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Cold War Scotland Samuel J.M.M. Alberti 9781910682524
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Scotland’s unique geography and topography provided a useful base for Allied military preparations during the Cold War, a 40-year nuclear stand-off between the USA and the Soviet Union ending with... -
Hugh Miller: Stonemason, Geologist, Writer by Michael A. Taylor
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84Ross-shire-born polymath Hugh Miller (1802-56) was famous in his lifetime across the English-speaking world. After starting his working life as a stonemason, he became a social commentator and... -
The Millennium Clock Tower by Maggy Lennert
Booksplease Price: £3.29The Millennium Clock first chimed on 1 January 2000 and crowds still gather round it in the National Museum of Scotland. The finished clock tower echoes the form of a medieval cathedral, standing... -
Bonnie Prince Charlie: His life, family, legend by Peter Pininski 9781910682340
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Telling a story which has been described as 'one of the best kept secrets in Scottish history', Peter Pininski reveals his research on Bonnie Prince Charlie's 'hidden' grandchildren, one of whom was... -
The Making of Am Fasgadh: An Account of the Origins of the Highland Folk Museum by Its Founder Isabel Frances Grant 9781905267200
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.10Dr Isabel Grant (1887-1983) was a pioneer who, early in life, was intrigued by the lives and ways of living of her fellow Highlanders. She eventually pursued this by collecting objects - farming,... -
Scottish Women Writers: from 1800 to the Great War by Eileen Dunlop 9781910682470
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44Charlotte Waldie and Christina Keith visited, respectively, Waterloo and Flanders in the immediate aftermath of battle. Another intrepid writer, Emily Graves, wrote a memoir of her travels in... -
Scottish Furniture by Stephen Jackson 9781910682487
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.99Scottish Furniture offers a narrative account of furniture-making in Scotland, from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. Written to scholarly standards, it disseminates a wealth of new... -
The Galloway Hoard: Viking-Age Treasure by Martin Goldberg 9781910682401
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.50In 2017 an intense fundraising campaign ensured that what came to be known as 'the Galloway Hoard' was saved for the nation. Since then work has been ongoing to preserve and understand it. Over 5kg... -
Mary Slessor: The Barefoot Missionary by Elizabeth Robertson
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.24The story of the Dundee mill girl who, inspired by David Livingstone, became a missionary herself in Calabar, a part of Africa known as 'the White Man's Grave'. There she adopted many children who... -
A Geological Excursion Guide to the Stirling and Perth Area by M.A.E. Browne
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.24An up-to-date geological excursion guide to the Stirling and Perth area.Book InformationISBN 9781905267880Author M.A.E. BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
Robert Burns and the Hellish Legion by John Burnett
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.87Devils, witches and evil - the insubstantial but terrifying world of the supernatural as it was seen by Robert Burns and his contemporaries is examined in this new book, brought out for the 250th... -
Little Black Dress: A Radical Fashion by Georgina Ripley 9781910682272
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.00At its inception, the 'Little Black Dress' was radically modern: a masculine-inspired, anti-traditionalist female attire. Yet it has remained a wardrobe staple for almost a century, each new... -
'There Shall be a Scottish Parliament' by Frances Jarvie
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.66Parliaments existed in Scotland, off and on, from about 1200 till there was the Union with the English Parliament in 1707. In 1998 the Scotland Act decreed that 'There shall be a Scottish Parliament'... -
The Late Roman Silver Treasure from Traprain Law by Fraser Hunter
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £73.96Excavated from Traprain Law, East Lothian, Scotland, in May 1919, was one of the most spectacular discoveries of Roman silver ever made in Europe - and the biggest hoard of `hacksilver': 23kg,... -
Scotland's Early Silver by Alice Blackwell
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.99The breadth of National Museums Scotland's collections, together with the support of The Glenmorangie Company, puts National Museums in a unique position to reveal the role of silver in the... -
John Napier: Logarithm John by Lynne Gladstone-Millar
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.87When John Napier published his invention of logarithms in 1614 he was announcing one of the greatest advances in the history of mathematics, and log tables were used universally until the mid 1970s... -
A Passion for Glass: The Dan Klein & Alan J. Poole Private Collection Rose Watban 9781905267835
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.25Dan Klein and Alan J. Poole began collecting in the late 1970s and over the subsequent thirty years assembled on the most comprehensive collections of modern British and Irish glass. The book... -
The Old Red Sandstone, or, New Walks in an Old Field by Hugh Miller 9781910682258
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.00WINNER OF THE RESEARCH CATEGORY IN SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2023 This edition of The Old Red Sandstone is the first truly new one for a century. It comes in two volumes: Volume 2 reprints... -
Matthew Forster Heddle by Hamish H. Johnston
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44Professor Matthew Heddle (1828-97) was a larger-than-life character, a renowned academic and one of Scotland's most famous mineralogists. His rich legacy includes: Encyclopaedia Britannica 9th... -
Scottish Environments by Alan McKirdy
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.45Scotties are exciting, full-colour, Scottish information books for young readers, with a photocopiable black/white 8pp section for home or classroom use. The book looks at the landscape of Scotland... -
Robert Burns in Time and Place Frances Jarvie 9781905267347
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.66"Robert Burns in Time and Place" is a brand new title in the "Scotties Books" series which contain a wealth of interesting facts, stimulating activities, web sites and suggestions for places to visit... -
Going to the Berries: Voices of Perthshire and Angus Seasonal Workers by Roger Leitch
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Pickers came from near and far year after year - and from a variety of backgrounds - for the berry-picking season. For local people, adults and children, it was an opportunity to supplement the... -
Pirate Tales from Scotland by Antony Kamm
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.45Tales of pirates, whether in fact or fiction, have long excited young imaginations. The pirate stories here all have a Scottish connection. The title is part of the Scotties series of activity books... -
Scottish Bicycles and Tricycles Louise Innes 9781905267408
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.87This book gives a glimpse into the trials and tribulations of inventing, developing and perfecting the art of pedal-powered transport over the years from the the original 'hobby-horse' velocipede to... -
Supernatural Scotland Eileen Dunlop 9781905267361
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.66"Scotties" are exciting, full colour information books for young readers. Each title contains a wealth of interesting facts, stimulating activities, websites and suggestions for places to visit. An... -
Wild and Majestic: Romantic Visions of Scotland by Patrick Watt
RRP: £5.00Booksplease Price: £4.88Dramatic Highland landscapes, heroic histories, tartan and bagpipes are among the defining images of Scotland for many people around the world. From the Romantic movement of the 18th and early... -
Stranraer and District Lives: Voices in Trust by Caroline Milligan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84Topics discussed in these recorded oral interviews with residents of Stranraer and district, in south-west Scotland, include tattie howking, war, the capsizing of the Larne-Stranraer ferry and the... -
From Land to Rail: Life and Times of Andrew Ramage 1854-1917 Caroline Milligan 9781905267699
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Co-published with the European Ethnological Research Centre in the Flashbacks series. Andrew Ramage was the son of a farm servant and he himself worked on the land in the Lothians and Berwickshire,... -
John Buchan and the Thirty-nine Steps: an Exploration by John Burnett
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.87Set in the months before the outbreak of the Great War and in print for almost 100 years The Thirty-Nine Steps is John Buchan's most popular novel. This timely look at the book - what inspired it,... -
The Cruise of the Betsey: and Rambles of a Geologist by Hugh Miller 9781910682364
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.00This account shows the full range of Hugh Miller's interests - the lyrical description of the scenery and accounts of beautiful fossils show a deep affection for the Scottish landscape, while his... -
Scottish Kings and Queens by Elizabeth Douglas
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.45From the wrath of Macbeth to the kindness of Margaret, from the warrior-like Robert I to the poetic charms of James I, from the romantic spirit of Mary, Queen of Scots to the trend-setting George IV... -
Scotland to the World: Treasures from the National Museum of Scotland David Souden 9781910682050
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.60Showcases over a hundred treasures from the collections of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, from the departments of Scottish History and Archaeology/Art and Design/Science and... -
Showfolk: An Oral History of a Fairground Dynasty by Frank Bruce
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Travelling showfolk have been entertaining Scots for centuries and a visit to 'the shows' was a highlight of the year until recent memory. The Codonas are one of the longest and most established show... -
Crucible of Nations: Scotland from Viking-age to Medieval kingdom by Adrian Maldonado 9781910682432
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.80A new look at National Museums Scotland collections covering the period 800-1200: the fall of the Pictish kingdoms and rise of the Viking Age; the emergence of new players like Alba, Moray,... -
Age of Oil: Artwork by Sue Jane Taylor by 9781910682104
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44This book is based on the artwork of Sue Jane Taylor. She is no stranger to extreme working environments, having worked for over thirty years recording the lives of workers in the North Sea oil... -
James Hutton: The Founder of Modern Geology by Alan McKirdy 9781910682449
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44Thoroughly revised and expanded from the 2012 edition (twice the number of pages, almost double the number of illustrations) this book pays tribute to the man and his diverse works and achievements. ... -
Scotland's Land Girls: Breeches, Bombers and Backaches by Elaine Edwards
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.04An introduction about the Women's Land Army in the First and Second World Wars is followed by reminiscences, recorded recently by the editor, of ten ex-Land Girls. It is co-published by NMS... -
Miss Cranston: Patron of Charles Rennie Mackintosh by Perilla Kinchin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44Miss Kate Cranston opened four Glasgow Tea Rooms at the end of the 19th century/beginning of the 20th, including the famous Willow Tea Rooms. Ahead of her time, Miss Cranston ensured that her Rea... -
Border Mills: Lives of Peeblesshire Textile Workers by Ian MacDougall 9781910682517
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.94The book explores the rich material contained within a collection of oral history recordings with Peeblesshire textile mill workers, made by Ian MacDougall between 1996 and 2004. Their... -
Anatomy: A Matter of Death and Life by Tayce Phillipson 9781910682463
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44History and science collide in the fascinating history of anatomy, from artistic explorations by Leonardo da Vinci and the full-body papier-mache model produced by Louis Auzoux to the crimes of...