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• An t-Òban

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026

  £17.99

  This long-overdue new history of Oban (An t-Òban, meaning ‘the little bay’ in Gaelic) tells its story from the arrival of the first settlers in 10,000 BC to the development of the vibrant town it is today. It traces the impact of early Celts,...

• Arisaig and Morar

  Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026

  £12.99

  Arisiag and Morar, Norse and Gaelic, the ‘river-mouth bay’ and the ‘great water’, part of na garbh Chriochan (The Rough Bounds), an area so rugged and desolate it was itself known as the Highlands of the Highlands. From...

• Arras, 1917

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jul 2011

  £8.99

  Arras, 1917 is a biography of the author’s uncle, Ernest Reid, who died in 1917, an officer in the Black Watch, of wounds sustained in the Battle of Arras. Born and raised in Paisley, educated at Paisley Grammar School, then Glasgow...

• Assassins and Secret Listeners

  Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026

  £20.00

  Uncover the story of a nation’s hidden heroes. Throughout Britain, all day, every day and in the dead of night, the secret listeners went about their solitary work. Hands on headphones, these men and women, drawn from all walks of civilian...

• The Battle for George Square 1919

  Paperback | Pub: 16 Oct 2025

  £25.00

  The Battle of George Square, a riot during the Forty Hours Strike in Glasgow, on 31 January 1919, is routinely claimed to be one of the most iconic events in Scottish working-class history. It is also the most mythologised. For a century, the...

• Bloodfeud in Scotland 1573-1625

  Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026

  £30.00

  Feuding had an effect on the history of most of Europe. Scotland provides a fascinating focus for the study of the bloodfeud because feuding survived until remarkably late there, and thus is much better documented than in other European societies....

• The British Isles, 1100–1500

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2021

  £25.00

  Academic writing in Britain and Ireland has tended to treat the histories of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales as discrete subjects of study. This approach is understandable but it does lead to the creation of artificial boundaries within the...

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  The Cadence of a Song

  Hardback | Pub: 02 Oct 2025

  £25.00

  Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize. The first biography of one of the twentieth century’s foremost champions of Hebridean culture.  The American-born folklorist and musician Margaret Fay Shaw’s passion for the Hebrides led her to...

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  Celtic Saints

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Apr 2020

  £7.99

  They may be coated in layers of myth and pious anecdote but dig deep enough and the pioneering leaders of Celtic Christianity are revealed as reassuringly human individuals, responding to their faith by deliberately living on the edges of...

• The Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Aug 2026

  £20.00

  The thirteenth-century manuscript The Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles is the earliest surviving piece of historical documentation from the Isle of Man and a uniquely important source describing the rise and fall of the medieval Kingdom...

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  A Companion to the Small Isles

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Apr 2026

  £12.99

  This book is the essential companion for those who wish to learn about and visit the Inner Hebridean islands of Eigg, Muck, Rum and Canna, known collectively as the Small Isles. As well as focusing on history, archaeology and landscape change from...

• Conflict and Stability in Scottish Society, 1700-1850

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £25.00

  Between the early eighteenth and the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Scottish society was transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and major changes in agriculture and rural society. The rate of town and city growth was among the...

• Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland

  Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026

  £30.00

  The essays in this book, all by distinguished historians, illuminate the main activities, preoccupations and aspirations of the families whose territorial power and local leadership made them a central factor in medieval Scottish society. Issues...

• Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland

  E-Book | Pub: 12 Jul 2004

  £30.00

  The essays in this book, all by distinguished historians, illuminate the main activities, preoccupations and aspirations of the families whose territorial power and local leadership made them a central factor in medieval Scottish society. Issues...

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  Glasgow: A New History

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Feb 2027

  £9.99

  Scotland’s largest city has always been one of the most vibrant, varied and fascinating places in the country. This new history of Glasgow begins with the river, for the Clyde made the city flourish. From prehistory to the Romans, to Mungo and the...

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  Glasgow: A New History

  Hardback | Pub: 04 Sep 2025

  £14.99

  Scotland’s largest city has always been one of the most vibrant, varied and fascinating places in the country. This new history of Glasgow begins with the river, for the Clyde made the city flourish. From prehistory to the Romans, to Mungo and the...

• Heart of Scotland

  Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026

  £22.00

  From pre-Roman times, Stirling was seen as a strategic location because of its position at the crossing of the river Forth. In many accounts it appears as the key link between Britain, Scotland and the world beyond, as a place of borders as well as...

• Highland Homespun

  Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026

  £9.99

  In May 1933 Margaret Leigh took over the tenancy of Achnabo farm, in a beautiful corner of the West Highlands overlooking the isle of Skye. In this unsentimental yet exquisitely written book, she recounts a year of farming life there, from the...

• The Highlands and Islands of Scotland

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Mar 2025

  £14.99

  Alistair Moffat tells the extraordinary story of the Highlands in the most detailed book ever written about this remarkable part of Scotland. This is the story of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland as it has never been told before. From the...

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  Ireland: Mapping the Island

  Hardback | Pub: 02 Oct 2025

  £30.00

  Hodges Figgis Book of the Year for 2025 Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards History Book of the Year Maps allow us to see how the world is organised spatially and show us relationships which cannot be understood from simply reading a text....