Showing 81–100 of 192 results

• How an Island Lost Its People

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Apr 2023

  £12.99

  In 1830, the little Hebridean island of Lismore was one of the granaries of the West Highlands, with every possible scrap of land producing bere barley or oats. The population had reached its peak of 1500, but by 1910, numbers had dwindled to 400...

• Independent and Free

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £25.00

  This is the first comprehensive account of the formation of the Scottish National Party, and it explains the peculiar circumstances in the inter-war era which gave rise to this phenomenon. The text fills a vacuum in one of the most under-researched...

• Insurrection

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Mar 2022

  £12.99

  Discover Scotland’s forgotten revolution… Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize When Scotland’s 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. In the Hebrides and the West Highlands a huge relief effort...

• 

  Ireland: Mapping the Island

  Hardback | Pub: 02 Oct 2025

  £30.00

  Hodges Figgis Book of the Year for 2025 Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards History Book of the Year Maps allow us to see how the world is organised spatially and show us relationships which cannot be understood from simply reading a text....

• Irish Immigrants and Scottish Society in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £25.00

  The Irish were the single largest group of immigrants to Scotland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the original settlers and their descendants have had a major impact on modern Scottish society, culture and politics. This book of...

• The Irish in the West of Scotland, 1797-1848

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £25.00

  The prevailing historical view of the Catholic Irish in the first half of nineteenth-century Scotland is that they were despised by native workers because of their religion and because most were employed as strike-breakers or low-wage labour. As a...

• 

  Island of Roe Deer

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026

  £16.99

  This is the story of the Hebridean island of Raasay from the time of the hunter-gatherers to the 21st century. It is dramatic tale which includes Irish missionaries, Viking invaders, the medieval Lordship of the Isles, adoption by the crown of...

• 

  Islay Scenes

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Sep 2025

  £16.99

  Neolithic farmers, iron age settlers, clan dynasties and, in the 20th century, the infrastructure of war all left their mark on Islay, but the way the island looks and works today stems primarily from the 18th and 19th centuries. Starting with the...

• Italy’s Paradise

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Feb 2024

  £10.99

  ‘A delicious trip through the geography, history and culture of the region’ – Sunday Telegraph Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has cast its magic spell on foreign vistiors. Attracted by the perfect combination of...

• James Hutton

  Hardback | Pub: 01 Sep 2022

  £25.00

  Discover one of the Scottish Enlightenment’s brightest stars. Among the giants of the Scottish Enlightenment, the name of James Hutton is overlooked. Yet his Theory of the Earth revolutionised the way we think about how our planet was formed...

• James Hutton

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Jun 2026

  £12.99

  Discover one of the Scottish Enlightenment’s brightest stars. Among the giants of the Scottish Enlightenment, the name of James Hutton is overlooked. Yet his Theory of the Earth revolutionised the way we think about how our planet was formed...

• James VI and I

  Hardback | Pub: 04 Nov 2021

  £100.00

  The renowned historian Jenny Wormald was a ground-breaking expert on early modern Scottish history, especially Stewart kingship, noble power and wider society. She was most controversial in her book-length critique of Mary, Queen of Scots....

• James VI and I

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Apr 2026

  £30.00

  The renowned historian Jenny Wormald was a ground-breaking expert on early modern Scottish history, especially Stewart kingship, noble power and wider society. She was most controversial in her book-length critique of Mary, Queen of Scots....

• John Knox

  Paperback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023

  £10.99

  In this best-selling biography of John Knox, Rosalind K. Marshall traces the life of one of the Reformations’ central characters. Following his career in Scotland, England, France, Switzerland and Germany, she explains in straightforward terms...

• The King Over the Water

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Mar 2021

  £14.99

  Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award Few causes have given rise to such dramatic tales of loyalty, passion and betrayal as the Jacobite dream of restoring the Stuarts to the British throne. Although its failure brought...

• King William and the Scottish Politicians

  E-Book | Pub: 25 Mar 2002

  £25.00

  The constitutional and religious settlement in Scotland after the revolution of 1688 largely determined the nature of Scottish politics and of Anglo-Scottish relations up to the union of 1707. King William and the Scottish Politicians examines the...

• 

  Kith

  Hardback | Pub: 18 Apr 2024

  £25.00

  MasterChef finalist Sarah Rankin has a passion for Scottish produce and flavours and for feeding people. Being a food lover encompasses not just a passion for the ingredients themselves, but also for the seasons and weather which nurture them, and...

• Labour in Glasgow, 1896-1936

  E-Book | Pub: 21 Dec 2000

  £30.00

  This book provides the first single overview of Labour’s electoral progress in Glasgow from its hesitant steps in the shadow of Liberalism to the moment it became the dominant party in the city in parliamentary and municipal politics. The...

• Land of the Ilich

  Hardback | Pub: 18 Nov 2021

  £40.00

  As an archaeologist, Steven Mithen has worked on the Hebridean island of Islay over a period of many years. In this book he introduces the sites and monuments and tells the story of the island’s people from the earliest stone age hunter-gatherers...

• 

  A Land Won from Waste

  Hardback | Pub: 17 Apr 2025

  £75.00

  Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland explores the interaction of human populations with land, waters, forests and wildlife. This volume...