Bloody Scottish History: Glasgow by Dr Bruce Durie
The History Press Ltd
Glasgow has one of the bloodiest and most tumultuous histories on record, riddled with plagues and pirate attacks, religious divides and reconcilia...
View full detailsGlasgow has one of the bloodiest and most tumultuous histories on record, riddled with plagues and pirate attacks, religious divides and reconcilia...
View full detailsTelling a story which has been described as 'one of the best kept secrets in Scottish history', Peter Pininski reveals his research on Bonnie Princ...
View full detailsThe book provides an overview and analysis of the witch trials in the Scottish Borders in the 17th century. The 17th century was a time of upheaval...
View full detailsMore than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the...
View full detailsClassic Scottish recipes - over 200 - with game, lamb, bread, soups, fish, barley and porridge, with nutritional advice and details on how to cook ...
View full detailsIn this text, the author looks behind the trivializing image of the "heav'n-taught ploughman" to uncover the intellectual context of the poet's pol...
View full detailsCalum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very tip of his little archip...
View full detailsThe market town of Castle Douglas, beside Carlingwark Loch in the southern Scottish region of Dumfries and Galloway, is relatively new, though the ...
View full detailsThe 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...
View full detailsAn examination of the ways in which the fluid concept of "chivalry" has been used and appropriated after the Middle Ages. One of the most difficult...
View full detailsThe perfect introduction to Scottish tartans. Produced in association with the Scottish Tartans Authority, this Little Book focuses on the history...
View full detailsWith a wealthy of previously unpublished images comes a photographic celebration of Class 20 locomotives on the railways of Scotland.
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...
View full detailsThe Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces su...
View full detailsCulloden 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...
View full detailsMary, Queen of Scots’ marriage to the Earl of Bothwell is notorious. Less known is Bothwell’s first wife, Jean Gordon, who extricated herself from ...
View full detailsThis illuminating guide to discovering your Scottish family history has been fully revised and updated to take account of changes to resources and ...
View full detailsThis little book provides a gentle introduction to heraldry and its sometimes daunting terminology, explaining each term with illustrations and tex...
View full detailsEast Lothian is one of Scotland\x27s most important and historic counties and this is the most comprehensive book yet published on the subject, wit...
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 detailsWith no French language ability, Alex Lochrie approached recruiters for the French Foreign Legion in Paris and embarked on the demanding selection ...
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...
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