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Edinburgh Pubs by Jack Gillon
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07The teeming nature of life in eighteenth-century Edinburgh elevated the Old Town's taverns to a critical role in the city's social life, and there was 'no superabundance of sobriety in the town'... -
Secret Falkirk by Jack Gillon
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Falkirk is a small town with a big history. Its strategic location, at the crossroads of lowland Scotland, contributed to its key role in Scotland's history. The Romans were the first to make a... -
Leith Reflections by Jack Gillon
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09In 1560, Mary of Guise moved the Scottish Court to Leith, a site that is now Parliament Street, off Coalhill. Serving Edinburgh's shipbuilding and repair facilities, in subsequent centuries Leith's... -
Secret Edinburgh by Jack Gillon
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Not all of Edinburgh's history is well known; some of it has remained a secret, lost behind the facades of the familiar and hidden from view ... until now. Fascinated by Edinburgh's hidden history,... -
Secret Leith by Jack Gillon
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Leith has played a long and prominent role in Scottish history. As the major port serving Edinburgh, it has been the stage on which many significant events in the nation's past have taken place, from... -
Aberdeen in 50 Buildings by Jack Gillon
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Aberdeen, Scotland's third largest city, has been a place of economic importance since the development of the shipbuilding and fishing industries, and has been synonymous with oil ever since the... -
Celebrating Edinburgh Jack Gillon 9781445698380
RRP: $33.48Booksplease Price: $21.21Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, has much to celebrate. The city has been central to Scottish life and its history for many centuries. Its festivals attract visitors from all over the world, the... -
Quirky Edinburgh Jack Gillon 9781398121898
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Edinburgh has always been a city of unusual characters and has its own distinct, often peculiar, history. Quirky Edinburgh delves into lesser-known but fascinating tales from Edinburgh's past... -
Leith History Tour by Jack Gillon
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.53The first reference to the historic port of Leith dates from 1140, and the town constantly features in the power struggles that took place in Scotland. In the 1960s the face of Leith changed forever:... -
Edinburgh in 50 Buildings by Jack Gillon
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07From its founding as a Royal Burgh in the twelfth century and through its growth and development as an internationally renowned hotbed of science, education, literature and culture, to its current... -
Perth Through Time by Jack Gillon
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07'The Fair City' of Perth is aptly named. Situated on the banks of Scotland's longest river, the Tay, Perth and its surrounding area boast some of the most beautiful scenery in the country. Perth was... -
Stirling The Postcard Collection by Jack Gillon
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Having been granted city status during the Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2002, Stirling is Scotland's smallest city, but has an enthralling wealth of architectural and historic heritage that would... -
Edinburgh Reflections by Jack Gillon 9781398117730
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Edinburgh, Scotland's capital city, has a dramatic cityscape and its wealth of historic streets and buildings make up the UNESCO Old and New Towns World Heritage Site. The city has also been subject... -
Falkirk Through Time by Jack Gillon
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Falkirk's strategic location, midway between Edinburgh and Glasgow at the crossroads of lowland Scotland, has been the main influence on the town's development and has contributed to its key role in... -
Leith Through Time by Jack Gillon 9781445640648
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07In 1560, when Mary of Guise ran Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, remained in France, Mary of Guise moved the Scottish Court to Leith, a site that is now Parliament Street, off Coalhill. Serving... -
Perth The Postcard Collection by Jack Gillon 9781398102255
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09The 'Fair City of Perth' is aptly named. Situated on the banks of the Tay, Scotland's longest river, Perth and its surrounding area boast some of the most beautiful scenery in the country. The city's... -
Dalkeith & Around Through Time by Jack Gillon
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44The Midlothian town of Dalkeith has had an eventful history. Cromwell's officer, General Monck, was Commander in Scotland, and the government of the country was based out of Dalkeith Castle. In the... -
Selkirk & Melrose Through Time by Jack Gillon
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44Selkirk obtained its original charter in the twelfth century from David I and it is one of the oldest burghs in Scotland. The town's development was based around the woollen industry. Statues in the... -
Perth History Tour by Jack Gillon 9781398101418
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.53Perth History Tour provides a fascinating glimpse into the past of 'The Fair City'. It was once the capital of Scotland, was given Royal Burgh status in the early twelfth century under King David I... -
Stirling Through Time by Jack Gillon 9781445657950
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Having been granted city status during the Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2002, Stirling is Scotland's smallest city. Despite this, it has an enthralling wealth of architectural and historic heritage... -
East Neuk of Fife Through Time by Jack Gillon
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Neuk is the Scots word for nook or corner, and the delightful East Neuk, with its string of picturesque fishing and farming villages, is one of the most attractive parts of the country to investigate... -
Edinburgh in the 1950s: Ten Years the Changed a City by Jack Gillon
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07EDINBURGH in the 1950s was a very different place. After the ravages of war, the International Festival and Military Tattoo was introduced as an antidote to post-war austerity, the new Civic Survey... -
Edinburgh's Festival and King's Theatres Through Time by Jack Gillon
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44The Festival and King's Theatres are two of Scotland's most historic theatrical venues and both have their own engrossing stories to tell. This book highlights their milestone moments and recollects... -
Now That's What I Call Edinburgh Jack Gillon 9781398117891
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07The sixties, seventies and eighties were decades of great change. Many towns and cities were redeveloped with projects that dramatically affected the character of the place. People's shopping habits... -
50 Gems of Stirling District: The History & Heritage of the Most Iconic Places by Jack Gillon
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Stirlingshire is central to Scotland and its history. Spanning the boundary between the Highlands and Lowlands, and standing at the heart of Scotland, the town of Stirling was 'the key of the... -
50 Gems of Fife: The History & Heritage of the Most Iconic Places Jack Gillon 9781398111608
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07The historic county of Fife is a natural peninsula on the east coast of Scotland, bordered by the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Tay. Alongside its three largest settlements of Dunfermline,...