Scottish History Books

The North Britons represent one of the lesser-known groups among the early medieval inhabitants of Scotland. Similar to the Picts and Vikings, they significantly influenced the development of Scottish history during the first millennium...

In the first millennium AD, the northern part of Britain transformed into the country we now know as Scotland. This transformation was a gradual process marked by social and political changes driven by powerful...

Part of the New Edinburgh History of Scotland, this volume focuses on the period usually known as the 'Making of the Kingdom' or the 'Anglo-Norman' era in Scottish history. It aims to strike a...

This book explores the historical relationship between the kingdom of Strathclyde and Anglo-Saxon England during the Viking period from the ninth to eleventh centuries AD. It focuses on the North Britons or 'Cumbrians', an...

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....

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

When Charles Edward Stuart launched the last, and perhaps most famous, of the Jacobite Risings in the late summer of 1745, the British Army found itself ill-placed to respond. Its most effective troops were...