The John Donald imprint publishes our academic books on all aspects of Scottish culture, from architecture to philosophy, specialising in Scottish history.
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Mar 2022
£14.99 £14.99
The Norman invasion of Britain, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, is well known, but the later invasion of Ireland is much less well documented. Yet much of what we see today in Irish heritage has Norman roots. Ireland and Britain have many…
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Paperback | Pub: 21 Jan 2022
£25.00 £25.00
In this ground-breaking study of the medieval parliament, Roland Tanner gives the Scottish Parliament a human face by examining the actions and motives of those who attended. In the past, the Scottish Parliament was seen as a weak and ineffective…
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Paperback | Pub: 21 Jan 2022
£25.00 £25.00
Challenging the conventional interpretation of Mary of Guise as the defender of Catholicism whose regime climaxed with the Reformation Rebellion, Pamela Ritchie shows that Mary was, on the contrary, a shrewd and effective politique, whose own…
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Hardback | Pub: 04 Nov 2021
£100.00 £100.00
The renowned historian Jenny Wormald was a ground-breaking expert on early modern Scottish history, especially Stewart kingship, noble power and wider society. She was most controversial in her book-length critique of Mary, Queen of Scots….
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Paperback | Pub: 23 Sep 2021
£25.00 £25.00
Since the middle ages, Orkney has proved remarkable for the volume and the quality of its literary output. From the skalds and sagamen of the Viking age, through to the colourful folklorists, polemicists and translators of the Victorian era, and the…
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Paperback | Pub: 23 Sep 2021
£25.00 £25.00
The Glasgow Enlightenment is widely regarded as the first book to explore the nature and accomplishments of the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Glasgow in a comprehensive manner. In addition to a general introduction by the editors, there are…
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Sep 2021
£30.00 £30.00
The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Almost a million perished and a further two million emigrated in the wake of potato blight and economic collapse. Acute famine also gripped the Scottish…
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Sep 2021
£9.99 £9.99
In the summer of 1411, the ageing Donald of Isla, Lord of the Isles, invaded mainland Scotland with a huge, battle-hardened army, only to be fought to a bloody standstill on the plateau of Harlaw, fifteen miles from Aberdeen, a town he had…
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E-Book | Pub: 03 Jun 2021
£64.99 £64.99
The legendary Scottish king Máel Coluim III, also known as ‘Malcolm Canmore’, is often held to epitomise Scotland’s ‘ancient Gaelic kings’. But Máel Coluim and his dynasty were in fact newcomers, and their legitimacy and status were far…
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Hardback | Pub: 03 Jun 2021
£100.00 £100.00
The legendary Scottish king Máel Coluim III, also known as ‘Malcolm Canmore’, is often held to epitomise Scotland’s ‘ancient Gaelic kings’. But Máel Coluim and his dynasty were in fact newcomers, and their legitimacy and status were far…
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Paperback | Pub: 20 May 2021
£30.00 £30.00
The archipelagic kingdoms of Man and the Isles that flourished from the last quarter of the eleventh century down to the middle of the thirteenth century represent two forgotten kingdoms of the medieval British Isles. They were ruled by powerful…
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Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2020
£50.00 £50.00
Despite seven out of ten people in Scotland choosing cremation, in many ways crematoria are ‘invisible’ buildings, visited only by necessity, and they have not received the attention they deserve. Crematoria present a real challenge for…
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E-Book | Pub: 28 May 2020
£60.00 £60.00
The archipelagic kingdoms of Man and the Isles that flourished from the last quarter of the eleventh century down to the middle of the thirteenth century represent two forgotten kingdoms of the medieval British Isles. They were ruled by powerful…
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Hardback | Pub: 06 Feb 2020
£80.00 £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…
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Hardback | Pub: 07 Nov 2019
£70.00 £70.00
The defeat of the Scots in the Battle of Flodden in 1513 left many of the leaders of Scottish society, including King James IV, lying dead on the battlefield. The long and complex minority of King James V which followed is explored in detail in this…
Forthcoming
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Paperback | Pub: 21 Jan 2022
£25.00 £25.00
In this ground-breaking study of the medieval parliament, Roland Tanner gives the Scottish Parliament a human face by examining the actions and motives of those who attended. In the past, the Scottish Parliament was seen as a weak and ineffective…
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Paperback | Pub: 21 Jan 2022
£25.00 £25.00
Challenging the conventional interpretation of Mary of Guise as the defender of Catholicism whose regime climaxed with the Reformation Rebellion, Pamela Ritchie shows that Mary was, on the contrary, a shrewd and effective politique, whose own…
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Mar 2022
£14.99 £14.99
The Norman invasion of Britain, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, is well known, but the later invasion of Ireland is much less well documented. Yet much of what we see today in Irish heritage has Norman roots. Ireland and Britain have many…
Paperback | Pub: 23 Sep 2021
E-Book | Pub: 03 Jun 2021
Hardback | Pub: 03 Jun 2021
Paperback | Pub: 20 May 2021
Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2020
E-Book | Pub: 28 May 2020
Hardback | Pub: 07 Nov 2019
