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• The Caledoniad

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Jun 2026

  £30.00

  Winner of the 2025 Frank Watson Book Prize Why did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who controlled their history? Is the historical narrative the only legitimate medium...

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  Campaigning for Edinburgh

  Paperback | Pub: 05 Jun 2025

  £25.00

  In 1849 Henry Cockburn asked: what will Edinburgh look like in 1949 or in 2049? He inspired Britain’s first amenity society – the Cockburn Association – the city’s civic watchdog, which, since 1875, has campaigned to protect and enhance for...

• The Campbells of the Ark

  Paperback | Pub: 20 Mar 2017

  £25.00

  In the course of his long poem An Airce, ‘The Ark’, the Jacobite poet Alexander MacDonald shows the Campbells being subjected to trial by water for the part they played in defeating Prince Charles’s army in 1745-6. Some will be...

• The Campbells, 1250-1513

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Apr 2024

  £20.00

  If not perhaps the most popular Highland clan, the Campbells are undoubtedly one of the most successful. The Campbell earls of Argyll have traditionally enjoyed a rather unsavoury historical reputation, viewed by their rivals with a mixture of fear,...

• The Celtic Place-names of Scotland

  E-Book | Pub: 20 Jun 2011

  £25.00

  First published in 1926, this book remains the best and most comprehensive guide to the Celtic place-names of Scotland and is essential reading for anyone interested in Scottish history and the derivations of place-names the length and breadth of...

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  Celtic Scotland

  Paperback | Pub: 20 Feb 2025

  £17.99

  Your introduction to the story of Celtic Scotland. This authoritative and handsomely illustrated book is aimed at the general reader who wants to know about the mysterious people who inhabited Scotland from the Bronze Age onwards. They created...

• The Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Aug 2026

  £20.00

  The thirteenth-century manuscript The Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles is the earliest surviving piece of historical documentation from the Isle of Man and a uniquely important source describing the rise and fall of the medieval Kingdom...

• Church and Theology in Enlightenment Scotland

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £25.00

  Works on Scottish church history have sometimes been described as parochial, partisan, outdated or unscholarly. John McIntosh remedies this. He diverts attention from the Moderate Party in the eighteenth century, with its focus on the small group of...

• The Church of the Covenant 1637-1651

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £25.00

  The troubles of mid-seventeenth-century Scotland were the final episode in a long revolutionary process which had begun more than a century earlier. The changes of the intervening years – most of them gradual and imperceptible – were barely...

• Church, Politics and Society

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Dec 2021

  £25.00

  The essays in this volume, by distinguished historians, deal with the correlation of the Church and society in Scotland from the birth of Bishop Kennedy at the beginning of the fifteenth century to the reunion of the Church of Scotland with most of...

• Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603-1788

  E-Book | Pub: 07 Jul 2022

  £30.00

  This is an appraisal of clanship both with respect to its vitality and its eventual demise, in which the author views clanship as a socio-economic, as well as a political agency, deriving its strength from personal obligations and mutual service...

• Clearance and Improvement

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Feb 2010

  £30.00

  Social and economic changes included an increase in production of food and raw materials, in turn sustaining the remarkable growth of towns and cities over this period. However, in the folk memory of Scotland the social and cultural costs of the...

• Columba

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Apr 2024

  £14.99

  St Columba is one of the most important figures in the early history of the British Isles. A native of Donegal and a nobleman of royal ancestry, his outstanding religious career spanned both sides of the Irish Sea. On the Scottish island of Iona he...

• Conflict and Stability in Scottish Society, 1700-1850

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £25.00

  Between the early eighteenth and the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Scottish society was transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and major changes in agriculture and rural society. The rate of town and city growth was among the...

• Cromwell and Scotland

  E-Book | Pub: 27 Nov 2007

  £30.00

  This book examines the role of religion in the story of Oliver Cromwell’s invasion and subsequent occupation of Scotland. Analysis of the printed propaganda produced by the Scots and the English makes it clear that both nations defined their...

• David I

  Hardback | Pub: 06 Feb 2020

  £80.00

  David I was never expected to become king, but on succeeding to the Scottish throne in 1124 he quickly demonstrated that he had the skills, ruthlessness and ambition to become one of the kingdom’s greatest rulers. Drawing on the experiences and...

• David II

  E-Book | Pub: 22 Feb 2005

  £30.00

  David II (1329–1371), son of the hero King of Scots, Robert Bruce (1306–1329), has suffered a harsh historical press, condemned as a disastrous general, a womaniser and a sympathiser with Scotland’s ‘auld enemy’, England. Bringing together...

• David II

  Paperback | Pub: 17 Apr 2025

  £30.00

  David II (1329–1371), son of the hero King of Scots, Robert Bruce (1306–1329), has suffered a harsh historical press, condemned as a disastrous general, a womaniser and a sympathiser with Scotland’s ‘auld enemy’, England. Bringing together...

• ‘Dearest Brother’

  E-Book | Pub: 13 Dec 2010

  £30.00

  This book provides the first detailed account of the course of Scottish politics in the reign of Charles II. It focuses on the years from 1667 to 1673, when, for the only time in the Restoration era, Scottish political leaders were able to make...

• The Dundas Despotism

  E-Book | Pub: 05 Jul 2004

  £30.00

  This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date biography of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811) and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771-1851). Aided by other members of their family, they ruled Scotland from the 1770s to the...