Scottish History

Contained in landscape glossy card covers and containing 50 printed pages. A collection...

A fine selection of photographs show Falkirk at its early twentieth century best with...

For years the haunt of holidaying Glaswegians, this book captures Dunoon and the Cowal...

It is renowned for the diversity of its landscapes but it is only since the advent of...

This is Guthrie Hutton's second book on Maryhill and illustrates the well-loved...

The women of Moray and the contributions they have made historically, socially,...

Situated at the mouth of the River Deveron on the Moray Firth, the Royal and Ancient...

Scots have made a huge contribution to the world - you only have to look at a tea towel...

This is a collaboration between Glaswegian Peter Mortimer who has written the text and...

When news of the war broke out in 1914, nothing could have prepared the citizens of...

A lively new history from one of Scotland's brightest young historians.

Take a tour of Aberdeenshire's curious and bizarre past. From the story of the Beatles'...

The small island archipelago of St Kilda, which rises majestically from the stormy...

Irvine is probably the town in Ayrshire which has experienced the most changes in it...

The south of Scotland has a long and turbulent geological past. Perhaps most notably,...

Blair Atholl is next to the A9 road, which links Perth to Inverness and is the main...

The search for a Northwest Passage, connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific was one of...

Being a woman was her only crime. Scottish Highlands, 1727. In the aftermath of a...

From one of the earliest mentions of its name in the sixth century to the Covid...

There are fourteen fascinating, shocking and gruesome murders contained in this book...

The border between England and Scotland is rich in history. It has been the site of...

Witches – whether broomstick-riding spell-casters or Wiccan earth-worshippers – have...

A compelling update to a Scottish true crime classic. Glasgow has 4 murders which...

From medieval market town Coupar Angus in Perthshire evolved, but not too dramatically....

The story of the Anglo - Scottish Border Reivers.

This title features over 100 of Scotland's Castles and includes looking at why they...

Pictures of a flourishing Govan show it at the height of its industrial prosperity....

Old Gretna tells the tale of a village still famed as an elopement destination, and is...

So it was done. The link was made between the people from under the sea and those of...

Not surprisingly, most of the pictures in Old East Kilbride show the village, rather...

Scotland is one of the oldest countries in the world with a vivid and diverse past. Yet...

The remarkable true story of the worlds most devoted terrier. He undertook a remarkable...

Life was hard living at the top of Ben Nevis. Until 1904 Ben Nevis boasted its own...

Aberdeen has been inhabited for 8,000 years, since the first Hunter-Gatherers settled...

Stuart McHardy examines the Pictish symbols which have been discovered on various items...

In contrast to most of Scotland, the north-western coast and the islands beyond were a...

Boasting stunning full-colour photographs and diagrams throughout, this book is written...

Warriors and Witches and Damn Rebel Bitches is a treasury of Scottish women from the...

"The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other...

A series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm...

For centuries tourists and other travellers have been travelling north to the Highlands...

The written history and archaeological records of Central Scotland takes us back to...

For over three centuries, the inhabitants of North Britain faced the might of Rome,...

The Scottish Highlands have a strong appeal to the public imagination. Indeed, as a...

A Look Back at Stirling in old photographs with detailed captions.

When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were...

Scotland is a nation famed for its warriors – from clan battles to world wars, the...

The story of an immortal Scottish warrior battling evil down through the centuries,...

A deep dive into one of the most notorious cases in Scottish criminal history. Tom Wood...

Complementary to Old Partick by the same author, this new illustrated history in the...

All the important events in Scotland are covered, spanning over 5000 years, and...

Ken Hall takes us on a spectacular new journey round Arran, using archive material from...

Author Bernard Byrom has used many attractive photographs of the ancient burgh of Doune...

The Moving Story of a Vanished Island Community. This book takes us from the earliest...

Places and books like Rosslyn Chapel and 'The Da Vinci Code' have focused attention on...

Boasting stunning full-colour photographs and diagrams throughout, this book is written...

The Highland Clearances are a well-documented episode in Scotland's past but they were...

The Orkney archipelago is home to a remarkable array of prehistoric sites most notably...

Stevenston a former industrial town in North Ayrshire. This book has photographs as it...

Edinburgh enjoyed a remarkable 18th Century. John Kay (1742-1826) was a self-taught...

The Small Isles comprise the Inner Hebridean islands of Rum, Eigg, Canna and Muck. The...

Charles Edward Stuart's campaign to seize the British throne on behalf of his exiled...

A pioneering look at early Scotland that transforms prehistory into gripping narrative...

Early on a wartime winter’s morning in 1941, the 8,000-ton cargo ship SS Politician ran...

A history of Cumnock Juniors Football Club over 100 years. Fascinating tales of ups and...

This 32 page historical guide to the people and events of that great battle is in full...

To avoid duplication with other Stenlake books, this one does not cover the old police...

Peter Marshall was born in Orkney. His ancestors were farmers and farm labourers on the...

In the nineteenth century, Scotland was renowned as a land of misty glens, engineering...

Two dismembered bodies discarded in the borderlands of Scotland, hideously mutilated to...

Dreghorn is an ancient settlement in Ayrshire, perhaps ‘Britain’s oldest continuously...

In its short lifetime of 100 years, the crofting system of landholding has had profound...

For long the area of influence for the Campbells of Breadalbane, the area around Loch...

You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put...

Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an...

This collection of tales is the next step for anyone wishing to look further into the...

Along with its rich history and spectacular scenery, Dumfries and Galloway is home to a...

We published Eric Eunson's The Gorbals an Illustrated History in 1996 and it has been...

The ancient seafaring town of Kirkcudbright has a long history and many royal...

St Kilda is the most romantic and most romanticised group of islands in Europe....

Containing many illustrations, diagrams, and black and white and full colour...

Dive into Duncee's rich and fascinating history through an examination of some of its...

Sir Walter Scott's The Fair Maid of Perth is one of The Waverley Novels, a series that...

Duncan Harley takes the reader on a grand tour through Aberdeenshire’s fascinating and...

This book weaves in all the reasons why the residents of Scotland love to live here;...

A cache of over 100 gold, silver and other items, the richest collection of rare and...

This is an account of what happened to the thousands of people who left the Scottish...

A lighthearted and informative narrative about the history of herring and our love...

A collection of 23 tales of murder and death from across Scotland.

The Caledonian Canal records the history of one of Scotland’s most massive engineering...

A Look Back at the village of Dalmellington in old pictures with detailed captions.

The Vikings in the Hebrides provides an introduction to the Viking colonization and...

The story of the Highland clans is a gripping one, full of celebrated names and heroic...

Charting the development of the North Sea Oil business from the early days, when oil...

A captivating account of the almost forgotten German bombing raids on Edinburgh during...

Witches have existed in society for centuries. Traditionally, they were the midwives,...

The Wee Guide to Prehistoric Scotland describes Scotland from the earliest known times...

For many centuries the people of Scotland have told stories of their ancestors, a...

This title covers a period of great change in the town of St Andrews brought about by...

In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered...

n the past, Aberfeldy has seen both Queen Victoria and the poet Robert Burns as...

The famous river passes through some of the most picturesque and historic countryside...

On the remote north-western Isle of Lewis stands one of the most spectacular megalithic...

Pictish history is recorded only in fragments presented by writers whose lords and...

From prehistoric Scotland to the 2014 referendum for independence, this little book...

Every year, ten men from Ness, at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis, sail...

Dumfries, a market town in south-west Scotland known as the Queen of the South, is the...

Featuring black and white photographs of various pieces from around Rosslyn Chapel,...

What's in a placename? Here 100 placenames from both Edinburgh and Glasgow are examined...

Scotland’s history has been told many times, but never exclusively by its women. This...

This is a book that makes sense of the complexities of Scottish history in an...

The rich alluvial deposits from the River Tay, combined with its sheltered location,...

The Bruces of 14th century Scotland were formidable and enthusiastic warriors....

Arbroath grew up around the abbey, where in 1320, a group of barons famously made the...

Bankfoot dates from about 1815, as do the houses named after the then-recent Battle of...

Early historic Scotland - from the fifth to the tenth century AD - was home to a...

The History of Auchinleck - Village and Parish

Discover the mysteries of Scotland’s standing stones with The Stones of the Ancestors...

The Road to Mons Graupius records a journey from the Scottish Borders to the edge of...

A ‘sort of Bible’ to all nineteenth-century Scots (as described in a contemporary...

Emigration from the Northern Isles is an essential addition to any historical...

Kilmarnock is the largest town in Ayrshire. For much of its history it was a market...

The tales and stories of John MacPherson - The Coddy - were an instant success on their...

In Old Bute as you'd expect Rothesay's streets and shops feature prominently, but there...

A worthy companion to the author's Old Shetland.

The Guide to Mysterious Perthshire' contains everything folkloric, supernatural,...

This book examines some of the most spectacular ancient monuments in Britain: the iron...

This latest volume by Guthrie Sutton has, at times an almost ethereal, idealised...

This is the inspiring and charming true story of one of the Second World War's most...

Fifty years ago, the new Forth Road bridge opened up Fife to road transport in the same...

The land that was to become Scotland has travelled across the globe over the last 3,000...

Falkirk's strategic location, midway between Edinburgh and Glasgow at the crossroads of...

The geology of the Cairngorms was created on a timeline that stretches back hundreds of...

The remote islands off the north-west coast of Scotland boast a huge range of...

Retired Financial Times music critic and self-confessed steamer dreamer Andrew Clark...

Everyone loves a good mystery, and over the centuries Scotland has had more than its...

Paul Murton has long had a love of the Viking north - the island groups of Orkney and...

A pocketbook reproduction of the Declaration of Arbroath with historical analysis by...

This collection of then & now images may well surprise you at the extent of change to a...

A selection of 23 stories of 19th century executions in Scotland and the crimes behind...

lasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the...

Warfare between the clans of the Highlands in the late Middle Ages determined the...

Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans. In...

A comprehensive history of the village and parish of Mauchline, Ayrshire

This authoritative and handsomely illustrated book is aimed at the general reader who...

The Forth Bridge has long been recognised as one of the finest examples of Victorian...

Sectarianism (anti-Irish racism) has been a blight on modern Scotland. Today, it is...

In his introduction to the book, John recounts how his interest in Glasgow, especially...

This book provides a fresh and modern approach to Scotland's fascinating history, from...

This is a natural companion to The Hydro Boys (1 84282 047 8 Luath Press) Of interest...

The graveyaerds of old Edinburgh were not safe places, even for the dead.Bodysnatchers...

This is the remarkable story of one of the Second World War's most unusual animal...

This full colour publication relates the story of the last and most famous battle in...

The Lewis chessmen were found under mysterious circumstances on the Isle of Lewis in...

Katharine Stewart examines the ways of life of Highland women through the spoken, sung...

A perceptive look at the history and scenery of this geologically significant and...

Bannockburn 1314 is the most celebrated battle between Scotland and England, in which a...

In a boarding house in the West Port area of 1820's Edinburgh, an old army pensioner...

Polly Pullar tells the fascinating tale of one of the Hebrides unique thriving small...

Orkney lies only 20 miles north of mainland Scotland, yet for many centuries its...

Neuk is the Scots word for nook or corner, and the delightful East Neuk, withits string...

Although known worldwide as the Home of Golf, St Andrews was also the ecclesiastical...

The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller and a Daily Mail Book of the Year, this riveting...

This book features an extensive collection of historic photographs from around Coll and...

The Little Book of Edinburgh is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort...

During the First World War, The Black Watch provided 23 battalions as part of the...

Having been granted city status during the Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2002,...

The book provides an overview and analysis of the witch trials in the Scottish Borders...

A history of fifty lost villages from across Ayrshire.

In 1830, the little Hebridean island of Lismore was one of the granaries of the West...

Outlander has brought the story of the 1745 Jacobite uprising to the popular...

In this acclaimed book, Alistair Moffat tells the story of a part of Scotland that has...

A detailed history of Ochiltree parish - including the villages of Drongan and...

Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in...

Trains and stagecoaches stuck in the snow, wild storms driving sailing ships off...

The Picts have fascinated for centuries. They emerged c. ad 300 to defy the might of...

In Stone Voices, Neal Ascherson weaves together a story of the deep past - the time of...

An ancient and long-extinct volcano lies at the heart of Scotland's capital. It roared...

This is the story of a Scottish island as it has never been told before. While many...

This collection of pictures dates from long before Rutherglen's controversial...

A concise history of Scotland's capital city by renowned historian Dr Christopher McNab.

When the Romans came north to what is now modern Scotland they encountered the fierce...

Scotland's long and often turbulent past is filled with many great heroes and villains,...

A thriving herring port in the nineteenth century, Eyemouth had 61 registered fishing...

In a mix of historical fact and folklore, 'biker-historian' David R Ross journeys...