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Hardback | Pub: 02 Oct 2025£25.00Shortlisted 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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Paperback | Pub: 21 Mar 2024£12.99The Caledonian Canal records the history of one of Scotland’s most massive engineering projects, from Thomas Telford’s first survey in 1801 into the twenty-first century. Telford’s plan, to connect Loch Ness, Loch Oich and Loch Lochy with each...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Jun 2025£25.00In 1849 Henry Cockburn asked: what will Edinburgh look like in 1949 or in 2049? He inspired Britain’s first amenity society – the Cockburn Association – the city’s civic watchdog, which, since 1875, has campaigned to protect and enhance for...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022£7.99The written history and archaeological records of Central Scotland takes us back to Pictish times some 5,000 years ago. The geology of the area stretches back a further 400 million years. The oldest rocks are found near Lesmahagow and in the...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Aug 2024£4.99The earliest evidence of honey being enjoyed in Scotland dates back to 1000 years BC – an Iron-age beaker that once contained mead was found in a burial chamber in Fife. Since before history, honey has added delicacy and sweetness to the...
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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...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Apr 2026£12.99This 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...
