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• Land of the Ilich

  Hardback | Pub: 18 Nov 2021

  £40.00

  As an archaeologist, Steven Mithen has worked on the Hebridean island of Islay over a period of many years. In this book he introduces the sites and monuments and tells the story of the island’s people from the earliest stone age hunter-gatherers...

• Lost East Lothian

  Paperback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023

  £14.99

  East Lothian is one of Scotland’s most historic places. John Knox was born in Haddington in the early years of the sixteenth century; important links were forged with the Low Countries as a result of trade; and because of its location between...

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  Manchester: Mapping the City

  Hardback | Pub: 04 Oct 2018

  £30.00

  Manchester is one the world’s most iconic cities. Not only was it the first industrial city, it can claim to be the first post-industrial city. This book uses historic maps and unpublished and original plans to chart the dramatic growth and...

• Mary of Guise in Scotland, 1548–1560

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022

  £30.00

  Challenging the conventional interpretation of Mary of Guise as the defender of Catholicism whose regime climaxed with the Reformation Rebellion, Pamela Ritchie shows that Mary was, on the contrary, a shrewd and effective politique, whose own...

• The Men of the North

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Sep 2010

  £20.00

  The North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings they played an important role in the shaping of Scottish history during the first millennium AD but their part is often neglected or...

• Midwinter

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Feb 2020

  £8.99

  The Jacobite army marches into England and Alistair Maclean, close confident of Charles Edward Stewart embarks on a secret mission to raise support for the cause in the west. He soon begins to suspect someone close to the Prince is passing...

• Missions to the Gaels

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2021

  £30.00

  This book is an extended study, in the Post-Reformation period, of the impact of the Gaels in the west of Scotland and the north of Ireland on each other’s religious heritage. Beginning half a century before the plantation of Ulster, Missions to...

• Mull

  Paperback | Pub: 10 Sep 2010

  £30.00

  This is the story of a Scottish island as it has never been told before. While many books on the Hebrides are a litany of agricultural statistics and population movements, this is the story of the landlords, tacksmen, cottars and others who actually...

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  Newcastle upon Tyne

  Hardback | Pub: 11 Nov 2021

  £30.00

  Newcastle has a long and distinguished history through two millennia: a Roman fortress at the eastern end of Hadrian’s Wall; an important centre of monasticism; a ‘royal’ bulwark against attacks and invasion from Scotland; and the...

• The Normans in Ireland

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022

  £20.00

  The Norman invasion of Britain, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, is well known, but the later invasion of Ireland is much less well documented. Yet much of what we see today in Irish heritage has Norman roots. Ireland and Britain have many...

• The Northern Highlands

  Paperback | Pub: 11 Jul 2019

  £6.99

  Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize The rocks of northern Scotland tell of turbulent events involving continental collisions that unleashed cataclysmic forces, creating a chain of mountains, the remnants of which we see today on both sides of the...

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  Old Skye Tales

  Paperback | Pub: 23 May 2019

  £8.99

  In this book William Mackenzie records a world of local legend, folklore and superstition, and charts the changes he saw in his lifetime in agriculture, education, the Church and, of course, emigration. He recounts the history of the leading...

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  On the Crofter’s Trail

  Paperback | Pub: 15 Apr 2010

  £14.99

  In the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts – once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland – were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland were forced from...

• Onion Johnnies

  Paperback | Pub: 15 Jun 2023

  £9.99

  For almost 150 years until the late twentieth century, French Onion Johnnies (or ‘Ingan Johnnies’, as they were usually known in Scotland) were a familiar group of seasonal workers in towns and cities throughout Britain. In this book, nine Onion...

• The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment

  E-Book | Pub: 24 Nov 2003

  £25.00

  In the first part of the volume are collected six essays which comment on mainly institutional matters: the merchant community, the universities and the study of science and medicine. Two important themes emerge from these studies; firstly the...

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  A Passion for Castles

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024

  £20.00

  In the 1880s two Edinburgh architects began to survey, measure and sketch the castles of Scotland, travelling the length and breadth of the country on trains, bicycles and on foot. Together they produced the five magnificent volumes of The...

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  Pipers

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Feb 2022

  £12.99

  Pipers takes the reader inside the world of the performer community of Scottish piping, introducing the instrument itself and the various different repertories. It also discusses piping techniques as well as information on some of the great piping...

• The Placenames of Scotland

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Aug 2022

  £12.99

  Placenames are a constant source of debate. Who was Edwin, whose name is said to live on in that of Scotland’s capital city? Are the ‘drum’ and ‘chapel’ still to be found in Drumchapel? And which ‘king’ had...

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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...

• The Salt Roads

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Aug 2023

  £9.99

  Sometimes the simplest thing can change an entire culture. This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired artists, writers and musicians. It ranges from...