The Battle of George Square, a riot during the Forty Hours Strike in Glasgow, on 31 January 1919,...

Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical r...

Surveys the historical background of handwriting usage, with emphasis on changing fashions. This ...

Reissue of three classic volumes of Hebridean folk songs.

A fascinating biography of one of Scotland's most famous and greatest kings.

The only comprehensive single-volume biography of James II of Scotland.

By equal measure state-builder and political unifier and ruthless opportunist and bloody-handed a...

This book examines the role of religion in the story of Oliver Cromwell's invasion and subsequent...

Despite seven out of ten people in Scotland choosing cremation, in many ways crematoria are 'invi...

Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of S...

A fascinating biography of James I, King of Scots. James I was to prove a king very different fro...

A reissue of three classic volumes of Hebridean Folk Songs

The authorities told folk what they ought to believe, but what did they really believe? Throughou...

This book challenges traditional assumptions about the nature of Viking settlement in the Inner H...

Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem, history records that some women...

Michael Brown analyses the rise and fall of the Douglas family as the dominant magnates of the so...

Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the wh...

James III is the most enigmatic of the Stewart kings of Scotland. This study explains why King Ja...

An essential introduction to one of the major Scottish historians of modern times.

The events of 1000-1130 AD are crucial in terms of the development of the kingdom of the Scots, a...

This book is the first volume to scrutinise in detail the history of the Highlands and Islands in...

Reissue of three classic volumes of Hebridean folk songs.

The renowned historian Jenny Wormald was a ground-breaking expert on early modern Scottish histor...

Challenging the conventional interpretation of Mary of Guise as the defender of Catholicism whose...

In this ground-breaking study of the medieval parliament, Roland Tanner has sought to bring Parli...

The 1820 Scottish Rising has been increasingly studied in recent decades. This collection of essa...

This is a groundbreaking book featuring the latest research on the Picts edited by two of the mos...

This book celebrates the history and the rebirth of the salt industry in Scotland. Although manuf...

St Columba is one of the most important figures in the early history of the British Isles. A nati...

Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical r...

If not perhaps the most popular Highland clan, the Campbells are undoubtedly one of the most succ...

Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical r...

Campaigning for Edinburgh tells the story of the Cockburn Association - the city's civic watchdog...

Celebrates the poetry of the well-known Gaelic bard Neil Macleod, with translations, background n...

Brings together records in Latin, Scots, Gaelic and English (some new) for the first time in thei...

This is the story of the upland, rural community of Glenesk, told from the perspectives of the pe...