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£8.49
The Makers Of Scotland: Picts, Romans, Gaels And Vikings
T. J. Clarkson - Paperback - Birlinn
In this book the remarkable story of how ancient North Britain became the medieval kingdom of Scotland is told.
£40.00
Miscellany Of The Scottish History Society
- Hardback - Scottish History Society
Miscellanys published by the Scottish History Society bring together critical editions of important and previously unpublished manuscripts of relevance to Scottish history. As well as providing transcriptions, the editors introduce and explain the context of documents which have been neglected or even unknown to historians, providing a valuable resource for researchers, students, and all those interested in exploring Scottish history through the original sources. Volume XIV of the miscellany focuses on the early modern period, presenting editions of six manuscripts from the late 16th to the mid 18th centuries.
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The Man Who Gave Away His Island: A Life Of John Lorne Campbell Of Canna
Ray Perman - Paperback - Birlinn
This is the story of a remarkable man and his triumph over adversity, bank managers and bureaucrats to fulfil his dream. Even after he gave it to the National Trust for Scotland he still had to fight to secure his legacy.
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£6.79
Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary Of A Victorian Lady
Kate Summerscale - Paperback - Bloomsbury
A story of romance and fidelity, insanity, fantasy and the boundaries of privacy in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality, 'Mrs Robinson's Disgrace' brings vividly to life a complex, frustrated Victorian wife, longing for passion and learning, companionship and love.
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Midlothian
Alex McCallum - Paperback - Cambridge University Press
The 'Cambridge County Geographies' were designed to provide a series of concise guides to British regions. This guide to Midlothian by Alex McCallum was first published in 1912 and contains numerous illustrative figures as well as a list of the chief towns and villages within the area.
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Moray And Nairn
Charles Matheson - Paperback - Cambridge University Press
The 'Cambridge County Geographies' were designed to provide a series of concise guides to British regions. This guide to Moray and Nairn by Charles Matheson was first published in 1915 and contains numerous illustrative figures as well as a list of the chief towns and villages within the area.
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My Scotland
A. G. Macdonell - Paperback - Fonthill Media
Macdonell was born in India, brought up in London, educated at Winchester, provided with further excellent character-forming life-experience in France in muddy conditions, and then spent his working life in London. His formal address on his War Record documentation is Bridgefield, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, but it does not seem that he ever spent a great deal of time in Scotland. This book is for all those who feel that Scotland has been 'hard-done-by'.
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£70.00
The Magdalenes: Prostitution In The Nineteenth Century
Linda Mahood - Hardback - Routledge
Building on the work of Foucault, Walkowitz, and Mort, Linda Mahood traces and examines new approached emerging throughout the 19th century towards prostitution and looks at the apparatus and institutions created for its regulation and control.
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£5.09
Mull & Iona: Highways & Byways
P. A. Macnab - Paperback - Luath
Peter Macnab takes the visitor on a tour of these two accessible islands of the Inner Hebrides, considered to be the centre of Celtic Christianity. Born and brought up on Mull, the author has an insider's knowledge of the island and throughout this book he shows the reader the true Mull and Iona.
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£14.44
Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary Of A Victorian Lady
Kate Summerscale - Hardback - Bloomsbury
A story of romance and fidelity, insanity, fantasy and the boundaries of privacy in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality, 'Mrs Robinson's Disgrace' brings vividly to life a complex, frustrated Victorian wife, longing for passion and learning, companionship and love.