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• ‘The People Are Not There’

  Paperback | Pub: 15 Jun 2023

  £25.00

  Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award Badenoch today is a landscape of empty glens and ruined settlements, but it was not always so. This book examines the transformative events that shaped the region’s...

• ‘Unsuitable for Females’

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Jun 2023

  £9.99

  Shortlisted for the 2023 Sports Book Awards for Best Football Writing of the Year Discover the origins of the Lionesses that brought football home.  England’s Lionesses are on the front and back pages; their stars feature on prime-time...

• 1820: Scottish Rebellion

  Hardback | Pub: 03 Nov 2022

  £100.00

  The 1820 Scottish Rising has been increasingly studied in recent decades. This collection of essays looks especially at local players on the ground across multiple regional centres in the west of Scotland, as well as the wider political...

• Age of the Passions

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £20.00

  The eighteenth century is often described as the age of reason. This book argues that it should also be considered the age of the passions. Eighteenth-century writers recognised the passions as the springs of human life and actions. They began to...

• The Alistair Moffat History Collection

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Apr 2023

  £19.99

  Uncover the story of Scotland with Alistair Moffat’s history collection. From the Ice Age to the modern day, this bundle leaves no stone unturned. Journey through the long-lost kingdoms of Roman times and the Dark Ages, uncover the bloodshed...

• Arran

  Paperback | Pub: 20 Apr 2023

  £12.99

  Arran is an archaeological and geological treasure trove of stunning scenic beauty. Its history stretches back to the great stone circles, more than 5,000 years old, whose remnants still decorate the plains of Machrie. Runic inscriptions tell of a...

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  Arran

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Aug 2016

  £7.99

  The Isle of Arran dominates the Firth of Clyde. A favourite haunt of holidaymakers, it is also a place of fascination for the geologist, offering a huge variety of rocks that represent a massive slice through geological time. From the ancient bent...

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  Beacon in the West

  Hardback | Pub: 05 Oct 2023

  £15.99

  In 1918 Lord Leverhulme bought the island of Lewis with ambitious plans to massively expand its fishing industry and increase its population. In 1923, when his plans had failed, he offered it free of charge to the islanders in two parts. One part,...

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  Boatlines

  Hardback | Pub: 02 Mar 2023

  £16.99

  People are drawn to the harbours and boats of Scotland whether they have a seafaring background or not. Why do boats take on different shapes as you follow the complex shorelines of islands and mainland? And why do the sails they carry appear to be...

• Border Bloodshed

  E-Book | Pub: 04 Mar 2008

  £20.00

  Scottish military offensives against England from 1369 were largely the product of government policy, were launched with careful timing and, in the reign of Robert II, involved close co-operation with France. They succeeded militarily, encouraging...

• The British Isles, 1100–1500

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2021

  £25.00

  Academic writing in Britain and Ireland has tended to treat the histories of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales as discrete subjects of study. This approach is understandable but it does lead to the creation of artificial boundaries within the...

• 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 Caledonian Canal

  Paperback | Pub: 21 Mar 2024

  £12.99

  The 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...

• Cassius X

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Sep 2022

  £12.99

  Now a Major Feature Length Documentary: ‘Cassius X: Becoming Ali’ (Cinema release Spring 2023)  Miami, 1963. A young boy from Louisville, Kentucky, is on the path to becoming the greatest sportsman of all time. Cassius Clay is training in...

• Church, Politics and Society

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Dec 2021

  £25.00

  The essays in this volume, by distinguished historians, deal with the correlation of the Church and society in Scotland from the birth of Bishop Kennedy at the beginning of the fifteenth century to the reunion of the Church of Scotland with most of...

• The Coffin Roads

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Jul 2022

  £8.99

  ‘Coffin roads’ along which bodies were carried for burial are a marked feature of the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and islands – many are now popular walking and cycling routes. This book journeys along eight coffin roads to...

• The Complete Soul Trilogy

  E-Book | Pub: 20 Apr 2023

  £14.99

  Spanning three different cities across the United States, Stuart Cosgrove’s bestselling Soul Trilogy blends history, culture and music to paint a vivid picture of social change through the last years of the 1960s. Strap in for a journey through...

• 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...

• A Dance Called America

  Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022

  £14.99

  A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, ‘the emigration from Skye has occasioned’. The visitor asks for the dance’s name. ‘They call it America,’ he’s told. In his introduction...

• ‘Dearest Brother’

  E-Book | Pub: 13 Dec 2010

  £30.00

  This book provides the first detailed account of the course of Scottish politics in the reign of Charles II. It focuses on the years from 1667 to 1673, when, for the only time in the Restoration era, Scottish political leaders were able to make...