Who Was Your Granny's Granny?

Footsteps in the Furrow

Land of the Scots: A Short History

Past Forgetting: A Memoir of Heroes

World Tartans shows not only the wide variety and colour patterns of Scottish tartans, but gives an overview of tartans that have been developed ...

Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ances...

Wilderness World of Cameron McNeish

Turning Points: Stories to Change Your Life by Julia   A high-flying businesswoman and award-winning entrepreneur, Julia Ogilvy lived a superfic...

Scottish Place Names by W.F.H. Nicolaisen This comprehensive and systematic study of Scottish place-names brings to life the history that has shape...

Blackden. Even though the small Scottish town has frozen over, inside 18-year-old Patrick Hunter's head the blood is boiling. Fuelled by a potent m...

Robert the Bruce - Path of the Hero King by Nigel Tranter Robert the Bruce- his rise from the ashes of defeatto the glowing triumph of BannockburnA...

A Traveller's History of Scotland by Andrew Fisher. Scotland's story is chronicled by one of the country's best historians

This comprehensive companion details the recurring placenames which feature in Nigel Tranter's works. Over 200 places are listed alphabetically, wi...

Features details of prominent people in Scotland including politicians, aristocracy, business leaders and academics.

The final volume in the author's trilogy on life in rural Scotland. This work completes the cycle begun with "Willie Gavin, Crofter Man" and "The C...

A pivotal period in Prentice McHoan's life is described, seen through his preoccupations with death, sex, his relationship with his father, unrequi...

John Wilson was an Inspector of Schools during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. His career in educatio...

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...

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...

Stories from the old aristocracy of Scotland. A Laird is the Scottish word for a landowner.

This revised and expanded edition includes data on over 220 families, the develompment of surnames, a reading list and a guide for beginners in sea...

An anthology which presents an account of the lives of the Scottish people across the centuries, including the crofters of the West Highlands or St...

First published in 1883, MacKenzie's History of the Highland Clearances has remained in print to the present times. John Prebble wrote "...it has b...

Feudalism 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 ...

Scotland's worst and most infamous murders: Includes accounts of the infamous Burke and Hare, cannibalistic Sawney Bean, child murderer Jessie King...

This short book but interesting book is a brief introduction to the history of witchcraft in Scotland with particular focus on the witch hunts of t...

Ghosts, witches, unexplained mysteries, and the supernatural are the basis for this fascinating Ghost Series which relates ghost stories from Great...

One 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...

A story based on the real voyage of "The Georgiana", by an author whose own ancestors were among the crofters who had to emigrate from Skye to Aust...

An introduction to the medieval abbeys and priories of Scotland.

Rob 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...

Robert 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...

Walk 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...

An account of the mutinies in Highland regiments, beginning with the noble revolt of the Black Watch at Finchley in 1743 and ending with the mutiny...

What 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...

This is the first volume of a distance-learning history of Scotland course running from January 1998. The successful completion of the course gives...