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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 celebrates the history and the rebirth of the salt industry in Scotland. Although manufacturing declined in the nineteenth century and was wound up in the 1950s, in the second decade of the twenty-first century the trade was revived. Scotlands salt is now a high-prestige, award-winning green product.

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This new title is a comprehensive study of the past 500 years of Scottish-Polish interaction, focussing primarily on early modern experiences of Scottish traders and diplomats and Polish presence in Scotland in the 20th century. This scholarly work will be of most value to students and researchers, and the Polish community in Scotland.

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Who was Merlin Is the famous wizard of Arthurian legend based on a real person In this book, Merlin's origins are traced back to the story of Lailoken, a mysterious 'wild man' who is said to have lived in the Scottish Lowlands in the sixth century AD.

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Describes Scotland's 150-year involvement in Arctic bowhead whaling using previously unpublished research from port records and newspaper accounts.

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Surveys the historical background of handwriting usage, with emphasis on changing fashions. This book provides guidance on how to deal with early language and abbreviations. It is suitable for research students, local historians, genealogists, and calligraphers.

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Examines the interlocking strands of history, language and traditional culture within an international context and their contribution to the making of a national identity. Each of the fourteen volumes is an examination of a societal topic and helps understand what has shaped Scottish society.

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This volume provides an easily comprehensible account of the law in Scotland, beginning with its historical development and professional structure before going on to consider the law as an institution.

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The publication of 'An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology' sees the completion of the fourteen-volume Scottish Life and Society series, originally conceived by the eminent ethnologist Professor Alexander Fenton.

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The publication of 'An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology' sees the completion of the fourteen-volume Scottish Life and Society series, originally conceived by the eminent ethnologist Professor Alexander Fenton.

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Examines the variety in Scottish 'home life', and considers what has shaped its society. This book in fourteen volumes, aims to examine the interlocking strands of history, language and traditional culture within an international context and their contribution to the making of a national identity.

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Outlining the history of settlement and work, this volume considers the working lives of those engaged in feeding, housing and protecting the population, those who work to keep the population healthy, and those who are engaged in work of the imagination rather than work to meet material needs.

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Explores a variety of topics on the theme of transport and communications. This volume includes chapters that are divided into five thematic sections: water transport, land transport, air transport, communications, and transport and communications in their wider contexts.

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This book, the result of twenty years' meticulous research, remains the only comprehensive and systematic study of Scottish place-names. This methodological guide provides an extensive overview of the history of ancient and modern place names in Scotland.

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Investigates Somerled of Argyll's emergence in the forefront of the Gaelic-Norse aristocracy of the western seaboard, his part in Gaeldom's challenge to the Canmore kings of Scots, his war on the Manx king of the Isles, his importance for the church on Iona, and his invasion of the Clyde which was cut short by his death at Renfrew in 1164.

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A collection of essays published to mark the millennium of the Battle of Carham, fought in 1018.

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Scottish history is not simply the distillation of Scotlands past: authors shape what we know and how we judge our forebears. This book investigates who decided which Scottish voices of the past would be heard in historys pages and which would ultimately be silenced. An essential landmark text for all undergraduate Scottish history programmes.

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This book explores the local history of Argyll in depth and brings a radically different perspective to the 'romantic' episode of the second Jacobite Rebellion, the '45.

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This is the first comprehensive study of James VIs early life, his rise to power and the factional intrigues of his court. The Early Life of James VI provides a full assessment of James early relationship with his mother, Mary Queen of Scots and includes major new archival research on James early court and household.

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This is the first scholarly biography of the two kings who established medieval Scotlands most famous and durable royal dynasty.

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The Glasgow Enlightenmentis widely regarded as the first book to explore the nature and accomplishments of the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Glasgow in a comprehensive manner. This edition features a new bibliographical preface by Richard B. Sher.