Social History
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A Glasgow Mosaic
Cultural Icons of the City
Ian R. Mitchell
£8.99Illustrated with historical and modern black and white photographs, Mitchell takes the reader off the unbeaten track for urban walks around Glasgow’s rich history.
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A Word for Scotland
Jack Campbell
£12.99This is the inside story of a newspaper and nation over five decades. This birth, death and the rebirth of The Scottish Daily Express.
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Blackburn
The Story of West Lothian's Cotton and Coal Town
Sybil Cavanagh
£10.99From the sugar trade, to textile manufacture, to mining, this is a comprehensive account of the development of a town that has played a part in the history of some of the industries most key to Scotland's development.
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Bodysnatchers to Lifesavers
Three Centuries of Medicine in Edinburgh
Tara Womersley, Dorothy H Crawford
£9.99This book provides an illustrated history of medicine in Edinburgh in an accessible style for the general reader.
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Crofting Years
Francis Thompson
£6.95In its short lifetime of 100 years, the crofting system of landholding has had profound effects upon Scotland. In this book, the author presents vivid descriptions of crofting life, past and present, in a deeply-researched social history.
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Doing my Bit for Ireland
A first-hand account of the Easter Rising
Margaret Skinnider
£12.99Doing my Bit for Ireland is Margaret Skinnider’s autobiography, focusing mostly on the time period shortly before and after the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland.
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Frontier Scots
Jenni Calder
£8.99From the commended to the condemed, the Scots who braved America's frontier territories have made a lasting impact on what is now the world's most powerful country.
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Glasgow by the way, but
Celebrating a City
John Cairney
£7.99"Glasgow By the Way But" is a contemporary series of essays examining different aspects of Glasgow in a historical and cultural context, revealing a unique, amusing and sometimes critical, perspective.
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Global Scots
Making it in the Modern World
Kenny MacAskill, Henry McLeish
£9.99Out of stock
This look at the fascinating lives of a fraction of Scotland's expat community, explores how they feel their home country helped shape them, and the perspectives that distance has lent them.
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