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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...

• 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...

• Realm

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Apr 2027

  £25.00

  Scotland has one of the most recognisable identities of any nation in the world. Yet many impressions that people have about Scotland’s story are gross oversimplifications or plain wrong. Even many Scots misunderstand their past. Realm puts the...

• The Saga of the Earls of Orkney

  Hardback | Pub: 06 Nov 2025

  £30.00

  This fascinating history of the Earldom of Orkney, which was established in the Viking Age, records the adventures, feuds and battles of powerful Norsemen during its first three centuries. The medieval earls of Orkney owed allegiance to the kings of...

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  Salt

  Paperback | Pub: 14 Sep 2023

  £20.00

  Discover the story of Scotland, salt and the world. Salt is a vital commodity. For many centuries it sustained life for Scots as seasoning for a diet dominated by grains (mainly oats), and for preservation of fish and cheese. Sea-salt manufacturing...

• Scotland and the Low Countries 1124–1994

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2021

  £25.00

  This collection of essays presents historical approaches to the links which have existed for over 800 years between Scotland and one of the areas of continental Europe closest to her: the Low Countries. Topics include: Flemish settlers in...

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  Scottish History

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Apr 2026

  £6.99

  The 2000-plus years of Scottish history have seen a huge variety of events, from great national moments to personal achievements, each one helping to make and mould the character of the nation. This compendium takes note of the milestones –...

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  Scottish Surnames

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Apr 2026

  £6.99

  Surnames give us a sense of identity and belonging. Even in today’s mobile society they can have strong links with particular areas. They are keys to our family history. And they always have an original meaning. This new collection of some 400...

• The Secrets of Rosslyn

  Paperback | Pub: 19 Sep 2024

  £10.99

  Nestling in an exquisite glen just seven miles from the centre of Edinburgh, Rosslyn Chapel is one of the world’s most extraordinary places. Ever since it was built in the mid fifteenth century it has cast a mesmerising spell over all who have...

• Set Adrift Upon the World

  Paperback | Pub: 20 Jul 2023

  £14.99

  Winner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were – thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were...

• She is But a Woman

  E-Book | Pub: 23 Oct 2006

  £25.00

  She is But a Woman, the first in-depth study of medieval Scottish queens, investigates the relationship between gender and power in the medieval Scottish court by exploring the art of queenship as practised by Joan Beaufort and Mary of Guelders,...

• The Soap Man

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Jul 2024

  £10.99

  In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought – lock, stock and barrel – the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionise the lives and environments of its...

• St Kilda: My Island Home

  Paperback | Pub: 15 May 2025

  £9.99

  Christina MacDonald MacQueen (1884–1959) was born on St Kilda and grew up there at the close of the 19th century. Yearning for the bright modern world beyond the island, she was the first woman to leave of her own accord in 1909, settling in...

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  Standing on the Edge of Being

  Hardback | Pub: 21 Nov 2024

  £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 the land, waters, forests and wildlife. This...

• Supreme Sacrifice

  E-Book | Pub: 11 Aug 2016

  £7.99

  The war memorial in the Scottish village of Bridge of Weir lists 72 men who died during the First World War. Their deaths occurred in almost every theatre of the war. They were awarded very few medals and their military careers were not remarkable...

• An t-Òban

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026

  £17.99

  This long-overdue new history of Oban (An t-Òban, meaning ‘the little bay’ in Gaelic) tells its story from the arrival of the first settlers in 10,000 BC to the development of the vibrant town it is today. It traces the impact of early Celts,...

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  Tilquhillie Castle

  Paperback | Pub: 14 May 2026

  £25.00

  In 1985, Tilquhillie Castle, in the picturesque Royal Deeside region in Aberdeenshire, was a ruinous Z-plan Scottish tower house. Originally built in the middle of the sixteenth century for the important local Douglas family, it had been derelict...

• To See Ourselves

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026

  £10.99

  Since 1945 the world has changed at breakneck speed, and life in post-war Scotland is now entirely different from what it was like when Alistair Moffat grew up in the quiet Border town of Kelso in the 1950s. At that time the rhythms and...