History
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Paperback | Pub: 14 Sep 2023£20.00Discover 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...
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E-Book | Pub: 07 Mar 2019£18.00The Flemish are among the most important if under-appreciated immigrant groups to have shaped the history of medieval and early modern Scotland. Originating in Flanders, Northern Europe’s economic powerhouse (now roughly Belgium and the...
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Hardback | Pub: 11 Oct 2018£30.00Scotland has had a uniquely important military history over the last five centuries. Conflict with England in the 16th century, Jacobite rebellions in the 18th century, 20th-century defences and the two world wars, as well as the Cold War, all...
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Jun 2024£20.00
The infamous ‘Beeching Axe’ swept away virtually every Scottish branch line in the 1960s. Conventional wisdom viewed these losses as regrettable yet inevitable in an era of growing affluence and rising car ownership. This ground-breaking study...
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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...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Apr 2021£6.99Proverbs, once described as ‘the wisdom of many and the wit of one’, offer unique insights the way of life and the social mores of past generations. This book features an introduction which explores the role of proverbs in Scottish culture and...
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Paperback | Pub: 31 May 2018£12.99All over the world traditional tales used to be told at the fireseide until their place came to be taken by books, newspapers, radio and television. This is an entertaining collection from Scotland, recorded and collected by researchers from the...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Aug 2022£12.99St Andrews is without doubt one of Scotland’s most historic and beautiful cities. Once the ecclesiastical capital of Scotland, it played a prominent role in the nation’s political life until the seventeenth century. In addition, it is also home...
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E-Book | Pub: 06 Oct 2011£9.99
Trevor Royle examines Scotland’s role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives. The country’s geographical position gave it great strategic importance for importing war materiel and reinforcements, for conducting naval...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Apr 2021£9.99Shortlisted for the The Great Outdoors Award for Outdoor Book of the Year and the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature There are strange relics hidden across Scotland’s landscape: forgotten places that are touchstones to incredible...
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Paperback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023£12.99This 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...
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Paperback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023£12.99This 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...
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Paperback | Pub: 18 Aug 2022£25.00The creation of large new tracts of forest, together with the development of a modern wood processing sector, was the single biggest transformation to occur in the Scottish countryside during the twentieth century. While the environmental and...
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Mar 2017£12.99
This is the story behind Rome’s greatest frontier – Hadrian’s Wall. Hadrian’s Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall...
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Oct 2022£14.99
The Bruces of fourteenth-century Scotland were formidable and enthusiastic warriors. Whilst much has been written about events as they happened in Scotland during the chaotic years of the first part of the fourteenth century, England’s war with...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Jul 2018£8.99
After joining the the Lovat Scouts at the outbreak of the Second World War Donald Angus Gillies is sent on a mission to the Alps, where he meets Francoise, a young French Canadian SOE agent. The pair immediately form a close bond, but when Francoise...
