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• The Declaration of Arbroath

  Paperback | Pub: 12 Mar 2020

  £9.99

  The Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April, 1320, is one of the most remarkable documents to have been produced anywhere in medieval Europe. Signed by 51 Scottish nobles, it confirms Scotland’s status as an independent sovereign state with the right to...

• In Search of Angels

  Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2020

  £20.00

  Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints brought the Word of God to the Hebrides and Scotland’s Atlantic shore. These ‘white martyrs’ sought solitude, remoteness, even harshness, in places apart from the world where they could fast, pray and move...

• Islay Voices

  Paperback | Pub: 09 May 2019

  £12.99

  Many travellers have had their imaginations captured by the beautiful Hebridean island of Islay and have been moved to write about it, among them the renowned Thomas Pennant and Martin Martin. But Ileachs – the natives of Islay – have...

• The King Over the Water

  Hardback | Pub: 03 Oct 2019

  £25.00

  This is the first modern history for general readers of the entire Jacobite movement in Scotland, England and Ireland, from the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688 that drove James II into exile to the death of his grandson, Cardinal Henry, Duke of...

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  One Week in April

  Hardback | Pub: 02 Apr 2020

  £20.00

  In April 1820, a series of dramatic events exploded around Glasgow, central Scotland and Ayrshire. Demanding political reform and better living and working conditions, 60,000 weavers and other workers went on strike. Revolution was in the air. It...

• The Sea Kingdoms

  Paperback | Pub: 29 May 2008

  £9.99

  Alistair Moffat’s journey, from the Scottish islands and Scotland, to the English coast, Wales, Cornwall and Ireland, ignores national boundaries to reveal the rich fabric of culture and history of Celtic Britain which still survives...

• Supreme Sacrifice

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Aug 2016

  £9.99

  The war memorial in the Scottish village of Bridge of Weir lists 72 men who died during the First World War. Their deaths occurred in almost every theatre of the war. They were awarded very few medals and their military careers were not remarkable...

• The Well of the Heads

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Jul 2020

  £8.99

  The origins of the Scottish clans go back over a thousand years, and for centuries these extended networks of families dominated life in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. The warriors of the clan, fiercely loyal to each other and to their chief,...