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Social History

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  • ‘The People Are Not There’
    Paperback | Pub: 15 Jun 2023
    £25.00

    Winner of 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 destiny:...

  • ‘Unsuitable for Females’
    Paperback | Pub: 01 Jun 2023
    £10.99

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

  • 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...

  • Arisaig and Morar
    Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026
    £12.99

    Arisiag and Morar, Norse and Gaelic, the ‘river-mouth bay’ and the ‘great water’, part of na garbh Chriochan (The Rough Bounds), an area so rugged and desolate it was itself known as the Highlands of the Highlands. From...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Ayrshire
    Paperback | Pub: 15 May 2025
    £14.99

    Ayrshire has a rich and varied history. The region has been inhabited from earliest times, as the remains of duns, cairns and barrows show. In the medieval period it played a key role in the emergence and consolidation of a unified Scotland, and it...

  • Barholm Castle
    Paperback | Pub: 17 Jul 2025
    £16.99

    In 1999, Barholm Castle in Galloway had lain ruinous and derelict for over two hundred years when Janet Brennan-Inglis and her husband John bought it as a restoration project. Together with a team of architects, surveyors and builders, overseen by...

  • The Bass Player
    Paperback | Pub: 18 Sep 2025
    £14.99

    Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Biography of the Year Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with The Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975,...

  • The Battle for George Square 1919
    Paperback | Pub: 16 Oct 2025
    £25.00

    The Battle of George Square, a riot during the Forty Hours Strike in Glasgow, on 31 January 1919, is routinely claimed to be one of the most iconic events in Scottish working-class history. It is also the most mythologised. For a century, the...

  • Bede: The Man Who Invented England
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Jun 2026
    £17.99

    What is England, and who are the English? The man who first posed and answered these questions lived 1,200 years ago in Northumberland. The Venerable Bede spent almost his whole life in two monasteries looking over the North Sea, far from the...

  • Bloodfeud in Scotland 1573-1625
    Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026
    £30.00

    Feuding had an effect on the history of most of Europe. Scotland provides a fascinating focus for the study of the bloodfeud because feuding survived until remarkably late there, and thus is much better documented than in other European societies....

  • 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 Cadence of a Song
    Hardback | Pub: 02 Oct 2025
    £25.00

    Shortlisted 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...

  • The Caledoniad
    Paperback | Pub: 18 Jun 2026
    £30.00

    Winner of the 2025 Frank Watson Book Prize Why did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who controlled their history? Is the historical narrative the only legitimate medium...