Scotland

From the Callanish stones and the great ritual monuments of the Neolithic, the broch towers and the wheelhouses of the Iron Age, through to the arrival of the Norse and the Lords of the Isles, this book explores the history of human settlement and...

Longlisted for the 2022 Highland Book Prize Mary, Queen of Scots' marriage to the Earl of Bothwell is notorious. Less known is Bothwell's first wife, Jean Gordon, who extricated herself from their marriage and survived the intrigue of the Queen's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913898410Author Barbara BryanFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Pixel Tweaks PublicationsPublisher Pixel Tweaks PublicationsWeight(grams) 127g

King Charles I twice mobilised England in an attempt to enforce religious uniformity in Scotland, and both times he failed. The result was the resurgence of Parliament as partner in the government of the realm. The Bishops' Wars is an essay in military...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919610504Author Fiona GrahameFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint Orkney News Ltd.Publisher Orkney News Ltd.Weight(grams) 626gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

The traditional view of the Scottish nation holds that it first arose during the Wars of Independence from England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Although Scotland was absorbed into Britain in 1707 with the Treaty of Union, Scottish identity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806321134Author David DobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

BCC approved (with endorsements) "How is it that two broadly similar countries, neighbours with roughly equal populations and similar natural conditions, can follow two very different development paths? The authors of Northern Neighbours claim that...

Land for the People? covers a previously neglected period which saw the formative legislation and policies which continue to shape Highland life. Drawing on a wider range of sources, both public and private, than hitherto, Ewen Cameron delivers an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008981669Author John RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922348135Author Henrietta E MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Living Book PressPublisher Living Book PressWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)...

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The Battle of Pinkie, fought between the English and the Scots in 1547, was the last great clash between the two as independent nations. It is a well-documented battle with several eyewitness accounts and contemporary illustrations. There is also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464241222Author Zoe VenditozziFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint SourcebooksPublisher SourcebooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 150mm * 30mm

In 1532, James V instituted the College of Justice, an incorporated group of expert lawyers and administrators who were to exercise supreme Scottish civil jurisdiction. Why did he decide to do that? This book argues that the scheme was informed by a...

Some ten thousand years ago, hunter-gatherers moving through a landscape newly emerged from the grip of the last Ice Age reached four islands on the western seaboard. The shores they landed on were deserted. After making camp, they struck out to hunt and...

From mean beginnings – ‘wretched accommodation, no comfortable houses, no soft beds’, visiting French knights complained in 1341 – the city of Edinburgh went on to become one of the architectural wonders of the world. But over the centuries many of its...

Importing Fascism analyses the mechanisms of the Italian fascist regime in incorporating the Italian-Scottish diaspora into their nation- and fascism-building project via its transnational efforts between the rise of fascism in 1922 and Italy's...

This book synthesises the rare indigenous voice with newly discovered archival sources in Spain, Jamaica and the United States. The result is a new and expanded chronicle of the Scottish Panamanian initiative. It broadens what we know about the Company...

This is a study of Scottish society from the defeat of the last Jacobite rebellion at Culloden in 1746 to the passing into law of the Scottish Reform Bill in July 1832. It is a period when the Scottish Enlightenment reached and perhaps passed its peak,...

Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social force, committed to improvement and national regeneration as...

Originally published in 1990 this book focusses on the main manoeuvres that took place in Scotland and England between 1688 and the Battle of Culloden in 1746. It provides a detailed chronological narrative of places, people and battles. Many of the...

Originally published in 1971, this book gives the real substance of Scotland at the time of Mary Queen of Scots. It describes in extensive and colourful detail the way people of all ranks of society lived, their homes, their food and amusements, the ways...

Originally published in 1980, this book examines the evolution of the Scottish landscape from pre-historic times to the mid-nineteenth century. It considers the way in which the structural base of agriculture and the changing farming 'system' came to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840330007Author Eric EunsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 180mm * 240mm * 3mm

In the first and only book to explore Scotland's part in the green revolution and what the future may hold, Westbrook refutes common arguments against wind power with hard facts and a wry sense of humour.About the AuthorTodd Westbrook graduated from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781447881773Author Ruth DaubneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Lulu Press IncPublisher Lulu Press IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643130002Author Kate WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 150mm *...

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'Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on.' - Hamilton, Scotland, 3 November 1967 A young couple, married only one day, join a group of eager SNP supporters in the early morning of the by-election to gather last minute votes around Hamilton. ...

The Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century brought a radical shift from a profoundly sensual and ceremonial experience of religion to the dominance of the word through the Book and sermon. In Scotland, the revolution assumed proportions...

The Sword of Scotland is the story of Scotlands military heritage. Scotlands fighting men have played a part in shaping the history of our world, and many of the individual countries in it. Its contribution and its sacrifices have been out of all...

The borderers - people forged and hardened by endemic warfare over generations, whether by raids and skirmishes or set piece battles - are marked even today as a distinct group. For three savage centuries England and Scotland, both dynamic races, slogged...

Glengarry, Upper Canada's first major Scottish settlement, was established in 1784 by Highlanders from Inverness-shire. Worsening economic conditions in Scotland, coupled with a growing awareness of Upper Canadas opportunities, led to a growing tide of...

Farquhar, Crawford, Cavenagh, Thomson, Anderson, Napier, Fullerton, Henderson, MacRitchie, MacPherson, Outram, Purvis, Spottiswoode. These are some of the Scots who have played a part in making Singapore.Guthrie, Fraser & Neave, Rodyk & Davidson, Sime...

Scottish history is undergoing a renaissance. Everyone agrees that an understanding of our nation's history is integral to our experience of its present and the shaping of the future. But the story of Scotland's past is being told with little reference...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806359595Author David DobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782227496Author T J DowdsFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Paragon PublishingPublisher Paragon PublishingWeight(grams) 313g

Storm clouds always gather over the story of the Highland Clearances. The eviction of the Highlanders from the glens and straths of the Highlands and Islands of the north of Scotland still causes great historical dispute more than a century after the...

Few capital cities contain a landmark as rugged and expansive as Edinburgh's Holyrood Park and Arthur's Seat. Not only does this space provide superb recreational opportunities; it also contains important habitats for a vast diversity of Scottish...