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Social & cultural history

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  • Glasgow: A New History
    Hardback | Pub: 04 Sep 2025
    £14.99

    Scotland’s largest city has always been one of the most vibrant, varied and fascinating places in the country. This new history of Glasgow begins with the river, for the Clyde made the city flourish. From prehistory to the Romans, to Mungo and the...

  • Glasgow: A New History
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Feb 2027
    £9.99

    Scotland’s largest city has always been one of the most vibrant, varied and fascinating places in the country. This new history of Glasgow begins with the river, for the Clyde made the city flourish. From prehistory to the Romans, to Mungo and the...

  • Glasgow: The Autobiography
    Paperback | Pub: 02 Mar 2023
    £12.99

    This is the story of Glasgow through the eyes of those who lived it. Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through...

  • Glasgow’s Gaelic Place-names
    Paperback | Pub: 21 Sep 2023
    £12.99

    It is time to bin – once and for all – the nonsense that Gaelic was never spoken in Glasgow. In fact, Glasgow’s place-names tell us that Gaelic has been spoken in Glasgow for around a thousand years. Showcasing new research from the...

  • Glasgow’s Greatest Hits
    Paperback | Pub: 05 Jun 2025
    £12.99

    Dive in to Glasgow’s vibrant musical heritage with this entertaining guide to the people, places and events which have shaped the city’s world-renowned music scene. Covering folk to funk, pop to punk, this bite-sized book celebrates the...

  • Glasgow’s Lost Theatre
    E-Book | Pub: 29 Aug 2025
    £8.99

    Music-hall stars such as Jack Buchanan, Charles Coburn, Harry Lauder, Dan Leno and Vesta Tilley all trod the boards at what started life as the Britannia Music Hall, as did a certain Stan Laurel, who made his debut there in 1906. Under the...

  • The Gravity of Feathers
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Jun 2026
    £14.99

    Shortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize. Discover the true story of St. Kilda. When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at ‘the edge of the world’ lost its...

  • The Guga Hunters
    Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022
    £9.99

    Every year, ten men from Ness, at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis, sail north-east for some forty miles to a remote rock called Sulasgeir. Their mission is to catch and harvest the guga; the almost fully grown gannet chicks nesting on the two...

  • Harris in History and Legend
    Paperback | Pub: 15 Aug 2024
    £12.99

    Occupying the southernmost part of the largest of the Western Isles, Harris boasts some of the most ruggedly beautiful and unspoilt landscape in Scotland. In this book, Bill Lawson, who has lived on Harris for many years, not only introduces the...

  • Harvie’s Dyke
    Paperback | Pub: 03 Jul 2025
    £17.99

    In the early 1820s, Thomas Harvie, a newly rich, arrogant Glasgow distiller, bought Westthorn estate on the eastern edge of the city close to the north bank of the River Clyde. To establish the bounds of his property and keep out intruders, he...

  • Heart of Scotland
    Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026
    £22.00

    From pre-Roman times, Stirling was seen as a strategic location because of its position at the crossing of the river Forth. In many accounts it appears as the key link between Britain, Scotland and the world beyond, as a place of borders as well as...

  • Hebridean Journey
    Paperback | Pub: 06 Oct 2022
    £18.99

    Shortlisted for the Scottish Nature Photography Book Awards Washed by the surging waves of the Atlantic Ocean, the island chain of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides lies at the very edge of Europe. From white shell sands, peaty moors and gnarly...

  • The Hebrides
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Jul 2024
    £14.99

    Paul Murton has spent half-a lifetime exploring some of the most beautiful islands in the world – the Hebrides. He has travelled the length and breadth of the Scotland’s rugged, six-thousand-mile coast line, and sailed to over eighty islands. In...

  • Hey America!
    Hardback | Pub: 04 Aug 2022
    £25.00

    This is the untold story of black music – its triumph over racism, segregation, undercapitalised record labels, media discrimination and political anxiety – told through the perspective of the most powerful office in the world: from Louis...

  • Highland Homespun
    Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026
    £9.99

    In May 1933 Margaret Leigh took over the tenancy of Achnabo farm, in a beautiful corner of the West Highlands overlooking the isle of Skye. In this unsentimental yet exquisitely written book, she recounts a year of farming life there, from the...

  • The Highlands and Islands of Scotland
    Paperback | Pub: 06 Mar 2025
    £14.99

    Alistair Moffat tells the extraordinary story of the Highlands in the most detailed book ever written about this remarkable part of Scotland. This is the story of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland as it has never been told before. From the...

  • Historic South Edinburgh
    Paperback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023
    £25.00

    First published in four volumes in the early 1980s, Charles Smith’s Historic South Edinburgh has become a much sought-after and extremely rare classic. This completely new edition combines all four volumes into one, and has been completely revised...

  • The History of Orkney Literature
    Paperback | Pub: 23 Sep 2021
    £25.00

    Since the middle ages, Orkney has proved remarkable for the volume and the quality of its literary output. From the skalds and sagamen of the Viking age, through to the colourful folklorists, polemicists and translators of the Victorian era, and the...

  • Homecoming
    Paperback | Pub: 07 Mar 2024
    £12.99

    One of the most famous queens in history, Mary Stuart lived in her homeland for just twelve years: as a dauntless child who laughed at her friendsʼ seasickness as they sailed to safety in France and later, on her return as a 18-year-old widow to...