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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 detailsWhat did it mean to be a Scot in an age marked by the movement of people and the flow of information? This revised and updated volume of the 'New H...
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 detailsRob Roy MacGregor was mytholigised by Sir Walter Scott but was very much a fact in the Trossachs of Scotland in the late 17th and early 18th centur...
View full detailsRobert the Bruce had himself crowned King of Scots at Scone on a frozen March morning in 1306. After years of struggle, Scotland had been reduced t...
View full detailsWalk in the footsteps of a Scottish King and discover what happened when he ventured to Ireland in Robert the Bruce: A Life Chronicled. This explo...
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 detailsOne of Scotland's best-loved authors, Nigel Tranter wrote over ninety novels on Scottish history. He died at the age of ninety on 9 January 2000.Th...
View full details"The acknowledged Rosetta Stone of island hopping" Sunday Times A new, fully updated and revised edition of this definitive guide to Scottish islan...
View full detailsGhosts, witches, unexplained mysteries, and the supernatural are the basis for this fascinating Ghost Series which relates ghost stories from Great...
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 detailsStories from the old aristocracy of Scotland. A Laird is the Scottish word for a landowner.
The rich traditions of the Picts and later Celtic peoples in Scotland have given us some of our most beautiful and evocative names. This stunning g...
View full detailsA handy book for basic information on the major clans and tartans of Scotland, Discusses Highland dress and clans, and illustrates clan tartans.
The original texts, which are the basis of the study of the Celtic Shamanic tradition, are so often missing from the contemporary practical books o...
View full detailsIn the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Following his magnifi...
View full detailsA pocket history which covers the Jacobite Risings from 1689 to 1746 and the final disaster of the Battle of Culloden.
At the age of twenty-one, John Prebble set out to ‘discover’ Scotland, and just as Scott had been enthralled by this fiercely distinctive land, so ...
View full detailsThis is an account of Derek Cooper's journey across the Hebridean archipelago on his way to Mingulay, where his grandmother was born. Whilst travel...
View full detailsA cultural history of the Scottish Highlands with stunning photographs.
This comprehensive companion details the recurring placenames which feature in Nigel Tranter's works. Over 200 places are listed alphabetically, wi...
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