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• 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...

• People and Power in Scotland

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £20.00

  Few Scottish historians are better known than T. C. Smout and fewer still more deserving of the high esteem in which they are held. He has made an outstanding contribution to Scottish historical studies both as an academic discipline and as a...

• People and Society in Scotland, 1830–1914

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2021

  £25.00

  This is the second volume of a three-volume study of Scottish social change and development from the eighteenth century to the present day, originally published by John Donald in association with the Economic and Social History Society of...

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  The Perfect Sword

  Hardback | Pub: 03 Nov 2022

  £22.00

  The story of the Bamburgh Sword – one of the finest swords ever forged. In 2000, archaeologist Paul Gething rediscovered a sword. An unprepossessing length of rusty metal, it had been left in a suitcase for thirty years. But Paul had a suspicion...

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  Persevered

  E-Book | Pub: 10 Nov 2016

  £9.99

  One hundred and fourteen years and no Scottish Cup for Hibernian. It could be considered the biggest curse in football. Cock-up after near-miss after not-a-hope. Over the years Hearts fans have even tried to get the term ‘Hibsing it’ – to...

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  Picts

  Paperback | Pub: 01 May 2025

  £25.00

  Shortlisted for the EAA Book Prize and the Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award The Picts have fascinated for centuries. They emerged c. ad 300 to defy the might of the Roman empire only to disappear at the end of the first millennium ad, yet...

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  Picts, Gaels and Scots

  Paperback | Pub: 21 Mar 2024

  £17.99

  Early historic Scotland – from the fifth to the tenth century AD – was home to a variety of diverse peoples and cultures, all competing for land and supremacy. Yet by the eleventh century it had become a single, unified kingdom, known as...

• Pirate Queen

  E-Book | Pub: 06 May 2021

  £5.99

  In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O’Malley, daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She soon had a fleet of galleys under her commander, but her three decades of...

• The Placenames of Scotland

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Aug 2022

  £12.99

  Placenames are a constant source of debate. Who was Edwin, whose name is said to live on in that of Scotland’s capital city? Are the ‘drum’ and ‘chapel’ still to be found in Drumchapel? And which ‘king’ had...

• The Pocket Guide to Edinburgh’s Best Buildings

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Mar 2025

  £9.99

  As a world heritage site and one of the most visited cities in the world, Edinburgh boasts a huge range of buildings from all periods and in many different styles. In this book, architectural writer Robin Ward introduces 300 of the city’s most...

• The Pocket Guide to Glasgow’s Best Buildings

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Mar 2027

  £10.99

  Glasgow is one of the world’s most architecturally exciting cities — a Victorian city par excellence, adorned with opulent public buildings, mercantile palazzi, glittering art gal-leries and a Gothic Revival university, as well as the eccentric...

• A Political History of Scotland 1832-1924

  E-Book | Pub: 24 Nov 2003

  £30.00

  In this way it provides an illuminating perspective and serves as a corrective to both Scoto-centric and Anglo-centric interpretations of events. Previous studies have tended to concentrate on the resources of the main record repositories in London...

• Polly

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Mar 2024

  £8.99

  Early on a wartime winter’s morning in 1941, the 8,000-ton cargo ship SS Politician ran aground in the beautiful but treacherous seas of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. Among its cargo were 260,000 bottles of whisky destined for the American...

• The Poor Had No Lawyers

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Nov 2024

  £16.99

  New and Updated Edition Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament made any difference? Can we get our common good land back? In this book, Andy Wightman updates the...

• Popular Disturbances in Scotland 1780-1815

  E-Book | Pub: 15 Dec 2003

  £20.00

  ‘Mobbing and rioting’ in late eighteenth-century Scotland was often the only recourse of the people in response to high food prices, the threat of eviction or the prospect of compulsory military service. This study of popular disturbances in the...

• Princelie Majestie

  E-Book | Pub: 10 Aug 2005

  £20.00

  The lifestyle of a Renaissance prince and his court was a work of art in itself: a dazzling spectacle which propagated the power, dignity and fame of the monarch. The domestic routine of the royal household with its palatial surroundings, restless...

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  Putting the Tea in Britain

  Hardback | Pub: 03 Jun 2021

  £14.99

  ‘Deserves to sell like hot cakes’ – Allan Massie,The Scotsman Shortlisted for the Saltire Society History Book of the Year From the Indian Mutiny to the London Blitz, offering a ‘nice cup of tea’ has been a stock British response...

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  A Quite Impossible Proposal

  E-Book | Pub: 24 Sep 2020

  £18.99

  In the 1890s, the people of north-west Scotland grew tired of Government Commissions sent to consider a railway to Ullapool.  Despite rock-solid arguments in favour of such a railway, neither government nor the big railway companies lifted a finger...