This book considers the complex issues which arise from operating the nuclear deterrent out of a devolved Scotland that has attained a very limited autonomy and has no rights to determine defence and foreign policy

After examining the principal similarities and differences between England and Scotland at the turn of the seventeenth century, this book studies the integration of the political, economic, legal and religious institutions of the two nations after the

First full examination of one of the defining events in Scottish history.

In this fresh and challenging look at the origins of the United Kingdom, the first full study for four decades, Michael Fry traces the fault-lines of the present time right back to the treaty drawn up between the ruling classes of Scotland and England three centuries ago.

This book forms part of a new and exciting series of images of Scotland’s most beautiful scenery taken by some of its finest photographers.

A portrait of a Hebridean tideline by Helen Douglas.