Scottish National
Beatrix Potter in Scotland gives insight to the life of one of the best-loved writers in Britain. The author Lynne McGeachie goes into detail about Potters upbringing, and how...
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In this imaginative, informative and amusing miscellany, award-winning journalist John MacLeod explores some of the well-known symbols of Scottish culture (as well some of the...
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In the 19th century Scotland was depicted as a land of misty glens, engineering innovation and inventive genius. But Scotland was also the home of brutal murder, terrifying riots...
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This book examines some of the most spectacular ancient monuments in Britain: the iron age brochs of north and west Scotland. It places the building of these unique fortifications...
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If not perhaps the most popular Highland clan, the Campbells are undoubtedly one of the most successful. The Campbell earls of Argyll have traditionally enjoyed a rather unsavoury...
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The attempts to establish a colony of Caledonia on the inhospitable isthmus of Panama in the late seventeenth century is one of the most tragic moments of Scottish history. The...
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The Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. At the height of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest region in Great Britain,...
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The Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April, 1320, is one of the most remarkable documents to have been produced anywhere in medieval Europe. Signed by 51 Scottish nobles, it confirms...
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Scottish samplers are unique with regard to the amount of information that can be gathered from them. Often they include the initials of extended family members as well as details...
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In this modern age the regional and national boundaries which define Scotland seem fixed and permanent. But of course this has not always been so. In this book Alistair Moffat...
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A group of primarily Scottish artists (mainly William York Macgregor, Joseph Crawhall, George Henry, Edward Atkinson Hornel, Sir John Lavery and Arthur Melville), the Glasgow Boys...
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Not just a checklist of the John Logie Bairds, the Alexander Flemings and the John MacAdams, all well enough known, but such unsung heroes as James Lindsay, inventor of the light...
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The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of...
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The Essential Guide to Scottish History. Scotland has more history than you can shake a spurtle at, or a shinty stick, or a sporran - one of the many reasons for the nation's newfound...
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This irreverent look at Scottish history is a chronological narative of our nation's long and impressive past. From the heights of Bannockburn to the decision to cancel Taggart...
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Scots like to smoke or salt them. The Dutch love them raw. Swedes look on with relish as they open bulging, foul-smelling cans to find them curdling within. Jamaicans prefer them...
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Join Alistair Moffat as he walks the forgotten paths of Scotland. Roman roads, warpaths, pilgrim routes, drove roads and abandoned rail roads are all included in this book which...
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Why were castles so important? Was there a limit to the powers a medieval king could use - or abuse? What was the reality of being under siege? Was there really anything that can...
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Scotland's long and often turbulent past is filled with many great heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters. This colourful introduction to the history of Scotland traces the...
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As an antidote to more sober accounts of Scotland's history, Ian Crofton offers a colourful chronology of the eccentric, the infamous, the bawdy, the horrific and the hilarious...
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It's easy to overlook how much of our nation's history is preserved in the land around us. The very shape and lie of the land can be read to tell of our changing nation in ways...
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Scotland is one of the oldest countries in the world with a vivid and diverse past. Yet the stories and figures that dominate Scottish history - tales of failure, submission, thwarted...
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THe Honours of Scotland tells the turbulent story of the Honours - Scotland's crown jewels - and the equally dramatic tale of the Stone of Destiny. Over the centuries, Scotland's...
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Scots have made a huge contribution to the world - you only have to look at a tea towel listing the famous sons and daughters of the saltire to see that. Surprisingly, there is...
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This book provides a fresh and modern approach to Scotland's fascinating history, from the prehistoric past to the innovative present. It contains special features on subjects...
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The industrial and minor railways of Scotland are neglected topics deserving of greater attention. Following on from 'Industrial Locomotives & Railways of North East England',...
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When Scotland's 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. In the Hebrides and the West Highlands a huge relief effort came too late to prevent...
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On 2 August 1908, Alexander Ormiston Curle, a 41-year-old solicitor and antiquarian, set off by bicycle from the Borders fishing village of St Abbs on a mission to inspect all...
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This is the first modern history for general readers of the entire Jacobite movement in Scotland, England and Ireland, from the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 that drove James II...
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Some years ago a revolution took place in Early Medieval history in Scotland. The Pictish heartland of Fortriu, previously
thought to be centred on Perthshire and the Tay found...
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