History
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Apr 2025£6.99Names are very important and can unlock vast amounts of information about places and their origins. The placename of Scotland are a goldmine of information about times past and the lives of early inhabitants. The different languages of their origin...
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Paperback | Pub: 17 Apr 2025£10.99
The lives of the Scottish queens, both those who ruled in their own right, and also the consorts, have largely been neglected in conventional history books. One of the earliest known Scottish queens was none other than the notorious Lady MacBeth....
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Paperback | Pub: 02 May 2024£6.99The Scots have always had a reputation for clarity of thought and also for the vigour with which it is put into words. This collection spans the entire gamut of a nation’s recorded thought and experience from Roman Scotland to the present day....
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E-Book | Pub: 06 Jun 2011£25.00
In 1637 Scotland exploded in rebellion against King Charles I. The rebellion sought not only to undo hated anglicising policies in the Church, but to reverse the wholesale transfer of power to London which had followed the 1603 Union of the Crowns....
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Apr 2026£6.99Surnames give us a sense of identity and belonging. Even in today’s mobile society they can have strong links with particular areas. They are keys to our family history. And they always have an original meaning. This new collection of some 400...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Sep 2009£8.99
This is the remarkable story of one of the Second World War’s most unusual animal heroes. Sea Dog Bamse tells the story of a 14-stone St Bernard dog who became global mascot for the Royal Norwegian Forces and a symbol of freedom and...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Aug 2011£6.99
‘The most powerful representation yet of the race which has repeatedly changed history as we know it’ – The Scotsman Alistair Moffat’s journey, from the Scottish islands and Scotland, to the English coast, Wales, Cornwall and...
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Paperback | Pub: 20 May 2021£30.00The 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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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2011£6.99An epic true story of resilience and survival. Michael Krupa was born into a poor family in south-west Poland, and in his teens was accepted into a Jesuit seminary. He ran away before taking his final vows and joined the army. Soon afterwards, the...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2012£9.99The Royal Navy has always been seen as an English institution, despite a large Scottish contribution, from Admiral Duncan at Camperdown in 1797 to Andrew Cunningham in the Second World War. The Royal Navy’s most dramatic effect on Scotland,...
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Paperback | Pub: 13 Feb 2008£16.99
Through most of eight hundred years, Somerled of Argyll has been variously denounced as an intractable rebel against his rightful king and esteemed as the honoured ancestor of the later medieval Lord of the Isles, but he can be recognised now as a...
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Hardback | Pub: 21 Nov 2024£75.00Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland explores the interaction of human populations with the land, waters, forests and wildlife. This...
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E-Book | Pub: 02 Sep 2021£9.99Discover the technology that may take humanity to the stars. In May 2018 NASA called a press conference to announce the successful test-run of their tiny nuclear reactor KRUSTY (Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling Technology). This revolutionary...
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Paperback | Pub: 20 Oct 2014£20.00
This book traces the history of relations between the kingdom of Strathclyde and Anglo-Saxon England in the Viking period of the ninth to eleventh centuries AD. It puts the spotlight on the North Britons or ‘Cumbrians’, an ancient people...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026£9.99‘Oh, she hated and loved in a breath!’ Faced with the choice between her harsh farming life and the seductive world of books and learning, the spirited Chris Guthrie decides to remain in rural Scotland. But as the devastation of the...
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E-Book | Pub: 10 Dec 2012£9.99In 1612, George Sinclair, an illegitimate son of a Caithness laird, became a Norwegian national hero. Along with almost 300 of his followers, Sinclair was killed in an ambush in Norway while marching to join the king of Sweden’s army. Sinclair...
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E-Book | Pub: 15 Jun 2013£5.99Britain’s first flying machine was trailed in Perthshire in 1907 and ever since – whether at war or in peacetime – Scotland has been in the frontline of British military aviation. In Tartan Air Force Deborah Lake investigates...
