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	The Blasphemies of Thomas Aikenhead: Boundaries of Belief on the Eve of the Enlightenment Micheal F. Graham This is the first modern book-length study of the case of Thomas Aikenhead, the sometime University of Edinburgh student who in 1697 earned the unfortunate distinction of being the last person executed for blasphemy in Britain. Taking a micro-historical approach, Michael Graham uses the Aikenhead case to open a window into the world of Edinburgh, Scotland and Britain in its transition from the confessional era of the Reformation and the covenants, which placed high emphasis on the defence of orthodox belief, to the polite, literary world of the Enlightenment, of which Edinburgh would become a major centre. Graham traces the roots of the Aikenhead case in seventeenth-century Scotland and the law of blasphemy which was evolving in response to the new intellectual currents of biblical criticism and deism. He analyzes Aikenhead's trial and the Scottish government's decision to uphold the sentence of hanging. Finally, he details the debate engendered by the execution, carried out in a public sphere of print media encompassing both Scotland and England. Aikenhead's case became a media event which highlighted the intellectual and cultural divisions within Britain at the end of the seventeenth century. SAVE £13.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £42.00 (RRP £55) $73.82 , € 55.10 Nov 2008 hbk 0pp /	Select:
	Monsieur Mackintosh Robin Crichton In 1923, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret Macdonald went on holiday to Roussillon, in the South of France, to rest and recuperate. Her health was poor and as an architect and designer he had become outmoded. They were enchanted. The holiday became a permanent stay and Mackintosh rapidly developed his talents as an artist. They spent the last and possibly the happiest years of their life together in Roussillon.With reproductions of 40 of his French paintings alongside photographs of the actual locations today, and images from the period 1923-1927, this is a comprehensive and pictorial account with more than 250 images reproduced in full colour. Written in close collaboration with experts from Glasgow University, the National Gallery of Modern Art and the Glasgow School of Art. Robin Crichton, President of the Association CRM en Roussillon, follows in Mackintosh's footsteps, rediscovering as he did the culture and beauty of the region. SAVE £2.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £13.00 (RRP £15) $29.22 , € 21.81 / pbk 0pp illustrated throughout	Select:
	Kings, Mormaers, Rebels - Early Scotland's Other Royal Family John Marsden The 'other royal family' of the sub-title is first noticed in the seventh century as the Cenél Loairn, one of the principal dynastic kindreds of Dalriada, the embryonic kingdom of the Scots in Argyll. By the end of that century they had displaced the Cenél nGabráin, a kindred descended from the traditional founding dynast Fergus Mór, from over-kingship of Dalriada and clung on to power until the Pictish onslaught of the 730s. While the Cenél nGabráin extended eastward into Pictland as the MacAlpin kings of Alba, the Cenél Loairn moved up the Great Glen to reappear as hereditary mormaers of Moray, effectively kings in the north who achieved their pinnacle of ascendancy when Macbeth seized the high-kingship of Scots in 1040. His death, and that of his kinsman and successor Lulach, at the hands of Malcolm Canmore signalled the resurgence of the Cenél nGabráin and launched the Cenél Loairn into terminal decline. Yet the house of Lulach still pursued its claim on kingship through a sequence of rebellions against Canmore kings which continued into the second quarter of the thirteenth century. Kings, Mormaers, Rebels traces the story of the Cenél Loairn and its descendent kindreds through more than six hundred years to throw an unfamiliar side-light on the emergence of the medieval kingdom of the Scots. SAVE £5.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £20.00 (RRP £25) $41.53 , € 30.99 Nov 2009 hbk 336pp /	Select:
	Mighty Subjects: The Dunbar Earls in Scotland c.1072 - 1289 Elsa Hamilton Late in the eleventh century, Gospatric, former earl of Northumbria, was granted the fortress of Dunbar and the lands in Lothian surrounding it by Malcolm III, king of Scots. Gospatric's descendants, who came to be known as earls of Dunbar, became leading members of the Scottish aristocracy, conspicuous for their power and wealth as lords of vast estates in south-east Scotland and beyond. Drawing on the evidence of their charters and contemporary chronicles this book spans the careers of seven successive earls at Dunbar from the period of the Norman Conquest of England to the eve of the Scottish Wars of Independence. It recreates and analyses the Dunbar lordship in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scotland, exploring the landscape and the economy of the earldom, the web of human relationships within and outwith the family, the tugs-of-war with the Church. There are traces of long-vanished castles, echoes of battle and fleeting glimpses of crusade and tournament and siege. This is a story of a great family in the evolving kingdom of the Scots, cross-border lords who gave unambiguous allegiance to the Scottish Crown, mighty subjects of successive Scottish kings. SAVE £5.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £20.00 (RRP £25) $41.53 , € 30.99 April 2010 pbk 0pp /	Select:
	Children of the Black House Calum Ferguson This is a fascinating account of a culture in transition; it records and preserves for twenty-first-century readers traditions and ways of life which have now gone for ever. In the early years of the twentieth century many crofting families in Lewis lived in great poverty. This book describes that life: the limited diet, the seasonal round of work, the hardship, but also the richness of the culture, the storytelling, music-making, dancing, and the sincere religious faith that sustained the islanders through their trials. Màiread lived through the two world wars, which profoundly altered Hebridean life. Agricultural methods were modernised; radio and television brought the wider world to the islands; the Gaelic tongue was threatened with extinction. This remarkable memoir is a treasury of personal recollections, traditional tales, songs, and contains a wealth of detail about everyday life on Lewis through those years. It is illustrated throughout with photographs of Màiread, her family and friends. SAVE £1.99 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £13.00 (RRP £14.99) $29.22 , € 21.81 Reprint May 2010 pbk 0pp illustrations	Select:
	Gender and Political Identities in Scotland, 1919-1939 Annmarie Hughes This work offers a unique contribution to gender and Scottish history breaking new ground on several fronts: there is no history of inter-war women in Scotland, very little labour or popular political history and virtually nothing published on women, the home and family. This book is a history of women in the period which integrates class and gender history as well as linking the public and private spheres. Using a gendered approach to history it transforms and shifts our knowledge of the Scottish past, unearthing the previously unexplored role which women played in inter-war socialist politics, the General Strike and popular political protest. It re-evaluates these areas and demonstrates the ways in which gender shaped the experience of class and class struggle. Importantly, the book also explores the links between the public and private spheres and addresses the concept of masculinity as well as femininity and pays particular reference to domestic violence. The strength of the book is the ways in which it illuminates the complex interconnections of culture and economic and social structure. Although the research is based on Scottish evidence, it also uses material to address key debates in gender history and labour history which have wider relevance and will appeal to gender historians, labour historians and social and cultural historians as well as social scientists. SAVE £10.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £35.00 (RRP £45) $63.06 , € 47.06 May 2010 hbk 248pp /	Select:
	A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900 Graeme Morton & Trevor Griffiths The nineteenth century was a period of profound change in Scottish history. Industrialisation, improved communications, agricultural transformation, country to town migration, upheavals in the church, increased trade, and imperialism - all these affected the pace and rhythm of everyday life across the country. At the same time increased literacy helped to generate new patterns of identity, extending beyond the local to encompass the nation, which challenged certainties of how the world was viewed. With new styles of living came new dangers to the physical and moral health of the population, and increased apprehension of crime and disorder. Industrialisation created opportunities for consumption and recreation but with tangible environmental and economic costs. Rural Scotland adjusted to changes in farming practice and the traumas of population loss and began to look to the opportunities presented by recreation and tourism. PUBLISHED IN JUNE SAVE £2.99 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £22.00 (RRP £24.99) $43.06 , € 32.14 june 2010 pbk 320pp 30 illust	Select:
	Ties of bluid, kin and countrie Editors: Tanja Bueltmann, Andrew Hinson and Graeme Whether for philanthropic, religious or social purposes, migrant Scots established a vast array of clubs and institutions around the world. This helped preserve a distinctive Scottish identity within newly adopted countries of residence. With examples from Canada, the US, Australia, New Zealand, England and Ireland, Ties of bluid, kin and countrie is the first volume of its kind to examine collectively these associations. This inaugural Guelph Series in Scottish Studies publication includes contributors from Marjory Harper, Graeme Morton, R. J. Morris, and Angela McCarthy, as well as other esteemed academics and emerging talents of Scottish diasporic studies. SAVE £5.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £30.00 (RRP £35) $50.78 , € 36.67 September 2009 pbk 264pp /	Select:
	Search for Salvation - The Lay Faith in Scotland 1480-1560 Audrey-Beth Fitch The Search for Salvation is an innovative and interdisciplinary study of lay faith in Scotland in the later Middle Ages, examining both the religious ideas and practices of the people, and the ways in which these were shaped by images in literature, art, and church writings. Contrary to traditional views, which portray the late medieval Scottish church as weak and corrupt, the book argues for the vitality and flourishing of lay piety in the later fifteenth and first half of the sixteenth century. It thus sheds new light on the coming of the Protestant Reformation, as well as revealing the richness of the world of medieval Scottish religious imagery. SAVE £5.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £20.00 (RRP £25) $42.84 , € 30.94 Nov 2009 hbk 336pp /	Select:
	Building Scotland - The Traditional Building Materials of Scotland Moses Jenkins Scotland's traditionally built environment is one of its most unique and cherished features. It is something which both draws visitors from around the world and gives Scotland's inhabitants a sense of place and identity. This volume celebrates for the first time the raw materials which have been employed in forming Scotland's traditional buildings. In total 14 different materials are examined, including stone, timber, iron, clay and slate, with each being discussed by an expert in the material, reflecting regional variations, the socio-economic stories behind the materials, and how they have shaped Scotland's traditionally built environment. Each chapter covers aspects of the material such as how it has been utilised over time, geographical variations throughout the country, the properties of the material and examples of its use. All the photography for the book has been commissioned from one of Scotland's leading young photographers to make it as visually impressive as it is informative. SAVE £5.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £20.00 (RRP £25) $42.84 , € 30.94 March 2010 pbk 0pp illustrated	Select:
	Famine In Scotland - The 'ill Years' of the 1690s Karen J. Cullen This book examines the climatic and economic origins of the last national famine to occur in Scotland, the nature and extent of the crisis which ensued, and what the impact of the famine was upon the population in demographic, economic and social terms. The 'Ill Years', during the nadir of the Little Ice Age, were ones of widespread famine across Europe and economic disaster in Scotland. However, current published knowledge about the causes, extent and impact of the famine in Scotland is limited and many conclusions have been speculative in the absence of extensive research. This is the first full study of the famine, providing a unique scholarly examination of the causes, course, characteristics and consequences of the crisis. Using detailed examination of agricultural, climatic and demographic issues, the book seeks to establish answers to the fundamental question concerning the event. How serious was it? Using detailed statistical and qualitative analysis, Karen J. Cullen discusses the regional factors that defined the famine, the impact on the population, and the interconnected causes of this traumatic event. SAVE £8.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £37.00 (RRP £45) $69.82 , € 50.42 jan 2010 hbk 0pp /	Select:
	A History of Scottish Philosophy Alexander Brodie Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 2009 Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year 2009 This book is unique in that it provides the first-ever substantial account of the seven-centuries-old Scottish philosophical tradition. The book focuses on a number of philosophers in the period from the later thirteenth century until the mid-twentieth and attends especially to some brilliantly original texts. The book also indicates ways in which philosophy has been intimately related to other aspects of Scotland's culture. Among the greatest philosophers that Scotland has produced are John Duns Scotus, Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith and Thomas Reid. But there were many other fine, even brilliant philosophers who are less highly regarded, if they are noticed at all, such as John Mair, George Lokert, Frederick Ferrier, Andrew Seth, Norman Kemp Smith and John Macmurray. All these thinkers and many others are discussed in these pages. This clearly written and approachable book gives us a strong sense of the Scottish philosophical tradition. SAVE £2.99 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £22.00 (RRP £24.99) $44.43 , € 32.08 Feb 2010 pbk 400pp /	Select:
	A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1600 to 1800 Elizabeth Foyster and Christopher A. Whatley This book explores the ordinary daily routines, behaviours, experiences and beliefs of the Scottish people during a period of immense political, social and economic change. It underlines the importance of the church in post-Reformation Scottish society, but also highlights aspects of everyday life that remained the same, or similar, notwithstanding the efforts of the kirk, employers and the state to alter behaviours and attitudes. Drawing upon and interrogating a range of primary sources, the authors create a richly coloured, highly-nuanced picture of the lives of ordinary Scots from birth through marriage to death. Analytical in approach, the coverage of topics is wide, ranging from the ways people made a living, through their non-work activities including reading, playing and relationships, to the ways they experienced illness and approached death. SAVE £2.99 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £22.00 (RRP £24.99) $44.43 , € 32.08 Feb 2010 pbk 352pp /	Select:
	A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century Scotland Lynn Abrams & Callum G. Brown Over the twentieth century Scots' lives changed in fast, dramatic and culturally significant ways. By examining their bodies, homes, working lives, rituals, beliefs and consumption, this volume exposes how the very substance of everyday life was composed, tracing both the intimate and the mass changes that the people endured. Using novel perspectives and methods, chapters range across the experiences of work, art and death, the way Scots conceived of themselves and their homes, and the way the 'old Scotland' of oppressive community rules broke down from mid-century as the country reinvented its everyday life and culture. This volume brings together leading cultural historians of twentieth-century Scotland to study the apparently mundane activities of people's lives, traversing the key spaces where daily experience is composed to expose the controversial personal and national politics that ritual and practice can generate. _________ SAVE £2.99 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £22.00 (RRP £24.99) $44.43 , € 32.08 Feb 2010 pbk 320pp /	Select:
	Debating the Highland Clearances Eric Richards Storm clouds always gather over the story of the Highland Clearances. The eviction of the Highlanders from the glens and straths of the Highlands and Islands of the north of Scotland still causes great historical dispute more than a century after the events. The Highland Clearances also generated a great deal of contemporary controversy and documentation. The record comes in diverse forms and with radically different provenances, offering excellent material for exercises in historical analysis and selection. Debating the Highland Clearances introduces the Highland Clearances as a classic historical problem. Eric Richards reviews the historical debate and examines the methods and sources employed by the combatants past and present. The debates among historians, novelists, politicians and economists are no less passionate today and raise major questions about interpretation and the appropriate frame of reference for the noisy and continuing public debate about the Highland Clearances. This book presents a representative anthology of documents illustrating the historical foundations on which the debate is built.The debate is set in context and the author explains why it is not only important for Scottish patriots but for history in general. Key Features: /Organised into two parts; the first considers debates surrounding the Clearances, the second examines a selection of the sources which inform these debates /Presents and analyses an anthology of source material compiled to introduce the debates surrounding the Highland Clearances to audiences learning about historical analysis /Asks why passionate debate about the Clearances has been sustained and provides a modern introduction to its main issues SAVE £2.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £15.99 (RRP £17.99) $38.26 , € 25.43 - pbk 0pp -	Select:
	Age of the Picts W.A. CUMMINS The Pictish nation, forged in the shadow of the Roman empire, was the dominant power in northern Britain for more than five hundred years. Much has been written about the archaeology and culture of the Picts in recent years, but the historical problems have received less than their fair share of attention. In this book, Dr Cummins attempts to redress the balance. He provides a fresh look at the whole Pictish story, placing it firmly in its true historical context and reassessing topics such as the legend of Drust son of Erp and St Columba's mission to the Picts. There are unusual but useful comparisons with contemporary events in Wales and England as well as new and controversial interpretations of Sueno's Stone and Pictish symbols, and a fresh- SAVE £0.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £19.50 (RRP £0) $40.77 , € 27.10 2009 pbk 192pp 55 b&w illustrations	Select:
	Decoding the Pictish Symbols CUMMINS The Picts, the most powerful nation in northern Britain for some 500 years, mysteriously disappeared from contemporary records in the ninth century. All that remains of the language they spoke are a few fragments in the names of places or people. Their most enduring memorial is a unique system of symbols, carved on stone monuments, engraved on objects of silver and bronze and scratched on the walls of caves - symbols whose interpretation has been elusive as that of Egyptian hieroglyphs before the discovery of the Rosetta stone. In this important book, Dr Cummins tackles the problem of interpreting the symbols. The symbol stones were monuments to named individuals. With this in mind, it is possible to follow up a variety of archaeological and historical clues, to put names to many of the symbols, and to explore Pictish geneaology and social structure. - SAVE £0.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £19.50 (RRP £0) $40.77 , € 27.10 2009 pbk 224pp 100 b/w illustrations	Select:
	Come On Highlanders! -- Glasgow Territorials in the Great War ALEC WEIR Formed in 1868, and already possessors of a proud history by the outbreak of the First World War, the men of the 9th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry, were right at the heart of the cataclysmic events that unfolded between 1914 and 1918 on the Western Front. One of the first Territorial units to be rushed to France in 1914, they participated in almost all the major British battles, including the Somme in 1916 and Ypres in 1917. SAVE £0.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £19.50 (RRP £0) $40.77 , € 27.10 2009 pbk 488pp 30 b&w illustrations	Select:
	Discover Your Scottish Ancestry - The Internet and Traditional Resources Holton & Winch This guide to researching your Scottish family history has been fully revised and updated to take account of changes to resources and methods over the last few years. Accessible in style and comprehensive in coverage, this second edition stresses the importance of traditional methods of family history research while also embracing the exciting possibilities afforded by new technologies, sources and developments in genetic science. Discover Your Scottish Ancestry SAVE £2.50 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £12.49 (RRP £14.99) $32.43 , € 21.56 - pbk 0pp -	Select:
	So Foul and Fair a Day - A History of Scotland's Weather and Climate Alastair Dawson No one would doubt that climate change is one of the most serious issues that face the human race, but what influence have climate conditions and weather had in thepast? Alastair Dawson considers this question as he traces the history of climate conditions and weather in Scotland. With reference to a huge range of historical records, from the great medieval chronicles to present day newspapers, he shows that dramatic changes have played an important part in the shaping of scotland's story from earliest times, a fact that is often overlooked by professional historians. Concluding with changes that are occurring in the preset day, this unique and timely book discusses the key lessons to be learned from the past and provides pointers to the future as well as new meaings for the terms 'climate change' and global warming'. SAVE £2.50 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £17.50 (RRP £20) $39.10 , € 25.99 NOVEMBER 2009 pbk 0pp 30+ pages of illustrations.	Select:
$Lismore \'The Great Garden\'$	Lismore 'The Great Garden' ROBERT HAY This island of Lismore boasts a remarkably rich heritage, both in terms of historic monuments and of an unbroken tradition of Gaelic culture. From their first sight of Tirefour Broch, dominating approaches from mainland, visitors to the Isle of Lismore can explore an outstanding heritage of monuments to the past - Bronze Age cairns, medieval castles, the Cathedral of Argyll, carved graveslabs, deserted townships and watermills, not to mention a Stevenson lighthouse. Because of its strategic position at the mouth of the Great Glen and its fertility, the island played an important part in the prehistory and early history of the West Highlands and Islands. In this book, Robert Hay tells the story of Lismore from earliest times to the present day, providing fascinating insights into the island's history, as well as that of the whole area SAVE £3.50 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £16.50 (RRP £20) $37.52 , € 25.46 April 2009 hbk 224pp illustrations 16pp plates	Select:
$Whaur Extremes Meet - Scotland\'s Twentieth Century$	Whaur Extremes Meet - Scotland's Twentieth Century CATRIONA M. M. MACDONALD • Completely new and radical reassessment of Scotland in the 20th Century • Covers all areas from politics to culture 'A splendid book. It's punchy, personal and provocative. Richly detailed, yet with an impressive sweep through the big economic, political and social issues of the past century, this is a hugely readable book that manages to fascinate as well as inform.' Christopher A Whatley FRSE On the cusp of memory and history, the story of Scotland's twentieth-century is contested territory: international yet parochial; prosperous yet ailing; passionate yet temperate. This thematic account of Scotland's twentieth century examines the economic, social, political and cultural aspects which shaped the country during the period. Catriona Macdonald underlines the tensions inherent in the life of a nation distinguished by stark changes and surprising continuities, a fragmented identity, a shifting and at times uneasy accommodation in the UK nation state, and an ongoing engagement with globalising tendencies. SAVE £3.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £17.00 (RRP £20) $39.12 , € 26.54 4 hbk 352pp 32pp b&w	Select:
	The Briggers : The Story of the Men who Built the Forth Bridge Elspeth Wills The Forth Bridge has long been recognised as one of the finest examples of Victorian engineering on the planet and has achieved an iconic status as one of the great feats of western civilisation since its official opening in 1890. Lavishly illustrated throughout with stunning archive images, Elspeth Wills uncovers the human story behind 'the engineering marvel': the story of the Briggers. It is a story that has never been told before - of ordinary men working on an extraordinary structure in an often hostile and dangerous environment. Recognised throughout the world as an enduring icon of Scotland, the Forth Bridge is more than just a testament to the genius of Victorian engineering, it is a monument to all those who worked to realise its vision and to the scores of lives that were lost in the process. In this groundbreaking new work, Elspeth Wills gives a voice to the forgotten heroes who helped to make the ambition of the Bridge a reality. SAVE £3.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £13.99 (RRP £16.99) $31.92 , € 21.66 July 2009 pbk 0pp illustrated throughout	Select:
	Arbiter of Elegance -A Biography of Robert Adam RODERICK GRAHAM No one contributed more to the artistic eminence of 'Age of Elegance' than Robert Adam (1728-92), the pre-eminent architect of his day whose expertise and imagination extended also to interior design, furniture and garden design. His legacy has echoed through design ever since, his name synonymous with elegance, the Enlightenment, of the best features of the eighteenth century. In this fascinating biography, Roderick Graham follows Adam's life and career from schooldays in Edinburgh through study in Italy and the establishment of his architectural practice in London. It explains his passionate ambition, not only to excel as an architect, but to be accepted as a gentleman in that most snobbish period of our history. SAVE £5.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £20.00 (RRP £25) $43.11 , € 29.25 OCTOBER 2009 hbk 384pp illust 6pp b&w	Select:
$The Foresters - The Story of Scotland\'s Forests$	The Foresters - The Story of Scotland's Forests JAMES MILLER In The Foresters, James Miller examines the story of forestry and the foresters in Scotland through the recent centuries. . It is a story of loss and recovery, of generations of men and women dedicated to their occupation in often difficult and uncomfortable - even dangerous - circumstances. Based on interviews and extensive historical research, Miller's engaging investigation uncovers the rich history of the foresters and examines, in both social and economic contexts, the importance of the forests to Scotland, and particularly the Highlands. Illuminating and compelling, The Foresters is a thoughtful and engaging story with many strands that casts a captivating light on this long-neglected industry and the complex and inspirational individuals who have lived their lives through it. SAVE £2.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £12.99 (RRP £14.99) $30.32 , € 20.57 Sept 2009 pbk 256pp illustrations throughout	Select:
	Sons of Vulcan -- Ironworkers and Steelmen in Scotland ROBERT DUNCAN A celebration of Scotland's extraordinary industrial legacy • Stunningly illustrated This is the first substantial history of iron and steel workers in Scotland, covering over 300 years of labour and working conditions in heavy industry. It focuses on the men and boys who mastered heat and fire to make and shape iron in furnaces, forges, mills and foundries before, during, and after the industrial revolution. The second part of the book concentrates on working lives in steel production from the beginning of the industry in the 1870s until its demise in the 1990s. Themes include skill and changing technology, master worker relations and conflict, and trade union responses. There are profiles and case studies of key workers: iron smelters, steel melters, iron puddlers, rollers and moulders. SAVE £2.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £12.99 (RRP £14.99) $31.87 , € 22.21 June 2009 pbk 0pp illustrated throughout	Select:
	The Rises & Falls of the Royal Stewarts Oliver Thomson This is the 1,000-year saga of the remarkable Scottish family, who began as stewards, then became Stewarts, then Royal Stewarts, and finally Stuarts. They were remarkable not only for the continuity of the male line, which went for 26 generations without a break, but also for the 340 years that they held on to sovereign power. Yet, despite the longevity of the dynasty, the lives of many individuals were violent and short. Because of the tendency towards early death, the average age of accession was only twenty-three, and six came to the throne before they were ten. Of the non-royals, over 100 were murdered and over 200 executed. It is a remarkable tale of tenacity and adaptability that has seen the family survive for 1,000 years. The Rises and the Falls of the Royal Stewarts tells their fascinating tale with verve and drama. SAVE £1.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £19.00 (RRP £20) $44.47 , € 31.00 March 2009 0pp 30 b&w illustrations	Select:
	Scottish Kingship, 1306-1542 -- Essays in Honour of Norman Macdougall (Editors) Michael Brown and Roland Tanner Kingship was the defining feature of medieval Scotland. The monarchy provided the Scots with a focus for national identity and gave Scotland a recognised status in Europe. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries formed a unique era for Scottish kingship, in which kings achieved new status and power, while facing fresh challenges to their authority and legitimacy. The essays in this volume focus on individual reigns and particular themes as a means to create a synthesis of research from the last quarter century, and give fresh insights into the exercise of kingship in a late medieval realm. SAVE £7.50 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £22.50 (RRP £30) $49.50 , € 34.51 Nov 2008 0pp -	Select:
	The Working Lives of the Scots Mark A Mulhern Scottish Life and Society: v7 (Compendium of Scottish Ethnology) by Mark A Mulhern The movement of people from a rural to an urban environment is one of the most striking features of Scotland's past. This movement was the result of a shift in the general pattern of work from agricultural to industrial in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This was followed by a notable shift in the pattern of urban work, from manufacturing industry to the provision of services, in the late twentieth century. Beneath these general patterns there lies a myriad of individual lived experiences, also explored in this volume.As well as outlining the history of settlement and work, this volume considers the working lives of those engaged in feeding, housing and protecting the population, those who work to keep the population healthy, and those who are engaged in work of the imagination rather than work to meet material needs. Since the nineteenth century an increasing number of services have been controlled by government, both local and central. The importance of public service is discussed, as is the industrial way of life and the ways in which workers have to co-operate, in the interest of their employer, themselves and society. ( See review in History Scotland magazine 9.3 May/June 2009) SAVE £7.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £33.00 (RRP £40) $61.63 , € 46.82 2008 hbk 680pp /	Select:
	Boats, Fishing and the Sea: James R. Coull Scottish Life and Society. 4 (Compendium of Scottish Ethnology) This volume traces the long-standing relationship between Scotland, the Scots and the sea from the early historic period to the present day. The coastal environment, traditional and modern boat - and shipbuilding and maritime trade are explored, as are the var This volume traces the long-standing relationship between Scotland, the Scots and the sea from the early historic period to the present day. The coastal environment, traditional and modern boat - and shipbuilding and maritime trade are explored, as are the various types of fishing that have been practised in Scotland over the centuries. There are also chapters on specific ethnological matters, such as sea clothing and equipment, the sea-vocabulary of fishermen and the role of women in fishing communities. Comprising twenty-six chapters, this multi-authored volume shows that, as a medium of contact, a highway for trade, and an important source of food, the sea has had a deep and lasting influence not only on everyday life and society in Scotland, but also on Scotland's development as a nation. ( See review in History Scotland magazine 9.3 May/June 2009) SAVE £7.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £33.00 (RRP £40) $61.63 , € 46.82 2008 hbk 621pp /	Select:
	Land of Mountain and Flood - The Geology and Landforms of Scotland ALAN MCKIRDY, JOHN GORDON AND ROGER CROFTS First paperback edition Scotland is justly famed for its magnificent scenery - mountains, lochs, islands, wild rocky places and sandy beaches. All this is evidence of a wonderfully exciting geological history which began 3,500 billion years ago and is not yet finished: land and sea are rising, formations are shifting and slopes are moving. The sheer diversity of Scotland's rocks and landforms are the physical reminders of a fascinating physical and chronological journey which shows that the land that makes up Scotland today has travelled the world from the Equator to the South Pole and back north again, and has not always even belonged to the same continental landmass. This book is for anyone who is interested in the natural world around them and who wishes to develop a good knowledge about the original formation of their country. It is accessible and beautifully presented, contains a huge amount of detailed information told in clear, comprehensible language . • Full colour photographs and illustrations throughout • Published in association with Scottish Natural Heritage SAVE £2.50 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £17.50 (RRP £20) $35.22 , € 26.75 APril 2009 pbk 320pp illustrated throughout.	Select:
	Enlightenment and Change: Scotland 1746-1832 Bruce Lenman This second revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Integration and Enlightenment provides a compact survey of developments in Enlightenment Scotland, from the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion to the Scottish Reform Act of 1832. The Act spelled the end of political and social systems that had presided over industrial and agricultural revolutions turning Scotland from a rural society to one of the most urbanised and industrialised of European nations. Scotland also moved from an being simply an active participant in the cultural life of western Europe to being a leader in a new, more expansive, Atlantic and European world where the ideas of its great Enlightenment thinkers circulated from Moscow to Philadelphia. The political framework for changes was the Union of 1707 which incorporated Scotland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and after 1800 Great Britain and Ireland. However, within the UK a distinctive political system run for most of this period by either the Dukes of Argyll or the so-called 'Dundas Despotism' dominated Scotland.This volume studies how that system first stimulated and exploited cultural and economic change and then was finally destroyed by it. SAVE £2.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £17.99 (RRP £19.99) $35.94 , € 27.30 april 2009 hbk 224pp 16pp plate section	Select:
	The Myth of the Jacobite Clans Murray Pittock The first edition of The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was a revolutionary book. It argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to understand it, and that the Jacobite Risings drew on extensive Lowland support and had a national quality within Scotland. The Times Higher Education Supplement hailed its author's 'formidable talents' and the book and its ideas fuelled discussions in the national press. Now entirely rewritten with extensive new primary research, this second edition addresses the questions of the first in more detail, examining the systematic misrepresentation of Jacobitism, the impressive size of the Jacobite armies, their training and organization and the Jacobite goal of dissolving the Union, and bringing to life the ordinary Scots who formed the core of Jacobite support in the ill-fated Rising of 1745. Now, more than ever, The Myth of the Jacobite Clans sounds the call for an end to the dismissive sneers and pointless romanticisation which have dogged the history of the subject in Scotland for 200 years. SAVE £2.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £17.99 (RRP £19.99) $35.94 , € 27.30 December 2008 pbk 352pp /	Select:
	Lost Dundee Charles McKean & Patricia Whatley 'Lost Dundee' brings the second city of renaissance Scotland back to life showing, through previously undiscovered photographs and drawings, the life and the maritime quarter of this great port. It illustrates Dundee's transformation into a major Georgian town at the centre of the flax trade between St Petersburg and the USA, and to examines Dundee's next transformation into the jute capital of the world. The arrival of the railways, and by the great mills and factories is charte .The pressures upon mediaeval Dundee proved so great that in 1871 the process of replacing it with grandiose Victorian boulevards began. The final section illustrates the changes wrought in the 20thcentury with the death of jute and its replacement as the city's major employer by tertiary education. Contains 150 drawings, photographs and plans of Dundee from Charles Lawson's drawings of old Dundee in the Central Library, the DC Thomson photographic collection, and the University of Dundee Archives. SAVE £2.50 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £14.99 (RRP £16.99) $31.46 , € 24.55 November 2008 hbk 224pp illustrated throughout.	Select:
	The Lost City - Old Aberdeen Jane Stevenson; Peter Davidson house. It is a pattern-book of Scottish architecture, both vernacular and classical, and offers one of the most significant townscapes in all of Scotland. The conservation area of Old Aberdeen contains specimens of almost every type and size of Scottish building, sweeping picturesque views of the River Don and the 13th-century Brig o'Balgownie, the remains of a magnificent medieval cathedral, the Georgian town-houses of the Highland aristocracy, the highly-distinctive buildings of the ancient University of Aberdeen, atmospheric graveyards, long lawns and vistas, and a cobbled High Street of great distinction.Using their expert knowledge and sumptuous photography, the authors capture the unique cityscape and distinctive past of Old Aberdeen. "The Lost City" details the rich treasures of the burgh, with many illustrations drawn from the University's library and museum collections, a number of which are reproduced for the first time. SAVE £6.00 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £19.00 (RRP £25) $41.61 , € 32.32 November 2008 hbk 224pp Highly illustrated	Select:
	Archaeology and the Early History of Angus Andy Dunwell & Ian Ralston A unique overview of a part of Lowland Scotland, with its own, very different, archaeological record. Popular views of Scottish archaeology are dominated by images of the great stone monuments of the west and north -â€“ such as chambered tombs and brochs. For the first time Archaeology and the Early History of Angus provides an overview of a part of Lowland Scotland, with its own, very different, archaeological record. Aerial photography, new surveys and extensive excavations provide the basis for this account of two thousand years of Angusâ€™ archaeology and history, from its early settlement until AD 1000. The Iron Age -â€“ with its rich record of settlements and of Pictish sculpture -- is a main focus. SAVE £2.50 when you order from History Scotland Special Offer: £15.49 (RRP £17.99) $41.20 , € 26.58 2008 pbk 0pp illustrated	Select: