Our Publications

Our newest publication who will be remembered here is now available. Queerness weaves through Scotland’s past, but it is largely intangible and abs...

Discover Art Deco Scotland: Design and Architecture in the Jazz Age - a comprehensive hardback publication featuring stunning photography and illus...

A Life of Industry: The Photography of John R Hume publication covers Scotland’s foremost expert on industrial heritage. John’s greatest passion wa...

In Bloody Scotland, twelve of Scotland's best crime writers use the sinister side of the country's built heritage in stories that are by turns grip...

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

The architecture of Scotland exists in many forms. In Mousa to Mackintosh, Frank Arneil Walker examines the recognisable and recurring features evi...

The book Where are the Women? shows that for most of recorded history, women have been sidelined, if not silenced, by men who named the built envir...

The Small Isles - Paperback edition is comprehensive guide – illustrated with a wealth of photographs, maps and drawings takes readers on a tour of...

The Above Scotland Pocket Book explores the heart of Scotland;  it's landscape. Follow in the footsteps of countless generations to experience the ...

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...

In Building Knowledge - An Architectural History of the University of Glasgow, learn the story of the University and its buildings told through a w...

Our With Thy Towers High book publication brings together the evidence from the archaeological excavations, surveys, historical research and invest...

New for 2023! The official souvenir Holyrood Park Guidebook including Arthur's Seat will help you explore the Park, identify its remarkable feature...

Mary Was Here exclusive Historic Scotland publication with foreword by Liz Lochhead. Mary Queen of Scots is one of Scotland’s most famous figures. ...

In Who Built Scotland, experience a new history of Scotland told through its places. Writers Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffa...

In Victorian Scotland learn that Victorians were the harbingers of the modern age. Their society was driven by curiosity, a zeal for invention, and...

The Small Isles is a comprehensive guide illustrated with a wealth of photographs, maps and drawings. It takes readers on a tour of both place and ...

Using stunning photography Scotland's Sporting Buildings brings the special interest of these sites and structures to life for the first time in a ...

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...

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...

Scotland's First World War tells the story of the war through Scotland's people and places. It explores the buildings where, one hundred years ago,...

In Hunting Picts: Medieval sculptures at St Vigeans, Angus Volumes 1 and 2, learn that during restoration of St Vigeans Church in the 1870s, a coll...