History
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Feb 2006£9.99
An inspiring true story of courage and sacrifice. This is the remarkable story of Donald Caskie, minister of the Scots Kirk in Paris at the time of the German invasion of France in 1940. Although he had several opportunities to flee, Caskie stayed...
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Hardback | Pub: 06 Aug 2026£12.00
The Darien Venture was the singular event at the end of the seventeenth century that fundamentally altered Scotland’s future. ‘A powerfully clear account . . . Highly recommended for anyone interested in the colonial history of...
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E-Book | Pub: 06 Oct 2011£9.99
Trevor Royle examines Scotland’s role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives. The country’s geographical position gave it great strategic importance for importing war materiel and reinforcements, for conducting naval...
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Paperback | Pub: 18 Jul 2011£14.99Samuel Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are widely regarded as among the best pieces of travel writing ever produced. Johnson and Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Aug 2023£14.99
Discover Scotland Today. Dig deep into the past with our Ultimate Scottish History bundle, featuring some of the best writers on Scotland’s history, including Alistair Moffat, Rosemary Goring, Tim Clarkson, James Hunter and more! Uncover the...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Mar 2022£12.99
Few aspects of Scottish history inspire as fervent an interest as the wars with England. The exploits of not one, but two, national heroes – William Wallace and Robert Bruce – have excited the attention of a host of novelists, filmmakers,...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2011£7.99
It was the Vikings, not Christopher Columbus, who made the first European discovery of America. It was the Vikings, not the Pilgrim Fathers, who were the first Europeans settlers in America, and it was probably the Vikings who first used the name...
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Paperback | Pub: 23 Nov 2015£25.00The Hebridean island of Islay is well-known for its whisky, its wildlife and its association with the MacDonald Lords of the Isles. There would seem to be little reason to dwell on its fate at the hands of marauding Northmen during the Viking Age....
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Paperback | Pub: 19 Mar 2026£14.99
It was the Vikings, not Christopher Columbus, who made the first European discovery of America. It was the Vikings, not the Pilgrim Fathers, who were the first Europeans settlers in America, and it was probably the Vikings who first used the name...
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Paperback | Pub: 18 Aug 2022£25.00The creation of large new tracts of forest, together with the development of a modern wood processing sector, was the single biggest transformation to occur in the Scottish countryside during the twentieth century. While the environmental and...
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E-Book | Pub: 07 Sep 2017£4.99
Droving was once the lifeblood of Scotland’s rural economy, and for centuries Scotland’s glens and mountain passes were alive with thousands of cattle making their way to the market trysts of Crieff and Falkirk. With the Industrial Revolution,...
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Mar 2017£12.99
This is the story behind Rome’s greatest frontier – Hadrian’s Wall. Hadrian’s Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall...
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Paperback | Pub: 12 Feb 2010£20.00
Through his personality, ingenuity and ability, he initiated a resistance movement which ultimately secured the nation’s freedom and independence. Yet, Wallace was reviled, opposed and eventually betrayed by the nobility in his own day to...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024£10.99
Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans and their definitive conflicts. In twelve journeys he explores places of conflict, recreating as he walks the tumult of battle. As he recounts the military prowess...
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Paperback | Pub: 08 Aug 2019£25.00Words have always held great power in the Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands: bardic poems bought immortality for their subjects; satires threatened to ruin reputations and cause physical injury; clan sagas recounted family origins and...
