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• Church, Politics and Society

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Dec 2005

  £25.00

  The essays in this volume, by distinguished historians, deal with the correlation of the Church and society in Scotland from the birth of Bishop Kennedy at the beginning of the fifteenth century to the reunion of the Church of Scotland with most of...

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  The Declaration of Arbroath

  Paperback | Pub: 12 Mar 2020

  £9.99

  The Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April, 1320, is one of the most remarkable documents to have been produced anywhere in medieval Europe. Signed by 51 Scottish nobles, it confirms Scotland’s status as an independent sovereign state with the right to...

• Edinburgh and the Reformation

  E-Book | Pub: 20 Jan 2004

  £25.00

  Edinburgh’s reformation was one of the last of the great city reformations of the sixteenth century. It took on a highly distinctive shape due to the burgh’s social and economic problems and its position as a cockpit for English policy in...

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  The Founder’s Tale

  Hardback | Pub: 10 Oct 2019

  £14.99

  This is the story of how one man, with a bit of help from his friends, created a revolution in the hitherto staid world of Scotch Whisky. But by creating the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, he gave whisky drinkers access to the finest distilled liquor...

• Harlem 69

  Paperback | Pub: 11 Apr 2019

  £9.99

  In 1969, among Harlem’s Rabelaisian cast of characters are bandleader King Curtis, soul singers Aretha Franklin and Donny Hathaway, and drug peddler Jimmy ‘Goldfinger’ Terrell. In February a raid on tenements across New York leads to the...

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  One Week in April

  Hardback | Pub: 02 Apr 2020

  £20.00

  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...

• The Silver Chanter

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Jun 2021

  £8.99

  All over the world people associate the bagpipes with Scotland. In this informative and entertaining book Stuart McHardy introduces Scotland’s national instrument – its history, development and repertoire – and examines the part...

• ‘The People Are Not There’

  Hardback | Pub: 04 Aug 2022

  £60.00

  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: climate and market forces, hunger and relief measures, sheep farms and...

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  When The Clyde Ran Red

  Paperback | Pub: 08 Mar 2018

  £9.99

  When the Clyde Ran Red paints a vivid picture of the heady days when revolution was in the air on Clydeside. Through the bitter strike at the huge Singer Sewing machine plant in Clydebank in 1911, Bloody Friday in Glasgow’s George Square in 1919,...