Friday 11 October, 2024

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Scottish History Books

Fairlie’s Secret War

During the Second World War, the Royal Navy’s vitally important Anti-submarine Experimental Establishment was secretly moved from Portland in Dorset to the Ayrshire village of Fairlie, to escape German bombing on the south coast....

The Lighthouse Stevensons

An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst’s epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. ‘Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am...

The Battle of Largs

Over the last seven hundred and sixty years, tales about the Battle of Largs have been many and varied. From the very first Norse Saga to famous Scottish Historians it is a story that has...

Old Ways New Roads

Old Ways New Roads draws on the output of key travellers – from soldiers, surveyors and scholars to artists, writers and leisure tourists – to consider the connections between the military occupation of 18th-century...

The Fabulous Flotilla

A captivating story about the rivers of Burma, featuring some of the largest paddle steamers in the world Reveals the little-known connection with Burma - Scotland's 'lost colony' Liberally illustrated with many evocative photographs, maps and...

The Sea Kings

The archipelagic kingdoms of Man and the Isles that flourished from the last quarter of the eleventh century down to the middle of the thirteenth century represent two forgotten kingdoms of the medieval British...

Industry, Reform and Empire

From the death of James III to the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, Jane Dawson tells story of Scotland from the perspective of its regions and of individual Scots, as well as incorporating...

Union and Revolution

A provocative new account of Scotland's history across a century of revolution and political instability. This edition in the New History of Scotland series radically updates Rosalind Mitchison's Lordship to Patronage (1983), covering Scotland's...