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Add to BasketThe Lighthouse Stevensons: The Extraordinary Story Of The Building Of The Scottish Lighthouses By The Ancestors Of Robert Louis Stevenson
£8.49
- Paperback - Harper Perennial
Bella Bathurst tells the story of how Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors built the network of lighthouses around the coast of Scotland. The family built all of the Scottish lighthouses, the last one of which became automated in 1998. -
Add to BasketDavid Hume Of Godscroft's The History Of The House Of Angus
£30.00
- Hardback - Scottish Text Society
David Hume of Godscroft's informed, racy and opinionated work was written during the reign of James VI and deals with the Red Douglases. However, for Hume, family history is a regular trajectory into a historiographical narrative engaging with the major political dramas of the 15th and 16th centuries. - Add to BasketDavid Hume Of Godscroft's The History Of The House Of Angus
£30.00
- Hardback - Scottish Text Society
David Hume of Godscroft's informed, racy and opinionated work was written during the reign of James VI and deals with the Red Douglases. However, for Hume, family history is a regular trajectory into a historiographical narrative engaging with the major political dramas of the 15th and 16th centuries. -
Add to BasketFrom The Bloody Heart: The Stewarts And The Douglases
£20.00
- Hardback - Sutton
This is the story of the saga between the Stewart and the Douglas families in early medieval Scotland, who grew in power and influence but remained locked in a bitter feud. -
Add to BasketScots In Canada
£7.99
- Paperback - Luath
Canada is peppered with Scottish names and Canada's phone books are filled with them. Increasingly Scottish Canadians are coming to Scotland in search of family history and over Scotland there are clues to the Scottish-Canadian relationship, the legacy of centuries of trade and communication as well as departure. -
Add to BasketScottish Clans And Tartans: Souvenir Guide
£3.36
- Paperback - Colin Baxter
This is an illustrated guide to the Scottish clans and the tartans. Alastair Cunningham describes the origins of the clans, clan customs and much more. -
Add to BasketThe Place Names Of Edinburgh
£20.83
- Paperback - Steve Savage
An introduction giving a historical overview is followed by detailed entries on thousands of places within the modern city of Edinburgh. This work is about names old and new - the names of every modern street as well as those given to places and hills and rivers over the past 20 centuries and more. -
Add to BasketScottish Place-Name Papers
£10.63
- Paperback - Steve Savage
The papers in this work include theoretical principles, original fieldwork and general surveys in which Watson explores Gaelic, Norse and Pictish/British elements to be found in Scotland's place names today. -
Add to BasketIn Search Of Willie Patterson: A Scottish Soldier In The Age Of Imperialism
£10.99
- Paperback - Cualann
This title tells the story of Fred Reid's quest to understand the grandfather he never knew, a soldier who fought in the East African campaign during World War I. In telling it, he is frank about the great pains a blind man must take to overcome many barriers to research. -
Add to BasketNo Tragic Story: The Fall Of The House Of Campbell
£6.79
- Paperback - John Donald
From exile, the ninth Earl of Argyll joined the unstable and mrecurial Duke of Monmouth in a plot against the new king, James I. The Earl was captured and executed and the fate of the clan removed a force for stability in the Highlands.
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