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• Darien

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Mar 2018

  £12.99

  The Company of Scotland and its attempts to establish the colony of Caledonia on the inhospitable isthmus of Panama in the late seventeenth century is one of the most tragic moments of Scottish history. Devised by William Paterson, the stratagem was...

• The Lockerbie Bombing

  Paperback | Pub: 05 Nov 2020

  £12.99

  The destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was the largest attack on Britain since World War Two. 259 passengers and 11 townsfolk of Lockerbie were murdered. Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted...

• Putting the Tea in Britain

  Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2020

  £14.99

  From the Indian Mutiny to the London Blitz, offering a ‘nice cup of tea’ has been a stock British response to a crisis.  But tea itself has a dramatic, and often violent, history. That history is inextricably interwoven with the story of...

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  Riders on the Storm

  Paperback | Pub: 13 Aug 2020

  £9.99

  Climate change is the greatest challenge to humankind today. While the coronavirus sheds a light on the vulnerability of our interconnected world, the effects of global warming will be permanent, indeed catastrophic, without a massive shift in...

• Scotland’s Shame

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Oct 2013

  £7.99

  The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was one of the most notorious acts of terrorism in recent history. Its political and foreign policy repercussions have been enormous, and twenty-five years...