Life in the Raws : Memories of a Shale Oil Village
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While canvassing for the Scottish independence referendum in 2014 Neil Findlay made a discovery. Visiting the home that used to be his grandparent...
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 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 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 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 detailsAssorted strange phenomena abound in Scotland – witches, wizards, fairies, sea monsters, yeti-type creatures, UFOs and a plethora of female spirits...
View full detailsPeeblesshire and its attractive county town are situated in Upper Tweeddale, an area of great beauty and tranquillity. Tucked into the Borders Hill...
View full detailsA 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...
View full detailsPhotographs taken by Guthrie Hutton
In this new addition to the Real Places series Ian Spring walks the streets, parks, pubs, workplaces, past and present of Glasgow, Scotland s alleg...
View full detailsReay Clarke’s family were sheep-farmers at in the far north of Scotland for over two centuries. In this book he tells the story of the Clarkes of ...
View full detailsTanks on the streets, local regiments confined to barracks and the imposition of martial law. This was not Petrograd, but Glasgow in 1919. Revolt ...
View full detailsIn the first and only book to explore Scotland's part in the green revolution and what the future may hold, Westbrook refutes common arguments agai...
View full detailsVibrating with endeavours for Britain's effort against the might of Nazi Germany, Clydebank was - in hindsight - an obvious target for the attentio...
View full detailsRobert the Bruce is a man of both history and legend. In his lifetime he secured Scottish independence in the face of English imperial aggression u...
View full detailsAs the debate about Scottish independence rages on, this book takes a timely look at how Scotlands politics have been expressed in its architecture...
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 detailsMagnus Magnusson’s starting point is Sir Walter Scott’s classic version of Scotland’s history, ‘Tales of a Grandfather’ (1827-29), which has moulde...
View full detailsFrom the early settlers after the last Ice Age, and the myth and ritual that surrounds that prehistoric period, Fiona Watson charts the evolution o...
View full detailsFrom 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 ...
View full detailsDiscover all the foul facts about the history of the highlands with history's most horrible headlines: Scottish edition.The master of making histo...
View full detailsMonuments are all around us. We walk or drive past them every day, yet we are often only vaguely aware of their existence. They are in cemeteries a...
View full details100 beautiful places in Scotland to walk, eat and sleep Peter Irvine, bestselling author of SCOTLAND THE BEST,has selected 100 extraordinary places...
View full detailsBy 1820 Britain controlled a fifth of the world's population, and no people had made a more essential contribution than the Scots - working across ...
View full detailsScotland's Foreshore' tells the story of the battle that took place during the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century between the ...
View full detailsWho was St Columba? Why was Mary, Queen of Scots executed? When were the Jacobite risings? Where was the new Scottish Parliament built? Scotland's...
View full detailsWho was Merlin? Is the famous wizard of Arthurian legend based on a real person? In this book, Merlin's origins are traced back to the story of La...
View full detailsSCOTLANDS UNTOLD STORIES a mass of chapters of forgotten History and quirky stories....Jack the Ripper 1888 in Pittenweem?, the Moor Murderers in ...
View full detailsPhotography by Guthrie Hutton
An updated edition of this classic and much-loved work on Scotland that brings the story right up to date, with a new added chapter by Magnus Linkl...
View full detailsFrom the Ice Age to the Scottish Referendum, historian and author Alistair Moffat explores the history of the Scottish nation. As well as focusing ...
View full detailsScotland's past is too often seen through a film of myths and misconceptions. In this Very Short Introduction, Rab Houston explores the key themes ...
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