All they wanted was land: land for crofting and land on which to build a house. In 1908, ten desperate men from the islands of Barra and Mingulay i...
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Highland Games expert Webster charts the history of the events which have been a defining feature of Scotland's identity for centuries. Uncovering ...
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The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. For centuries, untold numbers of men, women and children have sought their fortunes...
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The brochs are among the best-known ancient monuments in Scotland. However, despite a long and colourful history of research, it is only in the las...
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This fully revised second edition of Ian Maxwell's Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors is a lively and accessible introduction to Scotland's long, comp...
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Scotland is a land with a proud and centuries long history that far pre-dates its membership of Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Today in the ...
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In 1971 Alec Crawford is determined to make his fortune from ship salvage. Early attempts lead nowhere until he teams up with a new partner, Simon...
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Few aspects of Scottish history inspire as fervent an interest as the wars with England. The exploits of not one, but two, national heroes - Willia...
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Union, war, conquest, revolution, attempted invasions, and armed rebellions: this was an eventful time even by the standards of Scotland's turbulen...
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Visions of the Roman North: Art and Identity in Northern Roman Britain is the first book to present an analysis of art from the northern frontier z...
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Jim Johnstone has spent most of his working life showing his beloved Scotland to visitors from all over the world. During these trips he has always...
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TV programmes like My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, books like Gypsy Boy and the recent disturbances at Dale Farm have created enormous interest in the hi...
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..revisit the people and places and deepen your enjoyment of the sublime BBC tv series “Wayfaring Stranger” ...in these pages revisit people and pl...
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West Fife, home to one of the world's most famous transport landmarks, the Forth Rail Bridge, has a varied transport history that once included woo...
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On 31 December 1918, hours from the first New Year of peace, hundreds of Royal Naval Reservists from the Isle of Lewis poured off successive trains...
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For most of recorded history, women have been sidelined, if not silenced, by men who named the built environment after themselves. Now is the time ...
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'What we build always reveals things that are deeply and innately human. Because all buildings are stories, one way or another.' Kathleen Jamie, Al...
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The souvenir book of the exhibition Wild and Majestic: Romantic Visions of Scotland: National Museum of Scotland, 26 June to 10 November. In the er...
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