Scottish Local

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

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

Throughout its existence, Glasgow has been a city of great complexity. From its...

Explores the rich material contained within a collection of oral history recordings...

These are the memoirs of a teacher from England who became headmaster of Garrynemonie...

Fife has always been one of Scotland’s most distinctive counties. Though never a...

Tells the story of the raiders; their struggle to escape from the poverty which, they...

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

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

For many years travellers to the Hebrides recorded their journeys by sea. This book...

This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple...

The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness were positioned between two worlds, the...