A collection of thirteen essays which presents historical approaches to the links which have existed for the last 800 years between Scotland and the Low Countries.

Drawing on a wide range of original sources in Edinburgh, Paris and Rome, this book presents a comprehensive picture of the personnel and work of the Scots College Paris.

On December 5th, 1600, Pope Clement VIII founded and endowed the Scots College in Rome for the training of priests and, at least initially, the education of the sons of Scottish noblemen.

Scotticisms in Grammar and Vocabulary investigates the historical development of the (mainly sociolinguistic) phenomena which favoured a process of increasing anglicisation in Late Modern Scots.

This book is intended to give the book trade from c.1500 to c.1720 a detailed examination, looking at booksellers, bookbinders, stationers and printers and their relationship to the forces of authority.

Enid Gauldie's fascinating study discusses in detail the origins of milling, the social context and daily life of the miller, as well as the technical aspects of the industry.

The countryside we see today is largely a man-made creation. Three hundred years ago, the landscape looked very different; it had a confused, fragmented appearance, with clusters of small farms, narrow strips of cultivated ground in a bare landscape wi

This is a reprint in two volumes of the 1876 edition of Logan's famous work, edited with an introduction and memoir of the author by Alexander Stewart.

This is a reprint in two volumes of the 1876 edition of Logan's famous work, edited with an introduction and memoir of the author by Alexander Stewart.

This wide-ranging volume considers Scotland’s domestic life by examining that variety and considering changes in the structures in which Scots have lived and the ways in which they have lived in those homes.

This bibliographic compilation, primarily of Scottish but with some comparative material, makes a substantial contribution to the resources available as guides to research and teaching.

This volume traces the long-standing relationship between Scotland, the Scots and the sea from the early historic period to the present day.

Scottish Life and Society:A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology is a major project of the European Ethnological Research Centre in thirteen volumes. Each volume is a detailed examination of a social topic and can stand alone.

Volume 10 of the Compendium of Scottish Ethnology brings together a series of essays by a diverse range of authors on the themes of oral literature and performance culture. The topics covered in this volume include: narrative collection and performanc

This volume surveys Scotland's complex religious landscape from an ethnological perspective. Bringing together 28 contributors and ranging from the arrival of Christianity to religious diversity in the twenty-first century, it provides an authoritative commentary on the role that religion has played over the centuries in all aspects of Scottish life and society.

This third volume in the Scottish Life and Society series investigates the history of Scotland's buildings and other functional structures, including gardens and canals.

This book explores the nature of Scotland’s food in the past, including game and wild plants, cereals and dairy products, flesh and drink, whether home-brewed ale or wines from abroad. Through extensive research and examination of long-held customs, the author provides a detailed appraisal of the realities and complexities of the Scottish diet.

The Individual and Community Life is the fourth volume to appear in the planned fourteen volume series, A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, the major project of the European Ethnological Research Centre.

Scotland’s leading historians, old colleagues and former students have come together to celebrate the controversial quality of William Ferguson’s achievements. In doing so, they have created a book that is progressive and challenging - something that Ferguson was never afraid to confront.    

This stimulating book looks at the processes of secularization in early modern Europe and provides a useful corrective to an Anglocentric interpretation of 'Britain'.

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 fascinatin

In 1637 Scotland exploded in rebellion against King Charles I: the events that followed have traditionally been interpreted in terms of religious conflict, but while accepting the importance of religious inspiration, The Scottish Revolution prov

These long interviews with very different Scottish writers do not aim at the topical, but to produce a thoughtful window on each writer's mind and work. Recorded at intervals over sixteen years, they go at the writer's chosen pace. Writers relish them.

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Between 1651 and 1851 successive clerks to the Kirk Sessions of Cramond carefully recorded the allegations of misbehaviour that were brought against parishioners.

Exhaustively researched yet eminently readable, this first book-length account of the historical Somerled assembles, evaluates and interprets the full spectrum of evidence.

In 1993 St Margaret's Chapel Guild commissioned this unique history to commemorate the 900th anniversary of the death of Scotland's Royal Saint.

This is the first detailed history of Albion Motors, Scotland's most successful motor-manufacturing company, established in Glasgow in 1899.

This is the story of some pioneers who, during the nineteenth century, transformed the practice of surgery.