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• Arran

  Paperback | Pub: 20 Apr 2023

  £12.99

  Arran is an archaeological and geological treasure trove of stunning scenic beauty. Its history stretches back to the great stone circles, more than 5,000 years old, whose remnants still decorate the plains of Machrie. Runic inscriptions tell of a...

• The Caledonian Canal

  Paperback | Pub: 21 Mar 2024

  £12.99

  The Caledonian Canal records the history of one of Scotland’s most massive engineering projects, from Thomas Telford’s first survey in 1801 into the twenty-first century. Telford’s plan, to connect Loch Ness, Loch Oich and Loch Lochy with each...

• Calum’s Road

  Paperback | Pub: 27 May 2008

  £8.99

  ‘An incredible testament to one man’s determination’ – The Sunday Herald Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very tip of his little archipelago, until...

• Cheers, Mr Churchill!

  Hardback | Pub: 06 Oct 2022

  £20.00

  In 1922 Winston Churchill prepared to defend his parliamentary seat of Dundee in the General Election. He had represented the city since 1908, enjoyed a majority of more than 15,000 and, after five previous victories, confidently described it as a...

• Churchill: The Scottish Years

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Jun 2024

  £12.99

  In 1922 Winston Churchill prepared to defend his parliamentary seat of Dundee in the General Election. He had represented the city since 1908, enjoyed a majority of more than 15,000 and, after five previous victories, confidently described it as a...

• Clans and Tartans of Scotland

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Jun 2022

  £6.99

  Throughout the world there exists an enduring fascination with our ancestry – who we are and where we come from. Nowhere is this more evident than with the generations of Scots who over the centuries have left their native Scotland to create a new...

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  Dublin: Mapping the City

  Hardback | Pub: 14 Sep 2023

  £30.00

  Hodges Figgis Book of the Year 2023 Maps are essential tools in finding our way around, but they also tell stories and are great depositories of information. Until the twentieth century and the arrival of aerial images, a map was the best way of...

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  Edinburgh: Mapping the City

  Hardback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023

  £35.00

  Maps can tell much about the story of a place that traditional histories fail to communicate. This is particularly true of Edinburgh, one of the most visually stunning cities in the world and a place rich in historical and cultural associations....

• Fife in History and Legend

  Paperback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023

  £12.99

  Fife has always been one of Scotland’s most distinctive counties. Though never a ’kingdom’ in its own right, its geographical position as a peninsular county between the firths of Tay and Forth has helped maintain its self-contained identity...

• Glasgow: The Autobiography

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Mar 2023

  £12.99

  Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the Industrial Revolution to the third...

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  Glasgow’s Gaelic Place-names

  Paperback | Pub: 21 Sep 2023

  £12.99

  It is time to bin – once and for all – the nonsense that Gaelic was never spoken in Glasgow. In fact, Glasgow’s place-names tell us that Gaelic has been spoken in Glasgow for around a thousand years. Showcasing new research from the...

• Hidden Glasgow

  Paperback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023

  £9.99

  Defining what is hidden in a city is not easy. In some cases, buildings are not open to public view, well off the beaten track, or are simply forgotten amidst the rapidly changing environment of a fast growing city. In other cases, we are looking at...

• Historic South Edinburgh

  Paperback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023

  £18.99

  First published in four volumes in the early 1980s, Charles Smith’s Historic South Edinburgh has become a much sought-after and extremely rare classic. This completely new edition combines all four volumes into one, and has been completely revised...

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  The History of Orkney Literature

  Paperback | Pub: 23 Sep 2021

  £25.00

  Since the middle ages, Orkney has proved remarkable for the volume and the quality of its literary output. From the skalds and sagamen of the Viking age, through to the colourful folklorists, polemicists and translators of the Victorian era, and the...

• How an Island Lost Its People

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Apr 2023

  £12.99

  In 1830, the little Hebridean island of Lismore was one of the granaries of the West Highlands, with every possible scrap of land producing bere barley or oats. The population had reached its peak of 1500, but by 1910, numbers had dwindled to 400...

• 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, a unitary authority area including the old county of Haddingtonshire, 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...

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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...

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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...

• One Week in April

  E-Book | Pub: 02 Apr 2020

  £9.99

  In 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...