What did Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Dorothy Wordsworth, James Hogg and Robert Southey have in common? They all toured Scotland and left account...

A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900 by Prof. Graeme Morton and Dr. Trevor Griffiths The nineteenth century was a period of profoun...

Kenneth Norrie traces the assumptions that underlay child protection law at particular periods of time and identifies the pressures for change - gi...

Robert McColl Millar examines how language has been used in Scotland since the earliest times. While primarily focusing on the histories of the spe...

This book looks at all aspects of the pivotal intellectual relationship between two key figures of the Enlightenment Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78...

This book focuses on early modern attitudes towards Scotland's ancient past and looks in particular at the ways in which this past was not only mis...

The Debating the Highland Clearances (Debates and Documents in Scottish History) provides an explorative look into this controversial eviction. Ha...

A critical approach to blackness in devolutionary Scottish writing New readings of contemporary Scottish writing with a particular focus on race an...

This book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish contex...

In the 780s northern Britain was dominated by two great kingdoms; Pictavia, centred in north-eastern Scotland and Northumbria which straddled the m...

In this extensive study of the changing role of Gaelic in modern Scotland - from the introduction of state education in 1872 up to the present day ...

This book examines the life of George Strachan (1572 - 1635), early 17th century Scottish Humanist scholar, Orientalist and traveler. The book draw...

Making a sharp break with dominant contemporary readings of David Hume's scepticism Peter S. Fosl offers an original and radical interpretation of ...

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

Industry, Reform and Empire traces the evolution of politics from a repressive, reactionary and electorally restricted regime before 1832 to an era...

Between the Mongol invasions in the mid-13th century and the rise of the Ottomans in the late 14th century, the Lands of Rum were marked by instabi...

What did it mean to be a Scot in an age marked by the movement of people and the flow of information? This revised and updated volume of the 'New H...

Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award In April 1816 Patrick Sellar was brought to trial in Inverness for culpable h...

The first social history of Scottish policing from 1900 to the present day This book will be the first to provide a much-needed history of the expe...

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...

Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection by T.M. Devine For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland's connect...

From the death of James III to the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, the story of the Scotland is told from the perspective of its regions and of ...