Humanities
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Hardback | Pub: 16 Oct 2015£30.00Maps can tell much about a place that traditional histories fail to communicate. This lavishly illustrated book features 70 maps which have been selected for the particular stories they reveal about different political, commercial and social aspects...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2016£9.99
The remarkable true story. At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built was deliberately sent to the bottom of the sea at the British Grand...
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Paperback | Pub: 18 Jun 2012£16.99
Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon – ‘a history book for Scots’. It begins with the mythical...
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Paperback | Pub: 23 Sep 2021£25.00Since 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: 08 Mar 2018£9.99Anne Cholawo was a typical 80s career girl working in a busy London advertising agency, when in 1989, holidaying in Skye, she noticed an advert for a property on the Isle of Soay – ‘Access by courtesy of fishing boat’. She had...
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Paperback | Pub: 23 May 2019£12.99
The story of Islay, Jura and Colonsay is one of the most fascinating amongst all the Hebrides. They have had substantial human occupation since earliest times and man has left many relics across the islands, from tools and artefacts of mesolithic...
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Paperback | Pub: 10 Jun 2015£25.00Conditioned by a childhood surrounded by the rivalries of the Stewart family, and by eighteen years of enforced exile in England, James I was to prove a king very different from his elderly and conservative forerunners. This major study draws on a...
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Jul 2015£25.00In this study of the reign of James II of Scotland, the king is viewed in the context of the Stewart monarchy, from his struggles to overcome his early adversity and the legacy of his father’s style of kingship, to the serious political crises...
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Paperback | Pub: 08 Jun 2009£30.00James III is the most enigmatic of the Stewart kings of Scotland. Variously characterised as artistic, peace-loving, morbidly suspicious, treacherous, pious, lecherous and lazy, King James was much criticised by contemporaries and later chroniclers...
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Paperback | Pub: 10 Jun 2015£30.00
James IV is the best-known of all the late medieval Scottish rulers. Widely praised by his contemporaries, he combined the qualities of a successful medieval monarch with a wide interest in the arts and science, while remaining acutely conscious of...
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Paperback | Pub: 15 Aug 2011£25.00James V suffered the fate of many a son of a famous father in being somewhat overshadowed not only by his father James IV but also by his internationally renowned daughter Mary Queen of Scots. But no-one would deny the importance of his reign,...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Sep 2014£30.00James VII and II is one of the least studied monarchs of Scotland, and has previously mostly been studied from an English perspective or as the muddled victim of the revolution of 1688/9 which delivered for Britain much-vaunted political...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Aug 2008£25.00
This study explores the history of the western seaboard of Scotland (the Hebrides, Argyll and the Isle of Man) in a formative but often neglected era: the central middle ages, from the mightly Somerled to his descendant John MacDonald, the first...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Nov 2011£30.00
The kingdoms of the Picts and Dal Riata, by the time of their union in the ninth century, formed the nucleus of medieval Scotland. This book by Marjorie O. Anderson remains the most significant study of the regnal lists and irish annals as sources...
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Paperback | Pub: 18 Jul 2011£30.00
The events of 1000-1130 were crucial to the successful emergence of the medieval kingdom of the Scots. Yet this is one of the least researched periods of Scottish history. We probably now know more about the Picts than the post-1000 events that...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Nov 2009£25.00
Land for the People? covers a previously neglected period which saw the formative legislation and policies which continue to shape Highland life. Drawing on a wider range of sources, both public and private, than hitherto, Ewen Cameron delivers an...
