history

This year, Birlinn’s history and politics books tackle the most thorny topics of our time including Scottish Independence and China’s...

A new gallery housing The Great Tapestry of Scotland opened in late August of this year. Three months on and it has won one of the country’s...

Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as Hitler’s credulous dupe, the man who proclaimed in September 1938 that the Munich agreement guaranteed...

Our third instalment of extracts for Women’s History Month is a double decker: early-modern prioresses and the very modern Muriel Spark. The...

From books exploring the interwoven history of tea and Scotland to the rise of China’s surveillance state, we have a range of brilliantly...

Rosemary Goring takes a look at two strong new history titles.

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