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Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre by John Prebble
RRP: £12.99£9.09'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.' This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts... -
Culloden John Prebble 9780712668200
RRP: £14.99£10.95This is the story of ordinary men and women involved in the Rebellion, who were described on the gaol registers and regimental rosters of the time as 'Common Men'. There is little in this book about Bonnie Prince Charlie and other principals of the last... -
Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey by Madeleine Bunting 9781847085184
RRP: £10.99£7.32The 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 been... -
Reid: The Origins of the Clan Reid and Their Place in History by Murray Ogilvie 9781852172893
RRP: £3.99£3.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852172893Author Murray OgilvieFormat PaperbackImprint Lang Syne Publishers LtdPublisher Lang Syne Publishers Ltd -
To the Hebrides: Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands AND James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides - The Most Complete Edition Ever Published by Ronald Black
RRP: £14.99£10.20Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are widely regarded as among the best pieces of travel writing ever produced. Johnson and Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring Scotland... -
Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984) by Douglas MacIntyre 9781399600255
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Hungry Beat is the story of an all-too-brief era where the short-circuiting of that industry seemed viable. But hell, the times were luminous as was the music these artists made. The songs and many of the players remain, and here they tell their story... -
The Wars of Scotland, 1214-1371 Michael Brown 9780748612383
RRP: £25.99£23.98The Wars of Scotland is the story of the pivotal period in Scottish history between 1214 and 1371. The century and a half between the death of King William the Lion and the accession of the Stewarts witnessed major changes in the internal character of... -
Queens' Play: The Lymond Chronicles Book Two by Dorothy Dunnett
RRP: £10.99£7.77Before George R. R. Martin there was Dorothy Dunnett . . . PERFECT for fans of A Game of Thrones.'She is a brilliant story teller, The Lymond Chronicles will keep you reading late into the night, desperate to know the fate of the characters you have come... -
St Kilda: The Last and Outmost Isle by Angela Gannon
RRP: £18.99£13.99In 1527 Hector Boece, the first Principal of King's College Aberdeen, wrote in his extensive History of the Scottish People of an island of rocky crags and prehistoric sheep, which could only be reached through extreme danger to life. It was, he... -
The A-Z of Curious Aberdeenshire: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Duncan Harley 9780750983792
RRP: £14.99£11.55Duncan Harley takes the reader on a grand tour of the curious and the bizarre, the strange and the unusual from Aberdeenshire's past. Read about the Beatles' first, and almost their last, tour of the North-east, the Deeside artist who tended plaster... -
William Wallace by Andrew Fisher
£11.63William Wallace has always been one of the great heroes of Scottish history. By no means prepared by birth, education or training for leadership, Wallace nevertheless rose to prominence during the Wars of Independence, leading forces which broke the... -
Duncan: The Origins of the Clan Duncan and Their Place in History by Murray Ogilvie 9781852172831
RRP: £3.99£3.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852172831Author Murray OgilvieFormat PaperbackImprint Lang Syne Publishers LtdPublisher Lang Syne Publishers Ltd -
Whisky: Malt Whiskies of Scotland (Collins Little Books) by Dominic Roskrow
RRP: £6.99£4.80The perfect stocking filler for lovers of Whisky. An excellent introduction to the world of Scotch whiskies. It includes the major Scotch whiskies and the distilleries that produce them. The book includes details of the very best of... -
The Little Book of Edinburgh by Geoff Holder 9780750993999
RRP: £9.99£7.55The Little Book of Edinburgh is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric... -
Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors by National Archives 9781780276335
RRP: £12.99£8.56This is a new edition of the bestselling guide to this increasingly popular pursuit. Scotland has the best-maintained records and facilities of any country in the world for undertaking family research, and now that the National Records of Scotland are... -
Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches by Malcolm Gaskill 9781802061994
RRP: £12.99£9.09One of the last criminal trials using the 1735 Witchcraft Act was, improbably, in London in 1944. The accused was Helen Duncan, a middle-aged Scotswoman. This is her extraordinary story.Helen Duncan - known since childhood as 'Hellish Nell', for her... -
The Secret History of Here: A Year in the Valley Alistair Moffat 9781838851149
RRP: £10.99£7.32The Secret History of Here is the story of a single place in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat's farm now stands has been occupied since prehistoric times. Walking this landscape you can feel the presence and see the marks of those... -
Bathgate by Bill Hendrie 9780752421254
RRP: £14.99£11.55From the 'House in the Midst of the Boar Wood' to its present position at the heart of Scotland's burgeoning 'Silicon Glen', Bathgate and it surrounds have played a subtly significant part in Scotland's history. The preceptory of the Knights of St. John,... -
Old Wishaw by Rhona Wilson 9781840330021
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840330021Author Rhona WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 170mm * 240mm * 4mm -
Connecting History: Higher The Wars of Independence, 1249-1328 Michele Sine Duck 9781398345386
£21.93Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told... -
Orcadia: Land, Sea and Stone in Neolithic Orkney by Mark Edmonds 9781788543453
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Orcadian archipelago is a museum of archaeological wonders. The Orcadian Neolithic is home to some of the best-preserved Neolithic sites in Europe: here we can find evidence of a dynamic society with connections binding Orkney to Ireland, to... -
The Men of the North: The Britons of Southern Scotland by Tim Clarkson
RRP: £20.00£14.05The North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings they played an important role in the shaping of Scottish history during the first millennium AD but their part is often neglected or... -
The Lewis Man: The much-anticipated sequel to the bestselling hit (The Lewis Trilogy Book 2) Peter May 9781529416817
RRP: £10.99£7.40THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years.' Independent'No one can create a more eloquently written... -
How The Scots Invented The Modern World by Arthur Herman
RRP: £20.00£12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609809990Author Arthur HermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Culloden Tales: Stories from Scotland's Most Famous Battlefield by Hugh G. Allison
RRP: £10.99£7.77Culloden was the last battle on British soil. It marked the end of clan culture and was the harbinger of the Highland Clearances. It ensured the inevitability of the American Revolution and increased the outpouring of Scots across the globe. It is the... -
A History and Guide to Scottish Castles by Jenna Maxwell
RRP: £22.00£15.62At one time, Scotland was home to more than 4,000 castles. It's an extraordinary number for such a small country and today, around 3,000 still stand. Some are world famous, others have inspired great works of literature, while others have lit up the... -
The Salt Roads: How Fish Made a Culture by John Goodlad 9781780278285
RRP: £9.99£6.70This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired artists, writers and musicians. It ranges from the wild waters of the North Atlantic, the ice-filled fjords... -
The Kingdom of the Isles: Scotland's Western Seaboard C.1100-C.1336 by Andrew R MacDonald
RRP: £25.00£17.32This study explores the history of the western seaboard of Scotland (the Hebrides, Argyll and the Isle of Man) in a formative but often neglected era: the central middle ages, from the mightly Somerled to his descendant John MacDonald, the first Lord of... -
Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection Tom M. Devine 9781474408806
RRP: £21.99£17.97For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland's connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots, unlike the English, had any significant involvement in slavery... -
The Kings & Queens of Scotland by Richard Oram
RRP: £14.99£11.55The history of the Scottish monarchy is a long tale of triumph over adversity, characterised by the personal achievements of remarkable rulers who transformed their fragile kingdom into the master of northern Britain. The Kings and Queens of Scotland... -
A Brief History of the English Civil Wars by John Miller
RRP: £10.99£4.11Miller provides a clear and comprehensible narrative, a coherent and accurate synthesis, intended as a guide for students and the general reader to an extremely complex period in British history. His aim is to help readers avoid getting lost in a maze of... -
Fife at Work: Britain in Old Photographs by Carol McNeill 9780750970464
RRP: £14.99£11.55This fascinating pictorial history takes a look back at the days when Fife was home to a wide variety of traditional industries, including mining, farming, fishing, pottery and textile factories, shipping and shipbuilding. Featuring over 160 archive... -
The Truth About St. Kilda: An Islander's Memoir by Donald Gillies
RRP: £9.99£6.99The Truth about St Kilda is a unique record of the isolated way of life on St Kilda in the early part of the twentieth century, based on seven handwritten notebooks written by the Rev. Donald Gillies, containing reminiscences of his childhood on the... -
Scotland: Highlands, Islands, Lochs & Legends by Claudia Martin
RRP: £19.99£15.88Where in the world do passenger planes land on the beach each day? Where might you search for the world's most famous underwater monster? Where would you find a capital city with more listed buildings than anywhere else in the world? Yes, in Scotland of... -
Scotland: The Global History: 1603 to the Present by Murray Pittock 9780300273014
RRP: £12.99£11.46An 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 counted as a nation at... -
Clan Battles: Warfare in the Scottish Highlands by Chris Peers 9781399070034
£20.59Warfare between the clans of the Highlands in the late Middle Ages determined the course of history in this region of Scotland, and Chris Peers's gripping account of it - and of the rivalry between the strongest clans - gives the reader a deep insight... -
Scotland: Her Story: The Nation's History by the Women Who Lived It by Rosemary Goring
RRP: £12.99£8.56Scotland's history has been told many times, but never exclusively by its women. This book takes a unique perspective on dramatic national events as well as ordinary life, as experienced by women down the centuries. From the saintly but severe medieval... -
Leith by Tom Wright 9781908373656
RRP: £9.99£7.27The Leith area possesses a highly distinct cultural and social identity, with a contentious history to its relationship with Edinburgh.Tom Wright opens the door to Leith's past by exploring its rich heritage through a comprehensive collection of black... -
St Peter's, Cardross: Birth, Death and Renewal by Diane Watters
RRP: £30.00£22.38The ruin of St Peter's College has sat on a wooded hilltop above the village of Cardross for more than three decades. Over that time, with altars crumbling, graffiti snaking across its walls and nature reclaiming its concrete, it has gained a mythical,... -
Tir a'Mhurain: The Outer Hebrides of Scotland by Paul Strand
RRP: £25.00£17.59Tir a'Mhurain is a collection of photographs that reflects the impressions gathered by Paul Strand and his wife Hazel during their 3-month visit to the Hebrides in 1945. Juxtaposing people and landscape, Strand's beautifully sequenced photographs depict...