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The Witches of Fife: Witch-Hunting in a Scottish Shire, 1560-1710 by Stuart MacDonald
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.92Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem, history records that some women were executed as witches. Nevertheless, the reality of what happened the night that Janet Cornfoot... -
The Mercat Anthology of Early Scottish Literature 1375-1707 by R.D.S. Jack
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $39.21This large-scale anthology of early Scottish Literature, now revised, has been designed as a teaching text for use by school and university students. Longer works are either presented complete - e.g... -
Scotland's Merlin: A Medieval Legend and its Dark Age Origins by Tim Clarkson
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.36Who was Merlin? Is the famous wizard of Arthurian legend based on a real person? In this book, Merlin's origins are traced back to the story of Lailoken, a mysterious 'wild man' who is said to have... -
The History of Orkney Literature Simon Hall 9781910900512
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.58Since the middle ages, Orkney has proved remarkable for the volume and the quality of its literary output. From the skalds and sagamen of the Viking age, through to the colourful folklorists,... -
Somerled by John Marsden
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $40.38Through most of eight hundred years, Somerled of Argyll has been variously denounced as an intractable rebel against his rightful king and esteemed as the honoured ancestor of the later medieval Lord... -
The Great Highland Famine: Hunger, Emigration and the Scottish Highlands in the Nineteenth Century by Tom M. Devine
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $46.85The 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... -
James I by Michael Brown
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $42.97Conditioned by a childhood surrounded by the rivalries of the Stewart family, and by eighteen years of enforced exile in England, James I was to prove a king very different from his elderly and... -
The Glasgow Enlightenment by Andrew Hook
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.58The Glasgow Enlightenment is widely regarded as the first book to explore the nature and accomplishments of the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Glasgow in a comprehensive manner. In addition to a... -
Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Medieval Era by E.J. Cowan
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.48This book is the first volume to scrutinise in detail the history of the Highlands and Islands incorporating the most up-to-date research. It examines the evolution of the idea of 'Celtic Scotland',... -
A History Book for Scots: Selections from the Scotichronicon by Walter Bower 9781906566593
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.20Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon - 'a history book for... -
Mull: The Island and Its People by Jo Currie 9781904607984
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $47.48This is the story of a Scottish island as it has never been told before. While many books on the Hebrides are a litany of agricultural statistics and population movements, this is the story of the... -
The Wallace Book by Edward J. Cowan 9781906566241
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.58Through 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... -
Voices of the Forest: A Social History of Scottish Forestry in the Twentieth Century by Mairi Stewart
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $41.94The creation of large new tracts of forest, together with the development of a modern wood processing sector, was the single biggest transformation to occur in the Scottish countryside during the... -
The Kings of Alba: c.1000 - c.1130 Alasdair Ross 9781906566159
Booksplease Price: $58.46The events of 1000-1130 were crucial to the successful emergence of the medieval kingdom of the Scots. Yet this is one of the least researched periods of Scottish history. We probably now know more... -
The Late Medieval Scottish Parliament: Politics and the three Estates, 1424-1488 by Roland Tanner
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $46.85In this ground-breaking study of the medieval parliament, Roland Tanner gives the Scottish Parliament a human face by examining the actions and motives of those who attended. In the past, the... -
Mary of Guise in Scotland, 1548-1560: A Political Career by Pamela E. Ritchie 9781910900710
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $58.46Challenging the conventional interpretation of Mary of Guise as the defender of Catholicism whose regime climaxed with the Reformation Rebellion, Pamela Ritchie shows that Mary was, on the contrary,... -
The Scotways Guide to the Law of Access to Land in Scotland by Malcolm M Combe
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.48The Scottish landscape is justly famed for its beauty and diversity, and Scots law provides good opportunities for people to enjoy access to this land. This book aims to provide a user-friendly... -
James VI and I: Collected Essays by Jenny Wormald by Jenny Wormald
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $186.71The renowned historian Jenny Wormald was a ground-breaking expert on early modern Scottish history, especially Stewart kingship, noble power and wider society. She was most controversial in her... -
The Battle of Carham: A Thousand Years On by Neil McGuigan
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $46.85Very little is known about the battle of Carham, fought between the Scots and Northumbrians in 1018. The leaders were probably Mael Coluim II, king of Scotland, and Uhtred of Bamburgh, earl or... -
The Early Life of James VI: A Long Apprenticeship, 1566–1585 by Steven J. Reid
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $147.99Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award James VI and I was arguably the most successful ruler of the Stewart Dynasty in Scotland, and the first king of a united... -
Alexander III, 1249-1286: First Among Equals by Norman H. Reid
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $47.48Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 2019 Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship. ... -
Alexander III, 1249-1286: First Among Equals by Norman H. Reid 9781910900222
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $90.09Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship. The... -
James II by Christine McGladdery 9781904607892
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.58In 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... -
Land for the People?: The British Government and the Scottish Highlands 1880-1925 by Ewen Cameron
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.58Land 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... -
The Vikings in Islay: The Place of Names in Hebridean Settlement History by Alan Macniven
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $47.48The Hebridean island of Islay is well-known for its whisky, its wildlife and its association with the MacDonald Lords of the Isles. There would seem to be little reason to dwell on its fate at the... -
The Early Stewart Kings: Robert II and Robert III by Stephen Boardman 9781904607687
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $47.48The Stewart Dynasty in Scotland series aims to bring the rich political heritage of late medieval and early modern Scotland before as wide a reading public as possible, with specialist authors... -
Scottish Fairy Belief by Lizanne Henderson 9781904607588
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.58The authorities told folk what they ought to believe, but what did they really believe? Throughout Scottish history, people have believed in fairies. They were a part of everyday life, as real as the... -
James VII: Duke and King of Scots, 1633 - 1701 by Alastair J. Mann 9781904607908
Booksplease Price: $58.46James VII and II is one of the least studied monarchs of Scotland, and has previously mostly been studied from an English perspective or as the muddled victim of the revolution of 1688/9 which... -
Scottish Arctic Whaling by Chesley W. Sanger
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.98Scottish Arctic Whaling brings to light a previously little-known but important Scottish industry. The author's extensive use of original sources such as log-books and diaries shows that hundreds of... -
Alexander II: King of Scots 1214-1249 by Richard D. Oram 9781904607922
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.58By 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... -
David I: King of Scots, 1124-1153 by Richard D. Oram 9781910900291
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $119.55David I was never expected to become king, but on succeeding to the Scottish throne in 1124 he quickly demonstrated that he had the skills, ruthlessness and ambition to become one of the kingdom's... -
Scottish Handwriting 1150-1650: An Introduction to the Reading of Documents by Grant Simpson
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.48Reading original documents is the only way to achieve a sound basis in historical studies and to acquire a true perspective on cultural evolution. Much modern research has been applied to Scotland's... -
Kinship, Church and Culture: Collected Essays and Studies by John W. M. Bannerman by John W. M. Bannerman 9781906566913
Booksplease Price: $68.15John Bannerman (1932-2008) saw the history of Scotland from a Gaelic perspective, and his outstanding scholarship made that perspective impossible to ignore. As a historian, his natural home was the... -
Scottish Life and Society Volume 1: An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology Alexander Fenton 9781906566067
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $92.82The publication of 'An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology' sees the completion of the fourteen-volume Scottish Life and Society series, originally conceived by the eminent ethnologist Professor... -
The Minority of James V: Scotland in Europe, 1513-1528 by Ken Emond
RRP: $147.00Booksplease Price: $139.67The defeat of the Scots in the Battle of Flodden in 1513 left many of the leaders of Scottish society, including King James IV, lying dead on the battlefield. The long and complex minority of King... -
Hebridean Folk Songs: Waulking Songs from Barra, South Uist, Eriskay and Benbecula by John Lorne Campbell 9781910900024
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $39.21The classic three volumes of Hebridean Folksongs, reissued simultaneously for the first time since their original publication (1969, 1977, 1981), contain 135 songs connected with the waulking of... -
Hebridean Folk Songs: Waulking Songs from Vatersay, Barra, Eriskay, South Uist and Benbecula by John Lorne Campbell 9781910900031
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $39.21The classic three volumes of Hebridean Folksongs, reissued simultaneously for the first time since their original publication (1969, 1977, 1981), contain 135 songs connected with the waulking of... -
The Strathclyde and the Anglo-Saxons in the Viking Age by Tim Clarkson 9781906566784
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.48This book traces the history of relations between the kingdom of Strathclyde and Anglo-Saxon England in the Viking period of the ninth to eleventh centuries AD. It puts the spotlight on the North... -
David II: 1329–71 Michael Penman 9781910900444
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $47.48David II (1329-1371), son of the hero King of Scots, Robert Bruce (1306-1329), has suffered a harsh historical press, condemned as a disastrous general, a womaniser and a sympathiser with Scotland's... -
The Normans in Ireland: Leinster, 1167-1247 by Richard A Lomas
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.48The Norman invasion of Britain, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, is well known, but the later invasion of Ireland is much less well documented. Yet much of what we see today in Irish heritage has...