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...

Drumlanrig Castle, the clan seat of the Douglases of Queensberry, is a very modern edifice, in te...

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 ...