Social and Cultural History
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Paperback | Pub: 15 Jun 2023£25.00
Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award Badenoch today is a landscape of empty glens and ruined settlements, but it was not always so. This book examines the transformative events that shaped the region’s destiny:...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022£9.99
Based on personal memories of his life in Ireland and Scotland in the early 1900s, this was Patrick MacGill’s first novel. It tells the story of Dermod Flynn an independent and feisty youth who earns a meagre living as an itinerant farm hand in...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Sep 2024£9.99
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FICTION OF THE YEAR AWARD ONE OF THE LIST’S BEST SCOTTISH BOOKS OF ALL TIME Set in nineteen-sixties Glasgow, this novel portrays the struggles and conflicts of young working-class hero and would-be novelist Mat Craig, whose...
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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...
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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...
