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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...

• 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...

• The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment

  E-Book | Pub: 24 Nov 2003

  £25.00

  In the first part of the volume are collected six essays which comment on mainly institutional matters: the merchant community, the universities and the study of science and medicine. Two important themes emerge from these studies; firstly the...

• The Origins of the Scottish Railway System

  E-Book | Pub: 24 Nov 2003

  £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...

• 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...

• Orkney Days

  Paperback | Pub: 21 Aug 2025

  £9.99

  This is the charming and poignant account of twenty-five years spent in Orkney. After her marriage to an islander, Christine Muir went to live on the tiny island of North Ronaldsay, where she and her husband brought up their four children and ran a...

• 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...

• People and Power in Scotland

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £20.00

  Few Scottish historians are better known than T. C. Smout and fewer still more deserving of the high esteem in which they are held. He has made an outstanding contribution to Scottish historical studies both as an academic discipline and as a...

• People and Society in Scotland, 1830–1914

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2021

  £25.00

  This is the second volume of a three-volume study of Scottish social change and development from the eighteenth century to the present day, originally published by John Donald in association with the Economic and Social History Society of...

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  The Perfect Sword

  Hardback | Pub: 03 Nov 2022

  £22.00

  The story of the Bamburgh Sword – one of the finest swords ever forged. In 2000, archaeologist Paul Gething rediscovered a sword. An unprepossessing length of rusty metal, it had been left in a suitcase for thirty years. But Paul had a suspicion...

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  Persevered

  E-Book | Pub: 10 Nov 2016

  £9.99

  One hundred and fourteen years and no Scottish Cup for Hibernian. It could be considered the biggest curse in football. Cock-up after near-miss after not-a-hope. Over the years Hearts fans have even tried to get the term ‘Hibsing it’ – to...

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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...

• Pirate Queen

  E-Book | Pub: 06 May 2021

  £5.99

  In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O’Malley, daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She soon had a fleet of galleys under her commander, but her three decades of...

• 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 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...

• Popular Disturbances in Scotland 1780-1815

  E-Book | Pub: 15 Dec 2003

  £20.00

  ‘Mobbing and rioting’ in late eighteenth-century Scotland was often the only recourse of the people in response to high food prices, the threat of eviction or the prospect of compulsory military service. This study of popular disturbances in the...

• Princelie Majestie

  E-Book | Pub: 10 Aug 2005

  £20.00

  The lifestyle of a Renaissance prince and his court was a work of art in itself: a dazzling spectacle which propagated the power, dignity and fame of the monarch. The domestic routine of the royal household with its palatial surroundings, restless...

• 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...