Modern gypsies find themselves at a crossroads. The challenge today is how to retain a separate culture and lifestyle when the foundations underpinning their distinctive existence have been removed. Dreams of the Road goes some way in preserving this rich culture, collecting together memories, anecdotes, the fears and the hopes of older gypsies living in the South-west of England.

WINNER OF THE 2006 RATCLIFF PRIZE

In this anthology, Anne Lorne Gillies has compiled a collection of Gaelic songs collected from the deepest parts of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Including English translations, this book is truly a unique compendium that will preserve the ancient Gaelic arts.

Drawing from the arts of the past and historical archives, this book captures the true spirit of the fiddle and what it meant to those fortunate enough to have been captured by its distinctive sounds.

A description of the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Scottish language and Literature (Medieval and Renaissance).

Alexander Fenton is acknowledged as Scotland’s leading expert on rural life and offers his readers an improved version of the classic Scottish Country Life.

Now reprinted for the first time since 1968, this is a collection of stories about the supernatural, collected in the late 1890s by Fatherr Allan McDonald, parish priest of the island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides.    

A rich and captivating insight into life in a Scottish farm town in the mid nineteenth century. Together with Willie Gavin, Crofter Man and The Cornkister Days, this volume forms a remarkable trilogy on life in rural Scotland.

With an introduction by Jack Webster.

Tales Until Dawn is an extraordinary collection of texts recorded from the lyrical and adept Gaelic speaker Joe Neil MacNeil. Translated by John Shaw, this book truly captures the breadth and richness of the Gaelic speaking community which covers and records many genres and subjects in this comprehensive collection.

Tales of the Morar Highlands is a book packed with extraordinary incident and remarkable characters, from mysterious loch monsters and fugitive princes to lords, priests and smugglers as well as the ordinary people who have made Morar, the ’Highland of the Highlands’ their home for thousands of years.

A.J. Bruford and D.A. MacDonald present an entertaining collection of the oral tales that have been passed down by generations of Scottish storytellers, and have been recorded and collected by researchers from the School of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh University over the past fifty years.

This book forms a rich compendium of Gaelic song and history, and is a striking record of the vigour and range of the Gaelic tradition in Canada.

The definitive, entertaining guide to Scottish country dancing.

The fiddle has long played an important part in Scottish musical tradition: here are lively stories that reflect that importance.

Stuart McHardy introduces Scotland’s national musical instrument, its history, development and repertoire­ and examines the part that the piper himself has played in Highland and Lowland society over the centuries.

Scottish Customs is a highly readable and absorbing anthology of traditional Scottish customs and rites of passage, drawn from a broad range of literary sources dating back to the 16th century.

The Edinburgh Highland Reel and Strathspey Society, the first of its kind, was formed in 1881, ’for the practice or promotion of Scottish National Music, more especially Reel and Strathspey playing in the old Highland fashion’.

A fantastic volume embracing the supernatural in Gaelic superstition from the mid-nineteenth century.

A portrait of crofting life in the bare and sometimes bitter landscape of Scotland’s North-east lowlands. The second part of Cameron’s trilogy of rural life.

With an introduction by Jack Webster.

The Summer Walkers documents an archetypal and vanishing way of life.

This wide-ranging volume considers Scotland’s domestic life by examining that variety and considering changes in the structures in which Scots have lived and the ways in which they have lived in those homes.

The Movie Traveller is the first comprehensive sightseeing guide dedicated to the most popular art-form of the twentieth century: the cinema!

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