Harris
ISBN: 9781841585239
Category: Local History, History
Author: Bill Lawson
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Argyll Curiosities
ISBN: 9781841585314
Category: Local History
Author: Marian Pallister
Publication Date: November 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
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The New History of Orkney
ISBN: 9781841586960
Category: Local History, History
Author: William P. L. Thomson
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock
A comprehensive and complete guide to the mysterious islands of Orkney ranging in its breadth from prehistoric settlements to ongoing contemporary controversies of oil and, perhaps to a lesser extent, Scandanavian allegiance.
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Villages of Northern Argyll
ISBN: 9780859765848
Category: Local History, History
Author: Mary Withall
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Argyll's historical importance goes back for thousands of years. As the centre of the kingdom of Dalriada the area was of seminal importance in terms of Gaelic culture, and was also of extreme significance in the spread of Celtic Christianity.
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Fringe of Gold
ISBN: 9781841587042
Category: Local History
Author: (Editors) Duncan Glen, Tom Hubbard
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
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The Back o’ the Hill
ISBN: 9781841586380
Category: Local History, History
Author: John G. Gibson
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock
This book is a blend of memories of a boyhood spent, just after the war, at Craigag, the earl of Morton’s Victorian shooting lodge near Glenfinnan, and a study of the history of that small once-Gaelic place.
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Arran
ISBN: 9781841585291
Category: Local History
Author: Thorbjorn Campbell
Publication Date: November 2007
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock
Thorbjorn Campbell gives an original, fascinating and comprehensive account of Arran’s long and eventful history.
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Lost Bristol
ISBN: 9781841585338
Category: Local History, History, West Country
Author: Victoria Coules
Publication Date: August 2010
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: not yet published
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Lost Aberdeen: The Outskirts
ISBN: 9781841585505
Category: Local History, History
Author: Diane Morgan
Publication Date: November 2007
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock
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Calum's Road
ISBN: 9781841584478
Category: Local History
Author: Roger Hutchinson
Publication Date: August 2006
Format: HB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: not in stock
This book is a parable: a moving story of stubbornly heroic resistance and of extraordinary personal achievement. It is the story of a statement made from the depths of one man’s heart in the most practical and indisputable of ways against the unnecessary destruction of his homeland.
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Villages of Southern Argyll
ISBN: 9780859765831
Category: Local History, History
Author: Marian Pallister
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Award-winning journalist Marian Pallister has brought together historical fact and contemporary reminiscence to give a fascinating insight into the origins and development of human settlement in this beautiful outpost of Scotland.
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The Port of Leith
ISBN: 9781904607175
Category: Local History, History
Author: Sue Mowat
Publication Date: November 2003
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: in stock
In this history of Leith the emphasis is placed firmly on the lives of the ordinary people - their work, homes, lifestyle, interests, aspirations and opinions.
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Calum's Road
ISBN: 9781841586779
Category: Local History, History
Author: Roger Hutchinson
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
This book is a parable: a moving story of stubbornly heroic resistance and of extraordinary personal achievement. It is the story of a statement made from the depths of one man’s heart in the most practical and indisputable of ways against the unnecessary destruction of his homeland.
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Perthshire in History and Legend
ISBN: 9780859765176
Category: Local History, History
Author: Archie McKerracher
Publication Date: March 1998
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
This book explores some of the remarkable stories of this ancient land, many of them appearing in print for the first time.
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Colonsay
ISBN: 9781899863365
Category: Local History, History
Author: Murdoch McNeill
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
A facsimile re-print of the 1910 edition describing climate, geological formation, plants – their uses and their local and Gaelic names. Also legends, ruins and place-names.
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Islay
ISBN: 9781841583587
Category: Local History, History
Author: David Caldwell
Publication Date: October 2008
Format: HB
Price: £30.00
Stock Status: in stock
This book extensively covers the history of Islay up to the present day with a particular focus on the people of the island, those who have left their mark centuries ago and those who inhabit the island even today.
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North Uist
ISBN: 9780859765954
Category: Local History, History
Author: Bill Lawson
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Bill Lawson is the foremost authority on the detailed history of the Western Isles of Scotland, and he now follows his successful Harris in History and Legend with a companion volume of the neighbouring isle of North Uist.
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The Northern and Western Isles of Scotland
ISBN: 9781904607359
Category: Local History, History
Author: Frances J. Shaw
Publication Date: March 2003
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock
This important and detailed study describes and analyses the main features of the economy and social structure of the Isles in the seventeenth century. In geographical scope it covers the Hebrides from Islay in the south to Lewis in the north, as well as the island groups of Orkney and Shetland.
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God's Islanders
ISBN: 9781841582979
Category: Local History, History
Author: Catherine Czerkawska
Publication Date: October 2006
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock
A personal account of a writer’s close relationship with a unique and evocative landscape.
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Lochaber
ISBN: 9781841582412
Category: Local History, History
Author: Paula Martin
Publication Date: April 2005
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
A practical guidebook to this region of Scotland offering an extensive history from prehistoric to contemporary times.
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Strathalder
ISBN: 9781841585994
Category: Local History, History
Author: Roderick Grant
Publication Date: September 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
The composed and hierarchal country estate was once a great functional animal in the 1920s. It was efficient, structured and social, and is generally thought to be lost in the 21st century with the great rise of the Bourgeoisie. However, this interesting book reminds us of a time that still exists, quietly adapting with the demands of modern life.
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Lost Edinburgh
ISBN: 9781841587479
Category: Local History, History
Author: Hamish Coghill
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
Stock Status: in stock
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Aberdeen 1800 to 2000
ISBN: 9781862321083
Category: Local History, History
Author: (Editors) W.Hamish Fraser and Clive Lee
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock
Aberdeen is a city shaped by its geography, climate and architecture. Like the land from which it grew, it projects qualities of hard work and fortitude, firm solidity, a bold self-confidence and soaring aspiration.
Whalehunters
ISBN: 9781841830650
Category: Local History
Author: Malcolm Archibald
Publication Date: October 2004
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
Malcolm Archibald vividly evokes the lives of Scottish whalers in his history, using log books and journals, custom and company records to accurately portray their working lives and their families.
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Bath Curiosities
ISBN: 9781841585031
Category: Local History, History, West Country
Author: Michael Raffael
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
Delving into Bath’s history, this book gathers a collection of stories about these weird individuals and their duels, telescopes, cakes, fizzy drinks, Bath Buns, Sally Lunns and plasticene.
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Bristol Curiosities
ISBN: 9781841585895
Category: Local History, History, West Country
Author: Julian Lea-Jones
Publication Date: September 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
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Atholl and Gowrie
ISBN: 9781841580296
Category: Local History
Author: Lindsay MacGregor, Richard Oram
Publication Date: June 2000
Format: PB
Price: £4.99
Stock Status: in stock
A unique combination of illustrated guidebook and engrossing narrative, this is a chronological history of Atholl and Gowrie from prehistoric times to the present day, including maps of the district and site plans.
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The Vatersay Raiders
ISBN: 9781841585536
Category: Local History, History
Author: Ben Buxton
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: reprinting
This book, the first about Vatersay, draws on detailed records to tell the remarkable story of the raiders: their struggle to escape from the poverty which, they claimed, the policies of the absentee landowner forced them to endure, the raiding and settlement of the island and the fraught process of dividing it up into crofts.
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Isles of the West
ISBN: 9781841583228
Category: Local History, History
Author: Ian Mitchell
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Isles of the West describes a three-month voyage made in the summer of 1996 around the Hebrides. The author explores the major issues peculiar to the islands as the century dawns.
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Ayrshire
ISBN: 9781841582672
Category: Local History
Author: Thorbjorn Campbell
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
A unique combination of illustrated guidebook and engrossing narrative, this is a chronological history of Ayrshire from prehistoric times to the present day, including maps of the region, site plans and illustrations of the major buildings and ruins.<
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Lewis in the Passing
ISBN: 9781841585475
Category: Local History, History
Author: Calum Ferguson
Publication Date: January 2007
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock
Lewis in the Passing is a form of time-capsule, containing twenty-one autobiographical sketches of Lewis natives, all born before the Second World War. All the subjects are interviewed by fellow islander Calum Ferguson, who, in presenting their stories and journeys, reveals the magnetism and appeal of this rain- and wind-swept island.
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Hidden Scotland
ISBN: 9781841583488
Category: Local History, History
Author: Ann Lindsay
Publication Date: November 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Hidden Scotland is an indispensable guide to those keen to explore the more alternative histories and destinations on Scotland’s tourist trail.
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Edinburgh: The Golden Age
ISBN: 9780859765718
Category: Local History, History
Author: Mary Cosh
Publication Date: March 2003
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: not in stock
This is a major contribution to the literature on the Scottish Enlightenment and an extraordinarily lucid insight into Edinburgh during the most exciting and stimulating period of its history.
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Skye
ISBN: 9781841584799
Category: Local History, History
Author: Otta Swire
Publication Date: June 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
This is a fabulous treasury of legend and wonder; tales of monsters who dwell in lakes, of small people who trap humans in earthen mounds where time stands still, and of dark, shape- shifting spirits whose cloak of human form is betrayed by the sand and shells which fall from their hair.
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The Mediaeval Castles of Skye and Lochalsh
ISBN: 9781841586137
Category: Local History, History, Architecture
Author: Roger Miket and David Roberts
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
Stock Status: in stock
St Andrews
ISBN: 9781841584508
Category: Local History, History
Author: Raymond Lamont-Brown
Publication Date: September 2006
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
Stock Status: in stock
Raymond Lamont-Brown presents in his insightful book the history of St Andrews bridging from the time of the Picts to the 21st century. A comprehensive and complete history of this remarkable Scottish town.
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Falkirk
ISBN: 9781841584690
Category: Local History, History
Author: Iain Scott
Publication Date: November 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
A newly revised and extended edition of the very popular 1994 Life and Times of Falkirk, with many new illustrations.
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Living Memories
ISBN: 9781841584522
Category: Local History, History, Photography, Art
Author: Jennifer Veitch
Publication Date: October 2005
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
The Isle of Foula
ISBN: 9781841581613
Category: Local History, History
Author: Ian Stoughton Holbourn
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
A book of extraordinary rarity, The Isle of Foula remains the classic account of this lonely and beautiful island off of Shetland.
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Cupar
ISBN: 9781841584102
Category: Local History
Author: Paula Martin
Publication Date: August 2006
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock
This informative, meticulously researched book is a fascinating companion to Cupar. Comparisons with other towns help to provide a rounded picture of this burgh, one of many historic small Scottish towns.
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Loch Lomond and the Trossachs
ISBN: 9780859765862
Category: Local History, History
Author: P. J. G. Ransom
Publication Date: May 2004
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Here are the stories of the famous people who came to Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, why they came, how they travelled and what they found.
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The Soay of our Forefathers
ISBN: 9781841582290
Category: Local History, History
Author: Laurance Reed
Publication Date: July 2002
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
The little known hebridean island of Soay has its history set in stone in this comprehensive book.
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I Remember
ISBN: 9781841582221
Category: Local History, History
Author: John Nicolson
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
John Nicolson’s book offers a poignant glimpse into a way of life now lost forever and a celebration of one of Scotland's most beautiful islands.
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When I was Young: The Islands
ISBN: 9781841580395
Category: Local History, History
Author: Timothy Neat
Publication Date: April 2005
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock
Lost Devon
ISBN: 9781841585529
Category: Local History, History, West Country
Author: Felicity Goodall
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock
Superbly illustrated with photographs, paintings, maps and etchings from the county’s museums and art collections, Lost Devon provides a fascinating insight into Devon’s history, as Felicity Goodall explores what little remains of the past and discusses the events which have formed the county as it is today.
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Kerrera
ISBN: 9781899863945
Category: Local History, History
Author: Hope MacDougall of MacDougall
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £11.99
Stock Status: in stock
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Aberdeen Curiosities
ISBN: 9781841584140
Category: Local History
Author: Robert Smith
Publication Date: October 2005
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: reprinting
In this new and expanded edition of his much acclaimed book, Bob Smith introduces some of the most intriguing and eccentric details about the North-East’s premier city.
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The Faroe Islands
ISBN: 9781841582429
Category: Local History, History
Author: Liv Kjorsvik Schei and Gunnie Moberg
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock
This is the only book that offers a detailed account of this remarkable corner of the world, enhanced with numerous photographs by the award-winning photographer Gunnie Moberg.
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Easter Ross 1750-1850
ISBN: 9781904607045
Category: Local History, History
Author: Ian R. M. Mowat
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock
This book examines the changes that took place in the area during the period following the 1745 Jacobite uprising.
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Jack Webster's Aberdeen
ISBN: 9781841584782
Category: Local History, History
Author: Jack Webster
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock
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Lost Argyll
ISBN: 9781841584829
Category: Local History, History
Author: Marian Pallister
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
Stock Status: in stock
In this fascinating yet poignant study, Marian Pallister introduces the many varied aspects of lost Argyll, showing how ancient and even relatively modern landscapes have changed inexorably, often with little thought for conservation or preservation.
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Kelsae
ISBN: 9781841584577
Category: Local History, History
Author: Alistair Moffat
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
Kelsae is a definitive and comprehensive guide of the historical Border town, Kelso.
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Grampian Curiosities
ISBN: 9781841583976
Category: Local History, History
Author: Robert Smith
Publication Date: September 2005
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
Introducing a bizarre and intriguing collection of facts and fables about the people, events and places that have added colour to the history of the Grampian country over the centuries.
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Kilrenny and Cellardyke
ISBN: 9781904607083
Category: Local History, History
Author: Harry D. Watson
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock
A book for anyone with an interest in the East Neuk of Fife, this is a history of the parish and burgh of Kilrenny from the twelfth century to the present day.
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Lost Aberdeen: Aberdeen's Lost Architectural Heritage
ISBN: 9781841583907
Category: Local History, History, Architecture
Author: Diane Morgan
Publication Date: October 2005
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
Stock Status: in stock
In Lost Aberdeen, handsomely illustrated and rich in fact and lore, Diane Morgan investigates the history and fate of numerous city buildings which had considerable historic and architectural importance.
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Argyll
ISBN: 9781899863822
Category: Local History, History
Author: Marion Campbell
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
The author brings together archaeology, legend and history to produce a textured tapestry of the region and its people.
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Kilmacolm
ISBN: 9781841586212
Category: Local History, History
Author: David Roe
Publication Date: November 2007
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
Stock Status: not in stock
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Colintraive and Glendaruel
ISBN: 9781841584003
Category: Local History
Author: Bridget Paterson
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: HB
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: in stock
This is the first history of this beautiful part of the Cowal peninsula since Archibald Brown’s acclaimed book of 1908, and presents the story of Colintraive and Glendaruel from the end of the last Ice Age to the present day.
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Lost Cornwall
ISBN: 9781841586045
Category: Local History, History, West Country
Author: Joanna Thomas
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock
This book is an exploration of some of the region’s hidden facets and lesser known places which are testament to a way of life experienced just a couple of generations ago.
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The Borders
ISBN: 9781841584669
Category: Local History, History
Author: Alistair Moffat
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
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My Little Town of Cromarty
ISBN: 9781841585277
Category: Local History, History
Author: David Alston
Publication Date: June 2006
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: in stock
This book is a history of the small town of Cromarty, north of Inverness at the tip of the Black Isle peninsula. Although it has less than 750 inhabitants, Cromarty is viewed by its residents as a town rather than a village, which reflects the settlement’s beginnings as a royal burgh and its days as a leading port for the northern Highlands.
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Hidden Glasgow
ISBN: 9781841587202
Category: Local History, History
Author: Carol Foreman
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
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Edinburgh and the Reformation
ISBN: 9781904607052
Category: Local History, History
Author: Michael Lynch
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £30.00
Stock Status: reprinting
The story of one of the last of the great city reformations that took place all over Europe in the 16th century.
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Lothian
ISBN: 9781874744450
Category: Local History, History
Author: Mark Collard
Publication Date: January 1998
Format: PB
Price: £5.99
Stock Status: in stock
This book details the abundance of superb archaeological remains and places of great historic interest to be found in this very particular region of Scotland.
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Canonmills and Inverleith
ISBN: 9780859764001
Category: Local History, History
Author: Joyce M Wallace
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.95
Stock Status: in stock
Joyce M Wallace lovingly retells the history and heritage of these areas combined with lively anecdotes about the characters who populated them.
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Lewis in History and Legend
ISBN: 9781841583686
Category: Local History, History
Author: Bill Lawson
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
Stock Status: in stock
Lewis in History and Legend is the first volume by Bill Lawson about the history of the Isle of Lewis.
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The Perthshire Book
ISBN: 9781874744849
Category: Local History, History
Author: Donald Omand
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock
This comprehensive collection of essays provides fascinating information about this part of Scotland. The natural, historical and cultural treasures of this popular part of Scotland are revealed here in all their glorious variety.
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Tracing Scottish Local History
ISBN: 9780114952310
Category: Local History
Author: Cecil Sinclair
Publication Date: August 1996
Format: PB
Price: £7.95
Stock Status: in stock
The guide provides an authoritative survey of the vast range of material held in the National Archives of Scotland—dealing with houses, streets, estates and farms, administrative divisions of Scotland as well as schools, businesses and recreational activities.
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Argyll, 1730 - 1850
ISBN: 9780859766203
Category: Local History, History
Author: Robert McGeachy
Publication Date: August 2005
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: not in stock
Robert McGeachy tells the story of a revolution – one that would extend to the rest of the Highlands and Islands – set in train when Argyll’s leading families turned their backs on clanship and embraced an explicitly capitalist approach to the management of their estates.
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Isles of the North
ISBN: 9781841582986
Category: Local History, History
Author: Ian Mitchell
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: not in stock
As in Isles of the West, Mitchell’s narrative combines authoritative background information and personal interviews with local people, many enlivened by the measured dispensation of Scotland’s most famous aid to creative thought.
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Lost Glasgow
ISBN: 9781841582788
Category: Local History, History
Author: Carol Foreman
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
Stock Status: in stock
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Anstruther
ISBN: 9781904607441
Category: Local History, History
Author: Stephanie Stevenson
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: in stock
Anstruther: A History is written by a local author with a deep understanding of Anstruther, who conveys her enthusiasm for her subject in elegant prose and well-chosen pictures.
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Discovering Moray Banff and Nairn
ISBN: 9780859764926
Category: Local History, History
Author: Eric Simpson
Publication Date: March 1998
Format: PB
Price: £8.95
Stock Status: in stock
A comprehensive guide, with a historical emphasis, to the ancient counties of Moray, Banff and Nairn.
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Island Voices
ISBN: 9781841581743
Category: Local History, History
Author: Ann Mackenzie
Publication Date: March 2002
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Focusing on North Mull (north of Glen More, but excluding Craignure, Torosay and Brolas), this book is a wonderful anthology of the tales and traditions of Mull in the words of those who tell of them.
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Morvern
ISBN: 9781841582375
Category: Local History, History
Author: Norman Macleod
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: not in stock
Morvern - A Highland Parish is a stoic book with humaneness at its heart, encapsulating forgotten traditions and humour, recapturing the vitality of a past community often overlooked.
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Lost Ayrshire
ISBN: 9781841584362
Category: Local History, Architecture
Author: Dane Love
Publication Date: July 2010
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
Stock Status: in stock
Over the centuries, countless buildings have been built and demolished throughout the county of Ayrshire. This informative and beautifully illustrated book looks at a wide selection of these, from castles and country houses to mines and mills from Ayrshire's rich industrial past.
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Old Skye Tales
ISBN: 9781841582016
Category: History, Local History
Author: William Mackenzie
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
The Guga Hunters
ISBN: 9781841586847
Category: Local History, History
Author: Donald S. Murray
Publication Date: October 2008
Format: HB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
The Guga Hunters tells the story of the men who voyage to Sulasgeir each year and the district they hail from, bringing out the full colour of their lives, humour and the drama of their exploits.
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The Winter Whale
ISBN: 9781841587325
Category: Local History, History
Author: Jim Crumley
Publication Date: October 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
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The Lost City
ISBN: 9781841587387
Category: Local History, History
Author: Jane Stevenson, Peter Davidson, Marc Ellington and Daniel Maccannell
Publication Date: November 2008
Format: HB
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: in stock
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Lost Dundee
ISBN: 9781841585628
Category: Local History, History
Author: Charles McKean and Patricia Whatley
Publication Date: November 2008
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock
Lost Dundee brings the second city of renaissance Scotland back to life showing, through previously undiscovered photographs and drawings, the life and the maritime quarter of this great port.
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This Too Shall Pass
ISBN: 9781841586052
Category: Local History, History
Author: Roddy Martine
Publication Date: March 2009
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock
Presents the author's ancestors' history of East Lothian with tales and anecdotes to embrace the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Lismore
ISBN: 9781841585659
Category: Local History, History
Author: Robert Hay
Publication Date: May 2009
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock
Because of its strategic position at the mouth of the Great Glen and its fertility, as a limestone island, Lismore played an important part in the prehistory and early history of the West Highlands and Islands, not least as the headquarters of the community of Celtic monks founded by St Moluag. This is a guidebook to the story of Lismore.
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Scottish Placenames
ISBN: 9781841588230
Category: Local History, History
Author: David Dorward
Publication Date: June 2009
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Offers insights into the myriad of place-names that are found across Scotland. This book presents correct pronunciation of Scottish names with explanations of hundreds of names. It is suitable for an inquiring schoolchild, the hill-walker or mountaineer, the local historian and for those who wondered about the origins of place-names in Scotland.
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Lost Plymouth
ISBN: 9781841586250
Category: Local History
Author: Felicity Goodall
Publication Date: October 2009
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock
Tells the intrigiung story of Plymouth’s lost history including the first man to sail around the world in both directions; the shocking image which helped end the slave trade; the first convicts bound for Botany Bay; and the man who navigated over 3,000 miles in an open boat with only the stars to guide him.
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Lost Aberdeen: The Outskirts
ISBN: 9781841588070
Category: Local History
Author: Diane Morgan
Publication Date: November 2009
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
Stock Status: in stock
Lost Aberdeen: The Outskirts is the companion volume to the highly successful Lost Aberdeen which recorded the demise of many fine buildings of the city centre. In Lost Aberdeen: The Outskirts , the lands which encircle the city, spreading seamlessly round its heart like a great fan, are explored and the losses chalked up and discussed.
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Lost Aberdeen: The Freedom Lands
ISBN: 9781841588407
Category: Local History, History
Author: Diane Morgan
Publication Date: November 2009
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock
In her third book examining lost Aberdeen, Diane Morgan uncovers forgotten villiages and communities and reveals how roads and new routeways began to define this amorphous area. Lost Aberdeen: The Freedom Lands is another triumph by the author of Lost Aberdeen and Lost Abderdeen: The Outskirts.
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Renfrewshire
ISBN: 9781841587998
Category: Local History, History
Author: Derek Alexander
Publication Date: May 2010
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: not yet published
Derek Alexander provides an enthralling account of the archaeological history of Renfrewshire, one of Scotland’s least investigated countys.
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Driftwood and Tangle
ISBN: 9781841588988
Category: Local History, Autobiography
Author: Margaret Leigh
Publication Date: July 2010
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
A moving and poignant memoir of life in the north-west of Scotland just after the outbreak of the Second World War, Margaret Leigh recounts the years she spent as a crofter, an activity which enabled her to experience the land in all its moods and capture the essence of this remote and beautiful part of Scotland in finely crafted prose.
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Lost Devon
ISBN: 9781841586489
Category: Local History, West Country, History
Author: Felicity Goodall
Publication Date: August 2010
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
Stock Status: not yet published
Superbly illustrated with photographs, paintings, maps and etchings from the county’s museums and art collections, Lost Devon provides a fascinating insight into Devon’s history, as Felicity Goodall explores what little remains of the past and discusses the events which have formed the county as it is today.
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Lost Moray and Nairn
ISBN: 9781841588759
Category: Local History
Author: Bruce Bishop
Publication Date: August 2010
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: not yet published
Bruce Bishop traces what has been ‘lost’ from the old counties of Moray and Nairn, both architecturally and socially. His journey through the region takes him from prehistory to the present day, and examines everything from geology, architecture, agriculture, industry, to communications. Lost Moray and Nairn is an important, illuminating and compelling account.
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