SOCIAL SCIENCE
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Hardback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023£35.00
Maps can tell much about the story of a place that traditional histories fail to communicate. This is particularly true of Edinburgh, one of the most visually stunning cities in the world and a place rich in historical and cultural associations....
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Hardback | Pub: 03 Oct 2024£20.00
Relive the history of Edinburgh through the eyes of those who witnessed it. From one of the earliest mentions of its name in the sixth century to the Covid lockdowns of the twenty-first, this is a magnificent portrait of one of the world’s great...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026£12.99
Relive the history of Edinburgh through the eyes of those who witnessed it. From one of the earliest mentions of its name in the sixth century to the Covid lockdowns of the twenty-first, this is a magnificent portrait of one of the world’s great...
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Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026£30.00
The essays in this book, all by distinguished historians, illuminate the main activities, preoccupations and aspirations of the families whose territorial power and local leadership made them a central factor in medieval Scottish society. Issues...
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E-Book | Pub: 12 Jul 2004£30.00
The essays in this book, all by distinguished historians, illuminate the main activities, preoccupations and aspirations of the families whose territorial power and local leadership made them a central factor in medieval Scottish society. Issues...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jul 2026£12.99
Discover a thrilling true story of treachery, deceit, hope and despair. From the moment Mary, Queen of Scots set foot on English soil in 1568 until her execution at Fotheringhay Castle on 8 February 1587, she was the prisoner of her cousin,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Sep 2021£30.00
The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Almost a million perished and a further two million emigrated in the wake of potato blight and economic collapse. Acute famine also gripped the Scottish...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Oct 2024£14.99
The discovery of a long-forgotten physic garden and the restoration of an old weathered Celtic cross on a coastal headland on the beautiful Scottish island of Mull led the authors of this book on a fascinating voyage into the history of one branch...
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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...
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Oct 2022£8.99
A powerfully poignant tale of one of the most turbulent moments in Scotland’s history: the North Berwick Witch Trials. IT’S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floors below Edinburgh’s...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Oct 2023£10.99
Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature Elemental, fierce and full of wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and rocky heart of Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love them demands a kind of courageous...
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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...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001£25.00
This volume looks at the way that perceptions of Scottish identity have changed through the centuries, from early medieval to modern times. ‘The idea of Scotland as a single country, corresponding to the realm of the king of Scots, and of the...
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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....




