Originally written for private distribution in 1954,this account of the Closeburn Kir...

Sir James Fergusson used to maintain that for anyone lucky enough to live in the Girvan valley th...

A meticulous account, compiled over six summers, of the route through the Debatable Lands, follow...

Science and technology are the most potent influences driving the modern world.Most science is ...

In a series of fourteen letters, written in 1722 as he journeyed through Scotland, John Macky set...

ME is the most common cause of long-term absence from school. A mild case causes regular absences...

This book is about the famous outbreak of witchcraft allegations and prosecutions associated with...

Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) was an artist, craftswoman, writer, and gardener; she is perhaps the ...

'Students of English and Scottish history in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries have so long...

Caerlaverock Castle - in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland - is the ancestral home of the Maxwell f...

This social history of the 'ordinary' people of the south-western peninsula of Argyll, in western...

'The Epoch of the Shawl Trade in Paisley,' writes the author of this interesting volume, 'is now ...