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• The Northern Earldoms

  Paperback | Pub: 20 Jul 2023

  £20.00

  The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness were positioned between two worlds, the Norwegian and the Scottish. They were a maritime lordship divided, or united, by the turbulent waters of the Pentland Firth. This unlikely combination of island...

• Northern Lights

  Hardback | Pub: 07 Sep 2023

  £30.00

  Surprisingly, the remarkable story of the Scottish role in the discovery of the Northwest Passage – a long desired trade route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific – has not received a great deal of attention. This book charts the extensive...

• Northumbria AD 367-867

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Apr 2027

  £14.99

  From the author of the bestselling The King in the North. The story of the lands between the Forth and Humber from the end of the Roman period to the Viking kingdom of York is one of the most richly fascinating in British history. This the age of...

• Northumbria AD 367-867

  Hardback | Pub: 09 Oct 2025

  £25.00

  From the author of the bestselling The King in the North. The story of the lands between the Forth and Humber from the end of the Roman period to the Viking kingdom of York is one of the most richly fascinating in British history. This the age of...

• Nursing Voices

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Apr 2027

  £30.00

  This book describes the working lives of those employed in nursing in Dumfriesshire in the second half of the twentieth century. For much of the early part of this period, nursing was largely focused on patients with infectious diseases such as...

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  On the Crofter’s Trail

  Paperback | Pub: 15 Apr 2010

  £14.99

  In the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts – once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland – were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland were forced from...

• The Origins of the Scottish Railway System

  Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026

  £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...

• Overlord

  Hardback | Pub: 06 Aug 2026

  £30.00

  The true story behind the infamous life of Henry VIII. Henry VIII is England’s most famous king. He is simultaneously the virtuous Renaissance prince gone wrong, the psychopathic, paranoid tyrant, the religious disruptor and the much-married...

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  A Passion for Castles

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024

  £20.00

  In the 1880s two Edinburgh architects began to survey, measure and sketch the castles of Scotland, travelling the length and breadth of the country on trains, bicycles and on foot. Together they produced the five magnificent volumes of The...

• Pedigrees, Power and Clanship

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Jan 2025

  £30.00

  This book brings together the major writings of David Sellar (1941–2019) on the genealogies (pedigrees) claimed by some of the major clans of medieval Highland and Island Scotland, especially the descendants of their twelfth-century king...

• The Picts

  Paperback | Pub: 20 Jun 2016

  £12.99

  Discover the true story of the ancient Picts. The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historical importance, they remain shrouded in myth and misconception. Absorbed by the...

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  Picts

  Paperback | Pub: 01 May 2025

  £25.00

  Shortlisted for the EAA Book Prize and the Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award The Picts have fascinated for centuries. They emerged c. ad 300 to defy the might of the Roman empire only to disappear at the end of the first millennium ad, yet...

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  Picts, Gaels and Scots

  Paperback | Pub: 21 Mar 2024

  £17.99

  Early historic Scotland – from the fifth to the tenth century AD – was home to a variety of diverse peoples and cultures, all competing for land and supremacy. Yet by the eleventh century it had become a single, unified kingdom, known as...

• The Placenames of Scotland

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Aug 2022

  £12.99

  Placenames are a constant source of debate. Who was Edwin, whose name is said to live on in that of Scotland’s capital city? Are the ‘drum’ and ‘chapel’ still to be found in Drumchapel? And which ‘king’ had...

• The Pocket Guide to Glasgow’s Best Buildings

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Mar 2027

  £10.99

  Glasgow is one of the world’s most architecturally exciting cities — a Victorian city par excellence, adorned with opulent public buildings, mercantile palazzi, glittering art gal-leries and a Gothic Revival university, as well as the eccentric...

• The Poor Had No Lawyers

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Nov 2024

  £16.99

  New and Updated Edition Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament made any difference? Can we get our common good land back? In this book, Andy Wightman updates the...

• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

  Hardback | Pub: 04 Sep 2025

  £12.99

  One of the BBC Arts 100 Most Inspiring Novels Edinburgh, 1930, and the world is on the brink of change. Leading the charge is the glamorous, free-spirited Miss Jean Brodie, schoolteacher at the Marcia Blaine Academy, whose guiding principle is...

• Raising the Dead

  E-Book | Pub: 10 Dec 2012

  £5.99

  Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein, introduced readers around the world to the concept of raising the dead through scientific procedures. Those who read the book were thrilled by this incredible Gothic adventure. Few, however, realised...

• Realm

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Apr 2027

  £25.00

  Scotland has one of the most recognisable identities of any nation in the world. Yet many impressions that people have about Scotland’s story are gross oversimplifications or plain wrong. Even many Scots misunderstand their past. Realm puts the...

• The Reivers

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Mar 2017

  £10.99

  From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands suffered one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder in modern Europe. As a consequence of constant conflict, Borderers suffered horribly at...