Glasgow Underground : The Glasgow District Subway
Amberley Publishing
Following a major modernization programme, it is now operated by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport and the distinctive orange livery of the...
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...
View full detailsRefreshed, renewed, reloaded! Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Scotland, including:the truth about William Wallace,the disgusting ...
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...
View full detailsWhat were the principal causes of death in the past? Could your ancestor have been affected? How was disease investigated and treated, and what did...
View full detailsVictorian visitors had shooting lodges Scots had trips doon the watter. Norwegian citizens had hytte Scots had Butlins.Why have the inhabitants of ...
View full detailsThe question of illegitimacy was as important and complex in Scotland as elsewhere in the Middle Ages. This book examines its legal, political, and...
View full detailsHow did the Scottish legal system respond to what were deemed 'illicit and unnatural practices' after 1900? Offers a new perspective on the relatio...
View full detailsThere can be no relationship in Europe's history more creative, significant, vexed and uneasy than that between Scotland and England. From the Mid...
View full detailsThis is the ninth volume in the ten-part series of regional books examining the industrial railways of England, Scotland and Wales. Like elsewhere ...
View full detailsPartly as a result of poor commanders and partly because the Romans had an innate and misguided belief in the invincibility of their legions, the f...
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 detailsBetween 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...
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 detailsIn Chernobyl, following the nuclear disaster, only a handful of people returned to their dangerously irradiated homes. On an uninhabited Scottish i...
View full detailsBetween 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...
View full detailsKeeping the Home Fires Burning tells the story of how the troops and the general public were kept happy and content during the First World War. Bet...
View full detailsThe 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...
View full detailsFrom the Saxons to the Windsors, from the Tudors to Hanovers, Britain's royal lineage is brought to life in the pages of this visual guide. Kings a...
View full detailsToday, most castles are in ruins. Many of these once magnificent buildings were built on hilltops overlooking rivers, harbours and towns. In peacet...
View full detailsIf you belong to the Clan Lamont then this clan book is ideal for you - makes a great gift idea. This clan book features the origins of Clan Lamont...
View full detailsIn 1560, Mary of Guise moved the Scottish Court to Leith, a site that is now Parliament Street, off Coalhill. Serving Edinburgh’s shipbuilding and ...
View full detailsA history of the First World War told through the letters exchanged by ordinary British soldiers and their families. Letters from the Trenches reve...
View full detailsWhile canvassing for the Scottish independence referendum in 2014 Neil Findlay made a discovery. Visiting the home that used to be his grandparent...
View full detailsIf you belong to the Clan Lindsay then this clan book is ideal for you - makes a great gift idea. This clan book features the origins of Clan Lind...
View full detailsArguably the last of the 'traditional' tramways to operate in Britain, Dundee's fleet of some 56 trams were to survive through until the mid-1950s ...
View full detailsThanks to Shakespeare, the name Macbeth has become a byword for political ambition realised by bloody violence. Fiona Watson has uncovered, buried ...
View full detailsMary, Queen of Scots and All That is packed with historical facts about Scotland's headless heroine. Follow hot-blooded Mary's lifelong rivalry wit...
View full detailsThis ambitious series gives the reader a comprehensive narrative of late Roman military history from 284-361, this book covers the period 284-361, ...
View full detailsModern Heraldry is a comprehensive and profusely illustrated guide to more than 350 trademarks, based on heraldic symbology, from all over the worl...
View full detailsPeter MacNab takes the visitor on a tour of these two accessible islands of the Inner Hebrides, considered to be the centre of Celtic Christianity....
View full detailsThe most famous memoir of its kind and a key text in the anti-slavery movement, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass tells the striking and ...
View full detailsScotland has a distinctive place in the world. Nation to Nation explores how this unique relationship with the rest of the world has developed over...
View full detailsA wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after ...
View full detailsThe Empty Lands are that great area of northern Scotland between Ullapool and Cape Wrath, and between Bonar Bridge and John O' Groats. It is truly ...
View full detailsSpanning the life of Dalbeattie from the late 19th to the mid 20th century the photographs included here range from atmospheric Edwardian images of...
View full detailsA nostalgic look at this beautiful Island realm off the west coast of Scotland during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Family photographs an...
View full detailsRecent aerial photography has revealed the antiquity of this small area at the edge of the East Neuk in Fife. Experts believe they have identified ...
View full detailsWonderful book featuring local history by a local author.
The St Andrews Preservation Trust gave us access to their fantastic archives for this book, and the pictures are accompanied by Helen Cook's excell...
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