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• Alexander III, 1249-1286

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Apr 2023

  £30.00

  Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship.  The events which followed his early and unexpected death...

• By Force or by Default

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £25.00

  Published on the tercentenary of what is sometimes knows as “The Glorious Revolution”, this collection of essays examines the events of 1688-89 and discards old myths. American and British historians tackle the subject from different...

• The Church of the Covenant 1637-1651

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £25.00

  The troubles of mid-seventeenth-century Scotland were the final episode in a long revolutionary process which had begun more than a century earlier. The changes of the intervening years – most of them gradual and imperceptible – were barely...

• Darien

  E-Book | Pub: 19 Feb 2016

  £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 Early Life of James VI

  Hardback | Pub: 09 Mar 2023

  £100.00

  Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award James VI and I was arguably the most successful ruler of the Stewart Dynasty in Scotland, and the first king of a united Great Britain. His ableness as a monarch, it has...

• Revolution and Counter-revolution in Scotland, 1644-51

  E-Book | Pub: 08 Sep 2003

  £25.00

  In 1644 a massive Scottish army of Scottish Covenanters moved over the border into England, claiming they were not invading their neighbour but acting to save its liberties, by helping ensure that the absolutist King Charles I did not win the civil...

• The Rivals

  E-Book | Pub: 14 Oct 2015

  £7.99

  The struggles of the Scottish Civil War of 1644-45 could easily be personified as a contest between James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose and Archibald Campbell, 8th Marquis of Argyll. Yet at first glance there seems to be more that unites them than...

• The Scottish Revolution 1637-44

  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....