Scottish History

Between the 1930s and 1980s, folk singer Jock Duncan interviewed around 60 veterans of...

Thanks to Shakespeare, the name Macbeth has become a byword for political ambition...

The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat...

In telling the story of Bonnie Prince Charlie, this book, unusually, places his...

This is the story of how Scotland has defined itself through its art over the past 5000...

A moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and through remote villages and...

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

A history of forty villages that no longer exist. Complete with maps and old pictures.

Perth, Blairgowrie, Crieff, Pitlochry, Aberfeldy all feature as well as the wider...

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

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

The 2000-plus years of Scottish history have seen a huge variety of events, from great...