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• On The Island

  E-Book | Pub: 20 Apr 2015

  £4.99

  For an eleven-year-old boy, living with his widowed mother and younger brother in a remote seaside village on one of the Western Isles of Scotland, growing up has its difficulties, as well as its idyllic pleasures. Iain Crichton Smith’s vivid...

• The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment

  E-Book | Pub: 24 Nov 2003

  £25.00

  In the first part of the volume are collected six essays which comment on mainly institutional matters: the merchant community, the universities and the study of science and medicine. Two important themes emerge from these studies; firstly the...

• The Origins of the Scottish Railway System

  E-Book | Pub: 24 Nov 2003

  £30.00

  By comparison with their English counterparts, Scottish nineteenth-century railways have suffered from a degree of neglect by economic historians. Most of the existing literature is written for the railway enthusiast, concentrating mainly on...

• People and Power in Scotland

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £25.00

  Few Scottish historians are better known than T. C. Smout and fewer still more deserving of the high esteem in which they are held. He has made an outstanding contribution to Scottish historical studies both as an academic discipline and as a...

• People and Society in Scotland, 1830–1914

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2021

  £25.00

  This is the second volume of a three-volume study of Scottish social change and development from the eighteenth century to the present day, originally published by John Donald in association with the Economic and Social History Society of...

• Pirate Queen

  E-Book | Pub: 06 May 2021

  £5.99

  In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O’Malley, daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She soon had a fleet of galleys under her commander, but her three decades of...

• A Political History of Scotland 1832-1924

  E-Book | Pub: 24 Nov 2003

  £30.00

  In this way it provides an illuminating perspective and serves as a corrective to both Scoto-centric and Anglo-centric interpretations of events. Previous studies have tended to concentrate on the resources of the main record repositories in London...

• Popular Disturbances in Scotland 1780-1815

  E-Book | Pub: 15 Dec 2003

  £20.00

  ‘Mobbing and rioting’ in late eighteenth-century Scotland was often the only recourse of the people in response to high food prices, the threat of eviction or the prospect of compulsory military service. This study of popular disturbances in the...

• Princelie Majestie

  E-Book | Pub: 10 Aug 2005

  £20.00

  The lifestyle of a Renaissance prince and his court was a work of art in itself: a dazzling spectacle which propagated the power, dignity and fame of the monarch. The domestic routine of the royal household with its palatial surroundings, restless...

• Queen & Country

  E-Book | Pub: 17 Sep 2015

  £3.99

  1587. After three long years, exiled from home and family, and drawn into the depths of the London underworld under the tutelage of Elizabeth I’s spymaster Francis Walsingham, Hew returns to Scotland with his new English wife, Frances. The...

• The Rebecca Connolly Thrillers: Books 1–4

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Apr 2023

  £9.99

  Discover the critically acclaimed Rebecca Connolly thrillers today. From the dark shores of the island of Stoirm to the stunning Scottish Highlands, to the streets of Glasgow and the moors of Culloden, join investigative reporter Rebecca Connolly as...

• The Reign of James VI

  E-Book | Pub: 11 Jan 2000

  £25.00

  The reign of James VI (1567–1625) remains one of the most enigmatic in Scottish history. There are long periods within it that resemble black holes in our knowledge. This study is a concerted attempt by a group of ten scholars of the reign, drawn...

• Revolution and Counter-revolution in Scotland, 1644-51

  E-Book | Pub: 08 Sep 2003

  £25.00

  In 1644 a massive Scottish army of Scottish Covenanters moved over the border into England, claiming they were not invading their neighbour but acting to save its liberties, by helping ensure that the absolutist King Charles I did not win the civil...

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  The Robert J. Harris Richard Hannay Collection

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Apr 2023

  £3.99

  Richard Hannay is the star of John Buchan’s original spy thriller, The Thirty-Nine Steps. Spanning five novels and crossing paths with many of Buchan’s other characters, Hannay has stood the test of time. Towards the end of John Buchan’s last...

• The Rough Wooings

  E-Book | Pub: 27 Dec 2000

  £25.00

  The ‘Rough Wooings’, fought by major figures of sixteenth-century Europe for the hand of the young Mary Queen of Scots, were wars as intense, wide-ranging and devastating as the wars of the three Edwards which ravaged fourteenth-century...

• Scotland and England 1286–1815

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2021

  £25.00

  The relationship between Scotland and England has been critical in shaping the cultural and political history of Britain over many centuries, yet historians have rarely devoted much attention to it. This book recognises the importance of viewing the...

• Scotland and the Low Countries 1124–1994

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2021

  £25.00

  This collection of essays presents historical approaches to the links which have existed for over 800 years between Scotland and one of the areas of continental Europe closest to her: the Low Countries. Topics include: Flemish settlers in...

• Scottish Battles

  E-Book | Pub: 10 Dec 2012

  £7.99

  Scottish history has been shaped and defined by a series of great battles. John Sadler gives the first full military history of Scotland for many years. From Mons Graupius to Culloden, he shows how terrain and politics shaped the campaigns and...

• The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720

  E-Book | Pub: 12 Dec 2000

  £30.00

  This volume examines the Scottish book trade from c.1500 to c.1720, looking at booksellers, bookbinders, stationers and printers and their relationship to the forces of authority. The scale of the Scottish book trade in this period was surprisingly...

• The Scottish Empire

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Feb 2002

  £30.00

  This new edition of Michael Fry’s remarkable book charts the involvement of the Scots in the British empire from its earliest days to the end of the twentieth century. It is a tale of dramatic extremes and craggy characters and of a huge range...