A Childhood in Scotland
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A Childhood in Scotland by Christian Miller Originally published in 1981, an autobiographical account of Miller's deprived yet upper-class childhoo...
View full detailsA Childhood in Scotland by Christian Miller Originally published in 1981, an autobiographical account of Miller's deprived yet upper-class childhoo...
View full detailsA Dictionary of Scottish History, by Gordon Donaldson, Robert S. Morpeth This reference contains relevant information on Scottish history including...
View full detailsA 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...
View full detailsA Year of Scottish Poems by Gaby Morgan A Year of Scottish Poems is a glorious collection of 366 poems compiled by Gaby Morgan. Reflecting the chan...
View full detailsAs well as illustrating and explaining standing stones, tombs, stone circles, hill forts and artefacts of the ancient races, the author portrays th...
View full detailsMoffat builds up a thesis which enables him to reveal the location and identity of the real Arthur, asserting that he was not a king but a cavalry ...
View full detailsBonnie Prince Charlie by Sir Fitzroy Maclean Published to mark the 250th anniversary of the '45, a study of Bonnie Prince Charlie which tells of h...
View full detailsStephen King's bestselling apocalyptic thriller.
Clan Donald's Greatest Defeat: The Battle of Harlaw by John Sadler One of the bloodiest battles in Scottish history and a devastating defeat for Cl...
View full detailsTartans are synonymous with Scotland and for many Scots, both at home and abroad, they are recognized and acknowledged as symbols of clan kinship. ...
View full detailsDogs come in all kinds of colours and sizes. But when no one’s looking they put on disguises. A joyful peek into the crazy antics of all sorts of d...
View full detailsFair Isle: An Island Saga by Valerie M. Thom. A history of the Fair Isle Island from Viking times to modern day.
A vividly illustrated tale with boisterous rhyming text about a family stranded in a flood – and a reliable old tractor coming to their rescue. Dow...
View full detailsJoining the family business, animal-lover Bryony proves to be an extraordinary taxidermist, whose tender fingers create displays which comfort, edu...
View full detailsFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMAD and EXILE comes Marc Dane's most terrifying case yet.A terrible threat from the depths of the dar...
View full detailsGlasgow's Godfather by Robert Jeffrey Walter Norval was a man marked by destiny to be a career criminal in one of Britain's hardest cities. As a bo...
View full detailsLewis Grassic Gibbon was born in 1901 in Aberdeenshire as James Leslie Mitchell. Among his work is the trilogy A Scot’s Quair, which is considered...
View full detailsHaunted Castles is the definitive, complete collection of Ray Russell's masterful Gothic horror stories, including the famously terrifying novella ...
View full detailsMemoir of her childhood days as the daughter of a parish minister in Glen Gairn, near Balmoral, Scotland at the turn of the century.
John Gorrie was a respected colonial judge, albeit defiantly and decidedly not on the side of the ruling classes in the territories where he was po...
View full detailsIn 1857, the Tweed Fisheries Act made it illegal to fish for salmon in 50 square miles of open sea off the mouth of the River Tweed. A local school...
View full detailsYoung readers will have endless exciting adventures in a fairy -tale land with this story-building activity book inspired by classic fairy tales th...
View full detailsA splendid adventure, set in the Ochils around Stirling, sees Gavin, on holiday visiting his aunt and uncle meet up with the Clan - three kids arou...
View full detailsIn this guide, Arthur Stewart traces ten long distance routes offering the keen backpacker a wide range of options.
This book brings together David Cannadine's most important reflections on how history has been written and made in Britain in the twentieth century...
View full detailsThis is the first volume of a distance-learning history of Scotland course running from January 1998. The successful completion of the course gives...
View full detailsA strong editorial team and the majority of Scotland's most distinguished historians have lent their talents to this major project: a landmark in S...
View full detailsThis is the second volume of a distance-learning history of Scotland course running from January 1998. The successful completion of the course give...
View full detailsAn account of the mutinies in Highland regiments, beginning with the noble revolt of the Black Watch at Finchley in 1743 and ending with the mutiny...
View full detailsn 1937, the Scottish writer, Neil Gunn, gave up his job in the civil service, sold his house in Inverness, and bought a boat. With his wife and his...
View full detailsWhat 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...
View full detailsWinner 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...
View full detailsRob Roy MacGregor was mytholigised by Sir Walter Scott but was very much a fact in the Trossachs of Scotland in the late 17th and early 18th centur...
View full detailsRob Roy MacGregor was mytholigised by Sir Walter Scott but was very much a fact in the Trossachs of Scotland in the late 17th and early 18th centur...
View full detailsThe life of Bruce is one of the greatest comeback stories in history. Heir and magnate, shrewd politician, Bruce became a gifted military leader an...
View full detailsRobert the Bruce and All That by Alan Burnett Learn history the fun way in an entertaining and informative series of books about key people from Sc...
View full detailsRobert the Bruce had himself crowned King of Scots at Scone on a frozen March morning in 1306. After years of struggle, Scotland had been reduced t...
View full detailsWalk in the footsteps of a Scottish King and discover what happened when he ventured to Ireland in Robert the Bruce: A Life Chronicled. This explo...
View full detailsThe definitive biography of Scotland's legendary leader by British novelist and former Sunday Times literary critic, Ronald McNair Scott
Scotland is Not for the Squeamish by Bill Watkins This work mingles the myths and traditions of Celtic nations with true and tall tales of high-sea...
View full detailsFrom Bannockburn and Robert the Bruce to the union of the crowns and Mary, Queen of Scots; from the Reformation and John Knox, to the Enlightenment...
View full detailsScotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation 1100 - 1707 Edited by: Bob Harris, Alan R. MacDonald Part of an authoritative and thought-pr...
View full detailsThe grandeur and beauty of Scotland's castles, which number over a thousand, is reflected in this authoritative selection based on a variety of the...
View full detailsOne of Scotland's best-loved authors, Nigel Tranter wrote over ninety novels on Scottish history. He died at the age of ninety on 9 January 2000.Th...
View full detailsScotland's worst and most infamous murders: Includes accounts of the infamous Burke and Hare, cannibalistic Sawney Bean, child murderer Jessie King...
View full detailsThis revised and expanded edition includes data on over 220 families, the develompment of surnames, a reading list and a guide for beginners in sea...
View full detailsA story based on the real voyage of "The Georgiana", by an author whose own ancestors were among the crofters who had to emigrate from Skye to Aust...
View full detailsFirst published in 1883, MacKenzie's History of the Highland Clearances has remained in print to the present times. John Prebble wrote "...it has b...
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