“What are the best Nonfiction & History Books About Scotland?” We looked at 339 of the top books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 43 books, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Scottish Nonfiction” lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 275+ titles, as well as the lists we used, are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page.
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A homage to a remarkable poet and his world.’At The Loch of Green Corrie is more than merely elegant, more than a collection of albeit fascinating insights, laugh-out-loud observations and impressively broad erudition’ – Sunday Herald’You could easily make a case that Andrew Greig has the greatest range of any living Scottish writer’ – ScotsmanFor many years Andrew Greig saw the poet Norman MacCaig as a father figure. Months before his death, MacCaig’s enigmatic final request to Greig was that he fish for him at the Loch of the Green Corrie; the location, even the real name of his destination was more mysterious still. His search took in days of outdoor living, meetings, and fishing with friends in the remote hill lochs of far North-West Scotland. It led, finally, to the waters of the Green Corrie, which would come to reflect Greig’s own life, his thoughts on poetry, geology and land ownership in the Highlands and the ambiguous roles of whisky, love and male friendship. At the Loch of the Green Corrie is a richly atmospheric narrative, a celebration of losing and recovering oneself in a unique landscape, the consideration of a particular culture, and a homage to a remarkable poet and his world.
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The last great battle on British soil.
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Edinburgh by Robert Louis Stevenson is a classic that has been loved by many for generations, a great addition to the collection. Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community project, a project designed to promote harmonious community living and well-being in the world.
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It’s surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Award-winning poet Kathleen Jamie has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary writer. Whether she is following the call of a peregrine in the hills above her home in Fife, sailing into a dark winter solstice on the Orkney islands, or pacing around the carcass of a whale on a rain-swept Hebridean beach, she creates a subtle and modern narrative, peculiarly alive to her connections and surroundings.
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In the 780s northern Britain was dominated by two great kingdoms; Pictavia, centred in north-eastern Scotland and Northumbria which straddled the modern Anglo-Scottish border. Within a hundred years both of these kingdoms had been thrown into chaos by the onslaught of the Vikings and within two hundred years they had become distant memories. This book charts the transformation of the political landscape of northern Britain between the eighth and the eleventh centuries. Central to this narrative is the mysterious disappearance of the Picts and their language and the sudden rise to prominence of the Gaelic-speaking Scots who would replace them as the rulers of the North.
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Ewen Cameron explores the political debate between unionism, liberalism, socialism and nationalism, and the changing political relationship between Scotland and the United Kingdom. He sets Scottish experience alongside the Irish, Welsh and European, and considers British dimensions of historical change–involvement in two world wars, imperial growth and decline, for example – from a Scottish perspective. He relates political events to trends and movements in the economy, culture and society of the nation’s regions–borders, lowlands, highlands, and islands. Underlying the history, and sometimes impelling its ambitions, are the evolution and growth of national self-confidence and identity which fundamentally affected Scotland’s destiny in the last century. Dr Cameron ends by considering how such forces may transform it in this one. Like the period it describes this book has politics at its heart. The recent upsurge of scholarship and publication, backed by the author’s extensive primary research, underpin its vivid and well-paced narrative.
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“History is where we come from, history is who we are. From the Stone Age to the present, this book charts the impact of Celts, Picts, Romans, Irish, Vikings, and English, of battles, wars and empire. The great and the good figure prominently, of course, but the story of Scotland is also about ordinary people, who lived and loved, worked and died, mostly leaving no record at all.
Under the leadership of Gordon Menzies, the BBC series producer, Scotland’s leading historians have combined to produce a work that is revealing and authoritative. Powerful people figure prominently in the book: St. Columba, Queen Margaret, David I, Wallace, Bruce, James III, James IV, James V, John Knox, the Covenanters, the Jacobites, the philosophers and scientists of the Enlightenment, the Victorian entrepreneurs, and the power-brokers of the twentieth century. But ordinary people are certainly vital to the story: soldiers, farmers, ship-builders, metalworkers, and many others.”
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What happened to Edinburgh’s once notorious but picturesque Tolbooth Prison? Where was the Black Turnpike, once a dominant building in the town? Why has one of the New Town designer’s major layouts been all but obliterated? What else has been lost in Edinburgh? From Edinburgh’s mean beginnings—’wretched accommodation, no comfortable houses, no soft beds’, visiting French knights complained in 1341—it went on to attract some of the world’s greatest architects to design and build and shape a unique city. But over the centuries many of those fine buildings have gone. Some were destroyed by invasion and civil strife, some simply collapsed with old age and neglect, and others were swept away in the ‘improvements’ of the nineteenth century. Yet more fell to the developers’ swathe of destruction in the twentieth century. Much of the medieval architecture vanished in the Old Town, Georgian Squares were attacked, Princes Street ruined, old tenements razed in huge slum clearance drives, and once familiar and much loved buildings vanished. The changing pattern of industry, social habits, health service, housing and road systems all took their toll; not even the city wall was immune.
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“She was the quintessential queen: statuesque, regal, dazzlingly beautiful. Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nations; her marriage to the young French dauphin promised to place a third glorious crown on her noble head.
Instead, Mary Stuart became the victim of her own impulsive heart, scandalizing her world with a foolish passion that would lead to abduction, rape and even murder. Betrayed by those she most trusted, she would be lured into a deadly game of power, only to lose to her envious and unforgiving cousin, Elizabeth I.
Here is her story, a queen who lost a throne for love, a monarch pampered and adored even as she was led to her beheading, the unforgettable woman who became a legend for all time.”
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The history of medieval Scotland
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John Buchan describes Graham, Marquis of Montrose’s command of the royalist forces during the 1644 to 1650 war with the Covenanters. Montrose’s exceptional strength, leadership and military genius are brought to life. Buchan also illustrates an important period in Scottish history, adding his own measure of adventure to this study.
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Epitomised by political, social and technological change this history appraises a fast-evolving century, from the outbreak of World War I up to the present and the politics of devolution and the age of the internet. The book begins with the devastating impact of World War I and Scotland’s critical role in its conduct, then continues to explore Scots institutional life, from 1922 to 1964, governed by the problems of economy, society, politics and culture embedded in a mature industrialised state with economic problems and governmental deficits. Two further chapters cover the period from 1964 to 1999, including the challenge of new industries, oil discoveries, and the rise of devolutionary and nationalist politics. A new section for this edition covers the course of devolved politics, from the Scottish parliament of 1999 to the financial collapse of 2008 and the constitutional upheavals of 2014-15, rounding off this unique interpretation of a century of Scottish life from a cherished and multi-faceted historian.
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“In the first full-scale biography of Mary Stuart in more than thirty years, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of one of history’s greatest women, depicting her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy. Bringing together all surviving documents and uncovering a trove of new sources for the first time, Guy dispels the popular image of Mary Queen of Scots as a romantic leading lady — achieving her ends through feminine wiles — and establishes her as the intellectual and political equal of Elizabeth I.
Through Guy’s pioneering research and superbly readable prose, we come to see Mary as a skillful diplomat, maneuvering ingeniously among a dizzying array of factions that sought to control or dethrone her. Queen of Scots is an enthralling, myth-shattering look at a complex woman and ruler and her time.”
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Ian Rankin’s guide to the places in Scotland that have provided inspiration for his bestselling Inspector Rebus novels.’His novels are playing a significant part in redefining Scotland’s image of itself in literature’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYIn REBUS’S SCOTLAND Ian Rankin uncovers the Scotland that the tourist never sees, highlighting the places that inspired the settings for the Inspector Rebus novels. Rankin also reveals the story of Rebus and how he came into being, who he is, and what his – and Rankin’s – Scotland is like. With over 100 evocative photographs, specially commissioned to reflect the text, REBUS’S SCOTLAND is the perfect gift for anyone interested in Scotland or in the novels of Ian Rankin.
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Robert the Bruce is one of the great heroic figures of history. When after years of struggle Scotland was reduced to a vassal state by Edward I of England it was Bruce who, supported by the Scottish Church and a group of devoted followers, had himself crowned at Scone as King of Scots and renewed the fight for freedom. Ronald McNair Scott has used the accounts of contemporary chronicles, particularly those of John Barbour, to reconstruct the story of one of the most remarkable of medieval kings. It is a story with episodes quite as romantic as those of King Arthur, but one which belongs to the authentic history of the Scottish nation.
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From the death of James III to the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, Jane Dawson tells story of Scotland from the perspective of its regions and of individual Scots, as well as incorporating the view from the royal court. Scotland Re-formed shows how the country was re-formed as the relationship between church and crown changed, with these two institutions converging, merging and diverging, thereby permanently altering the nature of Scottish governance. Society was also transformed, especially by the feuars, new landholders who became the backbone of rural Scotland. The Reformation Crisis of 1559-60 brought the establishment of a Protestant Kirk, an institution influencing the lives of Scots for many centuries, and a diplomatic revolution that discarded the ‘auld alliance’ and locked Scotland’s future into the British Isles.Although the disappearance of the pre-Reformation church left a patronage deficit with disastrous effects for Scottish music and art, new forms of cultural expression arose that
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“Scottish history has long been dominated by the romantic tales of Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, Mary Queen of Scots, and Bonnie Prince Charlie. But the explosion of serious historical research in the last half-century has fueled a keen desire for a better-informed and more satisfying understanding of the Scottish past.
This attractively designed book–boasting scores of illustrations, include eight color plates–brings together the leading authorities on Scottish history, who range from Roman times until the present day, offering a more accurate and sophisticated portrait of Scotland through the ages. The contributors take us from medieval Scotland, to the crisis created by Mary Queen of Scots and the trauma of Reformation, to the reign of James VI and the Union of the Crowns (1603). They discuss the seventeenth century, when a stern Calvinist Kirk launched an unprecedented attack on music, dancing, drama, and drinking, and the remarkable transformation of enlightenment Scotland, when the small nation became a great force in European literature, with such eminent figures as David Hume, Adam Smith, Robert Burns, and James Boswell. We discover that in the nineteenth century the Scottish economy, by some criteria, outpaced the rest of Britain, and its preeminence in heavy engineering was unquestioned. And we follow Scotland through the turbulent twentieth century, enduring two world wars and a depression, before ending on a high note, with Scotland enjoying its first parliament in three hundred years. “
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Magnusson draws on a great deal of modern scholarship to redefine a nation’s history. He charts the long struggle toward nationhood, explores the roots of the original Scots, and examines the extent to which Scotland was shaped by the Romans, the Picts, the Vikings, and the English. Encompassing everything from the first Mesolithic settlers in 7000 B.C. to the present movements for independence, Scotland: The Story of a Nation is history on an epic level, essential reading for anyone interested in the rich past of this captivating land.
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The lives of the Scottish queens, both those who ruled in their own right, and also the consorts, have largely been obscured and neglected. Rosalind K. Marshall addresses this oversight with a collection of mini-biographies, illuminating the fascinating lives of these unusual women, who all found themselves at the helm of a kingdom, and reacted in very different ways. One of the earliest known Scottish queens was none other than the notorious Lady MacBeth. Was she really the wicked woman depicted in Shakespeare’s famous play? Was St Margaret a demure and obedient wife? Why did Margaret Logie exercise such an influence over her husband, David II, and have we underestimated James VI’s consort, Anne of Denmark, frequently written off as a stupid and wilful woman? These are just a few of the questions addressed by Dr Marshall in her entertaining, scholarly study.
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Nigel Tranter’s gift for bringing Scottish history to life is demonstrated in this lively book which details 45 of the nation’s castles with associated tales and traditions. With a broad geographical spread, Tranter breathes life into many of Scotland’s gaunt and shadowy ruins with a lively mix of anecdote, fact, myth and legend. An essential holiday companion when visiting Scotland.
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This acclaimed and popular book is the definitive and most comprehensive work available, on the castles, towers, and fortified houses of Scotland. Arranged alphabetically, each entry has the location and postcode, architecture and development, both inside and out, depictions on old maps, family and notable owners, history and sieges, ghosts and gruesome or amusing tales. Plus opening, websites, and telephone numbers. Twelve pages of maps locate all the castles. This edition is the culmination of twenty-four years of research, compiling, editing, and updating.
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One of the great classics of Scottish history, The Drove Roads of Scotland interweaves folklore, social comment and economic history in a fascinating account of Scotland’s droving trade and the routes by which cattle and sheep were brought from every corner of the land to markets in central Scotland. In pastoral Scotland, the breeding and movement of livestock were fundamental to the lives of the people. The story of the drove roads takes the reader on an engrossing tour of Scottish history, from the lawless cattle driving by reivers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the legitimate movement of stock which developed after the Union of the Crowns, by which time the large-scale movement of stock to established markets had become an important part of Scotland’s economy, and a vital aspect of commercial life in the Empire. Haldane’s work is one of the great classics of Scottish history.
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Did you know that a Scot landed in America a century before Columbus? Or that Scotland had electric lighting 70 years before Edison patented the light bulb? Probably not, because Scotland has two histories. The image of the Scots as whisky-drinking, tartan-sporting, tight-fisted kilt wearers is famous throughout the world. The image is manufactured. Yet Scotland’s reputation for producing inventors, thinkers, and explorers—people who have changed the course of world history—is nowhere near as prevalent. The scale of Scottish influence has truly been underestimated. This book looks at the things Scots are famous for—and shouldn’t be, and the things they aren’t famous for—and should be.
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In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Following his magnificent reconstruction of Culloden, John Prebble recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. While their chiefs grew rich on meat and wool, the people died of cholera and starvation or, evicted from the glens to make way for sheep, were forced to emigrate to foreign lands. ‘Mr Prebble tells a terrible story excellently.
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Compiled by more than 170 eminent contributors, it covers over 2000 years and extends from Galloway to Orkney and Shetland and from the Borders to the Western Isles. At more than half a million words and nearly 800 pages, this wide-ranging resource provides comprehensive coverage of Scotland’s eventful history–interpreting that history broadly enough to include archaeology, architecture, culture, folk belief, climate, geology, and languages. Readers will find entries on figures such as Columba, Macbeth, and William Wallace sitting alongside entries on sport and culture–on Burns Clubs, curling, and shinty–and on major historical issues such as clans, Clearances, and Covenanters. In addition to concise factual entries, longer articles explore key themes such as kingship, national identity, migration, women, urban and rural life, the economy, housing, living standards, and religious beliefs across the centuries. Maps, genealogies, a chronology, a substantial guide to further reading, a thematic contents list, and an index add further to the value of this excellent resource.
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In this fascinating and intimate portrait of the Stuarts, author Allan Massie takes us deep into one of history’s bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns. Exploring the family’s lineage from the first Stuart king to the last, The Royal Stuarts is a panoramic history of the family that acted as a major player in the Scottish Wars of Independence, the Union of the Crowns, the English Civil War, the Restoration, and more.
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History has always mattered to Scots, and rarely more so than now at the outset of a new century, after more than ten years of a new parliament and the new census of 2011. An almost limitless archive of our history lies hidden inside our bodies and we carry the ancient story of Scotland around with us. The mushrooming of genetic studies, of DNA analysis, is rewriting our history in spectacular fashion. In this new edition of The Scots: A Genetic Journey, Alistair Moffat explores the history that is printed on our genes, and in a remarkable new approach, uncovers the detail of where we are from, who we are and, in so doing, vividly paints a DNA map of Scotland.
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Overturning many assumptions about Scotland’s history, this book takes both traditional topics and new themes, making them fascinating and accessible for those wanting to understand the recent development of this historic nation, as the first Scottish Parliament since 1707 prepares to meet in the summer of 2000.
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Alistair Moffat’s journey, from the Scottish islands and Scotland, to the English coast, Wales, Cornwall and Ireland, ignores national boundaries to reveal the rich fabric of culture and history of Celtic Britain which still survives today. This is a vividly told, dramatic and enlightening account of the oral history, legends and battles of a people whose past stretches back many hundred of years. The Sea Kingdoms is a story of great tragedies, ancient myths and spectacular beauty.
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In The Steel Bonnets, George MacDonald Fraser, author of the bestselling Flashman novels and himself a borderer, takes us back through three centuries of conflict, telling the fascinating and bloody story of the reivers. He relates their rise to power as ferocious soldiers on horseback, their important roles in the battles at Flodden and Solway Moss, and their surprisingly sudden fall from grace. The Steel Bonnets is a superb work of serious history and scholarship that is as irresistibly compelling as any novel.
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The Wars of Scotland is the story of the pivotal period in Scottish history between 1214 and 1371. The century and a half between the death of King William the Lion and the accession of the Stewarts witnessed major changes in the internal character of the kingdom and its place in the wider European world. The opening decades of this era seemed to be dominated by the continued development of a defined Scottish realm but the crisis which engulfed the kings and their people meant that issues of war and allegiance would make fourteenth-century Scotland a very different place. This book is the first detailed discussion of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries as a single period of both developing and fragmenting political hierarchies and communities. The Wars of Scotland provides a political narrative which places events in their immediate context as well as highlighting special issues and groups in thematic chapters. It also introduces a new discussion of the stability and unity of Scotland as a realm
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By no means prepared by birth, education or training for leadership, Wallace nevertheless rose to prominence during the Wars of Independence, leading forces which broke the sequence of English victories and re-energising and inspiring his countrymen in the process. While others, ostensibly his betters, yielded and collaborated, Wallace set an example of constancy and perseverance and became the Guardian of Scotland. Even his terrible death in London in 1305 can be seen as a victory as it provided inspiration for the continuance of the struggle against English domination. Despite Wallace’s almost mythical status—boosted in no small part by the film Braveheart—present-day perceptions of him are not always based on the objective analysis of the historical facts. In this revised and expanded biography, Andrew Fisher investigates all the aspects of Wallace’s life and character, treating him as a man of his time. The result is a more authentic picture of the greatest of Scotland’s heroes than has been previously available.
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Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history’s greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas—a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. James MacKay uses all his skills as a historical detective to produce this definitive biography, telling the incredible story of a man who, without wealth or noble birth, rose to become Guardian of Scotland. William Wallace, with superb generalship and tactical genius, led a country with no previous warlike tradition to triumph gloriously over the much larger, better-armed, and better-trained English forces. 700 years later, the heroism and betrayal, the valiant deeds and the dark atrocities, and the struggle of a small nation against a brutal and powerful empire, still create a compelling tale.
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Scotland’s history gets a rewrite by archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver. How accurate are the accounts of Mary Queen of Scots’s tragic demise or Bonnie Prince Charlie’s forlorn cause? Oliver reveals a Scotland that forged its own identity with success, despite its union with England in 1707.
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This story of early Scotland begins 10,000 years ago at the end of the Ice Age when the familiar Scottish geography of mountains, glens, and rugged coasts evolved. It follows the movement of hunter-gatherers north, the growth of fishing, the establishment of farming.
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Shortlisted for the 2009 Saltire Society History Book of the YearFrom Caledonia to Pictland examines the transformation of Iron Age northern Britain into a land of Christian kingdoms, long before ‘Scotland’ came into existence. Perched at the edge of the western Roman Empire, northern Britain was not unaffected by the experience, and became swept up in the great tide of processes which gave rise to the early medieval West. Like other places, the country experienced social and ethnic metamorphoses, Christianisation, and colonization by dislocated outsiders, but northern Britain also has its own unique story to tell in the first eight centuries AD.This book is the first detailed political history to treat these centuries as a single period, with due regard for Scotland’s position in the bigger story of late Antique transition. From Caledonia to Pictland charts the complex and shadowy processes which saw the familiar Picts, Northumbrians, North Britons and Gaels of early Scottish history become established in the country, the achievements of their foremost political figures, and their ongoing links with the world around them. It is a story that has become much revised through changing trends in scholarly approaches to the challenging evidence, and that transformation too is explained for the benefit of students and general readers.
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You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.’ This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts the MacDonalds at the Massacre of Glencoe. It was a bloody incident which had deep repercussions and was the beginning of the destruction of the Highlanders. John Prebble’s masterly description of the terrible events at Glencoe was praised as ‘Evocative and powerful’ in the Sunday Telegraph.
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“Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since.
Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution; and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong.”
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From the earliest depictions of Scotland by Ptolemy in the second century AD to the most recent mapping and representation in the geographic information system and in satellite navigation, this collection offers a fascinating and thought-provoking perspective on Scottish history and geography. Written by experts who have spent their lives working with maps and map history, this new history of Scotland is beautifully illustrated with details of the most significant manuscripts and printed maps of the country.
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“In 1937, Adam Nicolson’s father answered a newspaper ad for a small cluster of three islands-The Shiants (Gaelic meaning “”holy”” or “”enchanted””)-which lie east of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Sheer black cliffs drop five hundred feet into the cold, dark, rip currents of the Minch, lounging seals crowd at their feet and thousands upon thousands of sea birds swarm overhead in the sky. Nicolson inherited the islands when he was twenty-one and in this spellbinding and luminous book, he recalls his keenly deep connection to the wild, windswept, and yet enchantingly beautiful property. Not merely a haven of solitude, the islands, with a centuries-old past haunted by restless ghosts and tales of ancient treasure, came to be for Nicolson his heartland and a “”sea room””-a sailing term he uses to mean “”the sense of enlargement that island life can give you.””
In passionate, prismatic prose, Sea Room celebrates this extraordinary landscape, exploring Nicolson’s complicated relationship to the paradoxes of island life and the wonder of revelatory engagement with our natural world.”
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“In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland. Down Roman roads tramped by armies, warpaths and pilgrim routes, drove roads and rail roads, turnpikes and sea roads, he traces the arteries through which our nation’s lifeblood has flowed in a bid to understand how our history has left its mark upon our landscape.
Moffat’s travels along the hidden ways reveal not only the searing beauty and magic of the Scottish landscape, but open up a different sort of history, a new way of understanding our past by walking in the footsteps of our ancestors. In retracing the forgotten paths, he charts a powerful, surprising and moving history of Scotland through the unremembered lives who have moved through it.”
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This is a vivid, wide-ranging and engrossing account of Scotland’s history, composed of eye-witness accounts by those who experienced it first-hand. Contributors range from Tacitus, Mary Queen of Scots and Oliver Cromwell to Adam Smith, David Livingstone and Billy Connolly. These include not just key historic moments – from Bannockburn to the opening of the new parliament in 1999, but testimonies like that of the eight-year-old factory worker who was dangled by his ear out of a third-floor window for making a mistake; the survivors of Culloden, who wished perhaps that they had died on the field; the breakthrough moment for John Logie Baird, inventor of television; and, the genesis of great works of literature recorded by Conan Doyle, Stevenson and the editor of “Encyclopaedia Britannica”.From the battlefield to the sports field, we have moments of glory or disaster, along with wonderfully readable insights into the everyday life of Scotland through the millennia. This is living, accessible history told by crofters, criminals, servants, house-wives, poets, journalists, nurses, politicians, prisoners, comedians, sportsmen and many more.
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| 44 | A Breath of Snow and Ashes | Diana Gabaldon | Goodreads 2 |
| 45 | A Century of the Scottish People, 1830-1950 | T C Smout | Books In Scotland |
| 46 | A Dance Called America: The Scottish Highlands, The United States and Canada | James Hunter | Goodreads 2 |
| 47 | A Dictionary of Scottish History | Gordon Donaldson | Books In Scotland |
| 48 | A Gathering of Eagles | Maxwell Gordon | Books In Scotland |
| 49 | A History Book for Scots | Walter Bower | Books In Scotland |
| 50 | A History of Britain | Simon Schama | Rick Steves |
| 51 | A History of Everyday Life in Scotland 1600 to 1800 | Elizabeth Foyster; Christopher A. Whatley | Questia |
| 52 | A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century Scotland | Lynn Abrams; Callum G. Brown | Questia |
| 53 | A History of Modern Britain | Andrew Marr | Rick Steves |
| 54 | A History of Scotland | Rosalind Mitchison | Questia |
| 55 | A History of Scottish Medicine | Helen Dingwall | Books In Scotland |
| 56 | A History of the Scottish People, 1560-1830 | T C Smout | Books In Scotland |
| 57 | A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | Samuel Johnson | Goodreads |
| 58 | A Land | Jacquetta Hawkes | Rick Steves |
| 59 | A New History of the Picts | Stuart McHardy | Books In Scotland |
| 60 | A Political History of Scotland, 1832-1924: Parties, Elections, and Issues | I. G. C. Hutchison | Questia |
| 61 | A Time of Tyrants | Trevor Royle | Books In Scotland |
| 62 | A Traveller’s History of Scotland | Andrew Fisher | Rick Steves |
| 63 | A’ Toirt Mo Chasan Leam | MAUREEN MACLEOD | Books From Scotland |
| 64 | Adam Smith: Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker | ERIC SCHLIESSER | Books From Scotland |
| 65 | Adrift in Caledonia | Nick Thorpe | Telegraph |
| 66 | Age of the Picts | W.A. Cummins | Books In Scotland |
| 67 | Alba: The Gaelic Kingdom of Scotland, AD 800-1124 | Stephen T. Driscoll | Questia |
| 68 | Along Great Western Road | Gordon R. Urquhart | The Culture Trip |
| 69 | An Account of Corsica | WikiVisually | |
| 70 | An Honest Trade | Books In Scotland | |
| 71 | Anglo-Scottish Relations, from 1603 to 1900 | T C Smout | Books In Scotland |
| 72 | Ardkinglas: The Biography of a Highland Estate | CHRISTINA NOBLE | Books From Scotland |
| 73 | Around the Peat Fire | Calum Smith | Books In Scotland |
| 74 | Arran | K T S Campbell | Books In Scotland |
| 75 | At the Water’s Edge: A Walk in the Wild | John Lister-Kaye | Scottish Book Trust |
| 76 | Birlinn Companion to Scottish History | Ian Donnachie | Books In Scotland |
| 77 | Bizarre Scotland | David Long | Scottish Book Trust |
| 78 | Black Friday | Peter Aitchison | Books In Scotland |
| 79 | Blind Harry’s Wallace | William Hamilton | Books In Scotland |
| 80 | Bodysnatchers to Lifesavers | Dorothy H Crawford | Books In Scotland |
| 81 | Border Fury | John Sadler | Books In Scotland |
| 82 | Calum’s Road | Roger Hutchinson | Goodreads |
| 83 | Capital of the Mind | James Buchan | Books In Scotland |
| 84 | Cattle on a Thousand Hills | Katharine Stewart | Books In Scotland |
| 85 | Clan and Castle | Historic Environment Scotland | |
| 86 | Clearance and Improvement | T M Devine | Books In Scotland |
| 87 | Cochrane | Donald Thomas | Books In Scotland |
| 88 | Cochrane the Dauntless | David Cordingly | Books In Scotland |
| 89 | Coll and Tiree | Erskine Beveridge | Books In Scotland |
| 90 | Crowded with Genius | James Buchan | Rick Steves |
| 91 | Crowdie and Cream | Finlay J MacDonald | Wilderness Scotland |
| 92 | Culloden and the Last Clansman | James Hunter | Books In Scotland |
| 93 | David I: The King who made Scotland | Richard Oram | Books In Scotland |
| 94 | Death of a Chief | Douglas Watt | Books In Scotland |
| 95 | Decoding the Pictish Symbols | W.A. Cummins | Books In Scotland |
| 96 | Devotion and the Devil | Mark Montgomery | Goodreads 2 |
| 97 | Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue | WikiVisually | |
| 98 | Dictionary of the Scots Language | WikiVisually | |
| 99 | Divided City | Theresa Breslin | The Culture Trip |
| 100 | Domination and Lordship: Scotland, 1070-1230 | Richard Oram | Books In Scotland |
| 101 | Downfall (book) | WikiVisually | |
| 102 | Dragonfly in Amber | Diana Gabaldon | Goodreads 2 |
| 103 | Dryburgh Abbey | Richard Fawcett | Books In Scotland |
| 104 | Early Travellers in Scotland | Peter Hume Brown | Goodreads 2 |
| 105 | Easton’s Bible Dictionary | WikiVisually | |
| 106 | Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia | WikiVisually | |
| 107 | Eigg | Camille Dressler | Books In Scotland |
| 108 | Escape to Ikaria: All at Sea in the Aegean | NICK PERRY | Books From Scotland |
| 109 | Farmers, Temples and Tombs | Gordon Barclay | Books In Scotland |
| 110 | Finlay The Rugby Player | JOHN GOODBRAND | Books From Scotland |
| 111 | Five Days from Defeat: How Britain Nearly Lost the First World War | WALTER REID | Books From Scotland |
| 112 | Forteviot: A Pictish and Scottish Royal Centre | Nick Aitchison | Books In Scotland |
| 113 | From Sea to Sea | Len Paterson | Books In Scotland |
| 114 | Frontier Scots | Jenni Calder | Books In Scotland |
| 115 | Garnethill | Denise Mina | The Culture Trip |
| 116 | Glasgow: The Autobiography | Alan Taylor | Scottish Book Trust |
| 117 | Great Glasgow Stories | John Burrowes | The Culture Trip |
| 118 | Greyfriars Bobby | Frances Jarvie | Books In Scotland |
| 119 | Hand, Heart and Soul | Elizabeth Cumming | Pining For The West |
| 120 | Highland Cowboys | Rob Gibson | Books In Scotland |
| 121 | Highland Folk Ways | I.F. Grant | Goodreads 2 |
| 122 | Highland Folkways | Historic Environment Scotland | |
| 123 | History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900 | Trevor Griffiths; Graeme Morton | Questia |
| 124 | History of the Reformation in Scotland | Historic Environment Scotland | |
| 125 | Horrible Histories: Scotland | Terry Deary | Historic Environment Scotland |
| 126 | Images of Scotland | Karen Fitzpatrick | Goodreads |
| 127 | In the Footsteps of Robert Bruce | Alan Young | Books In Scotland |
| 128 | In the Footsteps of William Wallace | Alan Young | Books In Scotland |
| 129 | Into Scotland: Journey to the Hebrides | Samuel Johnson and James Boswell | Telegraph |
| 130 | Island Going | Robert Atkinson | Wilderness Scotland |
| 131 | Island of Dreams | Dan Boothby | Scottish Book Trust |
| 132 | Island on the Edge | Anne Cholawo | Scottish Book Trust |
| 133 | Islay | David Caldwell | Books In Scotland |
| 134 | Islay, Jura and Colonsay | David Caldwell | Books In Scotland |
| 135 | Isles at the Edge of the Sea | Jonny Muir | Scottish Book Trust |
| 136 | Kings, Mormaers and Rebels | John Marsden | Books In Scotland |
| 137 | Lanark: A Life in Four Books | Alisdair Gray | The Culture Trip |
| 138 | Last of the Free | James Hunter | Books In Scotland |
| 139 | Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861 | Queen Victoria | Goodreads |
| 140 | Lewis & Harris | Francis Thompson | Books In Scotland |
| 141 | Lindisfarne | Magnus Magnusson | Books In Scotland |
| 142 | Literary Trails | Christina Hardyment | Rick Steves |
| 143 | Little Me: My Life From A-Z | MATT LUCAS | Books From Scotland |
| 144 | Loch Lomond and the Trossachs in History and Legend | P J G Ransom | Books In Scotland |
| 145 | Logopandecteision | WikiVisually | |
| 146 | Lord James | Catherine Hermary-Vieille | Books In Scotland |
| 147 | Lords of Alba | Ian Walker | Books In Scotland |
| 148 | Lordship and Power in the North of Scotland | Barry Robertson | Books In Scotland |
| 149 | Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey | Madeleine Bunting | Scottish Book Trust |
| 150 | Luftwaffe Over Scotland | Les Taylor | Books In Scotland |
| 151 | Macbeth | Fiona Watson | Books In Scotland |
| 152 | Maritime Scotland | Brian Lavery | Pining For The West |
| 153 | Mary of Guise in Scotland 1548-1560 | Pamela E Ritchie | Books In Scotland |
| 154 | Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles | Margaret George | Goodreads 2 |
| 155 | Mary Queen of Scots | Jean Plaidy | Pining For The West |
| 156 | Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley | Alison Weir | Goodreads 2 |
| 157 | Mary Was Here | Historic Environment Scotland | |
| 158 | Medicine in Scotland | Helen Dingwall | Books In Scotland |
| 159 | Melrose Abbey | Richard Oram | Books In Scotland |
| 160 | Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul | STUART COSGROVE | Books From Scotland |
| 161 | Mingulay: An Island and Its People | Ben Buxton | Goodreads 2 |
| 162 | Modern Scottish History, 1707 to the Present: The Modernisation of Scotland, 1850 to the Present | Anthony Cooke; Ian Donnachie; Ann Macsween; Christopher A. Whatley | Questia |
| 163 | Modern Scottish History, 1707 to the Present: The Transformation of Scotland, 1707-1850 | Anthony Cooke; Ian Donnachie; Ann Macsween; Christopher A Whatley | Questia |
| 164 | Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination | Robert Macfarlane | Goodreads |
| 165 | Mull | Jo Currie | Books In Scotland |
| 166 | Murder and Crime in Stirling | Lynne Wilson | Books In Scotland |
| 167 | Natural History in the Highlands and Islands | Frank Fraser | Wilderness Scotland |
| 168 | Nature Contested | T C Smout | Books In Scotland |
| 169 | Nine Against the Unknown | Lewis Grassic Gibbon | Books In Scotland |
| 170 | No Mean City | H. Kingsley Long | The Culture Trip |
| 171 | No More Corncraiks | Ann Mitchell | Books In Scotland |
| 172 | North Uist in History and Legend | Bill Lawson | Books In Scotland |
| 173 | Northern Lights | Alison Morrison-Low | Books In Scotland |
| 174 | Notes from a Small Island | Bill Bryson | Rick Steves |
| 175 | On the Other Side of Sorrow | James Hunter | Scottish Book Trust |
| 176 | On the Trail of Queen Victoria in the Highlands | Ian Mitchell | Books In Scotland |
| 177 | Orkney: A Historical Guide | Caroline Wickham-Jones | Books In Scotland |
| 178 | Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney | Anonymous | Goodreads 2 |
| 179 | Outlander | Diana Gabaldon | Goodreads 2 |
| 180 | People and Woods in Scotland A History | T C Smout | Books In Scotland |
| 181 | Pirates and the Lost Templar Fleet | David Hatcher Childress | Books In Scotland |
| 182 | Portrait of Scotland | Colin Baxter | Goodreads |
| 183 | Queen of Scots | Rosalind Marshall | Books In Scotland |
| 184 | Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram | Iain Banks | Scottish Book Trust |
| 185 | Red Sky at Night: Autobiography | John Barrington | Scottish Book Trust |
| 186 | Regiam Majestatem | WikiVisually | |
| 187 | Restoring Scotland’s Castles | Robert Clow | The Scottish Castles Association |
| 188 | Ribbon of Wildness | Peter Wright | Scottish Book Trust |
| 189 | River of Fire | John Macleod | Books In Scotland |
| 190 | Rob Roy | Walter Scott | Goodreads 2 |
| 191 | Robert Bruce | Colm McNamee | Books In Scotland |
| 192 | Robert Bruce | G.W.S. Barrow | Books In Scotland |
| 193 | Robert the Bruce | Caroline Bingham | Books In Scotland |
| 194 | Robert the Bruce | Fiona Watson | Books In Scotland |
| 195 | Roman Scotland | David J Breeze | Books In Scotland |
| 196 | Rum | John A Love | Books In Scotland |
| 197 | Scotland | Garry MacKenzie | Scottish Book Trust |
| 198 | Scotland | Graham Ritchie | Books In Scotland |
| 199 | Scotland A History, 8000 BC-AD 2000 | Fiona Watson | Books In Scotland |
| 200 | Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics, 1707 to the Present | Christopher Harvie | Questia |
| 201 | Scotland and Poland | T M Devine | Books In Scotland |
| 202 | Scotland and the British Empire | John M MacKenzie | Books In Scotland |
| 203 | Scotland and the Low Countries 1124-1994 | Grant G Simpson | Books In Scotland |
| 204 | Scotland From Prehistory to the Present | Fiona Watson | Books In Scotland |
| 205 | Scotland from the Earliest Times to 1603 | William Croft Dickinson | Questia |
| 206 | Scotland in the Twentieth Century | T M Devine | Books In Scotland |
| 207 | Scotland Since Prehistory | T C Smout | Books In Scotland |
| 208 | Scotland, the Making of the Kingdom | A.A.M. Duncan | Goodreads 2 |
| 209 | Scotland: A Concise History | Fitzroy MacLean | Goodreads 2 |
| 210 | Scotland: A History | Fiona Watson | Books In Scotland |
| 211 | Scotland: Archaeology and Early History | Graham and Anna Ritchie | Historic Environment Scotland |
| 212 | Scotland: The Later Middle Ages | Ranald G. Nicholson | Goodreads 2 |
| 213 | Scotland’s Castles | C J Tabraham | Books In Scotland |
| 214 | Scotland’s Empire 1600-1815 | T M Devine | Books In Scotland |
| 215 | Scotland’s Empire, 1815-2000 | T M Devine | Books In Scotland |
| 216 | Scotland’s Relations with England: A Survey to 1707 | William Ferguson | Goodreads 2 |
| 217 | Scotland’s Shame? Bigotry and Sectarianism in Modern Scotland | T M Devine | Books In Scotland |
| 218 | Scotland’s Stone of Destiny | Nick Aitchison | Books In Scotland |
| 219 | Scottish Baronial Castles 1250-1450 | Michael Brown | Books In Scotland |
| 220 | Scottish Battlefields | Chris Brown | Books In Scotland |
| 221 | Scottish Battles | John Sadler | Books In Scotland |
| 222 | Scottish Bodysnatchers | Geoff Holder | Books In Scotland |
| 223 | Scottish Gardens | Sir Herbert Maxwell | Pining For The West |
| 224 | Scottish Historical Documents | Gordon Donaldson | Books In Scotland |
| 225 | Scottish History | Edward J Cowan | Books In Scotland |
| 226 | Scottish Medieval Churches | Richard Fawcett | Books In Scotland |
| 227 | Scottish Woodland History Essays and Perspectives | T C Smout | Books In Scotland |
| 228 | Settlement and Sacrifice | Richard Hingley | Books In Scotland |
| 229 | Shale Voices | Alistair Findlay | Books In Scotland |
| 230 | Shoes Were For Sundays | Molly Weir | The Culture Trip |
| 231 | Skull & Saltire | Jim Hewitson | Books In Scotland |
| 232 | Somerled | John Marsden | Books In Scotland |
| 233 | Song of the Rolling Earth | Sir John Lister-Kaye | Wilderness Scotland |
| 234 | St Giles’ | Rosalind Marshall | Books In Scotland |
| 235 | St. Kilda | Campbell McCutcheon | Books In Scotland |
| 236 | St. Kilda: Island on the Edge of the World | Charles Maclean | Goodreads 2 |
| 237 | Tartan Air Force | Deborah Lake | Books In Scotland |
| 238 | The ’45: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Untold Story of the Jacobite Rising | Christopher Duffy | Goodreads 2 |
| 239 | The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh’s Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes | Lisa Rosner | Goodreads |
| 240 | The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British | Sarah Lyall | Rick Steves |
| 241 | The Antonine Wall | David J Breeze | Books In Scotland |
| 242 | The Argyll Book | Donald Omand | Books In Scotland |
| 243 | The Border Line | Eric Robson | Books In Scotland |
| 244 | The Border Towers Of Scotland | Alastair M.T. Maxwell-Irving | The Scottish Castles Association |
| 245 | The Borders | Alistair Moffat | Books In Scotland |
| 246 | The Bruce Trilogy | Nigel Tranter | The Scottish Castles Association |
| 247 | The Buttercup: The Remarkable Story of Andrew Ewing and the Buttercup Dairy Company | Bill Scott | Goodreads |
| 248 | The Canmores: Kings Queens of the Scots 1040-1290 | Richard Oram | Goodreads 2 |
| 249 | The Celtic Placenames of Scotland | William J Watson | Books In Scotland |
| 250 | The Celts: A History | Peter Berresford Ellis | Goodreads |
| 251 | The Clyde: Mapping the River | JOHN MOORE | Books From Scotland |
| 252 | The Complaynt of Scotland | WikiVisually | |
| 253 | The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie | WikiVisually | |
| 254 | The Dam Builders | James Miller | Books In Scotland |
| 255 | The Darien Disaster | John Prebble | Books In Scotland |
| 256 | The Dear Green Place | Archie Hind | The Culture Trip |
| 257 | The Declaration of Arbroath | Edward J Cowan | Books In Scotland |
| 258 | The Faded Map | Alistair Moffat | Books In Scotland |
| 259 | The Flowers of the Forest | Trevor Royle | Books In Scotland |
| 260 | The Game of Kings | Dorothy Dunnett | Goodreads 2 |
| 261 | The Ghost O’ Mause | Maurice Fleming | Historic Environment Scotland |
| 262 | The Great Highland Famine | T M Devine | Books In Scotland |
| 263 | The Guynd | Belinda Rathbone | Rick Steves |
| 264 | The Highland Clans | Alistair Moffat | Books In Scotland |
| 265 | The Highland Clearances | Eric Richards | Goodreads 2 |
| 266 | The Highland Clearances Trail | Rob Gibson | Books In Scotland |
| 267 | The Hydro Boys | Emma Wood | Books In Scotland |
| 268 | The Killing Time | David S Ross | Books In Scotland |
| 269 | The King’s Jaunt | John Prebble | Books In Scotland |
| 270 | The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain | Paul Theroux | Rick Steves |
| 271 | The Kings and Queens of Scotland | Richard Oram | Books In Scotland |
| 272 | The Knights Templar and Scotland | Robert Ferguson | Books In Scotland |
| 273 | The Life and Death of St Kilda | Tom Steel | Goodreads 2 |
| 274 | The Life of Samuel Johnson | James Boswell | Rick Steves |
| 275 | The Lion in the North | John Prebble | Goodreads 2 |
| 276 | The Lords of the Isles | Raymond Campbell Paterson | Books In Scotland |
| 277 | The Magic of the Scottish Islands | Terry Marsh | Goodreads |
| 278 | The Map and the Clock: A Laureate’s Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland | CAROL ANN DUFFY, GILLIAN CLARKE | Books From Scotland |
| 279 | The Mediaeval Castles of Skye and Lochalsh | Roger Miket | Books In Scotland |
| 280 | The Men of the North | Tim Clarkson | Books In Scotland |
| 281 | The New History of Orkney | William P L Thompson | Books In Scotland |
| 282 | The Pictish Symbol Stones of Scotland | Iain Fraser | Books In Scotland |
| 283 | The Picts | Historic Environment Scotland | |
| 284 | The Port of Leith and Granton | Graeme Somner | Books In Scotland |
| 285 | The Prisoner of St Kilda | Margaret Macaulay | Books In Scotland |
| 286 | The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer | Alexander Mackenzie | Books In Scotland |
| 287 | The Reivers | Alistair Moffat | Books In Scotland |
| 288 | The Rough Wooings | Marcus Merriman | Books In Scotland |
| 289 | The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World | DAVID EAGLEMAN, ANTHONY BRANDT | Books From Scotland |
| 290 | The Scots Who Made America | Richard Wilson | Books In Scotland |
| 291 | The Scottish Chateau | Charles McKean | The Scottish Castles Association |
| 292 | The Scottish Chiefs | Jane Porter | Goodreads 2 |
| 293 | The Scottish Countryside | Rosemary Gibson | Books In Scotland |
| 294 | The Scottish Gardener | Suzi Urquhart | Pining For The West |
| 295 | The Scottish Highlands | Dorothy Dunnett, Alastair Dunnett, David Paterson | Scottish Book Trust |
| 296 | The Scottish Islands | Hamish Haswell-Smith | Scottish Book Trust |
| 297 | The Scottish Reformation | Gordon Donaldson | Books In Scotland |
| 298 | The Scottish Revolution 1637-44 | David Stevenson | Books In Scotland |
| 299 | The sea-law of Scotland | WikiVisually | |
| 300 | The Shetland Bus | David Howarth | Goodreads |
| 301 | The Shipbuilders | George Blake | The Culture Trip |
| 302 | The Small Isles | Denis Rixson | Books In Scotland |
| 303 | The Stone | Nigel Tranter | Books In Scotland |
| 304 | The Story of Britain from the Norman Conquest to the European Union | Patrick Dillon | Rick Steves |
| 305 | The Story of Scotch Whisky | TOM BRUCE-GARDYNE | Books From Scotland |
| 306 | The Story of Scotland | Nigel Tranter | Books In Scotland |
| 307 | The Times Great Scottish Lives: Obituaries of Scotland’s Finest | MAGNUS LINKLATER | Books From Scotland |
| 308 | The Transformation of Rural Scotland | T M Devine | Books In Scotland |
| 309 | The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking | OLIVIA LAING | Books From Scotland |
| 310 | The Tsar’s Doctor | Mary McGrigor | Books In Scotland |
| 311 | The Vikings | Julian D Richards | Books In Scotland |
| 312 | The Vikings | Magnus Magnusson | Books In Scotland |
| 313 | The Wall | Alistair Moffat | Books In Scotland |
| 314 | The Wallace | Nigel Tranter | The Scottish Castles Association |
| 315 | The Winter Sea | Susanna Kearsley | Goodreads 2 |
| 316 | The Year of the Ghouls: The Complete History of Burke and Hare | Brian Bailey | Goodreads |
| 317 | Thomas Telford | L. T. C. Rolt | Books In Scotland |
| 318 | Three Hills | Mark Montgomery | Goodreads 2 |
| 319 | To the Ends of the Earth | T M Devine | Books In Scotland |
| 320 | To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface | OLIVIA LAING | Books From Scotland |
| 321 | Travels through France and Italy | WikiVisually | |
| 322 | True North: Travels in Arctic Europe | Gavin Francis | Goodreads |
| 323 | Under the Hammer | Fiona Watson | Books In Scotland |
| 324 | Understanding the Historical Landscape | T C Smout | Books In Scotland |
| 325 | Villages of Northern Argyll | Mary Withall | Books In Scotland |
| 326 | Voyager | Diana Gabaldon | Goodreads 2 |
| 327 | Walking Through Scotland’s History | Ian Mitchell | Books In Scotland |
| 328 | We Need to Talk About… | Kevin Bridges | The Culture Trip |
| 329 | West Highland Railway | John McGregor | Books In Scotland |
| 330 | Whisky in Your Pocket | Wallace Milroy | Goodreads |
| 331 | Whisky: The definitive world guide | MICHAEL JACKSON | Books From Scotland |
| 332 | Who’s Who in Scottish History | Gordon Donaldson | Books In Scotland |
| 333 | Why Scottish History Matters | Rosalind Mitchison | Books In Scotland |
| 334 | Wild Harvesters | Bill Finlayson | Books In Scotland |
| 335 | Wild Island: A Year in the Hebrides | Jane Smith | Scottish Book Trust |
| 336 | Wild Voices | Mike Cawthorne | Scottish Book Trust |
| 337 | Wilderness Guide | Jonathan Willet | Wilderness Scotland |
| 338 | William Wallace | Chris Brown | Books In Scotland |
| 339 | Women of Scotland | David S Ross | Books In Scotland |
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| Goodreads | Best Scottish non-fiction |
| Goodreads 2 | Popular Scottish History Books |
| Historic Environment Scotland | Scottish history reading list |
| Pining For The West | Scottish non fiction books |
| Questia | Scottish History |
| Rick Steves | Scotland: Recommended Books and Movies |
| Scottish Book Trust | 22 Books to Discover Scotland With |
| Telegraph | Popular Scottish History Books |
| The Culture Trip | The 10 Best Books About Glasgow |
| The Scottish Castles Association | Books which you may find informative |
| WikiVisually | Category:Scottish non-fiction books |
| Wilderness Scotland | Highland Reading: Classic Books about the Scottish Highlands |
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