This highly engaging book provides an original perspective on the examination of the American civil war and how the Scots and Scottish shipbuilding was crucial to the battle of nations.

John McPhee lived in Colonsay 1969 and recorded his experiences in this blend of anthropology and art, capturing the tensions which both support and threaten a small community.

Throughout his lifetime, Angus MacLellan was regarded as one of Scotland’s finest traditional Gaelic storytellers - this definitive autobiography demonstrates his rich skill of the oral tradition.

The problem of the Clearances is often associated simply with the Highlands, but on the small island of Rousay one of the most dramatic conflicts of all took place between tenant and landowner in the dramatic years from 1840 to 1890.

This book has been seminal in bringing once again to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord - injustices often lost in the name of dry statistics and academic balance.

The Klondykers: The Oilmen Onshore is Mackie's sequel to his The Oilmen: The North Sea Tigers,  which shifts focus from the oilrig to how this historical development affected communities on land.

The first substantial social history of mineworkers in Scotland to encompass the entire span of commercial mining, from its origins in the Middle Ages to the extinction of deep coal mining.

Lavishly illustrated, this is the first full history of MacBrayne ferries, which are travelled on by over 5.4 million passengers annually.

Starting from an interest in his own family, and in the area to the south of Forres which he had known from childhood, Robert Hay has produced an account of the lands of Altyre which is both local and universal.

Night Falls on Ardnamurchan is a classic account of the life and death of a Highland community.

Published in association with The Economic and Social History Society of Scotland, this history provides a scholarly survey of the forces that have shaped modern Scotland.

Argyll, Dalriada or Earra-ghaidheal, 'the Coastland' or 'Boundary of the Gael', is one of the most beautiful and historically significant parts of Scotland.

Iain Thomson mixes his own personal story with Scotland’s historical past in a melting-pot of ideas, snapshots and autobiographical accounts, which conjure up the vital past and continuing force of the elusive Highland spirit.

This volume traces the long-standing relationship between Scotland, the Scots and the sea from the early historic period to the present day.

The Lithuanian community has made a strong contribution to modern Scotland. This is a record of the early years following their arrival in the early 20th century.

Between 1651 and 1851 successive clerks to the Kirk Sessions of Cramond carefully recorded the allegations of misbehaviour that were brought against parishioners.

This is the first detailed history of Albion Motors, Scotland's most successful motor-manufacturing company, established in Glasgow in 1899.

This book is a very readable account of this little known but fascinating episode in the history of the development of the Highlands.

This book examines the work in an area of Scotland famous for its potato growing and agriculture, during a period of great change, when the process altered from being very labour-intensive to being completely mechanised.

In their own vivid words, ex-dockers at one of Scotland’s busiest ports describe a vanished way of life. Exotic cargoes, strange incidents, foreign seamen, bullying bosses and labour disputes are recalled with wry humour.

This book is a fascinating story of the Highland emigrants who travelled to Nova Scotia in the hope of, though deceived of a better life; how they rose above the deception and ensuing difficulties with the resilience and resourcefulness for which the Scots are best known.

This book is a charming yet insightful memoir of a bygone way of life. From it emerges a detailed picture of fisherfolk and fishing: their boats, methods of fishing, life and customs. The result is a valuable and vivid record of what was a central part of Scotland’s fishing industry.

Companion volume to Herring Fisherman of Kintyre and Ayrshire.

A fascinating book with a very full account of Scotland’s part in the American Civil War of 1861-65.

This book has grown from a conference held in 1986 which had the intention of drawing the attention of policy makers to research the had been conducted, and of promoting further well coordinated research.

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Since its first publication in 1979, this polemical and original book has remained in demand both among academics and those with a general interest in this region of Scotland.

Until now, the people’s print has not attracted a serious modern study. This collection presents a user-friendly introduction to the genre and a sampling of the attractions and possibilities, set, where appropriate, in the relevant cultural and historical contexts.   

Until now there have been no rational studies of the age, sex and status of Scottish migrants. This book opens up entirely new perspectives on one of the classic subjects of Scottish history. Using detailed information from census readings, Jeanette Brock’s impressive study quantifies the out-migration by country and region.

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This important and comprehensive study provides an in-depth understanding of how water power was used in Scotland from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth century.

An examination of why deer forests were not popular with the majority of crofters in Victorian and Edwardian times, and how forests served to marginalise and impoverish local people.

One of the defining images of the Clyde and Glasgow are the great ships and yards which have dominated them through much of their history. In them was defined not simply a way of life, but a people and a nation. A great book that offers great tribute to a time now lost, and is now recorded in this one book.

First published to critical acclaim in the 1990s, People and Society in Scotland quickly established itself as a major new text for all interested in modern Scottish social history, incorporating the very best of new research and analysis.

David Craig and acclaimed photographer David Paterson provide a fascinating written and visual record of around twenty-five communities throughout the Highlands and Islands that were abandoned during the Clearances.

First published to critical acclaim in the 1990s, People and Society in Scotland quickly established itself as a major new text for all interested in modern Scottish social history, incorporating the very best of new research and analysis.

Enid Gauldie's fascinating study discusses in detail the origins of milling, the social context and daily life of the miller, as well as the technical aspects of the industry.

This is a book that gets beyond the gloss and hype that surrounds Scotland’s national drink to celebrate the unsung heroes who are the backbone of the whisky industry.

After the First World War, upwards of 40 of the Clyde's total output of ships was produced in the warship yards.

Visiting construction yards, oil terminals and offshore facilities in the 1980s and 1990s, Sue Jane Taylor captured the gritty, harsh conditions of the oil industry in her sketches, paintings and sculptures. This is a remarkable visual and social commentary on a crucial development period in North Sea oil.

This book looks at the response of the Jewish community in Glasgow to its health problems and the complex community based welfare infrastructure it created.

This book provides a lively account of bookselling and booksellers through the life histories of key and representative figures in the Scottish trade, told in their own words.

The Individual and Community Life is the fourth volume to appear in the planned fourteen volume series, A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, the major project of the European Ethnological Research Centre.

On the Crofter’s Trail is the revised and updated version of David Craig’s popular book about the clearances in the 19th century.

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.

An examination of the early sheep-farming period in the Highlands, which was characterised by a great deal of geographical, social and financial movement.

This study examines the enthusiasts and practioners who ran the hydros, the personnel and patients, the visitors and the guests, and looks at why the Scottish hydros were so successful whereas the Scottish spas faded.

This book is intended to give the book trade from c.1500 to c.1720 a detailed examination, looking at booksellers, bookbinders, stationers and printers and their relationship to the forces of authority.

This book is a history of the unfolding asbestos tragedy in Scotland, traced back to the first asbestos factory established in the 1870s.

Historians have long recognised the importance of the coalfield in Scotland’s industrialisation, but the central focus of this study is on the colliers themselves.

The transformation of Shetland by the process of enclosure is placed in the wider context of agricultural and economic change on the British and international scene.

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