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With the 700th anniversary approaching, this concise guide covers all the people and events surrounding Bannockburn, including the battle itself, William Wallace, and King Robert...
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Chris Harvie’s 1814 Year of Waverley guides you through Scott’s life and exciting times including Scott’s career in Edinburgh and the Borders, as invalid, schoolboy, lawyer...
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365 Reasons To Be Proud To Be Scottish is a year-long scenic route of jollyness taking in the quirky events, inventions, traditions, people, places and characters that make Scotland...
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This book takes the reader on a journey from the wastes of Antarctica to the South African Highlands, from Canada's prairies to Australia's vineyards. It visits cities and deserted...
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Aberdeen has been inhabited for 8,000 years, since the first Hunter-Gatherers settled on the banks of the River Dee. 4,000 years later, Bronze Age peoples left their mark on the...
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Ian R Mitchell recognises his hometown is an often underloved place, but in Aberdeen beyond the Granite sets out an overwhelming case as to why this sentiment is thoroughly undeserved...
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Aberdeen stands on an impressive site between the rivers Dee and Don. Join us on a journey as we travel from the historic Bridge of Dee, at one time the only entrance to the city...
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Experience 100 key dates that shaped Aberdeen’s history, highlighted its people’s genius (or silliness) and embraced the unexpected. Featuring an amazing mix of pivotal, social...
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Aberdeen Remembered covers many aspects of the city's past and contains a varied selection of pictures, all accompanied by detailed captions. The Castlegate is seen before and...
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A new concise paperback edition of the best-selling, landmark aerial photography book of Scotland. The landscape of Scotland is full of dramatic contrasts. The high, rugged peaks...
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A celebration of the towns and villages that make up the picturesque area of Annandale
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As the most advanced frontier construction of its time, and as definitive evidence of the Romans' time in Scotland, the Antonine Wall is an invaluable and fascinating part of this...
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Boasting stunning full-colour photographs and diagrams throughout, this book is written for the non-specialist and is the latest in the Landscapes in Stone.. It's the perfect companion...
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Argyll's great names, deeds and institutions resonate through the annals of Scottish history, from Dunadd (the ancient capital of the kingdom of Dal Riata) and St Columba (who...
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Arran is an archaeological and geological treasure trove of stunning scenic beauty and this book gives an original, fascinating, and comprehensive account of its long and eventful...
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The Isle of Arran dominates the Firth of Clyde. A favourite haunt of holidaymakers, it is also a place of fascination for the geologist, offering a huge variety of rocks that represent...
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The Holy Grail, the kingdom of Camelot, The Knights of the Round Table and the magical sword Excalibur are all key ingredients of the legends surrounding King Arthur. But who was...
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In 2000, Donald W. MacKenzie wrote As It Was/Sin Mar a Bha: A Ulva Boyhood, which is a combination of autobiography and a potted history of the island. His father was a Kirk minister...
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For almost a thousand years, Scotland and England have been neighbour nations. For more than half that time, they were foreign countries, often at war. Four hundred years ago,...
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Home to stunning countryside, six rivers, sixty miles of sandy beaches, and over forty castles, Ayrshire is a county ingrained with a fascinating history. It has notable links...
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The Mary Carmichael of the well-known ballad may be a fiction but Marys Seton, Beaton, Livingston and Flemming, together with Mary Stewart, comprised the real five Marys - assertive...
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Situated at the mouth of the River Deveron on the Moray Firth, the Royal and Ancient Burgh of Banff grew up round a royal castle. Most of the historic town is Georgian, filled...
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Bestselling author Alistair Moffat offers fresh insights into one of the most famous battles in history. As 8,000 Scottish solders, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 English...
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Bestselling author Alistair Moffat offers fresh insights into one of the most famous battles in history. As 8,000 Scottish solders, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 English...
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Bannockburn is another rivetting foray into Scottish history from the author of the best-selling titles Wallace and The Scottish Commander. The Battle of Bannockburn, at which...
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Bannockburn 1314: 700 Years On is the definitive account of the most legendary battle in Scottish
history, in which a mere 7,000 followers of Robert the Bruce defeated over 15...
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This 32 page historical guide to the people and events of that great battle is in full colour and gives a fascinating insight to the defining moment of the encounter. It is a gripping...
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Brutal and bloody, the Battle of Bannockburn in June 1314 was the most decisive victory in the Wars for Scottish Independence and one that resonates with Scots to this day. With...
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In this text, the last survivor of those who were born and raised on the island of Rhum before World War I presents a social history and personal anecdote of a way of life gone...
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With most of Scotland in his hands, Robert Bruce looked set to become undisputed King of Scotland - only the castle at Stirling still held out. But then King Edward II of England...
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The Battle of Flodden in 1513 was the largest battle ever to take place between England and Scotland. James IV himself led an army of 30,000 men over the border into England, ostensibly...
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By 1548 Scotland had been invaded by Henry VIII in a vain attempt to get Mary Queen of Scots to marry his son Edward. The war continued after Henry's death, and the people of Fife...
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