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First published between 1896 and 1904, the three volumes by Archibald Macdonald of Kiltarlity and Angus Macdonald of Killearnan have become the key history and reference of the Clan, its origins and influence in the Western Highlands and Isles, and its part in national history. This is Volume 3 of a new three Volume paperback reprint of the original work in full.

First published between 1896 and 1904, the three volumes by Archibald Macdonald of Kiltarlity and Angus Macdonald of Killearnan have become the key history and reference of the Clan, its origins and influence in the Western Highlands and Isles, and its part in national history. This is Volume 1 of a new three Volume paperback reprint of the original work in full.

First published between 1896 and 1904, the three volumes by Archibald Macdonald of Kiltarlity and Angus Macdonald of Killearnan have become the key history and reference of the Clan, its origins and influence in the Western Highlands and Isles, and its part in national history. This is Volume 2 of a new three Volume paperback reprint of the original work in full, with errata corrected.

There is not a statue of Zachariah Charles Pearson (1821-1891), twice Mayor of Hull, on the land he gifted to the City for its first public park. Why not? Here the great-great-granddaughter of the Victorian philanthropist builds a life-story from a fascinating mix of family and local folk-lore and photographs, genealogical research, and the resources of local, national and international archives - as well as travel to the United States and lon...

A reflection, in chapters, on the lives of members of the author's family, their friends and neighbours who lived in the counties of Orleans and Caledonia between the end of the eighteenth and the middle of the twentieth centuries. Hard-working, God-fearing, and often clever, these were literate, respectable, and fairly well-off folks. They were, also, all too human - and certainly not always 'nice' or 'admirable'. The history that spills out ...

Not a few students of the Old Scottish Ballads have endeavoured, with less or more success, to identify their heroes and heroines with real personages, to fix with some degree of precision the scenery of the incidents, and to ascertain the historical value of such metrical tales as relate to matters of national importance. Into these well-traversed fields of inquiry the author of this volume has rarely ventured. He has approached the ballads i...

Volume 2 covers the League and Covenant, Civil War, the lands of Larne and Kilwaughter, a Cromwellian sheriff, witch-hunting, Rullion Green, the Conventicle Act, the Highland Host, the Killing-Time, the Revolution, the ghost of the Galdenoch, agricultural habits, the Union, the Rising of 1715, Innermessan, Sir Stair, Dettingen, the Scots Fusiliers, the Forty-Five, heritable jurisdictions abolished, the last sheriff, country life in the eightee...

Volume 1 covers up to 1630, including the Agnews before they arrive in Scotland, The early hereditary sheriffs, the forest of Buchan, Flodden, The dawn of the Reformation, Pinkey Cleugh, the King of Carrick, the suppression of pilgrimages, the Armada, the feud of the Kennedys and the King's Bailie of Leswalt.

The local dialects are passing away: along with them disappears the light which they are able to shed upon so many points in the history of the national tongue that supersedes them, and the contributions which they, more than artificially trimmed Literary idioms, are able to make to the Science of Language, whether in regard to the course of phonetic changes, or the spontaneous growth of natural grammar. They are passing away: even where not u...

The island of Ireland has had more than the average share of troubles visited on it by outsiders. Despite, or perhaps because of, its location on the Atlantic coast of Europe, the English monarchy has taken a close but generally unsuccessful interest in its western neighbour. This book first looks at the attempt to plant Scots Protestants in Catholic Ulster, and the consequences for the island itself. Then, perhaps more dramatically, it chroni...

First published in 1850, and expanded in 1858 into the second edition now reprinted in facsimile, this comprehensive text "with reference to both design and execution" covers in fine detail the objectives, rules and implementation of garden design "from a quarter of an acre to one hundred acres in extent." The book became an important influence on the high-Victorian mixed style. It set out for the first time a complete guide to laying out a pr...

This book is about the famous outbreak of witchcraft allegations and prosecutions associated with Christian Shaw, the so-called 'Bargarran Impostor' in Renfrewshire, Scotland in the 1690s. Much of the material it comprises was written then, in particular, the pivotal publication: A True Narrative of the Sufferings and Relief of a Young Girle, Strangely molested by Evil spirits and their instruments in the West: With a preface and postscript co...

Volume 1 includes plates and descriptions for Aberbrothock Abbey, Forfar, . Aberdeen ( Kings College and Cathedral.), Aberdour House, Fife, Airth Castle, Linlithgow, St. Andrew's Cathedral, Fife., Auchan's Castle, Ayr, Balveny Castle, Banff, Borthwick Castle, Edinburgh, Brechin Cathedral and Round Tower, Forfar, Burgie Castle, Elgin, Caerlaverock Castle, Dumfries, Cambuskenneth Tower, Stirling, Castle Campbell, Clackmannan, Cawdor Castle, Nair...

Volume 3 includes plates and descriptions for Glasgow Cathedral, Haddington Church, Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh, Holyrood, Edinburgh, Huntley Castle, Perth, Huntley Castle (Strathbogie), Aberdeen, Inchcolm, near Edinburgh, Innes House, Elgin, Iona Cathedral, Jedburgh Abbey, Roxburgh, Kelburne House, Ayr, Kelso Abbey, Roxburgh, Kildrummie Castle, Aberdeen, Kilravock Castle, Nairn, Kilwinning Abbey, Ayr, Kirkwall Cathedral, Orkney, Leuchar's Ch...

Comprising The Growth of a Scottish Burgh: a study in the early history of Dumfries (1915)by George William Shirley, and Maxwelltown: Some memories of an old Scotch Burgh (1897) by J.S.Elder. This book brings together for the first time two little volumes which provide an insight into life on either bank of the River Nith. Each author has a widely different style, and each takes his own approach to history, the formal rigour of antiquarian Shi...

This little volume makes no pretension to any literary merit, but seeks merely to supply, in handy form, a list of places of outstanding historical interest in the Counties-of Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, and Wigtown, and to give brief notes concerning them in connection with historic events in which each played a part, which may prove of service to visitors to this portion of the Borders, and to the public in general." - From the preface.

Volume 4 includes plates and descriptions for Lincluden College, Dumfries, Maybole Tower, Ayr, Melrose Abbey, Roxburgh, . Michael Kirk, Elgin, Midmar Castle, Aberdeen, St. Monance Church, Fife, Muchalls House, Kincardine, New Abbey, Dumfries, Newark Castle, Port Glasgow (Renfrew), Noltland Castle, Westray, Orkney, Paisley Abbey, Renfrew, Pinkie House, Edinburgh, Rosslyn Chapel, Edinburgh, Ruthven Castle, or Huntingtower, near Perth, Seton Chap...

Volume 2 includes plates and descriptions for Dalpersie house, Aberdeen, Dirleton Castle, Haddington, Doune Castle, Perth, Drochill Castle, Peebles, Dryburgh Abbey, Roxburgh, Dunblane Cathedral, Perth, Dundee, Forfar, Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Dunkeld Cathedral, Perth, Dysart, Fife, Edinburgh, St. Giles' athedral, Trinity College Church, St. Margaret's Well at Restalrig, Edzell Castle, Forfar, Elcho Castle, Perth, Elgin, Elgin Cathedral, Falkla...

Queen Margaret Union is as much a staple of Glasgow life as George Square, Sauchiehall Street or Buchanan Street. For nearly 120 years she has influenced the lives of students both of the old College bearing the same name and of the University of Glasgow. She has survived two world wars, out-lasted several monarchs of the United Kingdom and weathered some fairly public scandals. Throughout the decades, Queen Margaret Union's members have succe...

The Lockerbie Stories tell of the absolute incomprehension of something as alien as hunks of aeroplane and associated detritus falling through the roof of the home from aerospace above, penetrating the security of the family and exposing the self to chaos and despair, inverting life's experience from relatively familiar to discrete. The grief and trauma that followed, dealing with veil of death and destruction as victims and their belongings r...