Social & cultural history
Showing 121–140 of 196 results
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022£9.99
Since its first publication in 1984, Night Falls in Ardnamurchan has become a classic account of the life and death of a Highland community. The author weaves his own humorous and perceptive account of crofting with extracts from his father’s...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022£20.00
The Norman invasion of Britain, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, is well known, but the later invasion of Ireland is much less well documented. Yet much of what we see today in Irish heritage has Norman roots. Ireland and Britain have many...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Apr 2027£14.99
From the author of the bestselling The King in the North. The story of the lands between the Forth and Humber from the end of the Roman period to the Viking kingdom of York is one of the most richly fascinating in British history. This the age of...
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Hardback | Pub: 09 Oct 2025£25.00
From the author of the bestselling The King in the North. The story of the lands between the Forth and Humber from the end of the Roman period to the Viking kingdom of York is one of the most richly fascinating in British history. This the age of...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Apr 2027£30.00
This book describes the working lives of those employed in nursing in Dumfriesshire in the second half of the twentieth century. For much of the early part of this period, nursing was largely focused on patients with infectious diseases such as...
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Paperback | Pub: 15 Jun 2023£9.99
For almost 150 years until the late twentieth century, French Onion Johnnies (or ‘Ingan Johnnies’, as they were usually known in Scotland) were a familiar group of seasonal workers in towns and cities throughout Britain. In this book, nine Onion...
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E-Book | Pub: 24 Nov 2003£25.00
In the first part of the volume are collected six essays which comment on mainly institutional matters: the merchant community, the universities and the study of science and medicine. Two important themes emerge from these studies; firstly the...
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E-Book | Pub: 24 Nov 2003£30.00
By comparison with their English counterparts, Scottish nineteenth-century railways have suffered from a degree of neglect by economic historians. Most of the existing literature is written for the railway enthusiast, concentrating mainly on...
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Paperback | Pub: 21 Aug 2025£9.99
This is the charming and poignant account of twenty-five years spent in Orkney. After her marriage to an islander, Christine Muir went to live on the tiny island of North Ronaldsay, where she and her husband brought up their four children and ran a...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Jun 2021£12.99
First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown’s seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet. Originally commissioned by his publisher as an introduction to the Orkney Islands, Brown approached the...
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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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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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Paperback | Pub: 01 May 2025£25.00Shortlisted 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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Paperback | Pub: 21 Mar 2024£17.99Early 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...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Apr 2027£20.00
Place-names of Barra and Vatersay reveals the rich tapestry of Barra’s history, its oral tradition and geography through its captivating place-names, which show the strong connection between islanders, their land and the sea. Covering the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
