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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 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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Brings together records in Latin, Scots, Gaelic and English (some new) for the first time in their original form, with transcriptions and translations. Describes both the lead-up to the battle, its aftermath and the ending of the Lordship. Includes historical analysis of the ballads associated with the battle and contests a number of romantic myths

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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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A reissue of three classic volumes of Hebridean Folk Songs

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Reissue of three classic volumes of Hebridean folk songs.

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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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The renowned historian Jenny Wormald was a ground-breaking expert on early modern Scottish history, especially Stewart kingship, noble power and wider society. She was most controversial in her book-length critique of Mary, Queen of Scots.

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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 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.