Discover history at your finger tips. While historical fiction allows you to take in the grand sweep of history through the lens of an intimate story, there’s so much that the genre leaves out. The true scale of the passing of time is, more often than not, best addressed in by the greatest of our history writers. We don’t need contrived plots or imagined dialogues between the Greats of our history in order to really delve into the past – all we need is a gifted writer who knows how to breathe life into history through their prose.
Thankfully, we have all that and more! As one of the larger sections here at East Neuk Books, we pride ourselves in carrying a large stock of history books ranging through all major periods of our nation’s past. Are you looking to do some research on the great clans of old? A great number of our books will help you do just that. Searching for glimpses into Scottish history before and after the Unification with England? No problem! Hoping for a deep dive into the personalities and histories of larger-than-life figures like Robert the Bruce of Mary, Queen of Scots? If so, you’ve come to the right place.
We live and breathe Scottish history at East Neuk Books, and nothing makes us happier than helping locals rediscover their past. They say that you can’t know the future without knowing the past, and that has never been easier with the flood of great writers and academics doing create research and writing on all periods of our history.
So no matter if you’re looking for a glimpse into a particular decade or a brisk tour of the north’s great history, it’s never been simpler to find great volumes or buy history books online. This weekend, curl up with your next fantastic read and get to know the major figures of our history!
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This is the story of ordinary men and women involved in the Jacobite Rebellion, who were described on the gaol registers and regimental rosters of ...
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The Jacobite Rebellion 1745-46 by Gregory Fremont-Barnes (Author) The Jacobite Rebellion was the final attempt of the House of Stuart to re-est...
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No Quarter Given : The Muster Roll of Prince Charles Edward Stuart's Army, 1745-46 A unique historical record compiled from the rolls made by the H...
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The Edinburgh History of Scotland from 1689 to the Present (1977) by William Ferguson. Volume 4 of The Edinburgh History of Scotland) series.
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Reminiscences of a Jacobite : The Untold Story of the Rising of 1745 by Michael Nevin (Author) When Jacobite enthusiast Michael Nevin successfully ...
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The King Over the Water : A Complete History of the Jacobites by Desmond Seward (Author) Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Y...
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Sheriffmuir 1715 by Stuart Reid (Author) Sheriffmuir 1715 is the military history of a doomed Jacobite rising in Scotland, which enjoyed far more p...
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From the Stone Age to the Forty-five by by Anne C. O'Connor (Editor), D.V. Clarke (Editor)
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Scotland: The Story of a Nation By author: Magnus Magnusson. A timely and vivid look at Scotland's long and difficult road to nationhood, re-explor...
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This lively and erudite cultural history of Scotland, from the Jacobite defeat of 1745 to the death of an icon, Sir Walter Scott, in 1832, examines...
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This lively and erudite cultural history of Scotland, from the Jacobite defeat of 1745 to the death of an icon, Sir Walter Scott, in 1832, examines...
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The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: a revolutionary book, it argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jaco...
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The Edinburgh History of Scotland: James V-James VII by Gordon Donaldson The Edinburgh History of Scotland: Vol 3 of 4-volume landmark history of S...
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The Jacobite Rising of 1715 and the Murray Family : Brothers in Arms by Rosalind Anderson (Author) Based in Perthshire, the Murray family played an...
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Jacobites : A New History of the '45 Rebellion by Jacqueline Riding (Author) The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history. Wh...
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The Jacobites : Britain and Europe, 1688-1788 2nd Edition by Daniel Szechi (Author) The product of forty years of research by one of the foremost...
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Bound for America : The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775 by A.Roger Ekirch (Author) During the eighteenth century, t...
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The defeat of the Jacobites in 1746 enabled government statesmen and administrators, north and south of the border, to begin a policy of punishment...
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By Anne Scholey Anthology of articles and recollections of various facets of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, ranging from individuals and towns ...
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Looks at the battles of Prestonpans, Falkirk and Culloden. The battles pitted the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart against an army commande...
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Written by Michael Hook and Walter Ross for the National Library of Scotland. The reasons, successes and tragedies of the 1745 rising are traced...
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A pocket history which covers the Jacobite Risings from 1689 to 1746 and the final disaster of the Battle of Culloden.
