popular local author, Leonard Low. St. Andrews Untold Stories has tales of history & people in the famous Fife town an...
View full detailsThe OS Historical Map series comprises of Ancient Britain and Roman Britain. Each archaeological period is identified using different symbols and c...
View full detailsThe book provides an overview and analysis of the witch trials in the Scottish Borders in the 17th century. The 17th century was a time of upheaval...
View full detailsGlasgow has one of the bloodiest and most tumultuous histories on record, riddled with plagues and pirate attacks, religious divides and reconcilia...
View full detailsNo nation on earth has a richer, more colourful, and more long–standing heritage of evangelical awakenings than Scotland – yet most people are unfa...
View full detailsAn examination of the ways in which the fluid concept of "chivalry" has been used and appropriated after the Middle Ages. One of the most difficult...
View full detailsThis is the remarkable story of Donald Caskie, minister of the Scots Kirk in Paris at the time of the German invasion of France in 1940. Although h...
View full detailsThe burial grounds, graveyards and cemeteries of Fife contain many fascinating historical tales, often with interesting superstitions attached. All...
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Refreshed, renewed, reloaded! Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Scotland, including:the truth about William Wallace,the disgusting ...
View full detailsA stunning new edition of this gory city guide with all the gruesome bits left in!HORRIBLE HISTORIES GRUESOME GUIDES: EDINBURGH takes readers on a ...
View full detailsIn the nineteenth century, Scotland was renowned as a land of misty glens, engineering innovation and inventive genius. But it was also the home of...
View full detailsJack's story begins in 1920 in the London distracts of Peckham, Deptford, and Greenwich, enjoying life as a Cockney Lad in pre-war London, unaware ...
View full detailsScottish history has been shaped and defined by a series of great battles. John Sadler gives the first full military history of Scotland for many ...
View full detailsIn September 2014, a referendum will be held in Scotland to decide whether or not Scotland should become independent and cease to be part of Great ...
View full detailsMonuments are all around us. We walk or drive past them every day, yet we are often only vaguely aware of their existence. They are in cemeteries a...
View full detailsScotland's Foreshore' tells the story of the battle that took place during the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century between the ...
View full detailsIn the first and only book to explore Scotland's part in the green revolution and what the future may hold, Westbrook refutes common arguments agai...
View full detailsA Short History of Parliament is a comprehensive institutional history, not a political history of parliament, though politics is included where, a...
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