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Discover 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!

Illicit and Unnatural Practices : The Law, Sex and Society in Scotland Since 1900 - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Illicit and Unnatural Practices : The Law, Sex and Society in Scotland Since 1900

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How did the Scottish legal system respond to what were deemed 'illicit and unnatural practices' after 1900? Offers a new perspective on the relatio...

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The King Arthur Conspiracy : How a Scottish Prince Became a Mythical Hero - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The King Arthur Conspiracy : How a Scottish Prince Became a Mythical Hero

The History Press Ltd

Arthur led the Britons to the brink of victory but was cut down by treachery and betrayal. Arthurian legends have since been corrupted, leading to ...

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The Last Highlander : Scotland'S Most Notorious Clan Chief, Rebel & Double Agent - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Last Highlander : Scotland'S Most Notorious Clan Chief, Rebel & Double Agent

HarperCollins Publishers

He was a spy, a clan-chief, a traitor. A polyglot, a deserter and a man of philosophy. Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, was the last of the great Scottis...

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Fighting for the French Foreign Legion: Memoirs of a Scottish Legionnaire - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Fighting for the French Foreign Legion: Memoirs of a Scottish Legionnaire

Pen & Sword Books Ltd

With no French language ability, Alex Lochrie approached recruiters for the French Foreign Legion in Paris and embarked on the demanding selection ...

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The Architecture and Infrastructure of Britain's Railways: Northern England and Scotland - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Architecture and Infrastructure of Britain's Railways: Northern England and Scotland

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The range and variety of British railway stations is truly astonishing; from the tiny wayside halt made of corrugated iron to the magnificent stone...

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Jock's Jocks : Voices of Scottish Soldiers from the First World War - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Jock's Jocks : Voices of Scottish Soldiers from the First World War

NMSE - Publishing Ltd

Between the 1930s and 1980s, folk singer Jock Duncan interviewed around 60 veterans of the First World War, mainly in his native North East of Scot...

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To the Ends of the Earth : Scotland's Global Diaspora, 1750-2010 - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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To the Ends of the Earth : Scotland's Global Diaspora, 1750-2010

Penguin Books Ltd

The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. For centuries, untold numbers of men, women and children have sought their fortunes...

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Celtic Sea Stories - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Celtic Sea Stories

Luath Press Ltd

The Celtic belief that by recording a story the spirit of the story and its teller would die, has meant that generations worth of stories of have b...

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Old Islay - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Old Islay

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A nostalgic look at this beautiful Island realm off the west coast of Scotland during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Family photographs an...

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When I Heard the Bell : The Loss of the Iolaire - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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When I Heard the Bell : The Loss of the Iolaire

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On 31 December 1918, hours from the first New Year of peace, hundreds of Royal Naval Reservists from the Isle of Lewis poured off successive trains...

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The Vatersay Raiders - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Vatersay Raiders

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All they wanted was land: land for crofting and land on which to build a house. In 1908, ten desperate men from the islands of Barra and Mingulay i...

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Bare-Arsed Banditti : The Men of the '45 - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Bare-Arsed Banditti : The Men of the '45

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They were modern men: doctors and lawyers, students and teachers, shoemakers and shopkeepers, farmers, gardeners and weavers. Children of the Age o...

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Born Fighting : How the Scots-Irish Shaped America - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Born Fighting : How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

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More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the...

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Edinburgh: Photographic Memories - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Edinburgh: Photographic Memories

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Approximately 100 detailed period photographs from the Francis Frith archive with extended captions and full introduction. Suitable for tourists, l...

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The Real Gorbals Story : True Tales from Glasgow's Meanest Streets - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Real Gorbals Story : True Tales from Glasgow's Meanest Streets

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Colin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of No Mean City, the classic novel about pre-war life in what...

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The SS Terra Nova (1884-1943) : Whaler, Sealer and Polar Exploration Ship - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The SS Terra Nova (1884-1943) : Whaler, Sealer and Polar Exploration Ship

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SS Terra Nova was most famous for being the vessel to carry the ill-fated 1910 polar expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott, but the story of this m...

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King and Outlaw : The Real Robert the Bruce - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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King and Outlaw : The Real Robert the Bruce

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The iconic figure of Robert the Bruce has gone down through the centuries as one of the most remarkable leaders of all time. With equal parts tenac...

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The Country Houses, Castles and Mansions of Berwickshire - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Country Houses, Castles and Mansions of Berwickshire

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Although not the largest of the border counties, Berwickshire contained some of the largest landed estates and was home to some of the most famous ...

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The Old Forth and Clyde Canal - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Old Forth and Clyde Canal

Stenlake Publishing

Canal expert Guthrie Hutton has produced a new and compact illustrated history of this canal that goes from Grangemouth to Bowling via Glasgow's Ma...

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Old Largo and Lundin Links - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Old Largo and Lundin Links

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Recent aerial photography has revealed the antiquity of this small area at the edge of the East Neuk in Fife. Experts believe they have identified ...

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Old Dalbeattie and Palnackie - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Old Dalbeattie and Palnackie

Stenlake Publishing

Spanning the life of Dalbeattie from the late 19th to the mid 20th century the photographs included here range from atmospheric Edwardian images of...

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The Country Houses, Castles and Mansions of East Lothian - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Country Houses, Castles and Mansions of East Lothian

Stenlake Publishing

Sometimes referred to as “Scotland’s Gatekeeper”, lying as it does just east of the capital along the Firth of Forth, East Lothian has had an often...

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Wheels Around Dunfermline and West Fife - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Wheels Around Dunfermline and West Fife

Stenlake Publishing

West Fife, home to one of the world's most famous transport landmarks, the Forth Rail Bridge, has a varied transport history that once included woo...

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The Town Below the Ground : Edinburgh's Legendary Undgerground City - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Town Below the Ground : Edinburgh's Legendary Undgerground City

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Below Scotland's capital, hidden for almost two centuries, is a metropolis whose very existence was all but forgotten.For almost 250 years, Edi...

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Edinburgh's Literary Heritage and How it Changed the World - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Edinburgh's Literary Heritage and How it Changed the World

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Edinburgh has a literary tradition like no other. In 2004, the capital became the first ever UNESCO City of Literature and its book festival is the...

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Bell Rock Lighthouse : An Illustrated History - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Bell Rock Lighthouse : An Illustrated History

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Since its completion in 1811, the Bell Rock Lighthouse has been revered as an industrial wonder of the world. The iconic tower was built on the Inc...

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Castle Douglas Through Time - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Castle Douglas Through Time

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The market town of Castle Douglas, beside Carlingwark Loch in the southern Scottish region of Dumfries and Galloway, is relatively new, though the ...

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St Andrews History Tour - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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St Andrews History Tour

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St Andrews History Tour is a unique insight into the extensive history of this beautiful town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland. Local author H...

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Glasgow A History - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Glasgow A History

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Located on the banks of the River Clyde, Glasgow was once the second city of the Empire, producing ships, locomotives, cars and heavy engineering f...

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Glasgow Underground : The Glasgow District Subway - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Glasgow Underground : The Glasgow District Subway

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Following a major modernization programme, it is now operated by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport and the distinctive orange livery of the...

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Corrour Bothy: A Refuge in the Wilderness - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Corrour Bothy: A Refuge in the Wilderness

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The Scottish Highlands are famous for their bothies - unique mountain refuges that offer free basic shelter in the wilds. The oldest and most famo...

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The Making of the Crofting Community - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Making of the Crofting Community

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This classic account of the events which shaped the modern Highlands was written by a man who has gone on to become a leading figure in the public ...

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Reay Country : The Story of a Sutherland Farming Family - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Reay Country : The Story of a Sutherland Farming Family

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Reay Clarke’s family were sheep-farmers at in the far north of Scotland for over two centuries. In this book he tells the story of the Clarkes of ...

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Aberdeenshire Folk Tales - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Aberdeenshire Folk Tales

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The folklore of the north-east has provided a rich tapestry for the tales within; from Celtic and Pictish origins meet witches, selkies, smugglers,...

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Portmahomack : Monastery of the Picts - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Portmahomack : Monastery of the Picts

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A trail of chance finds on the outskirts of Portmahomack during the 19th and 20th centuries culminated in 1996 in the first exposure of a Pictish s...

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Macbeth : The True Story - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Macbeth : The True Story

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Thanks to Shakespeare, the name Macbeth has become a byword for political ambition realised by bloody violence. Fiona Watson has uncovered, buried ...

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The Finest Road in the World : The Story of Travel and Transport in the Scottish Highlands - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Finest Road in the World : The Story of Travel and Transport in the Scottish Highlands

Birlinn General

Trains and stagecoaches stuck in the snow, wild storms driving sailing ships off course, traffic pile-ups on so-called 'killer' highways - stories...

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The Kingdom of the Isles : Scotland's Western Seaboard c.1100-1336 - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Kingdom of the Isles : Scotland's Western Seaboard c.1100-1336

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This study explores the history of the western seaboard of Scotland (the Hebrides, Argyll and the Isle of Man) in a formative but often neglected ...

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Broths to Bannocks : Cooking in Scotland 1690 to the Present Day - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Broths to Bannocks : Cooking in Scotland 1690 to the Present Day

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Classic Scottish recipes - over 200 - with game, lamb, bread, soups, fish, barley and porridge, with nutritional advice and details on how to cook ...

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The Flowers of the Forest : Scotland and the First World War - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Flowers of the Forest : Scotland and the First World War

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On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Empire'. Not only were Clyde-built ...

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Culloden : Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Culloden : Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire

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The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces su...

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Way of the Wanderers : The Story of Travellers in Scotland - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Way of the Wanderers : The Story of Travellers in Scotland

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TV programmes like My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, books like Gypsy Boy and the recent disturbances at Dale Farm have created enormous interest in the hi...

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The Lowland Clearances : Scotland's Silent Revolution 1760 - 1830 - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Lowland Clearances : Scotland's Silent Revolution 1760 - 1830

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The Highland Clearances are a well-documented episode in Scotland's past but they were not unique. The process began in the Scottish Lowlands nearl...

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Culloden Tales : Stories from Scotland's Most Famous Battlefield - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Culloden Tales : Stories from Scotland's Most Famous Battlefield

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Culloden was the last battle on British soil. It marked the end of clan culture and was the harbinger of the Highland Clearances. It ensured the in...

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Towers in the North : The Brochs of Scotland - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Towers in the North : The Brochs of Scotland

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The brochs are among the best-known ancient monuments in Scotland. However, despite a long and colourful history of research, it is only in the las...

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Wild and Majestic : Romantic Visions of Scotland - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Wild and Majestic : Romantic Visions of Scotland

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The souvenir book of the exhibition Wild and Majestic: Romantic Visions of Scotland: National Museum of Scotland, 26 June to 10 November. In the er...

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Somerled: And the Emergence of Gaelic Scotland - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Somerled: And the Emergence of Gaelic Scotland

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Through most of eight hundred years, Somerled of Argyll has been variously denounced as an intractable rebel against his rightful king and esteemed...

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Stone Voices : The Search For Scotland - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Stone Voices : The Search For Scotland

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Neal Ascherson is one of Britain's finest writers in an undefinable genre that fuses history, memoir, politics and meditations on places. His books...

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