John Donald
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E-Book | Pub: 24 Nov 2003£25.00
This is a study of what was Britain’s leading whaling port. Today, Dundee captains and the city’s whaling fleet have a permanent place in the geography of the world. Cape Adams, Cape Milne, Artic Bay and Eclipse Sound recall an era when...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Aug 2007£30.00
The Stewart Dynasty in Scotland series aims to bring the rich political heritage of late medieval and early modern Scotland before as wide a reading public as possible, with specialist authors writing for the general reader as well as the student...
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E-Book | Pub: 12 Jul 2004£30.00
The essays in this book, all by distinguished historians, illuminate the main activities, preoccupations and aspirations of the families whose territorial power and local leadership made them a central factor in medieval Scottish society. Issues...
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E-Book | Pub: 07 Jun 2018£20.00
The popular Arthurian legends, such as the grail quests of Perceval and Galahad, and the love of Lancelot for Queen Guenevere, have largely overshadowed Scotland’s own Arthurian romance. The story of Fergus, one of King Arthur’s knights, was...
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Hardback | Pub: 05 Nov 2026£100.00In 1901 Andrew Carnegie founded an educational trust in Scotland to make its universities more available to the country’s ‘deserving and qualified youth’, to improve their status, and to extend research. The result was the Carnegie Trust for...
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E-Book | Pub: 05 Nov 2012£14.99This book looks at visual images as an alternative and undervalued source of evidence for ideas about the Scottish Gaidhealtachd in the period 1700 – 1880. Illustrated with 100 plates, it brings together many little known and previously...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Dec 2015£12.99
Galloglas were mercenary warriors from the Hebrides and West Highlands who settled in Ireland in the later 13th century and achieved an extraordinary prominence on Irish battlefields throughout the three hundred years following. Fighting as heavy...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001£30.00
Paul Hopkins, an authority on early Jacobitism, sets the Massacre of Glencoe in its true context. The book describes the tensions in the Highlands between the Restoration and the End of the Revolution and the influence on the Highlands of national...
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Hardback | Pub: 11 Aug 2014£25.00This book marks the centenary of Neil MacLeod’s death in 1913 with the republication of some of his work. It also publishes for the first time all of the identifiable work of his brother, Iain Dubh (1847 – 1901), and of their father,...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Oct 2018£25.00The classic three volumes of Hebridean Folksongs, reissued simultaneously for the first time since their original publication (1969, 1977, 1981), contain 135 songs connected with the waulking of homespun tweed cloth in the Hebridean isles. Volume 1...
