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• Conflict and Stability in Scottish Society, 1700-1850

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £25.00

  Between the early eighteenth and the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Scottish society was transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and major changes in agriculture and rural society. The rate of town and city growth was among the...

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  From an Antique Land

  E-Book | Pub: 05 Nov 2012

  £14.99

  This book looks at visual images as an alternative and undervalued source of evidence for ideas about the Scottish Gaidhealtachd in the period 1700 – 1880. Illustrated with 100 plates, it brings together many little known and previously...

• George Lockhart of Carnwath, 1681–1731

  E-Book | Pub: 30 Jun 2002

  £25.00

  This comprehensive analysis of the Jacobite mind challenges prevailing stereotypes about Jacobites and provides a detailed history of the Jacobite movement, whose influence on the development of Scotland and the British Isles in the eighteenth...

• A Higher World

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2014

  £12.99

  This new and compelling history of eighteenth-century Scotland paints a rich and detailed portrait of the country at a time when it was of truly global significance. This journey from the Union of 1707 to its centenary and beyond takes in vivid...

• The Irish in the West of Scotland, 1797-1848

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £25.00

  The prevailing historical view of the Catholic Irish in the first half of nineteenth-century Scotland is that they were despised by native workers because of their religion and because most were employed as strike-breakers or low-wage labour. As a...

• Martyrs

  E-Book | Pub: 15 Oct 2015

  £6.99

  In the 1830s and 1840s the district of Glendale on the island of Skye was swamped by immigrants cleared from other north Skye estates. The resultant overcrowding and over-use of land caused simmering discontent – not against the incomers, but...

• Modern Scottish History: 1707 to the Present

  E-Book | Pub: 30 Jan 2008

  £30.00

  This is the first volume of a distance-learning history of Scotland course. The 26 major topics are covered in five books, designed for self-study and written to accompany the course. These volumes are: two tutorial volumes, two volumes of reprinted...

• 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...

• Walking With Cattle

  E-Book | Pub: 07 Sep 2017

  £4.99

  Droving was once the lifeblood of Scotland’s rural economy, and for centuries Scotland’s glens and mountain passes were alive with thousands of cattle making their way to the market trysts of Crieff and Falkirk. With the Industrial Revolution,...

• When The Clyde Ran Red

  Paperback | Pub: 08 Mar 2018

  £10.99

  When the Clyde Ran Red paints a vivid picture of the heady days when revolution was in the air on Clydeside. Through the bitter strike at the huge Singer Sewing machine plant in Clydebank in 1911, Bloody Friday in Glasgow’s George Square in 1919,...