Social & general history

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD, 222 pages Year: 2003 Publisher: ScotPress  This CD contains three separate books detailing the invasion of England in  1066, the families which came to Britain with that invasion, and the families which...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (477 pages) Author: J. MacLean Year: (1889) 2012 Publisher: ScotPress This genealogical and historical study of the MacLeans is noteworthy, not only for its extended history of the family into the 19th century,...

Media: Data CD - 1 CD, 2 vols, 1731 pagesAuthor: J. Keltie Year: (1875) 2010 ISBN: 9781742229652 Other: colour photos Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia This very comprehensive work on the history of the...

Media: EBOOK - downloadFile format: PDF, 285MB (2 vols, 1731 pages) Author: J. Keltie Year: (1875) 2010 ISBN: 9781742229652 Other: colour photos Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia This very...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD Year: 2002 Publisher: ScotPress 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...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (240 pages) Author: D. Blundell Year: (1907) Publisher: ScotPress For centuries after 1688, Catholics in Scotland were portrayed as allies of the papacy and of France, and as traitors to the Protestant cause. To...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (176 pages) Author: J. Balfour-Paul Publisher: ScotPress In his monumental "The Scots Peerage", Sir James Balfour Paul sought to include all ancient titles of nobility, and he therefore investigated the ancient...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (2 vols, 460 pages + 492 pages) Author: C. Fraser-Mackintosh Year: (1897 + 1913) 2008 Publisher: ScotPress This is a 952 page monumental work on the families, events, and places in the Highlands of Scotland...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (298 pages) Author: H. Barber Year: (1903) 2009 Other: 2nd ed. Publisher: ScotPress This reference work takes all of Great Britain as its subject, and seeks to identify and explain British surnames in great...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (288 pages) Author: D. Mackay Year: (1922) Publisher: ScotPress In this 288 pages book published 1922, the increasingly fractious and decentralized world of the Highlands and Islands after 1400, families...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (126 pages) Author: M. Towry Year: (1870) 2010 Publisher: ScotPress The full title of this work is ... "Clanship and the Clans, Containing a Popular Sketch of the Constitution and Tranditions of the Clans of...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (78 pages) Author: C. Innes Year: (1860) Publisher: ScotPress First released in 1860, this was an attempt to define the meaning, origin, and tradition of Scottish surnames has long been a popular pursuit. During the...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (616 pages) Author: W. Gregg Year: (1910) Publisher: ScotPress This work aroused intense interest among both the popular and academic historians of the day, for it reprinted major portions of...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (60 pages) Author: M. Newsome Year: (2003) Publisher: ScotPress "When one begins to research the history of Highland dress, it quickly becomes apparent that prior to the seventeenth century reliable information...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (469 pages) Author: E. Armitage Year: (1912) 2010 Publisher: ScotPress The successful invasion of England in 1066 by Duke William of Normandy brought the full force of continental feudalism to England and firmly...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (146 pages)Author: A. Carey Year: 2012 Publisher: ScotPress Compiled by A. Merwyn Carey, this biographical encyclopedia of firearms makers of the British Isles provides information on gunsmiths collected from a wide...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (80 pages) Author: C. Rogers Year: (1873) Publisher: ScotPress 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...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (58 pages) Author: C. Rogers Year: (1879) 2012 Publisher: ScotPress This study of the Colt family begins with a chapter on those of the name in England and their place among the Anglo-Norman feudal lords after...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (68 pages) Author: C. Rogers Year: (1877) Publisher: ScotPress This history concentrates primarily upon the immediate family of the poet, Robert Burns, and upon those descended from him into the 19th century...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (224 pages) Author: W. Dickson Year: (1908) 2012 Publisher: ScotPress This genealogical and historical account concentrates primarily upon the descendants of two men, both named Thomas Dickson, and their...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (182 pages) Author: J. Balfour-Paul Publisher: ScotPress Here are presented the genealogical and historical records of all branches of the Hamilton family holding titles of nobility. Included are: Earl of...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (127 pages) Author: J. Balfour-Paul Publisher: ScotPress Here are presented the genealogical and historical records of all branches of the Hay family holding titles of nobility. Included are: Earl of...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (98 pages) Publisher: ScotPress 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 givennames...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD Year: 2012 Publisher: ScotPress Having previously compiled a history of Galloway, the author of this work continued his investigation into that region by brining together historical and traditional tales either...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (778 pages) Author: A. Mackenzie Year: (1896) Publisher: ScotPress Compiled by Alexander Mackenzie in 1896, the Frasers were a large and important family in Scottish history and he was without question one of...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (500 pages) Author: D. Gregory Year: (1881) 2008 Publisher: ScotPress This enormous history deals with the northwestern portion of Scotland and with a period in the history of that region when it came under...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (376 pages) Author: J. Foster Year: (1882) Other: 2nd rev. ed. Publisher: ScotPress Members of Parliament, Scotland, including the Minor Barons, the Commissioners for the Shires, and the Commissioners for...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (66 pages) Author: W. Shaw Year: (1871) 2012 Publisher: ScotPress This is a history of the Shaws, compiled primarily to correct errors both in their recorded history and in the history of their relationship to...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (364 pages) Author: H. Long Year: (1883) 2009 Publisher: ScotPress The actual title of this work is "A Popular Monograph on the Origin and History of the Nomenclature of the Present and Former Times" written by...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD Year: 2012 Publisher: ScotPress This extended genealogical history provides a narrative account of the Polk family, beginning with a short account of their residence in Ireland, and continuing with the transfer to...