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  Monks and Bishops

  Paperback | Pub: 15 May 2025

  £14.99

  The Isle of Lismore has a long reputation as a holy island, beginning with the foundation of a monastery by St Moluag in the sixth century, when it became a major centre of Christianity. The Roman Catholic Bishopric of Argyll was founded on Lismore...

• Mull and the Clearances

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Oct 2024

  £7.99

  The Clearances are well known as one of the darkest periods of Highland history. Over a hundred-year period somewhere in the region of 150,000 people evicted from the land they had worked for generations; many were forced to start new lives...

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  Nature Notebook: Otter

  | Pub: 08 Jun 2023

  £9.99

  This notebook features a beautiful cover illustration by acclaimed nature artist Jane Smith. It contains 176 pages of lightly lined paper, head-and-tail bans, a ribbon marker and band to keep it securely fastened.

• Neville Chamberlain

  E-Book | Pub: 02 Sep 2021

  £9.99

  Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as Hitler’s credulous dupe, the man who proclaimed in September 1938 that the Munich agreement guaranteed ‘peace in our time’. This is a magisterial reappraisal of Chamberlain and his legacy. It reveals...

• New Perspectives on the Politics and Culture of Early Modern Scotland

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Dec 2021

  £25.00

  This collection of essays on early modern Scotland offers ‘new perspectives’ on aspects of Scottish history from 1560 to 1800. Some essays challenge accepted interpretations; others explore subjects and sources that have previously not attracted...

• The New Town of Edinburgh

  E-Book | Pub: 10 Oct 2019

  £30.00

  This collection of innovative essays celebrates the New Town of Edinburgh over the 250 years since its original creation. The contributing authors discuss the intellectual, economic and political contexts which provided the impetus for the city of...

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  Newcastle upon Tyne

  Hardback | Pub: 11 Nov 2021

  £30.00

  Newcastle has a long and distinguished history through two millennia: a Roman fortress at the eastern end of Hadrian’s Wall; an important centre of monasticism; a ‘royal’ bulwark against attacks and invasion from Scotland; and the...

• Night Falls on Ardnamurchan

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022

  £9.99

  Since its first publication in 1984, Night Falls in Ardnamurchan has become a classic account of the life and death of a Highland community. The author weaves his own humorous and perceptive account of crofting with extracts from his father’s...

• The Normans in Ireland

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022

  £20.00

  The Norman invasion of Britain, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, is well known, but the later invasion of Ireland is much less well documented. Yet much of what we see today in Irish heritage has Norman roots. Ireland and Britain have many...

• Northumbria AD 367-867

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Apr 2027

  £14.99

  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...

• 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...

• Nursing Voices

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Apr 2027

  £30.00

  This book describes the working lives of those employed in nursing in Dumfriesshire in the second half of the twentieth century. For much of the early part of this period, nursing was largely focused on patients with infectious diseases such as...

• Onion Johnnies

  Paperback | Pub: 15 Jun 2023

  £9.99

  For almost 150 years until the late twentieth century, French Onion Johnnies (or ‘Ingan Johnnies’, as they were usually known in Scotland) were a familiar group of seasonal workers in towns and cities throughout Britain. In this book, nine Onion...

• 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...

• An Orkney Tapestry

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Jun 2021

  £12.99

  First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown’s seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet. Originally commissioned by his publisher as an introduction to the Orkney Islands, Brown approached the...

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  The Outer Hebrides

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Jul 2021

  £12.99

  The Outer Hebrides lie 40 miles to the west of mainland Scotland, forming a barrier to the North Atlantic. Culturally distinct from early prehistory, the islands contain a wealth of historical and archaeological monuments, including the standing...

• 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...