This book looks at the response of the Jewish community in Glasgow to its health problems and the complex community based welfare infrastructure it created.

Michael Brown analyses the rise and fall of the family as the dominant magnates of the south, from the deeds of the Good Sir James Douglas in the service of Bruce to the violent destruction of the Douglas earls in the 1450s.     

Dr Simon Forman finds himself accused of harbouring enemies of the state after a night of revelry. In his haste to clear his name he gets caught up in a secret spying mission and death stalks him as he tries to discover the identity of a murderer.

This account reveals much about the nature of the bloodfeud in general, and explores the changes in society which at last brought about its suppression.

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Scottish military offensives against England from 1369 were largely the product of government policy, were launched with careful timing and in the reign of Robert II Involved close co-operation with France.

This book is a very readable account of this little known but fascinating episode in the history of the development of the Highlands.

A comprehensive reference guide published in association with the Flag Institute, providing information and advice to HM Government organizations and individuals on all matters relating to flags.

Liam McIlvanney provides detailed new readings of Burns’s major poems, and also offers new research on his links with Irish poets and radicals, providing a radical reinterpretation of the man who is coming to be recognised as the poet laureate of the radical Enlightenment.