(Paperback)
By: Mike Brown
ISBN: 9780747807377
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Growing up as a child in the Second World War could be a frightening or an exciting experience. Depending on the age of the child, the experience of war might be strange and scary, or all he or she had ever known. This book recounts the British child's experience of the War with photographs, objects and ephemera.
(Paperback)
By: Bruce Simpson
ISBN: 9780733324598
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: ABC Books
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Collection of folklore, poetry and true accounts of outback pioneering graves, illustrated with many photographs from the period.
(Paperback)
By: Helen Muller
ISBN: 9780747807315
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Jet, a hard, black, shiny gen, closely related to coal, has been fashioned into jewellery and trinkets for generations, but during the Victorian period, when the ritual surrounding death and the long mourning of Queen Victoria made black fashionable, jet became hugely popular. This book traces the history of jet and the Whitby jet industry.
(Hardback)
By: Roger Hutchinson
ISBN: 9781780278308
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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From 1918 to the modern day, Roger Hutchinson tells the story of the Stornoway Trust, and of the people who guided their pioneering estate into the relative security and prosperity of the 21st century. In doing so he paints a vivid portrait of a unique landholding experiment, of Highland land struggle and of the island of Lewis itself.
(Hardback)
By: Evan Joseph
ISBN: 9780008716103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2025
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Putting archive and contemporary photographs of the same landmark side-by-side, Brooklyn Then and Now provides a visual chronicle of the city's past, full of rich history and culture.
(Paperback)
By: David McCrone
ISBN: 9781399534017
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2026
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Traces how social change transformed Scotland from the 1970s, expressed through politics, culture and identity.
(Hardback)
By: David McCrone
ISBN: 9781399534000
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2026
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Traces how social change transformed Scotland from the 1970s, expressed through politics, culture and identity.
(Hardback)
By: Bill Mouat
ISBN: 9781776891566
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: David Bateman Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Christopher A. Whatley
ISBN: 9780859767309
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: John Donald Publishers Ltd
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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.
(Hardback)
By: Holger Nehring
ISBN: 9780859767361
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2026
Publisher: John Donald Publishers Ltd
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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.
(Hardback)
By: Michael Moss
ISBN: 9781399549066
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2026
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Presents the rich history of a Caithness estate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
(Hardback)
By: Ian Grimble
ISBN: 9781788405935
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2025
UK Publication Date: 14th August 2025
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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A beautifully presented history of Scotland's clans and their iconic tartans.
(Paperback)
By: Miles Kerr-Peterson
ISBN: 9781839830853
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Christina MacDonald MacQueen was born on St Kilda and grew up there at the close of the 19th century. Before the islands' evacuations, she wrote a series of passionate articles about her childhood and the history of the islands. These writings offer a personal and uniquely female perspective on the island's story and its imminent abandonment.
(Paperback)
By: William D. Green
ISBN: 9781517912956
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Hardback)
By: William D. Green
ISBN: 9781517913441
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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"This book recreates twenty days in April 1970 when a then-illegal strike by Minneapolis's public school teachers marked a singular moment of cultural upheaval-and forever changed the city's politics, labor law, educational climate, and the right to collective bargaining"--
(Hardback)
By: Michael Gebert
ISBN: 9781572843608
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2026
Publisher: Surrey Books,U.S.
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(Paperback)
By: Teo van den Broeke
ISBN: 9780008501570
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2025
UK Publication Date: 17th July 2025
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Throughout his life, clothes have provided an outlet through which journalist Teo van den Broeke understands both himself and the world around him.
(Hardback)
By: Malcolm Gaskill
ISBN: 9780241622599
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2025
UK Publication Date: 25th September 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback, Second Edition, Updated edition)
By: Estelle Fox Kleiger
ISBN: 9780897339971
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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(Hardback)
By: Tracy Slater
ISBN: 9780913705704
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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(Paperback, Reissue)
By: Daphne Brooke
ISBN: 9780859767408
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2025
Publisher: John Donald Publishers Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Dave Oliver
ISBN: 9798350997644
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Leonard O. Pellicer
ISBN: 9798350998160
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Hardback)
By: Barbara Gabriella Renzi
ISBN: 9781839996887
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2026
Publisher: Anthem Press
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