Scotland

Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully realised precursor to the era of Hume and Smith, at worst, a period of superstition and religious bigotry. This is the first...

This is a timely exploration of national identity in Great Britain over nine hundred years of history. Our attitudes to the nation state are changing - national assemblies in Scotland and Wales and growing pressures for regional assemblies. In his...

Scotland's 'Stone of Destiny' is the most famous symbol of both Scottish nationhood and the British monarchy. Nick Aitchison has produced the first fully researched and illustrated study of its history, mythology and cultural significance. Having first...

How did Aberdeen revolutionise modern midwifery and mother and baby care? Whether you were born in - or gave birth in - Aberdeen or elsewhere, you will probably have benefitted from the pioneering work of some of the people mentioned in this book...

Through his personality, ingenuity and ability, he initiated a resistance movement which ultimately secured the nation's freedom and independence. Yet, Wallace was reviled, opposed and eventually betrayed by the nobility in his own day to re-surface in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806359564Author David DobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 15mm

Made in Scotland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, politics, culture, and musicology of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music in Scotland. The volume consists of essays by local...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806359427Author David DobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849212328Author David W PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 770Imprint Kennedy And BoydPublisher Zeticula LtdWeight(grams) 1012gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

This work is both a family history and a social history of Scotland seen against a city, Edinburgh, acity that to this day is soured by class divisions. In tracing the family back several centuries, the book embeds their lives into the larger forces...

This is the first full-length history of the Scottish cotton industry, from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century to its premature decline in the years leading up to the First World War.The book examines the industry chronologically and through...

The close ties between Gaels of Ireland and Scotland are well known, but in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the elite in the core areas of the kingdom of the Scots apparently turned their backs on Gaelic culture. This book takes a new look at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604892970Author James Findlay SleighFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Livingston Press (AL)Publisher Livingston Press (AL)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739744304Author Mary HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Rosebine PressPublisher Rosebine PressWeight(grams) 617g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806359380Author David DobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 922Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 1043gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 46mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806359373Author David DobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 948Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 1075gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 47mm

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Originally published in 1987, this volume filled a notable gap in Scottish urban history and considers the place of Scottish towns in urban life during the 16th and 17th Centuries. The first part of the book is based on studies of individual burghs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806359458Author David DobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

This island of Lismore boasts a remarkably rich heritage, both in terms of historic monuments and of an unbroken tradition of Gaelic culture. From their first sight of Tirefour Broch, dominating approaches from the mainland, visitors to the Isle of...

The culture of all nations is rooted in past experience, individual and communal. In Scotland's Future History McHardy looked at the misrepresentation of so much of Scotland's political and social history. In this new volume he takes a wider look...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789555530Author Stephen J. McDowallFormat PaperbackPage Count 590Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 897g

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 9784867450970Author Jack StrangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Next ChapterPublisher Next ChapterWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 111mm * 16mm

Now hard to believe, Eilean Donan Castle was once one of the largest castles in the west Highlands, known to have featured seven towers, the remains of which lie buried on the island. This book provides a refreshed view of the lost medieval guise of the...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

At 12.08pm on Friday 31 January 1919, Margaret Buchanan drives her tram into George Square in Glasgow’s city centre. She slows down to avoid the youths and men holding their arms up to stop her; some even jump onto the front of her tram. Swirling around...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570983863Author Gordon MenziesFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Roberts Rinehart PublishersPublisher Roberts Rinehart PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922634818Author Henrietta E MarshallFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Living Book PressPublisher Living Book PressWeight(grams) 535g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036907655Author Jim GilhoolyFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Robert the Bruce Heritage Centre, RentonPublisher Robert the Bruce Heritage Centre,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887653921Author Billy WellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Billy WellmanPublisher Billy WellmanWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784867450994Author Jack StrangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Next ChapterPublisher Next ChapterWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784867450987Author Jack StrangeFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Next ChapterPublisher Next ChapterWeight(grams) 156g

Season by season – and whatever the weather – Scotland’s countryside is an endless source of wonder, enjoyment and discovery, whether on mountains or heather clad moorlands, in glens, rivers and lochs, or its myriad islands. In landscapes that can even...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909646773Author Stephen MullenFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Institute of Historical ResearchPublisher School of Advanced Study

Using case records of prosecutions at the Scottish High Court of Justiciary between 1918 and 1930, this book takes a quantitative and qualitative approach to understand sexual violence in Scotland at this time. Analysing legal records alongside victim...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738401901Author James ElderFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Corryvreckan BooksPublisher Corryvreckan BooksWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784867450741Author Jack StrangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Next ChapterPublisher Next ChapterWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916696990Author Leslie H Harvey of KimberleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint PublishNationPublisher PublishNationWeight(grams) 159g