The Great Tapestry of Scotland : The Making of a Masterpiece
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The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is ...
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The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is ...
View full detailsThe brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is ...
View full detailsShortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland. Down Roman road...
View full detailsOn December 28th 1879, the night of the Great Storm, the Tay Bridge collapsed, along with the train that was crossing, and everyone on board...This...
View full detailsThe story of the Highland clans is a gripping one, full of celebrated names and heroic deeds. It is also, as Alistair Moffat reveals, the story of ...
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 detailsThe Historical Atlas of the Celtic World by John Haywood (Author) In a series of 54 stunning full-colour maps covering 3,000 years and spanning the...
View full details'Peppered with humour, empathy and kindness' - Sunday Post Ever since her pet sheep Lulu accompanied her to school at the age of seven, animals and...
View full detailsThe Jacobite Rebellion 1745-46 by Gregory Fremont-Barnes (Author) The Jacobite Rebellion was the final attempt of the House of Stuart to re-est...
View full detailsThe Jacobite Rising of 1715 and the Murray Family : Brothers in Arms by Rosalind Anderson (Author) Based in Perthshire, the Murray family played an...
View full detailsThe Jacobites : Britain and Europe, 1688-1788 2nd Edition by Daniel Szechi (Author) The product of forty years of research by one of the foremost...
View full detailsA pocket history which covers the Jacobite Risings from 1689 to 1746 and the final disaster of the Battle of Culloden.
Arthur led the Britons to the brink of victory but was cut down by treachery and betrayal. Arthurian legends have since been corrupted, leading to ...
View full detailsThe King Over the Water : A Complete History of the Jacobites by Desmond Seward (Author) Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Y...
View full detailsThis is the first modern history for general readers of the entire Jacobite movement in Scotland, England and Ireland, from the 'Glorious Revoluti...
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 detailsThe kingdom of Scots was the last of the non-Anglo-Saxon states of Britain to survive as a political entity. Alone of the 'Celtic' nations, it was ...
View full detailsPlaces and books like Rosslyn Chapel and The Da Vinci code have focused attention on Scotland's Knights Templar. Who they were and what they did ha...
View full detailsThe Knights Templar and Scotland by Robert Ferguson (Author) Places and books like Rosslyn Chapel and The Da Vinci Code have focused attention ...
View full detailsHe was a spy, a clan-chief, a traitor. A polyglot, a deserter and a man of philosophy. Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, was the last of the great Scottis...
View full detailsTrue crime from Dundee, covering the most fascinating and shocking cases from the last century. Having reported on many of them first-hand, journal...
View full detailsAll civilisations have faced the challenges of trading by sea: storms, bad weather, and the hazards of cliffs and other natural landmarks that thre...
View full detailsAt 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 detailsLooking for inner calm this year? The Little Book of Sewing is your pocket-sized guide to creating your own zen with nothing more than a needle and...
View full detailsThe Lords of the Isles: Clan Donald by Ronald Williams From the establishment of the Kingdom of Dalriada in Argyll by Fergus Mor, around AD 500, th...
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 detailsThis is the story of the Clan MacGregor, the "Children of the Mist", the lawless brigands of the Highlands. Read of how they were persecuted and ha...
View full detailsHere is recounted the stirring history of the Clan MacPherson from its beginning in the mists of medieval Caledonian history down to the present ti...
View full detailsDuring the first millennium AD the most northerly part of Britain evolved into the country known today as Scotland. The transition was a long proce...
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 detailsThe Making of the Crofting Community by James Hunter (Author) This book has been seminal in bringing to the fore the injustices that have been infl...
View full detailsThe Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: a revolutionary book, it argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jaco...
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 detailsDiscover Scottish Highlands and Islands with this comprehensive and entertaining travel guide, packed with practical information and honest recomme...
View full detailsThe Oxford Companion to Scottish History interprets history broadly, including archaeology, architecture, climate, culture, folk belief, geology, a...
View full detailsThe Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historical importance, they re...
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 detailsAnstruther, Fife. This A4 sized book with colour throughout is an excellent guide to Scotland's fishing past and present. The authoritative text is...
View full detailsModern culture is obsessed with identity. Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision in 2015, sexual identity has dominated bot...
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 detailsThe Clan Donnachaidh bears some of the most renowned and recognizable family names in Scotland. As Scots sought a new life beyond their native shor...
View full detailsIn AD 77, Roman forces under Agricola marched into the northern reaches of Britain to pacify the Caledonian tribesman. For seven years, the Romans ...
View full detailsHere is recounted the stirring history of the Clan Ross from its beginnings in the mists of medieval Caledonian history down to the present time. T...
View full detailsThe Scots in Early Stuart Ireland : Union and Separation in Two Kingdoms by Simon Egan (With) David Edwards Exploring Irish-Scottish connections in...
View full detailshe castle is an evocative structure, no matter its setting, and this is no truer than in Scotland, where the multitude of castles reflect the count...
View full detailsThe Scottish Castles Story by Marc Alexander (Author) The castle is an evocative structure, no matter its setting, and this is no truer than in...
View full detailsEighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was in the same...
View full detailsJack's story begins in 1920 in the London distracts of Peckham, Deptford, and Greenwich, enjoying life as a Cockney Lad in pre-war London, unaware ...
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