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The Small Isles by John Hunter
RRP: £25.00£18.40Some 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... -
Scottish Lighthouse Pioneers: Travels with the Stevensons in Orkney and Shetland by Paul A. Lynn 9781849952651
RRP: £16.99£14.10In the 19th century, the Stevenson engineers pioneered marvelous lighthouses around the coasts of Scotland - lighthouses which inspire with their architectural elegance, and speak of compassion for sailors and fishermen risking their lives in these... -
Alexander II: King of Scots 1214-1249 Richard D. Oram 9781904607922
RRP: £25.00£17.32By equal measure state-builder and political unifier and ruthless opportunist and bloody-handed aggressor, Alexander II has been praised or vilified by past historians but has rarely been viewed in the round. This book explores the king's successes and... -
A Military History of Scotland Edward M. Spiers 9780748694495
RRP: £40.00£34.38This is a magisterial work of Scots military history. The Scottish soldier has been at war for over 2000 years. This illustrated pean to his rich heritage explores both the detail of battles and the cultural history of war, devoting eight separate... -
Revolt on the Clyde: The Classic Autobiography of Red Clydeside by William Gallacher
RRP: £13.00£12.56Tanks on the streets, local regiments confined to barracks and the imposition of martial law.This was not Petrograd, but Glasgow in 1919.Revolt on the Clyde is William Gallacher's eye witness account of these tumultuous events - and more - in an era that... -
Scotland from Pre-History to the Present by Fiona Watson
RRP: £14.99£11.55From the early settlers after the last Ice Age, and the myth and ritual that surrounds that prehistoric period, Fiona Watson charts the evolution of the Scottish people - as Scots, Picts and Angles - and their interaction with the world abroad, from... -
Mingulay: An Island and its People by Ben Buxton
RRP: £12.99£8.56A remote, barren and ruggedly beautiful island lies at the southern end of the Outer Hebrides. Its people, loyal for centuries, have abandoned it but the beauty and history of Mingulay remain. The story of St Kilda, whose inhabitants were also forced to... -
Old Airdrie Campbell McCutcheon 9781840334685
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334685Author Campbell McCutcheonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 171gDimensions(mm)... -
Imagine A Country: Ideas for a Better Future by Val McDermid 9781838857646
RRP: £10.99£7.32The first step on the road to change is to imagine possibility.Imagine A Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to musicians. Edited, curated and introduced by... -
The Everyday Life of the Clans of the Scottish Highlands by Michael Steven Newton 9780971385825
RRP: £11.99£8.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971385825Author Michael Steven NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Michael NewtonPublisher Michael NewtonWeight(grams) 152g -
Scotland's Railways in the 1980s and 1990s: A Snapshot in Time Peter J Green 9781526773548
RRP: £25.00£18.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Columba: Politician, penitent and pilgrim by Ian Bradley
RRP: £11.99£8.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849527668Author Ian BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Wild Goose PublicationsPublisher Wild Goose PublicationsWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm)... -
The Stornoway Black Pudding Bible by Seumas MacInnes
£5.16Seumas MacInnes, one of Scotland's premier restaurateurs and owner of the iconic Cafe Gandolfi in Glasgow, is not afraid to take issue with the national bard over the sobriquet 'Great chieftain o' the puddin race'. Without slighting the qualities of... -
Old Dumbarton by John Hood 9781840330588
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840330588Author John HoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 180mm * 236mm * 4mm -
The Other British Isles: A History of Shetland, Orkney, the Hebrides, Isle of Man, Anglesey, Scilly, Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands by David W. Moore 9780786464340
RRP: £21.99£17.97Their names bespeak a rich and varied past, belying their paucity of notice by historians. From the Norse Hjaltland comes the modern Shetland: islands nominally Scottish, steeped in Nordic culture, closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Important... -
The Battle of Pinkie, 1547: The Last Battle Between the Independent Kingdoms of Scotland and England by David Caldwell
RRP: £35.00£32.43The 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... -
James IV by Norman Macdougall
RRP: £30.00£21.00James IV is the best-known of all the late medieval Scottish rulers. Widely praised by his contemporaries, he combined the qualities of successful medieval monarch with a wide interest in the arts and sciences, while remaining acutely conscious of the... -
A Brief History of Britain 1485-1660: The Tudor and Stuart Dynasties Professor Ronald Hutton 9781845297046
RRP: £10.99£7.40Praise for the author::'For anyone researching the subject, this is the book you've been waiting for.'Washington PostFrom the death of Richard III on Bosworth Field in 1485 to the execution of Charles I after the Civil Wars of 1642-48, England was... -
Old Bridgeton and Calton Eric Eunson 9781840330076
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840330076Author Eric EunsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 170mm * 240mm * 17mm -
James II by Christine McGladdery
RRP: £25.00£17.32In this study of the reign of James II of Scotland, the king is viewed in the context of the Stewart monarchy, from his struggles to overcome his early adversity and the legacy of his father's style of kingship, to the serious political crises of his... -
Old Cowcaddens, Possilpark and Lambhill by Andrew Stuart 9781872074870
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872074870Author Andrew StuartFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 180mm * 240mm * 5mm -
St Andrews' Untold Stories by Leonard Low
RRP: £9.95£7.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904246442Author Leonard LowFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Steve Savage Publishers LimitedPublisher Steve Savage Publishers Limited -
Old Dennistoun by Andrew Stuart 9781872074672
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872074672Author Andrew StuartFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 180mm * 240mm * 4mm -
A History of Scotland by Bruce Lenman 9780140136494 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£1.92A history that is equally entertaining and enlightening, illustrating all of the changes of power and intricacies that are necessary to understand the interrelation between England and Scotland and the Highland and Lowland populations. It shows how... -
Building Knowledge: An Architectural History of the University of Edinburgh by Nick Haynes
RRP: £25.00£18.40Edinburgh is a city renowned for critical thinking, cutting edge breakthroughs and unique creativity. At the heart of these enlightened ideals lies the University of Edinburgh, which has influenced life in the capital since it was founded in the late... -
The Hebrides: An Aerial View of a Cultural Landscape Angus & Patricia MacDonald 9781841583150
RRP: £30.00£21.30The Hebrides of Scotland - around 500 diverse islands - form the north-western Atlantic fringe of Europe. This book surveys the cultural landscape of this dramatically beautiful, complex and conflicted area, with emphasis on what may be interpreted... -
Towers in the North: The Brochs of Scotland by Ian Armit
RRP: £27.50£20.28The brochs are among the best-known ancient monuments in Scotland. However, despite a long and colourful history of research, it is only in the last 20 years that the results of field survey, excavation and radiocarbon dating have begun to flesh out a... -
Upper Clydesdale: A History and Guide by Daniel Martin
RRP: £18.95£12.96Upper Clydesdale, the rural part of South Lanarkshire, is one of the most beautiful parts of the country. Its main centres of population include Carluke, Carnwath, Lanark, New Lanark, Biggar, Lesmahagow, Douglas and Coulter, Abington, Crawford and... -
Cromwell Against the Scots: The Last Anglo-Scottish War 1650-1652 (Revised Edition) by John D Grainger 9781526786500
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A Brief History of Britain 1660 - 1851: The Making of the Nation William Gibson 9781845297152
RRP: £8.99£6.20Praise for the author:'Gibson's well written and well-documented account of James and the bishops will surely become the new standard authority on these "implausible revolutionaries" for many decades.' Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg, Anglican and... -
Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation by Stuart Kelly
RRP: £12.99£8.56No writer has ever been as famous as Sir Walter Scott once was; and no writer has ever enjoyed such huge acclaim followed by such absolute neglect and outright hostility. But Scotland would not be Scotland except for Scott. All the icons of Scottishness... -
The Great Highland Famine: Hunger, Emigration and the Scottish Highlands in the Nineteenth Century by Tom M. Devine
RRP: £30.00£20.60The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Almost a million perished and a further two million emigrated in the wake of potato blight and economic collapse. Acute famine also gripped the Scottish Highlands... -
A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, Circa 1695: A Late Voyage to St Kilda by Martin Martin 9781839830358
RRP: £14.99£10.77Written before the Jacobite rebellions irrevocably changed the face of Highland society, Martin Martin's A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland and A Late Voyage to St Kilda paint a fascinating picture of the Hebrides at a crucial point in... -
The History Behind Game of Thrones: The North Remembers by David C Weinczok 9781526781451
RRP: £14.99£10.95A wall in the distant north cuts the world in two. Ruthless seaborne warriors raid the coasts from their war galleys, yearning to regain lost glories. A young nobleman and his kin are slaughtered under a banner of truce within a mighty castle. A warrior... -
Scottish Clans & Tartans by Ian Grimble 9781842046678
RRP: £5.99£5.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842046678Author Ian GrimbleFormat PaperbackImprint Lomond BooksPublisher Lomond Books -
A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power to ? by Jeremy Black
RRP: £12.99£4.71From the Great Exhibition's showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Stratford in 2012 and on to Brexit, an insightful exploration of the transformation of modern BritainThis revised and updated... -
The Neolithic of Mainland Scotland by Kenneth Brophy
RRP: £23.99£19.91What was life like in Scotland between 4000 and 2000 BC? Where were people living? How did they treat their dead? Why did they spend so much time building extravagant ritual monuments? What was special about the relationship people had with trees and... -
James III by Norman Macdougall
RRP: £35.00£24.27James III is the most enigmatic of the Stewart kings of Scotland. Variously characterised as artistic, peace-loving, morbidly suspicious, treacherous, pious, lecherous and lazy, King James was much criticised by contemporaries and later chroniclers for... -
Fife in History and Legend by Raymond Lamont-Brown 9781839830105
RRP: £12.99£8.94Fife has always been one of Scotland's most distinctive counties. Though never a 'kingdom' in its own right, its geographical position as a peninsular county between the firths of Tay and Forth has helped maintain its self-contained identity through the... -
Knoydart: A History by Denis Rixson
RRP: £10.99£7.64Knoydart - the northern edge of the 'Rough Bounds' is one of the most evocative names in Scotland. This text offers a history of Knoydart from the earliest times to the present day. A remote and desolate peninsula, its name derives from Viking settlers...