History
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The Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart was a charismatic, spirited and promising youth who had served with courage at the Siege of Gaeta. He was the last hope of the Jacobites...
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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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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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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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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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