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History

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  • Paperback | Pub: 06 Jun 2024
    £4.99

    Seumas MacInnes, one of Scotland’s premier restaurateurs and owner of the iconic Cafe Gandolfi in Glasgow, is not afraid to take issue with the national bard over the sobriquet ‘Great chieftain o’ the puddin race’. Without...

  • Paperback | Pub: 03 Jun 2021
    £9.99

    The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of 420 million years of Scottish history and achievement. Involving a...

  • Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026
    £9.99

    ‘Oh, she hated and loved in a breath!’ Faced with the choice between her harsh farming life and the seductive world of books and learning, the spirited Chris Guthrie decides to remain in rural Scotland. But as the devastation of the...

  • E-Book | Pub: 11 Aug 2016
    £7.99

    The war memorial in the Scottish village of Bridge of Weir lists 72 men who died during the First World War. Their deaths occurred in almost every theatre of the war. They were awarded very few medals and their military careers were not remarkable...

  • Hardback | Pub: 03 Mar 2022
    £40.00

    First published by the New York Public Library in 1946, Black’s The Surnames of Scotland has long established itself as one of the great classics of genealogy. Arranged alphabetically, each entry contains a concise history of the family in...

  • E-Book | Pub: 10 Dec 2012
    £9.99

    In 1612, George Sinclair, an illegitimate son of a Caithness laird, became a Norwegian national hero. Along with almost 300 of his followers, Sinclair was killed in an ambush in Norway while marching to join the king of Sweden’s army. Sinclair...

  • Paperback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026
    £17.99

    This long-overdue new history of Oban (An t-Òban, meaning ‘the little bay’ in Gaelic) tells its story from the arrival of the first settlers in 10,000 BC to the development of the vibrant town it is today. It traces the impact of early Celts,...

  • Paperback | Pub: 23 Apr 2026
    £9.99

    Ian Robertson Hamilton was an unknown law student at Glasgow University until Christmas Eve 1950. On that night, assisted by Alan Stewart, Gavin Vernon and Kay Matheson, he took the Stone of Destiny from beneath the Coronation Chair in Westminster...

  • Paperback | Pub: 06 Aug 2026
    £9.99

    Veteran actor Bill Paterson brilliantly evokes his 1950s Glasgow boyhood in this beautifully written and keenly observed memoir. It was a world full of intriguing characters and extraordinary events set against the background of the changes and...

  • Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026
    £9.99

    Beyond Fort William, on the road to the Isles, lies Morar, the ‘Highlands of the Highlands’ and centre of the ‘Rough Bounds’, that wild, desolate, but uniquely beautiful part of Scotland that was once the homeland of the Clan...

  • E-Book | Pub: 01 Aug 2011
    £4.99

    ‘While the army of the Goths makes war, the Romans may live in peace.’ AD 468. With the last Roman emperor of the West deposed, the Empire is in ruins – a plaything for the barbarian armies that rampage across it. This...

  • Hardback | Pub: 06 Aug 2026
    £12.00

    The Darien Venture was the singular event at the end of the seventeenth century that fundamentally altered Scotland’s future. ‘A powerfully clear account . . . Highly recommended for anyone interested in the colonial history of...

  • Paperback | Pub: 14 May 2026
    £25.00

    In 1985, Tilquhillie Castle, in the picturesque Royal Deeside region in Aberdeenshire, was a ruinous Z-plan Scottish tower house. Originally built in the middle of the sixteenth century for the important local Douglas family, it had been derelict...

  • E-Book | Pub: 06 Oct 2011
    £9.99

    Trevor Royle examines Scotland’s role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives. The country’s geographical position gave it great strategic importance for importing war materiel and reinforcements, for conducting naval...

  • Hardback | Pub: 12 Jun 2025
    £18.99

    Since 1945 the world has changed at breakneck speed, and life in post-war Scotland is now entirely different from what it was like when Alistair Moffat grew up in the quiet Border town of Kelso in the 1950s. At that time the rhythms and...

  • Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026
    £10.99

    Since 1945 the world has changed at breakneck speed, and life in post-war Scotland is now entirely different from what it was like when Alistair Moffat grew up in the quiet Border town of Kelso in the 1950s. At that time the rhythms and...

  • Paperback | Pub: 20 Jun 2024
    £20.00

    In the eighteenth century, Glasgow and its outports became the dominant force in the highly lucrative tobacco commerce from the Americas to Europe. This prize-winning book explains why such remarkable success came about against fierce international...

  • Paperback | Pub: 05 Nov 2026
    £14.99

    A new edition of the bestselling guide to this increasingly popular pursuit. Scotland has the best-maintained records and facilities of any country in the world for undertaking family research, and now that the National Records of Scotland are...

  • Paperback | Pub: 03 Mar 2022
    £12.99

    Few aspects of Scottish history inspire as fervent an interest as the wars with England. The exploits of not one, but two, national heroes – William Wallace and Robert Bruce – have excited the attention of a host of novelists, filmmakers,...

  • Paperback | Pub: 04 Jun 2026
    £10.99

    ‘Fascinating and lyrical . . . A beautifully written celebration of a lifelong passion’ – Stephen Venables The relationship of people with hills and mountains has been complex, rich and varied – from awe and wonder to fear and...