1707: The Union of Scotland and England
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1707: The Union of Scotland & England by P H Scott researches the important historical documents of the 1707 Union of Scotland and England, bet...
View full detailsThere are few things more satisfying than the scent of an aged book. Unless, of course, you count the hunt – going through rows upon rows of old books, looking for something you can’t entirely put your finger on. Rubbing the back of your hand against the hardcover spines of old books as you pass by, maybe not knowing anything about the titles themselves. Maybe there are a few titles you know. Maybe there’s something in particular, a special, obscure book that you’re looking for.
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1707: The Union of Scotland & England by P H Scott researches the important historical documents of the 1707 Union of Scotland and England, bet...
View full detailsA Buchan Companion By Paul Webb. A Guide to the Novels and Short Stories is a book of Literary criticism of stories by Scottish author John Buchan...
View full detailsA Century of the Scottish People, 1830-1950 by T. C. Smout The second volume of T. C. Smout's magnificent - and indispensable - account of the Scot...
View full detailsBy Anne Scholey Anthology of articles and recollections of various facets of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, ranging from individuals and towns ...
View full detailsA Lie About My Father by John Burnside John Burnside has published seven works of fiction and eleven collections of poetry, including his Selected ...
View full detailsAlec Douglas-Home by D.R. Thorne Alec Douglas-Home, who died in October 1995, was a member of every Conservative administration from 1935 to 1974. ...
View full detailsAnna, Countess of the Covenant by Mary McGrigor Lady Anna Mackenzie, daughter of Lord Seaforth, was born in 1621. Famed for her beauty, she married...
View full detailsThis lively and erudite cultural history of Scotland, from the Jacobite defeat of 1745 to the death of an icon, Sir Walter Scott, in 1832, examines...
View full detailsThis lively and erudite cultural history of Scotland, from the Jacobite defeat of 1745 to the death of an icon, Sir Walter Scott, in 1832, examines...
View full detailsBaron John Maltravers 1290-1364 'A Wise Knight in War and Peace' : and his Forebears and Descendants 1066-1435 by Caroleen McClure The first Baron ...
View full detailsWhen the Dutch East Indiaman Batavia struck an uncharted reef off the new continent of Australia on her maiden voyage in 1629, 332 men, women and c...
View full detailsBattleground Perthshire is a concise account of the battles and minor military events that have taken place within the county of Perthshire. Comp...
View full detailsLooks at the battles of Prestonpans, Falkirk and Culloden. The battles pitted the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart against an army commande...
View full detailsAfter a brief introduction on the history of Scotland and Scottish cooking, this book takes a look at the various ingredients that are produced a...
View full detailsBorn Yesterday: Memories of a Scottish Childhood by Douglas Sutherland. This autobiography is a memoir of a childhood spent in Scotland almost 70 y...
View full detailsBound for America : The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775 by A.Roger Ekirch (Author) During the eighteenth century, t...
View full detailsThe period from the early works of Hogarth (about 1730) to the death of Turner (1851) was the golden age of British painting, bringing it into th...
View full detailsThe perfect introduction to Scottish tartans. Produced in association with the Scottish Tartans Authority, this Little Book focuses on the history ...
View full detailsTartans are synonymous with Scotland and for many Scots, both at home and abroad, they are recognized and acknowledged as symbols of clan kinship. ...
View full detailsA man walks into an upmarket restaurant in the City. Within seconds, a senior banker lies dead. Shortly afterwards a senior Civil Servant is also...
View full detailsThis is a garden history which focuses not on garden design and horticulture, but on the plants themselves and the men who grew them. Forbes Robert...
View full detailsFife : Pictorial and Historical; Its People, Burghs, Castles, and Mansions. Volume II. by Alexander Hastie Millar (Author) Part of the HISTORY OF B...
View full detailsFife by John Gifford is part of The Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Scotland series published in association with the National Trust for...
View full detailsThis is a record of some of the people who make, or have made, their living from fishing the shores around the East Neuk of Fife. From Lower Largo ...
View full detailsFife's Fishing Industry by Linda McGowan (Author) Fishing has always been a mainstay of Fife. The fishing industry began to develop in earnest in t...
View full detailsFrom the Stone Age to the Forty-five by by Anne C. O'Connor (Editor), D.V. Clarke (Editor)
Great British Family Names and Their History : What's in a Name? by John Moss (Author) For better or worse, what we are is often determined by our ...
View full detailsGreat British Family Names and Their History : What's in a Name? by John Moss (Author) For better or worse, what we are is often determined by our ...
View full detailsHeraldry and Stained Glass at Apothecaries' Hall by William Shand (Author) , Andrew Wallington-Smith (Author) Apothecaries' Hall, home of the Worsh...
View full detailsHere the brave history of this romantic cloth is examined in detail, covering the span of Scotland's history and the manner in which tartan was enm...
View full detailsIndustry, Business and Society in Scotland Since 1700 Edited by: A.J.G. Cummings, T.M. Devine This is a collection of 12 essays penned by former st...
View full detailsThe defeat of the Jacobites in 1746 enabled government statesmen and administrators, north and south of the border, to begin a policy of punishment...
View full details‘A book of such quality as to persuade you that historical novels are the true business of the writer.’Daily Telegraph A gripping, shocking story...
View full detailsLARGOS UNTOLD STORIES a book covering Witches, cannibalism, serious perverts, sea battles ,Plague, maniac sea captains and the bigamist drunken ant...
View full detailsMarch Past by Lord Lovat Brigadier Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat and 4th Baron Lovat, DSO, MC, TD, JP, DL (9 July 1911 in Beaufo...
View full detailsMemories and Reflections: An East Neuk Anthology Nellie Watson was born in 1895 in Cellardyke, Anstruther, the daughter of a fisherman. She was edu...
View full detailsModern Heraldry Vol. 2 by Jon Dowling (Foreword By) The second volume of Modern Heraldry contains a vast resource of trademarks, based on heraldic ...
View full details'My political life is over, and I proclaim my son Emperor of the French under the title of Napoleon II'. It was not to be. Napoleon's hopes, expres...
View full detailsNelsonian Reminiscences - A Dramatic Eye-Witness Account Of The War At Sea 1795-1810 by G S Parsons RN These remarkable memoirs of a naval lieuten...
View full detailsIn 1725 an extensive military road and bridge-building programme was implemented by the British crown that would transform 18th-century Scotland. A...
View full detailsPhantom Listeners edited by Maria Sjoestrand and beautifully illustrated by Karolina Wellart. This fabulous collection of supernatural poems by wri...
View full detailsWonderful coffee table style book of colour photographs by Fife photographer Peter Adamson and St Andrews author Lorn Mackintyre
The ancient Kingdom of Fife and the surrounding area play a central role in the history of the nation, from the battlefield of Bannockburn to the p...
View full detailsThis is an excellent condition paperback book by Forbes Macgregor from 1998 covering topics such as Picts, Culdees, Calvinists and Witchcraft in th...
View full detailsThis book takes a timely look at how Scotland's national politics have been expressed in its buildings, exploring the role the architecture of Scot...
View full detailsScotland Since 1707 by R.H. Campbell (Author) 1971 Hardback Reprint. Dust Jacket may have small chips and tears. Book will have been read but remai...
View full detailsScotland's Clans and Tartans
Guide to over 4,000 Scottish family names and their clan affiliations with pull out map of Scotland. Whether you are a Highlander curious in your l...
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