Social History
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Add to BasketTales From The Tent: Jessie's Journey Continues
£6.79
- Paperback - Birlinn
In 'Tales From the Tent' Jess Smith - Scottish traveller, hawker, gypsy, 'gan-about' and storyteller - continues the unforgettable story of her life on the road. -
Add to BasketTaxi!: Never A Dull Day - A Cabbie Remembers
£7.64
- Paperback - Birlinn
Society ladies and ladies of the night. Men of the cloth and men up to no good. Taxi drivers meet them all. And they treat the back of their cabs like a confessional - what's said there stops there. But now, half a century after he hung up his peaked cap, ex-cabbie Douglas Findlay believes his stories can finally be told. -
Add to BasketTales Of Whisky
£5.09
- Paperback - Luath
Whether dodging the men of excise, fighting with government troops or simply indulging in a spot of the national sport of drinking whisky, Scots have long had a love affair with their favourite amber nectar. In this book Stuart McHardy draws upon tales associated with the tipple to make you laugh, cry and wonder. -
Add to BasketThe Truth About St Kilda
£8.49
- Paperback - John Donald
This title records the isolated way of life on St Kilda in the early part of the 20th century. It is based on notebooks written by Donald Gillies, containing reminiscences of his childhood on the island of Hirta. It provides an account of the living conditions, social structure and economy of the community in the early 1900s. -
Add to BasketThe Truth Tells Twice: The Life Of A North-East Farm
£7.64
- Paperback - Birlinn
This is an affectionate and humorous look at the life of the Aberdeenshire farmer through the 19th and 20th centuries. It is full of folk wisdom and anecdotes from the people who made that farming community the prosperous thing it became from Nature's rather meagre bounty. -
Add to BasketThe Truth Tells Twice: The Life Of A North-East Farm
£14.44
- Hardback - Birlinn
This is an affectionate and humorous look at the life of the small Aberdeenshire farmer through the 19th and 20th centuries. It is full of folk wisdom and anecdotes from the people who made that farming community the prosperous thing it became from Nature's rather meagre bounty. -
Add to BasketTales From An Island
£8.49
- Paperback - Birlinn
In her memoirs, Christina Hall writes about her childhood on the Hebridean island of South Uist in the 1940s and '50s, her schooldays on the mainland, her time at teacher training college in Glasgow, and her return to South Uist as a primary school teacher. -
Add to BasketTartan: The Highland Habit
£7.99
- Paperback - NMS
Hugh Cheape, curator of modern Scottish history at the National Museums of Scotland, takes the story of tartan from the medieval love of display to the Victorian invention of exclusive clan identity. -
Add to BasketThey Belonged To Glasgow: The City From The Bottom Up
£6.80
- Paperback - Neil Wilson
Based upon eye-witness accounts, They Belonged To Glasgow is a revealing portrait in words of how ordinary people have lived in the second city of the empire over the course of the last 250 years.
