Born Fighting : How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
Transworld Publishers Ltd
More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the...
View full detailsDiscover 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!
More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the...
View full detailsApproximately 100 detailed period photographs from the Francis Frith archive with extended captions and full introduction. Suitable for tourists, l...
View full detailsColin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of No Mean City, the classic novel about pre-war life in what...
View full detailsSS Terra Nova was most famous for being the vessel to carry the ill-fated 1910 polar expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott, but the story of this m...
View full detailsThe iconic figure of Robert the Bruce has gone down through the centuries as one of the most remarkable leaders of all time. With equal parts tenac...
View full detailsAlthough not the largest of the border counties, Berwickshire contained some of the largest landed estates and was home to some of the most famous ...
View full detailsCanal expert Guthrie Hutton has produced a new and compact illustrated history of this canal that goes from Grangemouth to Bowling via Glasgow's Ma...
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 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 detailsSometimes referred to as “Scotland’s Gatekeeper”, lying as it does just east of the capital along the Firth of Forth, East Lothian has had an often...
View full detailsWest 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...
View full detailsBelow Scotland's capital, hidden for almost two centuries, is a metropolis whose very existence was all but forgotten.For almost 250 years, Edi...
View full detailsEdinburgh has a literary tradition like no other. In 2004, the capital became the first ever UNESCO City of Literature and its book festival is the...
View full detailsSince its completion in 1811, the Bell Rock Lighthouse has been revered as an industrial wonder of the world. The iconic tower was built on the Inc...
View full detailsThe market town of Castle Douglas, beside Carlingwark Loch in the southern Scottish region of Dumfries and Galloway, is relatively new, though the ...
View full detailsSt Andrews History Tour is a unique insight into the extensive history of this beautiful town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland. Local author H...
View full detailsLocated on the banks of the River Clyde, Glasgow was once the second city of the Empire, producing ships, locomotives, cars and heavy engineering f...
View full detailsFollowing a major modernization programme, it is now operated by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport and the distinctive orange livery of the...
View full detailsThe Scottish Highlands are famous for their bothies - unique mountain refuges that offer free basic shelter in the wilds. The oldest and most famo...
View full detailsThis classic account of the events which shaped the modern Highlands was written by a man who has gone on to become a leading figure in the public ...
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 detailsThe folklore of the north-east has provided a rich tapestry for the tales within; from Celtic and Pictish origins meet witches, selkies, smugglers,...
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 detailsThanks to Shakespeare, the name Macbeth has become a byword for political ambition realised by bloody violence. Fiona Watson has uncovered, buried ...
View full detailsTrains and stagecoaches stuck in the snow, wild storms driving sailing ships off course, traffic pile-ups on so-called 'killer' highways - stories...
View full detailsThis study explores the history of the western seaboard of Scotland (the Hebrides, Argyll and the Isle of Man) in a formative but often neglected ...
View full detailsClassic Scottish recipes - over 200 - with game, lamb, bread, soups, fish, barley and porridge, with nutritional advice and details on how to cook ...
View full detailsOn the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Empire'. Not only were Clyde-built ...
View full detailsThe Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces su...
View full detailsTV 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...
View full detailsThe Highland Clearances are a well-documented episode in Scotland's past but they were not unique. The process began in the Scottish Lowlands nearl...
View full detailsCulloden was the last battle on British soil. It marked the end of clan culture and was the harbinger of the Highland Clearances. It ensured the in...
View full detailsThe 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...
View full detailsThe souvenir book of the exhibition Wild and Majestic: Romantic Visions of Scotland: National Museum of Scotland, 26 June to 10 November. In the er...
View full detailsThrough most of eight hundred years, Somerled of Argyll has been variously denounced as an intractable rebel against his rightful king and esteemed...
View full detailsNeal Ascherson is one of Britain's finest writers in an undefinable genre that fuses history, memoir, politics and meditations on places. His books...
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