The Highland Clearances by Donald Gunn
Hachette Children's Group
An examination of the political background to the period of Scottish history surrounding the Highland Clearances. Illustrated with artwork and phot...
View full detailsThe Scottish Highland Clearances in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries have been featured in movies, paintings and fiction. Everybody thinks they know what happened in Sutherland or the Western Isles but non-fiction studies by academics such as Eric Richards and Tom Devine reveal an insight into both the positive and negative aspects of this period of Scottish History.
An examination of the political background to the period of Scottish history surrounding the Highland Clearances. Illustrated with artwork and phot...
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 detailsSaltire First Scottish Book of the Year 2012. Fans of Outlander must read this Saltire Society Literary Awards Scottish First Book of the Year - a ...
View full detailsAn anthology which presents an account of the lives of the Scottish people across the centuries, including the crofters of the West Highlands or St...
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 detailsEric Richards author of several well-known books on the Highland Clearances re-examines many examples of factorial behaviour from different parts o...
View full detailsThe Debating the Highland Clearances (Debates and Documents in Scottish History) provides an explorative look into this controversial eviction. Ha...
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 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...
View full detailsJohn Wilson was an Inspector of Schools during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. His career in educatio...
View full detailsFeudalism came to Lowland Scotland and parts of the Highlands almost as early as it did in England and in many senses, the Scottish baronial house ...
View full detailsPublished to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Culloden, an account of the life of Bonnie Prince Charlie, of his childhood and u...
View full detailsThis second part of "The Strathnaver Trilogy" describes the fulfilment of the anti-Gaelic, anti-Mackay policy of the House of Sutherland, under whi...
View full detailsClan 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 detailsEric Richards author of several well-known books on the Highland Clearances re-examines many examples of factorial behaviour from different parts o...
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 detailsDark family secrets and a passionate love affair, full of his trademark warmth, humanity and ingenuity, this is Iain Banks' best novel since THE CR...
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 detailsScotland 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...
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