Joyce M Wallace lovingly retells the history and heritage of these areas combined with lively anecdotes about the characters who populated them.

This book traces the story of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, from the slums of Victorian Glasgow to the shanty towns of present-day Africa and among the ‘new poor’ at home. It is a colourful story, but it is more. In many ways it is an exemplar of the fortunes of all religious Congregations, and a microcosm of the Catholic Church itself, over the past century-and-a-half.

The murder of David Beaton lies like a great shadow over the Scottish Reformation and this is the first modern account of this great prince of the church.

Westminster has taken a great constitutional leap in the dark, with the creation of a Scottish parliament and legislative assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland. This collection of essays provides the historical context for the constitutional challenges facing the United Kingdom.

This important book offers a reinterpretation of the origins of the Covenanting movement and the relationship between the crown and Scotland from 1625 onwards, placing greater emphasis on the rise of nationalist feeling in Scotland.

Who were the ministers and elders who ruled the Church of Scotland? What was the nature of the Scottish Revolution? This book, which draws on many new sources, attempts to answer these questions.

Alison Gray in this book reconstructs the story of Catholic Orkney from records which the destruction and distortion of the Reformation have rendered both fragmentary and often misleading.

Based on thirty years of research by Professor Tom Devine, this book is a collection of essays covering the great transformation of rural Scotland which broadly occurred between the 1760s and the middle decades of the nineteenth century.

This book commemorates the late John Morton Boyd (1925–1998), one of the most influential figures in nature conservation of Scotland.

Wry, dry, moving and humorous, these tales capture the flavour of the North-east as never before and are written in the dialect of the area as it has been used over the last six decades.

This book examines the causes of the war and charts Cromwell’s campaign in Scotland from the landing of Charles II in northern Scotland to the fall of Dunottar Castle two years later.

This study seeks to restore the causal role of religion to its proper place in the story of Oliver Cromwell’s invasion and subsequent occupation of Scotland.

This book examines the turbulent relationship between England and Scotland between 1637 and 1660.

This book provides the first comprehensive history of the Royal Scottish Corporation, covering four centuries of Scottish aid in the English capital from 1603-2003.