This is a reissue of a popular text, for Standard Grade History exams. We have added 8 pages 'Into the Millennium' to update the text, and added exam questions under the new headings of Knowledge and Understanding and Line of Enquiry, at General and Credit levels.
An ideal volume for anyone wanting a brisk overview of North Britain from the year dot to the twentieth century.
Hardie, Keir, 366 Hardy, Thomas, 317, 318 Hardyknute (Wardlaw), 309 Harlaw, battle of (1411), 96, 97 Harold, earl of Orkney, 44 Harold, king of Man, 44 Hastings, house of, 41 Hastings, John, 65 Hawley, General Henry, 278 Hay, ...
It is the story of a multicultural civilization, linked by a common language. It is the story of how ideas travelled in prehistory, how technology and art spread across the continent.
The only A–Z dictionary of Scottish literature remains Trevor Royle's very helpful Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature (1993), but readers who want more extended scholarly treatments of the subject as a whole (including topics ...
The work of leading authorities on Scottish history is brought together in this accurate and sophisticated portrait of Scotland from Roman times to the present day.
diligent to detect it.5 In retrospect we must regret that Johnson did not spend a little longer in the Hebrides. Boswell had planned a visit to Benbecula to stay with Clanranald,5 but this visit would have added a week to the tour, ...
This is a passionate cry for more than just independence but also for a nation based on social justice.
This is done in a highly accessible manner which makes these ideas available to the general reader for the first time.
The Healers: A History of Medicine in Scotland
‘Alistair Moffat’s Bannockburn is a pacy account of the days leading up to the battle’ - Saturday Herald ‘A carefully considered account of a well-trodden historical event, Moffat enlightens and...