In this new book by one of Britain’s foremost experts in mediaeval linguistics and history, Dr Graeme Davis counters popular historical belief by proposing that there was a Saxon settlement in both Orkney and Shetland during the fourth century AD.

This book examines the changes that took place in the area during the period following the 1745 Jacobite uprising.

The Edinburgh Highland Reel and Strathspey Society, the first of its kind, was formed in 1881, ’for the practice or promotion of Scottish National Music, more especially Reel and Strathspey playing in the old Highland fashion’.

The story of one of the last of the great city reformations that took place all over Europe in the 16th century.

This is a major contribution to the literature on the Scottish Enlightenment and an extraordinarily lucid insight into Edinburgh during the most exciting and stimulating period of its history.

This is a political and intellectual biography of Sir Archibald Alison (1792–1867), historian, social critic, criminal lawyer, and sheriff of Lanarkshire.

The Scottish Baronial Research Group bring us closer to a ’history’ of the nobility of medieval Scotland and as such this book is a major landmark in Scottish medieval history.

A description of the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Scottish language and Literature (Medieval and Renaissance).