Around 1583–1596 Timothy Pont, a young graduate of the University of St Andrews, undertook the remarkable task of mapping Scotland. As far as we know, he was the first person to survey Scotland in any detail, and his maps would later form the basis of the first atlas of Scotland, produced by Blaeu in 1654. In this book, a range of experts from different disciplines shed new light on Pont’s mapping and on the insight he gives into 16th century Scotland, while the many illustrations provide a fascinating commentary on the past.

This book traces the background to the setting up of the National Health Services established in Scotland and England in 1948.

In this book - the first full account of the Argyll rising - Raymond Campbell Paterson places the events of 1685 in the context of late Stewart politics, both in Scotland and Britain as a whole.

Bill Lawson is the foremost authority on the detailed history of the Western Isles of Scotland, and he now follows his successful Harris in History and Legend with a companion volume of the neighbouring isle of North Uist.

This important and detailed study describes and analyses the main features of the economy and social structure of the Isles in the seventeenth century. In geographical scope it covers the Hebrides from Islay in the south to Lewis in the north, as well as the island groups of Orkney and Shetland.