A Landscape Fashioned by Geology (Scottish Natural Heritage, 1999) McKie, Robin, Face of Britain: How Our Genes Reveal ... Gaels and Scots (Historic Scotland, 2004) Houston, R.A. and Knox, William (Editors), The New Penguin History of ...
To read the chapter analysesofthese is depressing: 'Dispute between the Earls of Sutherland and Caithness—Feud between MacdonaldofSlate and SirRoderick Macleod of Harris—Dreadful excessesin Skye and Uist—Defeat of the Macleansin Skye.
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.
‘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...
But Malcolm wanted them for Scotland, as did many of his successors. In his reign of thirty-six years he made several attempts to seize them. His motives are not known for certain, but probably he saw them as a kind of 'no-man's land' ...
This is a book that makes sense of the complexities of Scottish history in an insightful way, at a glance.
Covering a staggering period from the Pictish peoples and their symbol stones to modern devolution, Mitchison's absorbing narrative remains the classic introduction to Scottish history.This beautifully written text covers the...
Extensively revised for this edition, these essays combine to build a picture of Scottish history from the time of the Picts and the Britons, through the Wars of Independence, the Reformation and the time of the Covenanters, to the Union of ...
This book contains hundreds of ‘strange but true’ stories about Scottish history.
A History of Scotland