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This is a groundbreaking book featuring the latest research on the Picts edited by two of the most eminent scholars in the field and featuring contributions from a number of acclaimed experts. Essential reading for all those fascinated by the Picts.

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Known as the Lady of the Mercians in the 900s, Aethelflaedruled Mercia on her own after her husbands death, leading the army to war and earning a fearsome reputation. She became a competent general and helped to drive the Vikings out of England. This book, published 1100 years after her death, tells her remarkable story.

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Through his personality, ingenuity and ability, Wallace initiated a resistance movement which ultimately secured the nation's freedom and independence. This title investigates what is known of the medieval warrior's career. It examines his reputation, from the time of his horrendous execution onwards.

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Writing 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 Scots'. This fascinating selection is made from the modern 9-volume edition produced by Professor D.E.R. Watt and his team.

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This book tells the little-known story of the pioneering two architects and how they carried out their surveys of 700of Scotlands castellated buildings, ranging from great medieval fortresses to small lairds houses with pepper-pot turrets.

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A group of distinguished Scottish medievalists examines various aspects of the history of Celtic or Gaelic-speaking Scotland from the sub-Roman period to the sixteenth century.

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This book explores the king's successes and failures, offering a fresh assessment of his contribution to the making of Scotland as a nation.

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This is the first full-scale academic study of Alexander IIIs reign since 1937 and willappeal to those interested in medieval history, English history and Scottish history.

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This book reviews the political events that led to the abolition of episcopacy in 1689 and with it the concerted attack on the parish clergy. It explores for the first time the background and influences that led to the brutal 'rabbling of the curates' in south-west Scotland.

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James Boswell's is one of the raciest and most entertaining of all Edinburgh diarists. This is a one-volume edition of the journals kept by James Boswell while making his living as an advocate in eighteenth-century Edinburgh. Hugh Milne's vivid description of a whole gallery of characters and situations makes its pages compulsively readable.

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The first full-length account of Scotland's major change from burial to cremation

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Despite seven out of ten people in Scotland choosing cremation, in many ways crematoria are 'invisible' buildings, visited only by necessity, and they have not received the attention they deserve. Crematoria present a real challenge for architects.

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Francis Hutcheson (1694-1745) has traditionally been celebrated for his moral philosophy, which greatly influenced David Hume and other thinkers of the Enlightenment.

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This is the story of the upland, rural community of Glenesk, told from the perspectives of the people themselves and covers many aspects of glen life. The book looks at people's changing relationships with the landscape, the buildings they lived, worked and worshipped in, and the tools they used.

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A reissue of three classic volumes of Hebridean Folk Songs

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A fascinating biography of James I, King of Scots.

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James III is the most enigmatic of the Stewart kings of Scotland. This study explains why King James was challenged by a huge rebellion in 1482, which he narrowly survived, and why he succumbed to a further rising in 1488, which placed his eldest son on the throne as James IV.

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Anderson critically analyses the evidence available from regnal lists and Irish annals of the 6th to 9th centuries, to shed new light on the kingdoms of DalRiata and the Picts. This reedition includes a new introduction and a bibliography of recent scholarship by Nicholas Evans.

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

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Shortlisted for the Saltire Society History Book of the Year

The legendary Scottish king Mel Coluim III, also known as Malcolm Canmore, is often held to epitomise Scotlands ancient Gaelic kings. This is the first full-length study Mel Coluim III's life and reign.

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This 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 landlords, tacksmen, cottars and others who actually lived on or visited the island of Mull.

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This book brings together the major writings of David Sellar (19412019) on the genealogies (pedigrees) claimed by some of the major clans of medieval Highland and Island Scotland, especially the descendants of their twelfth-century king Somerled. It is an invaluable resource for students, genealogists and historians of medieval Scottish history.