History
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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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Airsaig and Morar, Norse and Gaelic, the 'river-mouth bay' and the 'great water', part of na garbh Chriochan, an area so rugged and desolate it was itself known as the Highlands...
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Taking you through the year day by day, The Dumfries Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different periods in the history of the...
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It took 600 men six years to build, and was one of the longest bridges in the world. On its completion in 1878, famous visitors, including the Emperor of Brazil, Prince Leopold...
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With the country's oldest university and the ruins of both a magnificent castle and one of the grandest cathedrals of medieval Europe, St Andrews is one of the most beautiful and...
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As Hawick celebrates the 500th anniversary of the fight at Hornshole, the first stirrings of the defining traditions of the common riding, Alistair Moffat takes the narrative much...
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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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In the 1830s and 1840s the district of Glendale on the island of Skye was swamped by immigrants cleared from other north Skye estates. The resultant overcrowding and over-use of...
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In 1844 Sir James Matheson bought the Isle of Lewis, awash with hope and good intentions, only, in 1853, to put a rat-faced factor from Tain in sole charge of the estate. Within...
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Robert Burns is more than Scotland's national poet. He has become a symbol of Scottish national identity whose work is still read.
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This is the second edition of Prof Chris Harvie's history of Scotland. It remains short, light, irreverent. It has now been taken in hand by editor Alice Lowenstein and made compatible...
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Scottish history has been shaped and defined by a series of great battles. John Sadler gives the first full military history of Scotland for many years. From Mons Graupius to Culloden...
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Read the fascinating histories of twelve noteworthy and sensational Scottish trials that have marked great and notorious lives and times in Scotland. An ideal pick-up for locals...
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This book gives the stories of Scotland's witches, the accused, the confessed, the trials, and the superstitions.
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Smuggling in West Argyll & Lochaber is a remarkable account of the time, prior to 1745, when Scotland was home to a widespread and highly sophisticated trade in smuggled goods...
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Auld Reekie or the Athens of the North? Edinburgh is a city of contrasts--a fact reflected in this unique collection of photographs taken over the last century. The Wee Book of...
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In late November, 1893, a humpback whale,as rare a sight in the North Sea then as it would be now, followed herring shoals into the Tay estuary, and travelled as far upstream as...
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When Ray Ward died in 1999, his sons discovered an old and dusty manuscript in an Afrika Korps ammunition box in the cellar of the family home in Glasgow. These papers contained...
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