Edinburgh's Literary Heritage and How it Changed the World
Amberley Publishing
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...
View full detailsEdinburgh 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...
View full detailsAt her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Catholic sym...
View full detailsThe three counties of England's northern borderlands have long had a reputation as an exceptional and peripheral region within the medieval kingdom...
View full detailsThou shalt not suffer a witch to live. With the echo of that chilling injunction hundreds were accused and tried for witchcraft across England thro...
View full detailsRowan Strong examines the history of Scottish Episcopalianism in the nineteenth century as a response to the new urbanizing and industrializing soc...
View full detailsOriginally published in 1988, F.C.B. Cadell: The Life and Works of a Scottish Colourist 1883-1937 was the first book devoted entirely to the life o...
View full details'Subtle, compendious and rich' - James McConnachie, The Sunday Times'Dazzling ... Finlay's adventures, vividly recounted, make enthralling reading ...
View full detailsBetween the end of the Second World War and the collapse of Communism confrontation with the Soviet Union was an everyday reality. As part of Nato'...
View full detailsA unique collection of traditional stories about faeries, elves and goblins. Faeries, elves, goblins, leprechauns, brownies, spriggans and many oth...
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View full detailsFollowing on from our successful titles on the RAF and Dambusters, comes World War Two Aircraft.Highly illustrated, this title includes well known ...
View full detailsStudying dress history teaches us much about the past. In this skilfully-illustrated, accessible and authoritative book, Jayne Shrimpton demonstrat...
View full detailsStoryteller Sheila Kinninmonth brings together stories from the coastal fishing villages, rushing rivers, magical green farmland and rolling hills ...
View full detailsThis magazine looks at the pilots who become legends such as the Red Baron, examining both the men and the planes they used, this is essential for ...
View full detailsWith no French language ability, Alex Lochrie approached recruiters for the French Foreign Legion in Paris and embarked on the demanding selection ...
View full detailsIn 1914, the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry Regiment was a cavalry regiment with its headquarters in Kirkcaldy and squadrons based in Dunfermline, Cupar,...
View full detailsAt the beginning of the twentieth century the then civilised world had everything to look forward to: the industrialisation of the previous hundred...
View full details'For the sake of decency, gentlemen, don't hang me high.' This was the last request of modest murderess Mary Blandy, who was hanged for poisoning h...
View full detailsMartin Wilcox's concise and informative guide to the fishing industry will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about its history or ...
View full detailsThe folklore of the Scottish Highlands is unique and very much alive. Dr Anne Ross is a Gaelic-speaking scholar and archaeologist who has lived and...
View full detailsThis isn't a history of Forfar. Instead it gives readers an excerpt, a sample, of what life was like on any given day of the year in a community th...
View full detailsIn the late 19th century, John and Ishbel Gordon, the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, were the couple who seemed to have it all: a fortune th...
View full detailsIn the 780s northern Britain was dominated by two great kingdoms; Pictavia, centred in north-eastern Scotland and Northumbria which straddled the m...
View full detailsLocated on the banks of the River Clyde, Glasgow was once the second city of the Empire, producing ships, locomotives, cars and heavy engineering f...
View full detailsFollowing a major modernization programme, it is now operated by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport and the distinctive orange livery of the...
View full detailsBeloved, reviled - and not only by Glaswegians - Glasgow isn't just the Industrial Revolution nor the Victorian slums. Founded in the sixth century...
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 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 detailsIf you belong to the Clan Gunn then this clan book is ideal for you - makes a great gift idea. This clan book features the origins of Clan Gunn an...
View full detailsWith the country's oldest university and the ruins of both a magnificent castle and one of the grandest cathedrals of medieval Europe, St Andrews i...
View full detailsIf you belong to the Clan Henderson then this clan book is ideal for you - makes a great gift idea. This clan book features the origins of Clan Hen...
View full detailsThis new addition to Luster's successful, practical and attractive Hidden series, covering countries and regions, is the perfect book for those who...
View full detailsThanks to digitisation, newspapers from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century have become an indispensable and accessible source for research...
View full detailsA wall in the distant north cuts the world in two. Ruthless seaborne warriors raid the coasts from their war galleys, yearning to regain lost glori...
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View full detailsBoo! Discover all the frightful stories behind iconic ghost tales and legends from around the world with history's most horrible headlines: the gho...
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