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  • A Life of Industry: The Photography of John R Hume. Hardback

    A Life of Industry: The Photography of John R Hume

    £20.00

    John R Hume is Scotland’s foremost expert on industrial heritage. John’s greatest passion was – and is – industry. Over the course of the 1960s, 70...

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  • For the Safety of All: A Story of Scotland’s Lighthouses Hardback cover

    For the Safety of All: A Story of Scotland’s Lighthouses

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    Historic Environment Scotland Publication ‘There have always been lighthouses in my life. There has been a closeness and steadiness to our relation...

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  • Who Built Scotland Hardback

    Who Built Scotland

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    Experience a new history of Scotland told through its places. Writers Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, James Robertson and ...

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  • The Small Isles - Hardback

    The Small Isles - Hardback

    £25.00

    This comprehensive guide to the Small Isles – illustrated with a wealth of photographs, maps and drawings – takes readers on a tour of both place a...

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  • Victorian Scotland  - Hardback

    Victorian Scotland - Hardback

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    The Victorians were the harbingers of the modern age, their society driven by curiosity, a zeal for invention, and an enormous appetite for economi...

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  • Scotland's History
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    Scotland's History

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    Scotland’s vibrant and bloody past captures the imagination, but there is far more to Scotland's History than murder and mayhem, tragedy and betray...

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  • Bloody Scotland Hardback

    Bloody Scotland

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    Winner of the CWA Short Story Dagger Award. In Bloody Scotland, twelve of Scotland's best crime writers use the sinister side of the country's buil...

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  • The Honours of Scotland book cover hardback

    The Honours of Scotland

    £9.99

    The Honours of Scotland tells the turbulent story of the Honours – Scotland’s crown jewels – and the equally dramatic tale of the Stone of Destiny....

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  • fortress of the kingdom book cover with illustration of edinburgh castle and title archaeology and research at Edinburgh Castle
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    Fortress of the Kingdom

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    Archaeology and Research at Edinburgh Castle. Fortress of the Kingdom is the detailed history of this great castle – a reflection of its colourful ...

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  • Ebbing Shores

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    Survey and Excavation of Coastal Archaeology in Shetland 1995-2008 Ebbing Shores brings together the findings of an extensive programme of coastal ...

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  • Scotland's Sporting Buildings Book cover showing old pavilion photograph and blue sky

    Scotland's Sporting Buildings

    £11.99

    Athletics, bowling, cricket, curling, football, golf, Highland games, horse-racing, swimming and tennis are just some of the sports that saw a huge...

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  • Scotland's Landscapes

    Scotland's Landscapes

    £14.99

    Over the past 10,000 years, every inch of Scotland has been shaped, changed and moulded by it's people. Scotland’s Landscapes tells the enduring st...

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  • Scotland's First World War book showing memorial statue in front of a peaceful Scottish loch in sunshine

    Scotland's First World War

    £11.99

    This compelling book tells the story of the First World War through Scotland's people and places. It explores the buildings where, one hundred year...

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  • Scotland from the Sky Hardback

    Scotland from the Sky

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    As seen on TV! Prepare yourself for a journey into the skies above Scotland. In this book, you will travel in both space and time, starting in the ...

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  • Hunting Picts: Medieval sculptures at St Vigeans, Angus. Volumes 1 & 2

    Hunting Picts: Medieval sculptures at St Vigeans, Angus. Volumes 1 & 2

    £25.00

    During restoration of St Vigeans Church in the 1870s, a collection of Pictish sculpture emerged, reused as building material. This collection, incl...

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  • Building Knowledge - An Architectural History of the University of Glasgow

    Building Knowledge - An Architectural History of the University of Glasgow

    £22.50

    For for the first time, the story of the University and its buildings can be told through a wealth of never-before-published archive material, rang...

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  • HES Bestsellers Bundle of Where are the Women, Who Built Scotland and Bloody Scotland in hardback.
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    HES Bestsellers Hardback Bundle

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    Available together to purchase together for the first time, this bundle of our own bestselling publications is great for any avid book collector or...

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  • A Work of Beauty  - Paperback

    A Work of Beauty - Paperback

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    Edinburgh is a city of stories – a place that has witnessed everything from great historical upheavals to the individual lives of a remarkable cast...

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  • A History of Scotland's Landscapes

    A History of Scotland's Landscapes

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    A History of Scotland’s Landscapes explores the many ways that we have used, adapted and altered our environment over thousands of years. Full of m...

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  • Where are the Women? Hardback
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    Where are the Women?

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    For most of recorded history, women have been sidelined, if not silenced, by men who named the built environment after themselves. Now is the time ...

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  • An Inventory for the Nation

    An Inventory for the Nation

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    The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland was established in 1908 and worked for over a century collecting, recordin...

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  • Scotland's Shops book cover with illustration of street looking on a hill and historic scotland logo

    Scotland's Shops

    £15.00

    This publication explains the chronological history of the design of shops in Scotland, gives a technical background to the elements and materials ...

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    £15.00