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Situated in the middle of the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is like a stepping-stone between the lands that surround it. In medieval times, it played an important role in the histories of Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. This book explores the first part of that era, tracing the story of the Isle of Man from the fifth to the thirteenth centuries.

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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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This authoritative and handsomely illustrated book is aimed at the general reader who wants to know about the mysterious people who inhabited Scotland from the Bronze Age onwards.

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St Columba is one of the most important figures in the early history of the British Isles. Drawing on contemporary sources and the latest modern research, this book traces Columbas achievements and legacy. It examines his roles as abbot, scholar and missionary as well as his involvement in the affairs of kings in both Ireland and northern Britain.

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The popular Arthurian legends, such as the grail quests of Perceval and Galahad, and the love of Lancelot for Queen Guenevere, have largelyovershadowed Scotland's own Arthurian romance.

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Early historic Scotland - from the fifth to the tenth century AD - was home to a variety of diverse peoples and cultures, all competing for land and supremacy. Yet by the eleventh century it had become a single, unified kingdom, known as Alba, under a stable and successful monarchy. How did this happen, and when

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This book represents the first ever overview of both Manx and Hebridean dynasties that dominated Man and the Isles from the late eleventh to the mid-thirteenth centuries.

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A key resource for students of forestry and Scottish social history, foresters, conservationists and environmental historians. Features oral testimony telling the human story of forestry as it has developed in Scotland over the last 100 years.

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Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland explores the interaction of human populations with land, waters, forests and wildlife. This volume covers the period from the Romans to 1400.

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The reigns of Edgar (10971107) and Alexander I (11071124) have been overshadowed by those of their father Mael Coluim III (10571093) and their younger brother David I (11241153). This joint biographical study of the two kings highlights that the kingship of the Scots was a family enterprise in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

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This book examines the role of religion in the story of Oliver Cromwell's invasion and subsequent occupation of Scotland. Analysis of the printed propaganda produced by the Scots and the English makes it clear that both nations defined their positions, and gained support, in overtly religious terms.

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David II (13291371), son of the hero King of Scots, Robert Bruce (13061329), has suffered a harsh historical press, condemned as a disastrous general, a womaniser and a sympathiser with Scotland's 'auld enemy', England. Bringing together evidence from Scotland, England and France, Michael Penman offers a different view.

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Earth Hall, Ring Gift and Heaven's Field provides along-overdue appraisal of Northumbrian history and archaeology during a period which has fired the popular imagination in TV series such as The Last Kingdom, combining Max Adams'trademark narrative power and landscape evocation combined with Colm O'Brien's forensic scholarship.

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This is the first book to highlight this major episode in Glasgow's history, which has been largely forgotten and yet lies at the heart of the rights of way movement in Scotland. Glasgow's citizens to defended their right of passage along the north bank of the Clyde, which served the interests and enthusiasms of ordinary working people.

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This is the unique story of one of Scotland's most significant cities seen in the context of wider developments in Scottish and British history. Featuring essays by leading interdisciplinary researchers at the University, it is impeccably researched yet accessible to the non-specialist reader.

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This is an introduction to the Picts, for the general reader and historian alike, by leading experts. Based on evidence from recent excavations of major Pictish sites, as well as the latest historical research, this book offers a new viewpoint on a critical but little-known era of Scotland's history.

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She is but a Woman, the first in-depth study of medieval Scottish queens, investigates the relationship between gender and power in the medieval Scottish court by exploring the art of queenship as practised by Joan Beaufort and Mary of Guelders, queens of James I and James II.

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Michael Brown analyses the rise and fall of the Douglas family as the dominant magnates of the south of Scotland, from the deeds of the Good Sir James Douglas in the service of Bruce to the violent destruction of the Douglas earls in the 1450s.

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Widely hailed by enthusiasts as one of the most detailed reference books on the subject of Celtic Place-names, this toponymical study provides background and derivation for the length and breadth of the country. This edition includes biographical material about the author along with corrigenda and addenda.

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What can a bagpipe, a fiddle or a harpsichord tell us about national culture and identity Each country has a different story to tell, and Scotland's story has not yet been told. This book traces the cultural and social history of musical instruments in Scotland.

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This is a new, readable and more accurate translation of the saga formerly known asOrkneyinga saga.The introduction outlines the literary and historical focus of theSaga, and for the first time, those with no knowledge of Old Norse can access all the relevant textual evidence for this saga and enjoy its colourful stories and lively poetry.

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Badenoch today is a landscape of empty glens and ruined settlements, but it was not always so. This book examines the transformative events that shaped the regions destiny.

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