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SOCIAL SCIENCE

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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
    Hardback | Pub: 12 Jun 2025
    £18.99

    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...

  • 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...

  • The Tobacco Lords
    Paperback | Pub: 20 Jun 2024
    £20.00

    In the eighteenth century, Glasgow and its outports became the dominant force in the highly lucrative tobacco commerce from the Americas to Europe. This prize-winning book explains why such remarkable success came about against fierce international...

  • Under the Radiant Hill
    Paperback | Pub: 07 Sep 2023
    £10.99

    The northern parish of Assynt boasts some of the most spectacular scenery in Britain. The mountains of Quinag and Suilven dominate a very varied landscape with wild, white hills inland and a complex, intricate moorland to the west. Here, rocky...

  • The Vatersay Raiders
    Paperback | Pub: 06 Apr 2023
    £12.99

    All they wanted was land: land for crofting and land on which to build a house. In 1908, ten desperate men from the islands of Barra and Mingulay in the Western Isles were imprisoned in Edinburgh for refusing to leave the island of Vatersay, where...

  • Villages of Glasgow
    Paperback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023
    £12.99

    This revised and updated edition of Aileen Smart’s best-selling book paints a fascinating picture of those villages north of the Clyde that helped forge Glasgow into one of Britain’s most energetic and vibrant cities. Although now...

  • Villages of Glasgow
    Paperback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023
    £12.99

    This revised and updated edition of Aileen Smart’s best-selling book paints a fascinating picture of those villages north of the Clyde that helped forge Glasgow into one of Britain’s most energetic and vibrant cities. Although now...

  • War Paths
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024
    £10.99

    Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans and their definitive conflicts. In twelve journeys he explores places of conflict, recreating as he walks the tumult of battle. As he recounts the military prowess...

  • Waters of Life
    Paperback | Pub: 02 Apr 2026
    £12.99

    ‘From the moment that these waters were given back their beavers, I knew that I would never wish to return to the time when they were without them . . .’ In November 2021, in a major moment in Scotland’s history, a family of beavers...

  • Way of the Wanderers
    E-Book | Pub: 05 Nov 2012
    £6.99

    ‘Jess reveals a way of life that leaves the reader full of admiration’ – Mary Horner Scottish Gypsies, known as Travellers or Tinkers, have wandered Scotland’s roads and byways for centuries. Their turbulent history is...

  • Weird Sisters
    Paperback | Pub: 02 Jul 2026
    £25.00

    Witches in medieval fiction were linked with otherworlds – heaven, hell or fairyland. By the later sixteenth century, as witchcraft prosecutions gathered pace, fictional witches were connected more firmly to the Devil and to hell. Writers then...

  • When I Heard the Bell
    Paperback | Pub: 18 Apr 2024
    £12.99

    On 31 December 1918, His Majesty’s Yacht Iolaire sailed from Kyle of Lochalsh for Stornoway, bearing home to the Hebrides nearly 300 naval veterans of the Great War. She never made it. At two in the morning, the ship ran aground by the mouth...

  • Where Men No More May Reap or Sow
    Hardback | Pub: 06 Jun 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...

  • Where Wind and Water Cleave
    Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026
    £30.00

    Take a rollercoaster ride through Scotland’s fearsome environmental history. When the icesheet that covered what is now Scotland began to retreat around 12,000 years ago, it revealed a land stripped to its rocky bones but ready to be reclothed...

  • Wild Men and Holy Places
    Paperback | Pub: 21 Aug 2025
    £17.99

    Drawing upon historical research and archaeological discoveries, Daphne Brooke brings to life the events and personalities of the ancient realm of Galloway from Roman times until the fifteenth century. This mysterious region of south-west Scotland...

  • Witches
    Hardback | Pub: 04 Sep 2025
    £20.00

    Discover how one man’s obsession changed the world.  Witches – whether broomstick-riding spell-casters or Wiccan earth-worshippers – have been culturally relevant for centuries. For centuries, too, belief in the potency of witchcraft has...

  • Witches
    Paperback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026
    £12.99

    Discover how one man’s obsession changed the world.  Witches – whether broomstick-riding spell-casters or Wiccan earth-worshippers – have been culturally relevant for centuries. For centuries, too, belief in the potency of witchcraft has...

  • Working People
    Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026
    £25.00

    Stonemasons, quarriers, seamen, steam laundry workers, crofters, calico packers, power loom weavers, tinsmiths, gamekeepers, carters, shepherds, coachmen, navvies, domestic servants. These are some of the working people whose lives are uncovered by...