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Paperback | Pub: 10 Sep 2020£14.99£11.99The collapse in January 2018 of the construction giant Carillion, outsourcer of huge Government building contracts, is one of the great financial scandals of modern times. When it folded it had only £29 million in the bank and debts and other...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Mar 2020£8.99£7.19When the body of a man in eighteenth-century Highland dress is discovered on the site of the Battle of Culloden, journalist Rebecca Connolly takes up the story for the Chronicle. Meanwhile, a film being made about the ’45 Rebellion has enraged the...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Aug 2007
£25.00£20.00The Stewart Dynasty in Scotland series aims to bring the rich political heritage of late medieval and early modern Scotland before as wide a reading public as possible, with specialist authors writing for the general reader as well as the student...
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Paperback | Pub: 08 Aug 2019£12.99£10.39On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as ‘the workshop of the Empire’. Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced half of Britain’s total production of...
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Hardback | Pub: 03 Oct 2016£25.00£20.00Brothers Henry, Charles and Thomas Richardson painted nearly 80 views of Hadrian’s Wall between 1838 and the 1880s. Most were created by Henry Burdon Richardson, who accompanied author John Collingwood Bruce on his tour of Hadrian’s Wall...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2020£8.99£7.19In June 1940, the Channel Islands becomes the only part of Great Britain to be occupied by Hitler’s forces. Hedy Bercu, a young Jewish girl from Vienna who fled to Jersey two years earlier to escape the Anschluss, finds herself once more entrapped...
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Hardback | Pub: 03 Oct 2019£25.00£20.00Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award, 2020 This is the first modern history for general readers of the entire Jacobite movement in Scotland, England and Ireland, from the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688 that drove...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Mar 2021£14.99Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award, 2020 This is the first modern history for general readers of the entire Jacobite movement in Scotland, England and Ireland, from the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688 that drove...
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Hardback | Pub: 02 Apr 2020£20.00£16.00In April 1820, a series of dramatic events exploded around Glasgow, central Scotland and Ayrshire. Demanding political reform and better living and working conditions, 60,000 weavers and other workers went on strike. Revolution was in the air. It...
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Paperback | Pub: 25 Jul 2019£8.99£7.19What’s it like to be on a small boat with no power but oars, and over 1,500 miles from the nearest land? Two friends decided to find out… Over a boozy Sunday lunch, flatmates James Adair and Ben Stenning made a promise to row across an...
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E-Book | Pub: 28 May 2020£60.00£48.00The archipelagic kingdoms of Man and the Isles that flourished from the last quarter of the eleventh century down to the middle of the thirteenth century represent two forgotten kingdoms of the medieval British Isles. They were ruled by powerful...
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Jun 2019£9.99£7.99The Shepherd and the Morning Star is a remarkable double biography and autobiography. In the course of it the life of the son, Willie Orr, gradually emerges from under the shadow of that of his father, Lawrence Orr (PB), leading Ulster Unionist...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jul 2020£8.99£7.19The origins of the Scottish clans go back over a thousand years, and for centuries these extended networks of families dominated life in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. The warriors of the clan, fiercely loyal to each other and to their chief,...
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Hardback | Pub: 05 Jul 2018£9.99£7.99This is – in the opinion of many whisky writers and experts – the finest whisky book ever written. It is certainly the first written from the point of view of the consumer and is thus historically significant. But more than that, poetic and...
