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• Historic South Edinburgh

  Paperback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023

  £25.00

  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...

• A History of Scottish Football in 100 Objects

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Sep 2023

  £9.99

  From Socrates to Arthur Montford, via Bovril, Buckfast and, of course, pies, this is a unique journey through the extraordinary world of Scottish football. Packed with anecdotes and observations, Andy Bollen wallows in a nostalgic haze, a time of...

• 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...

• Insurrection

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Mar 2022

  £12.99

  Discover Scotland’s forgotten revolution… Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize When Scotland’s 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. In the Hebrides and the West Highlands a huge relief effort...

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  The King in the North

  Paperback | Pub: 20 Oct 2022

  £18.99

  Some years ago a revolution took place in Early Medieval history in Scotland. The Pictish heartland of Fortriu, previously thought to be centred on Perthshire and the Tay found itself relocated through the forensic work of Alex Woolf to the shores...

• The King Over the Water

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Mar 2021

  £14.99

  Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award Few causes have given rise to such dramatic tales of loyalty, passion and betrayal as the Jacobite dream of restoring the Stuarts to the British throne. Although its failure brought...

• 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...

• 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...

• Metagama

  Paperback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023

  £12.99

  In April 1923 the SS Metagama weighed anchor off Stornoway and set sail for Montreal. On board were three hundred young men and women bound for a new life in North America. Partly driven by the lure of opportunities overseas, these young Leosachs...

• A Mighty Fleet and the King’s Power

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Apr 2023

  £14.99

  Situated in the middle of the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is like a stepping-stone between the lands that surround it. In medieval times, it played an important role in the histories of Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. This book explores the...

• The Northern Earldoms

  Paperback | Pub: 20 Jul 2023

  £20.00

  The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness were positioned between two worlds, the Norwegian and the Scottish. They were a maritime lordship divided, or united, by the turbulent waters of the Pentland Firth. This unlikely combination of island...

• Nothing Left to Fear from Hell

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Mar 2024

  £7.99

  Shortlisted for The Winston Graham Historical Fiction Prize and The Highland Book Prize A battle lost. A daring escape. A long walk into obscurity. The ultimate failure… In the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Culloden, a lonely figure takes...

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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...

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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...

• The Picts

  Paperback | Pub: 20 Jun 2016

  £12.99

  Discover the true story of the ancient Picts. The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historical importance, they remain shrouded in myth and misconception. Absorbed by the...

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  Picts, Gaels and Scots

  Paperback | Pub: 21 Mar 2024

  £17.99

  Early historic Scotland – from the fifth to the tenth century AD – was home to a variety of diverse peoples and cultures, all competing for land and supremacy. Yet by the eleventh century it had become a single, unified kingdom, known as...

• 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...

• The Reivers

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Mar 2017

  £10.99

  From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands suffered one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder in modern Europe. As a consequence of constant conflict, Borderers suffered horribly at...

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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...