Our Publications

Historic Environment Scotland Publication  John R Hume is Scotland’s foremost expert on industrial heritage. John’s greatest passion was – and is –...

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

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 ...

Scotland’s vibrant and bloody past captures the imagination, but there is far more to Scottish history than murder and mayhem, tragedy and betrayal...

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....

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

It is easy to overlook how much of our history is preserved all around us. The way the narrative of bygone days has been inscribed in fields, fores...

Dumfries House is the definitive history of one of Britain's most beautiful stately homes, known for both its significant architecture and spectacu...

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

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