A Wee Guide To Scottish History

A pocket-sized guide to Scottish history, and the dark deeds, battles, and political struggles involved. Details of over 200 historical places to visit are also included.

This is an informative, easy-to-use, extensively illustrated historical guide with 1100 heritage sites to visit. Concise but detailed chapters cover all of Scottish history. Sites to visit include stone circles, tombs, Pictish stones, castles, mansio

A Scottish history of the Jacobites, including many potraits, illustrations, and maps, as well as details of over 50 Jacobite sites to visit.

Scotland has many magnificent prehistoric sites to rival anywhere in Europe- the splendid towering broch of Mousa, the enigmatic standing stones at Callanish and Brodgar, the eerie chambered tomb of Maeshowe, and the sophisticated sand-blown Neolithi

A pocket-sized guide that describes what is known about the history of the Picts, listing the best symbol stones and museums to visit with many illustrations and maps.

St. Margaret and Malcom Canmore were an unlikely couple, yet together they and their sons united the country and transformed Scotland into a modern medieval kingdom. This book covers their lives and those of their sons down to Alexander III. Forty pl

A highly popular and informative guide to the Scots language in an attractive format. Contains words and phrases from both literary and everyday language, this is the perfect wee dictionary of Scots for native and non-native speakers alike.