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

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

Earth Hall, Ring Gift and Heaven's Field provides a long-overdue appraisal of Northumbrian histor...

The North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland. Like the ...

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...

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...

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

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...

Investigates Somerled of Argyll's emergence in the forefront of the Gaelic-Norse aristocracy of t...

Reissue of three classic volumes of Hebridean folk songs.

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. Drawin...

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

In the eighteenth century, Glasgow and its outports became the dominant force in the highly lucra...

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

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

This is an introduction to the Picts, for the general reader and historian alike, by leading expe...

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...