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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Scotland has a distinctive place in the world. Nation to Nation explores how this unique relationship with the rest of the world has developed over...
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All over the world people associate the bagpipes with Scotland. In this informative and entertaining book Stuart McHardy introduces Scotland's nat...
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There can be no relationship in Europe's history more creative, significant, vexed and uneasy than that between Scotland and England. From the Mid...
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Born in 1828 near Kelso in the Scottish Borders, Wyllie went to sea as an apprentice seaman in 1852 and quickly rose through the ranks. By 1862 he ...
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From the Saxons to the Windsors, from the Tudors to Hanovers, Britain's royal lineage is brought to life in the pages of this visual guide. Kings a...
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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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With a wealthy of previously unpublished images comes a photographic celebration of Class 20 locomotives on the railways of Scotland.
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Andrew Grant Forsyth’s photographs show the changing locomotive scene throughout Scotland after the nationalisation of the railways in 1948. Forsy...
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During the first millennium AD the most northerly part of Britain evolved into the country known today as Scotland. The transition was a long proce...
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The Sword of Scotland is the story of Scotland's military heritage. Scotland's fighting men have played a part in shaping the history of our world,...
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This is a fascinating acount of the 15th Scottish Reconnaissance Regiment. They played a key role in the liberation of Europe and the Regiment was ...
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Drawing on extensive research and exploring everything from the high politics of the devolved parliament to the everyday effects of huge and growin...
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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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By 1820 Britain controlled a fifth of the world's population, and no people had made a more essential contribution than the Scots - working across ...
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Assorted strange phenomena abound in Scotland – witches, wizards, fairies, sea monsters, yeti-type creatures, UFOs and a plethora of female spirits...
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There are strange relics hidden across Scotland's landscape: forgotten places that are touchstones to incredible stories and past lives which stil...
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In 1560, Mary of Guise moved the Scottish Court to Leith, a site that is now Parliament Street, off Coalhill. Serving Edinburgh’s shipbuilding and ...
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The Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. At the height of its notoriety, it was the blood...
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Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was in the same...
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Scotland is one of the oldest countries in the world with a vivid and diverse past. Yet the stories and figures that dominate Scottish history - t...
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From 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...
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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...
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Magnus Magnusson’s starting point is Sir Walter Scott’s classic version of Scotland’s history, ‘Tales of a Grandfather’ (1827-29), which has moulde...
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A new revised and updated edition of this well known and successful publication. Scotland as a nation has always been under test. It has always don...
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This book takes a unique perspective on dramatic national events as well as ordinary life, as experienced by women down the centuries. From the sai...
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Scotland's history is wide and vast. Depending on the lens applied, it can be seen as an unrelenting tale of oppression and poverty or a glowing ro...
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Scotland'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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With the country's oldest university and the ruins of both a magnificent castle and one of the grandest cathedrals of medieval Europe, St Andrews i...
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This little book provides a gentle introduction to heraldry and its sometimes daunting terminology, explaining each term with illustrations and tex...
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Anstruther, Fife. This A4 sized book with colour throughout is an excellent guide to Scotland's fishing past and present. The authoritative text is...
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SCOTLANDS UNTOLD STORIES a mass of chapters of forgotten History and quirky stories....Jack the Ripper 1888 in Pittenweem?, the Moor Murderers in ...
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1314 Bannockburn illuminated how historically significant this battle was to the structure of Scottish history. Through recent scholarships and st...
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