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A 1066 Sourcebook: A Collection of Materials Relating to the Norman Conquest of England and its Impact Upon Scotland
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This CD contains three separate books detailing the invasion of England in 1066, the families which went to Britain with that invasion, and the families which settled further north in ...
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A Border History Sourcebook
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This CD contains three separate books relating to the history of the Lowlands and Borders of Scotland ...
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A Claverhouse Sourcebook: A Collection of Materials Relating to John Graham of Claverhouse Viscount of Dundee
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John Graham of Claverhouse first and foremost claimed to be a military commander, a loyal soldier who accepted and carried out orders without overall concern for religious or political ideology. But it was his activities after 1688 that made his reputation ...
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A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland Circa 1695 and A Voyage to St Kilda with a Description of the Western Isles of Scotland
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Its three hundred years since Martin Martin’s great journey around the Western Isles, Orkneys and Shetlands. The first and one of the greatest of all travellers in Scotland, Martin is ...
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A History of the Scottish Highlands: Highland Clans and Highland Regiments
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This very comprehensive work on the history of the Scottish Highlands was based on the text of Dr James Browne’s popular work published some 30 years earlier ...
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A Rosslyn Castle Sourcebook
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Rosslyn Castle has been called 'the most picturesque baronial ruin in Scotland', and it has fascinated many for centuries. Long the stronghold of the St Clair Earls of Orkney, its history is inexorably intertwined with that of Scotland itself.
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A Scottish Jewelry Sourcebook
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This CD is one of our "Sourcebook" series, which present on one disc a variety of materials on a given topic. This particular sourcebook brings together articles and chapters from larger books, all dealing with some aspect of Scottish jewelry ...
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A Short View of the Families of the Scottish Nobility
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This is one of the earliest efforts to provide a genealogical and historical account of the peers, or nobility of Scotland, with emphasis particularly upon those of the 17th and 18th centuries. The value of this work is in the information provided ...
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All About Your Kilt
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In defining what is Scottish - always an elusive topic - both the kilt and tartan figure large in the definition of those symbols by which Scotland is identified. But the tartan presented in the kilt has to be one of the most controversial topics within the lexicon of things Scottish ...
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Ancient Catholic Homes of Scotland
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This history looks at eight great houses and the families associated with them ...
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Ancient Scottish Earldoms
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In his monumental "The Scots Peerage", Sir James Balfour Paul sought to include all ancient titles of nobility, and he therefore investigated the ancient Scottish territorial earldoms in the early days of Scottish history. The old Earldom of Angus, later known as Forfarshire ...
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Antiquarian Notes
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This is a 952 page monumental work on the families, events, and places in the Highlands of Scotland. Produced in two volumes, the first is subtitled "A Series of Papers Regarding Families and Places in the Highlands", and includes dozens of chapters on topics relating to families ...
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Borderland Castles and Peles: A Concise Guide to the Strongholds of the Anglo-Scottish Border
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Robert Hugill had a lifetime interest in medieval and early modern Scotland and in the fortifications built in the Border lands between England and Scotland. Here, he arranged the castles and peles in alphabetical order, with an account of their history ...
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Britain's Royal Heritage: An A to Z of the Monarchy
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Royal scandals, wars, ceremonies, households, tombs and insignia make fascinating reading, and this book is the ideal reference work for all those who want to know more about individual monarchs and the impressive legacy of myths, traditions, beliefs and practices that have grown up around the institution of the monarchy ...
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British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning
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This reference work takes all of Great Britain as its subject, and seeks to identify and explain British surnames in great part according to their origin and use. The majority of the work is an alphabetical listing of British names with their origin or meaning ...
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Castles and Historic Homes of the Borders: Their Traditions and Romance
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Written by Alexander Eddington, and originally published in 1949, this book tells of the Borderlands region in Scotland that is filled with historic houses, each one of which has a ...
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Clan Warfare in the Scottish Highlands
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After 1400 Scottish families competed for area supremacy or fought each other over various conflicts and feuds. There was no central authority to impose order, and warfare into the 18th century could be endemic on a local scale. This book details the competition between clans ...
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Clanship and the Clans
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This unusual work give us a look into the state of the Highland clans and clan system as it was in the late high Victorian era. Over the course of 50 years from the visit of King George IV to those of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the 1830s and '40s, the Norse-Celtic culture of the Scottish Highlands had grown in popularity ...
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Collectanea de Rebus Albanicis: Consisting of Original Papers and Documents Relating to the History of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
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One of the most elusive of all the Highland histories, "Collectanea" reprints many primary documents - much of the work done by William Skene, Donald Gregory, and other lions of 19th century Scottish historical writing ...
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Concerning Some Scottish Surnames
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The attempt to define the meaning, origin, and tradition of Scottish surnames has long been a popular pursuit. During the 19th century, romantic writers tended to define surnames by reference to family tradition or to the phonetic meaning of parts or all of a name. Innes, however, held to a territorial origin ...
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Controversial Issues in Scottish History
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This work aroused intense interest among both the popular and academic historians of the day, for it reprinted major portions of early chronicles and histories which long had been unavailable other than at research libraries.
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Culloden 1746: The Highland Clans' Last Charge
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On 25 July 1745 Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the 'Young Pretender', landed with a handful of supporters on the west coast of Scotland. This marked the beginning of the '45 ...
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Culloden and the '45
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There is little doubt that the '45 rebellion was the greatest challenge to the eighteenth century British state. The battle of Culloden in which it culminated was certainly ...
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Discover Scotland's History
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Discover Scotland's History' is an essential introduction to the history of Scotland, covering every major event in the country's development from pre-history right up to the present day. It is ...
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Early Highland Dress
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Newsome's quest for information on early Highland dress is presented both in text and in illustrations, in chapters titled: The Leine, A Leine Pattern, The Early History of the Kilt, Pre-Culloden Tartans, Gaelic Footwear, and The Sporran. There is as well an extensive bibliography referring the reader to additional sources for information ...
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Early Norman Castles of the British Isles
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The successful invasion of England in 1066 by Duke William of Normandy brought the full force of continental feudalism to England and firmly established the Norman castle and its architecture as the premier pattern for design for the island. It begins with a survey of English Norman castles which is followed by ...
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Estimate of the Scottish Nobility During the Minority of James VI
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The reign of James VI of Scotland was one in which the great families played a major role, not only during the king's minority, but throughout his long reign ...
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Exiles of the Covenant
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This is a history of the Covenanters, providing both biographical and historical information ...
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Flodden: A Scottish Tragedy
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In the breadth of bitter-sweet Scottish history there is no more poignant, no more important battle than Flodden. Before Flodden a proud country under its dynamic Stewart King ...
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Genealogy and Surnames, with Some Heraldic and Biographical Notes
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Written by William Anderson in 1865, to this day, this is still an invaluable study of Scottish names and their origins, and as such it surveys an astonishingly broad array of names and how they came about ...
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Glencoe and Beyond: The Sheep-Farming Years 1780-1830
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The early sheep-farming period in the part of the Highlands discussed in this study was characterised by a great deal of geographical, social and financial movement. This perceptive ...
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Hamilton Family History from The Scots Peerage
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Here are presented the genealogical and historical records of all branches of the Hamilton family holding titles of nobility ...
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Hay Family History from The Scots Peerage
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Here are presented the genealogical and historical records of all branches of the Hay family holding titles of nobility ...
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Highland Clansman 1689-1746
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For nearly sixty years the clans of Highland Scotland proved to be an almost constant thorn in the side of a series of British monarchs. Fiercely independent the clans comprised ...
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Highland Folk Ways
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Originally produced in 1961 and reprinted numerous times, this is the classic book on the ancient customs, crafts and techniques of the Scottish Highlands. The past is evoked with a ...
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Highland Personal Names
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This is a collection of articles which first appeared in the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, all of which discuss some aspect of Highland traditions regarding given names ...
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Highlander
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A brand new lavishly illustrated hardback which examines the military legend of the Highlanders. Written by a leading authority on the subject it looks at their weapons and tactics and ...
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Highlanders: A History of the Gaels
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In this informative and often controversial study, the award-winning journalist John Macleod unfolds the story of the land and people of the isles and glens of the Highlands of Scotland.
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Historic Earls and Earldoms of Scotland
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Each earldom and the families who held it are discussed in detail and traced through the centuries. Most of these families and the titles they held survived for many centuries, and their histories therefore are intertwined with that of Scotland itself ...
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Historical Geography of the Clans of Scotland with a Narrative of the Highland Campaigns
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Originally published 1909, this is a classic account of the Highlands and Highland clans, particularly in the 17th and 18th centuries. It contains a roll of landlords and baillies from ...
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History of the Western Highlands and Isles of Scotland from AD 1493 to AD 1625
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This enormous history deals with the northwestern portion of Scotland and with a period in the history of that region when it came under increased attention from the monarchy in Edinburgh ...
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How to Trace a Descent from Royalty and The Scottish Records
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The first part of the book explains how 'probably most families that possess a pedigree of seven or eight generation have at least one descent from the Kings of England ... even though they may be quite unaware of it'. The second part, The Scottish Records, details the various types of public records ...
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Kings and Queens of Scotland
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Scotland's monarchs always had a tough job. Their kingdom had ancient roots and strong traditions, but rivalry and unrest at home, and hospitality accross the border, often made the throne ...
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Memorabilia Domestica: or Parish Life in the North of Scotland
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Originally published in 1840 and then reissued nearly a half-century later, this rare and elusive publication is concerned primarily with Highland history in the first half of the 19th century, and is of particular value to those interested in Ross-shire and Sutherlandshire ...
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Old Irish and Highland Dress
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This classic and elusive work provides a detailed study of the "dress" of the Highlanders and the Irish in ancient times, with illustrations drawn from archival sources. It provides a wealth of information on the dress of these two closely related Celtic lands. Many of the illustrations are unique and are invaluable ...
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Personal and Family Names
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This extended study of personal and family names provides an account of the origin and meaning of literally thousands of names used or found throughout the British Isles. It begins with chapters on the origin and formation of words, then moves on to personal names, Biblical names, birth names, names of women ...
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Rough Notes of a Traveller 1890
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A unique look at an individual's view of many countries as they were back in 1889 ...
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Ruined Castles of Mid-Lothian: Their Position, Their Families, Their Ruins and Their History
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The author studies five principal castles from Mid-Lothian: Borthwick Castle, Craigmillar Castle, Roslin Castle, Crichtoun Castle, and Cousland Castle ...
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Scotland's Black Death: The Foul Death of the English
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During the early months of 1349 Scottish soldiers engaged in border warfare praised God that many of their English opponents were being felled by a new and terrifying affliction. Within ...
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Scotland: From Prehistory to the Present
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"Scotland: From Prehistory to the Present" is a lively new history from one of Scotland's brightest young historians. This revised edition starts with the early settlers after the last Ice ...
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Scotland: The Complete Guide
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A superb up-to-date, fact packed touring guide which highlights the best places to visit throughout the country. Includes a comprehensive introductory section, motoring advice, suggested tours, a detailed guide to ...
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Scottish Clans and Tartans
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Illustrated guide to Scotland's clans and tartans. Each entry covers the origins of the clan, the location and the renowned clansmen.
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Scottish Clock and Watch Makers 1453-1900
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It's now over seventy years since the second edition of John Smith's 'Old Scottish Clockmakers 1453-1850', was published, and apart from a reprint in 1975 (without additions or ...
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Scottish Country Miller 1700-1900: A History of Water-powered Meal Milling in Scotland
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Until the industrialisation of towns and the depopulation of the countryside, the miller was of vital importance in the local community, providing the chief element of the diet of the ...
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Scottish Country Recipes: Traditional Fare from Hearth and Home
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Scottish country cooking has traditionally used the abundance of fresh local produce to create simple yet hearty fare. This book contains a varied collection of warming soups, broths, stews and ...
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Scottish Historical Documents
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For anyone with an interest in Scottish history, but without convenient access to source material, 'Scottish Historical Documents' will be welcomed as a valuable and informative collection of important references ...
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Scottish Kirkyards
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The Scottish kirkyard has been vastly underrated as a place of historical importance, offering a wealth of information to the visitor of local historian. Within its confines can be found ...
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Scottish Place-Names
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'Scottish Place-Names', the result of twenty years' meticulous research, remains the only comprehensive and systematic study of Scottish place-names. First published in 1976, it has now been re-released as a ...
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Scottish Pottery
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Scottish Surnames
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For everyone wishing to trace their Scottish roots, this handy and comprehensive volume to over 1000 surnames is the ideal guide to the variety of names found in Scotland ...
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Scottish Voices 1745-1960
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Scotland at the end of the 18th century was a vastly different country from the Scotland of today. This book tells the story of changing times from those ...
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Seawolves: Pirates and the Scots
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The 'Seawolves' is an exciting and thorough examination of Scots connected to piracy, whether they are victims or villains.P It concentrates mainly on the legendary golden age of pirates between 1690 ...
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Sketches of the Character, Manners and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland
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This is an exhaustive history of the Highlands of Scotland and of the customs which characterized them as late as the early 19th century. Included are chapters on clanship, arms, garb, music, and other definitive customs, particularly down to the period 1745-46 and the battle of Culloden. This is followed by ...
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So You're Going to Wear the Kilt!: All You Want to Know About Tartan Dress
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This readable and handy booklet of Scottish attire provides a compact guide not only for those starting to wear Scottish dress, but also for those who may have ...
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Sutherland Family History from The Scots Peerage
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Here are presented the genealogical and historical records of all branches of the Sutherland family holding titles of nobility that is included in Sir James Balfour-Paul's monumental work "The Scots Peerage". The Sutherlands began their progress to title and fortune as Flemish settlers in Scotland ...
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The Baronage of Angus and Mearns
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Written by David Peter, this work provides historical descriptions for 360 families, with comments on the families, its descent, arms, current seat (as of 1856), and related information ...
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The Book of The Bagpipe
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Tough stongly identified with the Celtic lands, the bagpipes are played in many countries and are very much part of the world music scene. Here a leading expert tells the ...
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The Borders Book
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This collection of essays, written by experts, provides the definitive story of the Scottish Borders, that beautiful and much loved region of Scotland where a great number of ...
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The Celtic Place Names of Scotland
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First published in 1926, this remains the best and most comprehensive reference guide to the Celtic place-names of Scotland. Now reprinted and published in a paperback edition, this classic work ...
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The Clans, Septs and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands
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Frank Adam's 'Clans, Septs, and Regiments' is a classic reference work for all who have an interest in Scotland. When it first appeared in print, it was the first real attempt to present a complete study of the Highlands ...
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The Feuds of the Clans: Highland Families in Conflict 1301-1619
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A new edition of a work with one of the longest publishing histories in all of Scottish studies. First published in 1764 "from a MS wrote in the reign of King James VI," Feuds has since been reprinted three times. It is a clan-by-clan, glen-by-glen recounting of the conflicts which so characterize the great age of the Highland clans ...
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The Highland Clans
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The story of the Highland clans is a gripping one, full of celebrated names and heroic deeds. It is also, as Alistair Moffat reveals, the story of a fearless people, shaped by the unique traditions and landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Here, he traces the history of the clans from their Celtic origins to the coming of the Romans ...
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The Highland Clearances
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'The Highland Clearances' stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland. This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the 18th century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In considering both the terrible suffering ...
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The Highland Pipe and Scottish Society 1750-1950
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What happened to the Highland bagpipe in the two centuries following Culloden? How was its music transmitted and received? This study presents much new contemporary evidence and uses a range ...
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The Highlanders at Home
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Written by R.R. McIan, the full title of this publication is 'Gaelic Gatherings: Or The Highlanders at Home, on the Heath, the River and the Loch'. In a series of 24 color plates, with substantial accompanying text, McIan sought to illustrate the way in which Highlanders worked and played ...
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The History of the Highland Clearances
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The Highland Clearances of the early 19th century were either an inhumane eviction of the old, the infirm, the poor and the powerless from lands which they farmed, or they were the necessary corrective to an inefficient and hopeless ...
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The Identity of the Scottish Nation: An Historic Quest
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The Victorian Public Record Office (PRO) building which dominates Chancery Lane opened its doors in 1856. By the end of 1996, all the original records housed there were ...
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The Illustrated Guide to Rosslyn Chapel and Castle
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Long before the days of The Da Vinci Code, Rosslyn Castle and its famous Chapel were highlights of visiting Scotland. These days, access is limited due to the fragile nature of these treasures. Here is a splendid introduction to Rosslyn Chapel and Castle, both for the armchair traveller and for someone planning a trip to Scotland ...
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The Kings and Queens of Scotland
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Richard Oram begins his study in AD400 and takes us through to 1707, revealing along the way many startling facts. Scottish royal history is studded with such formidable figures as Macbeth, Robert the Bruce and the unfortunate Mary, Queen of Scots ...
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The Knights Templar and Bannockburn: Another View of the Myth
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The purpose of this work is to provide a reasoned assessment of the argument for Templars being at Bannockburn in a body and able to influence the tide of battle ...
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The Lighthouse Stevensons
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An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds.P 'Whenever I smell salt water, ...
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The Lord Wardens of the Marches of England and Scotland
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Being a brief history of the Marches, the Laws of March, and the Marchmen. This book by Howard Pease is a detailed account of the region along the border between England and Scotland, and of the families who fought in that region; the courts and other officials who sought to regulate the region ...
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The National Arms of the United Kingdom
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This work examines the national arms -- the royal shields and arms -- of England, Scotland and Ireland as they developed and changed from 1066 down through the reign of Queen Victoria ...
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The Norsemen in Alban
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This work is particularly recommended for its chronological approach to the interaction of the Norsemen and Scotland. Beginning in late Roman times, it traces, in narrative fashion and in considerable detail, the Norse/Viking invasions of the north, their settlements, and their contribution overall to Highland ...
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The Scots Peerage
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Sir James Balfour Paul (1846-1931) was the Scottish Lord Lyon, King of Arms from 1890 until 1927. Between 1904-1914 he was the editor of the well-known series 'The ...
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The Scots: A Genetic Journey
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History has always mattered to Scots, and rarely more so than now at the outset of a new century. An almost limitless archive of history lies hidden inside our bodies and those with Scottish roots carry the ancient story of Scotland around with us ...
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The Scottish Clans and their Tartans
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This wonderful little book is full of information about the Clans and their tartans. But it goes further than this with short explanations about Gael language, Highland dress and how ...
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The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
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Within one hundred years, the nation that began the 18th century dominated by the harsh and repressive Scottish Kirk had evolved into Europe's most literate society, producing an idea of modernity that has shaped much of civilisation as we know it ...
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The Scottish Gael or, Celtic Manners as Preserved Among the Highlanders
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This 2 volume classic work surveys the entirety of Highland culture, including chapters on war and military tactics; dress, costume, arms, and military accoutrements; food; poetry and music; religion; and much else relating to the Celtic world ...
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The Setts of the Scottish Tartans
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Two books on the one CD, 'The Setts of the Scottish Tartans, with Descriptive and Historical Notes', as well as 'The Setts of the Scottish Tartans: A Commentary on the Second Edition't. Together, these books present a scholarly and reliable reference work for the identification of the traditional tartans, as well as establish ...
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The Stewarts: Kings and Queens of Scotland 1371-1625
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The story of the House of Stewart is one coloured by tragedy, violence and unfulfilled promise. Heir to the Bruce kings, the devious and cynical Robert Stewart inherited a land ...
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The Unclaimed and Unnamed Tartans
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Over the centuries, Scottish mills have designed and woven many tartans which have not been specifically labeled as a district, corporate, or family tartan. These tartans were woven for special occasions, or simply because the designer thought that they would be an interesting. Many of these tartans are extremely attractive ...
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The Well of the Heads: And Other Tales of the Scottish Clans
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In the Highlands of Scotland till modern times lived a warrior-society that was in many ways like those that flourished in the Iron Age over two thousand years ago. Focused ...
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Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping From 1745 to 1945
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Tracing the story of 18th century pipers and their changing social conditions, the author follows the Scottish emigrants to the New World. He uncovers examples of late 18th century traditional ...
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