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• The Rise and Fall of the City of Money

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Aug 2022

  £14.99

  It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city’s...

• Scottish Arctic Whaling

  Paperback | Pub: 16 May 2016

  £20.00

  Scottish Arctic Whaling brings to light a previously little-known but important Scottish industry. The author’s extensive use of original sources such as log-books and diaries shows that hundreds of whaling vessels, sailing variously from...