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£12.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780300273014 | ISBN 10: 0300273010
An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland’s influence in the world and the world’s on Scotland, from the Thirty Years’ War to the present day.
Scotland is one of the oldest nations in the world, yet by some it is hardly counte ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781913025366 | ISBN 10: 1913025365
The Spanish civil war was a call to arms for 2,300 British volunteers, of which over 500 were from Scotland. The first book of its kind, Homage to Caledonia examines Scotland's role in the conflict, detailing exactly why Scottish involvement was so p ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781780276786 | ISBN 10: 1780276788
'A gripping, heart-breaking account of the famine winter of 1847' - Rosemary Goring, The HeraldÂ
Longlisted for the Highland Book PrizeÂ
When Scotland’s 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. In the H ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781804250143 | ISBN 10: 1804250147
As the battle of words over the future of Scotland as a democracy, nation and society continues, A Better Nation: The Challenges of Scottish Independence aims to go beyond the superficial divisions and media noise in order to address matters of real ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781780276328 | ISBN 10: 178027632x
In April 1820, a series of dramatic events exploded around Glasgow, central Scotland and Ayrshire. Demanding political reform and better living and working conditions, 60,000 weavers and other workers went on strike. Revolution was in the air.
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£20.00 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781785905704 | ISBN 10: 1785905708
‘I have devoted myself to the cause of the people. It is a good cause – it shall ultimately prevail – it shall finally triumph.’ Thomas Muir
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The Political Martyrs memorial in Edinburgh looms large on the city’s skyline but its his ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780141985930 | ISBN 10: 0141985933
Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was in the same period another side to the history of the nation. Many of Scotland's people were subjected to coercive ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786637871 | ISBN 10: 1786637871
A People’s History of Scotland looks beyond the kings and queens, the battles and bloody defeats of the past. It captures the history that matters today, stories of freedom fighters, suffragettes, the workers of Red Clydeside, and the hardship and ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781780275062 | ISBN 10: 1780275064
When the Clyde Ran Red paints a vivid picture of the heady days when revolution was in the air on Clydeside. Through the bitter strike at the huge Singer Sewing machine plant in Clydebank in 1911, Bloody Friday in Glasgow’s George Square in 1919, t ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781912147304 | ISBN 10: 1912147300
Does Scotland have a problem with racism?
With its 'civic nationalism' and 'welcoming' attitude towards migrants and refugees, Scotland is understood to be relatively free of structural and institutional racism. As the contributors to this b ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780274812 | ISBN 10: 1780274815
Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the Industrial Revolution to the dawning of the second millennium.
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781847085184 | ISBN 10: 1847085180
The Hebrides hold a remarkable place in the imaginations of Scotland and England. On the outer edge of the British Isles and facing the Atlantic Ocean, these iconic islands form part of Europe's boundary. Because of their unique position, they have b ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781911332046 | ISBN 10: 191133204x
How our nation has changed and why there's no going back.
Scotland has changed fundamentally. This story has become a familiar one, but have we yet understood its full meaning and the resulting consequences? What kind of choices do we fac ... more
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£26.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780748617845 | ISBN 10: 0748617841
Scottish Labour has been the dominant political party in Scotland for over 40 years. Yet this is the first book to consider the contemporary party, analysing it in the context of Scottish politics, Scotland, and the UK, as well as drawing on internat ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781849172257 | ISBN 10: 1849172250
Archaeologists Angela Gannon and George Geddes spent over 9 months living and working on St Kilda, and have been part of a team which has been researching its remarkable history for more than a decade. In this new book they turn the popular percepti ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910745366 | ISBN 10: 1910745367
The story of the Rising is still being told, and in these pages the reader will find much to ponder, much to discuss, and much to disagree with. From the Introduction by Kirsty Lusk and Willy Maley.
On Easter Monday 1916, leaders of a rebellion a ... more
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£31.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780760414 | ISBN 10: 1780760418
During the first half of the twentieth century Glasgow was witness to an unparalleled wave of working class protest and political agitation. The protestors challenged the capitalist social order and also, on occasion, the state itself. What was the l ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849549318 | ISBN 10: 1849549311
It was a unique and bizarre moment in British political history: the three main Westminster parties working together to prevent the break-up of the United Kingdom. Yet despite sustaining a defeat that caused the resignation of Scotland’s longest-serv ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780091960247 | ISBN 10: 009196024x
In this captivating book bestselling author Christopher Winn turns his attention to the Scottish people, taking us on an eye-opening journey around their homeland, discovering en route the intriguing and surprising ways the places and their history c ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780273105 | ISBN 10: 178027310x
Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament made any difference? Can we get our common good land back?
In The Poor Had No Lawyers, Andy Wightman, author of Who Owns S ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780271514 | ISBN 10: 1780271514
The land that was to become Scotland has travelled across the globe over the last 3,000 million years – from close to the South Pole to its current position. During these travels, there were many continental collisions, creating mountain belts as hig ... more
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£7.95 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908251510 | ISBN 10: 1908251514
The referendum is over, but Scotland’s underlying social and economic problems remain, as they have since its brutal deindustrialisation under Thatcher. Jim Sillars sets out the arguments for a second referendum and for an urgent resolution, as the V ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780008139766 | ISBN 10: 0008139768
Alex Salmond has been a passionate supporter of Scottish independence his whole life. In September 2014, he came close to realising that dream.
In a riveting daily diary, written with his trademark wit and charm, Salmond takes us into the he ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241969168 | ISBN 10: 0241969166
A vivid, wide-ranging and engrossing account of Scotland's history, composed of eye-witness accounts by those who experienced it first-hand.
Contributors range from Tacitus, Mary Queen of Scots and Oliver Cromwell to Adam Smith, David Livin ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780992898311 | ISBN 10: 0992898315
As Scotland stands poised to make a decision that will have ramifications for centuries to come, Restless Land unravels the tangled tale of the centuries gone before.
Unlike many history books, it looks beyond the kings and queens, the aristocr ... more
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£14.95 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780232874 | ISBN 10: 178023287x
Is the United Kingdom really as united as its name might suggest? For many people in the UK, increasing nationalism in Scotland raises serious questions about what the UK is, and where its future lies. In The Road to Independence?, now available in a ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241967935 | ISBN 10: 0241967937
Scots have tried unfamiliar political tactics as they struggle with the dilemma of being a minority inside a centralised state and their experience is now being studied by opposition leaders in England. Yet for many Scots, their own political history ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780270159 | ISBN 10: 1780270151
Megrahi finally speaks in his own defence.
The evidence concerns a tiny fragment of electronic printed circuit board (PCB), which was allegedly from the Lockerbie bomb’s timer. The judges at Mr Megrahi’s trial accepted that it was identi ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007438006 | ISBN 10: 0007438001
The extraordinary story of the UK's most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steel's acclaimed portrait of the St Kildan's lives is now updated in this reissued edition.Â
Situated at the westernmost point of the United Kingdom, ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781841588018 | ISBN 10: 1841588016
In the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts - once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland - were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland were forced from their homes by la ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906307370 | ISBN 10: 1906307377
The environment is not a neutral background to human struggles for power and profit. Scotland's past is affected by these non-human factors as much as anything that man has done. The dramatic environmental consequences of volcanic eruptions, floods o ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906817169 | ISBN 10: 1906817162
The Spanish civil war was a call to arms for 2,300 British volunteers, of which over 500 were from Scotland. The first book of its kind, Homage to Caledonia examines Scotland’s role in the conflict, detailing exactly why Scottish involvement was so p ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906307707 | ISBN 10: 1906307709
Ian R. Mitchell takes you on a journey along the River Clyde and shows it's not just about the remnants of shipbuilding, relating stories of conflicts, people and communities.
The river rolls from Lanarkshire, once renowned for its coal and ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781845964979 | ISBN 10: 1845964977
More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantatio ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199230792 | ISBN 10: 019923079x
Since Devolution in 1999 Scotland has become a focus of intense interest both within Britain and throughout the wider world.
In this Very Short Introduction, Rab Houston explores how an independent Scottish nation emerged in the Middle Ages ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781841586953 | ISBN 10: 1841586951
One of the great classics of Scottish history,The Drove Roads of Scotland interweaves, folklore, social comment, commerce and farming in a fascinating account of Scotland's droving trade and the routes by which cattle and sheep were brought from ever ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781841585536 | ISBN 10: 184158553x
All they wanted was land: land for crofting and land on which to build a house. In 1908, ten desperate men from the islands of Barra and Mingulay in the Western Isles were imprisoned for refusing to leave the island of Vatersay which they had raided, ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007273287 | ISBN 10: 0007273282
Scots Kith and Kin is a compact and comprehensive guide to over 4,000 Scottish family names and their clan affiliations. Whether you are a Highlander curious in your local heritage or a second generation Scot living abroad and piecing together your o ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781843410409 | ISBN 10: 1843410400
On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as ‘the workshop of the Empire’. Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced half of Britain’s total production of railway equipment, ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845962074 | ISBN 10: 1845962079
Colin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of No Mean City, the classic novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow’s most deprived district. He lived in the same street as its fictional ‘razor king’, ... more
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£15.95 hardback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780850365702 | ISBN 10: 0850365708
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Between 1902 and 1905 the Scottish community of Ballachulish, near Glencoe, was shaken to its foundations by pro ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781845960148 | ISBN 10: 1845960149
In a new edition of this classic book, introduced by the world-renowned Gaelic poet Sorley Maclean, the late Calum I. Maclean, a Gaelic-speaking Highlander, interprets the traditional background, culture and ways of life of his native country. Calum' ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781841957555 | ISBN 10: 1841957550
For more than 2000 years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Its society was viable, even utopian; but in the nineteenth century the island was discovered by missionaries, do-gooders and tourists, who brought money, disease and dep ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781845961299 | ISBN 10: 1845961293
Roots of Stone is a passionate tapestry, weaving the story of Scotland with the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people. This fascinating sweep over two thousand years of Scotland's past blends with a true family story stretching back over these s ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781862077881 | ISBN 10: 1862077886
In Curious Scotland, George Rosie unearths and illuminates many neglected aspects of Scottish history in a rich collection of episodes that ranges from the Picts to the Indian tribes of North America. What became of the sons of Robert Burns? Ho ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780006531913 | ISBN 10: 0006531911
Magnus Magnusson's timely and vivid look at Scotland's long and difficult road to nationhood takes as its starting-point Sir Walter Scott's Tales of a Grandfather, which has moulded the views of generations of Scottish schoolchildren since its first ... more
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£12.99 paperback (1969) - ISBN 13: 9780140028379 | ISBN 10: 0140028374
In the terrible aftermath of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs... Following his magnificent reconstruction of the moorland battle in Culloden, John Prebble recounts how the Highlanders were deserted then betray ... more
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