The folk songs collected by Gavin Greig and Reverend James B. Duncan in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection: Volume 1

Arts & Photography

Music

Birlinn Ltd.

This title, one of the Historic Scotland series, traces by means of surviving buildings and archaeological remains, the intense military activity in Scotland during the Jacobite era. It brings to life the men who formed part of the first standing army, and covers sites existing today together with the problems of preserving them. The authors examine the adaptation of the ancient royal castles, mighty new forts like Fort William and Fort George, smaller barracks at Ruthven, Inversnaid and elsewhere, Wade's and Caulfield's military roads.

Fortress Scotland and the Jacobites

History

Tabraham, Chris

Grove, Doreen

Europe

The abuse of children is the major welfare discovery of recent decades. This book discovers its past.So often the object of national pride, the Scottish care system is revealed as falling far short of its ideals, and the author dramatically highlights the desperately sad circumstances of families forced to surrender their children to relief agencies and charities.The moving stories of the child's experience fill this volume, whether living as a stranger in the Gaelic-speaking Highland and Islands, marooned in huge isolated orphanages, or working as a farmhand or domestic servant in the vastness of Canada or Australia.

The Orphan Country: Children of Scotland's Broken Homes, 1845 to the Present

Lynn Abrams

This book examines the archaeology and history of the fortified churches which form a remarkable and unique feature of the Anglo-Scottish border. It is the first ever detailed study of the adaptation of church buildings in this region as defensible refuges in the period of war and unrest between the late thirteenth and late seventeenth centuries. Dr. Brooke presents the material in topographical format, thus enabling the reader to take a comprehensive view of these churches. The book also includes site-plans and numerous illustrations.

Safe Sanctuaries: Security and Defence in Anglo-Scottish Border Churches 1290-1690

Brooke, Christopher J.

This book is the complete history of Kippen, a rural parish in the heart of Scotland that has played a significant role in the nation's history over thousands of years. Situated in Stirlingshire's Vale of Menteith, Kippen occupies a key strategic position. The village dominates the 'Fords of Frew', one of the wonders of ancient Scotland and the northern gateway of the Kingdom of Strathclyde. Here the Romans came and left a legacy that was to shape much of Scotland's subsequent history. Here Briton confronted Pict, Lowlander faced Highlander, Covenanter stood against Episcopalian and Williamite fought Jacobite. Kippen also saw the dramatic effects of the agricultural revolution, the arrival of the railway and was at the centre of the development of rural education in Scotland.

The Kingdom of Kippen

Begg, Tom

This text is an account of the interaction of sport, politics and society from the formation of Rangers and Celtic at the end of the 19th century, detailing the changes and rivalry of these two clubs.

The Old Firm: Sectarianism, Sport and Society in Scotland

Sports & Outdoors

Murray, Bill

Soccer

This is a new edition of Roderick Cannon's classic work, a definitive and critically acclaimed history of the origins and music of Scotland's most famous instrument. The eminently readable text will be of interest not only to pipers but also to all music lovers worldwide who are intrigued to know more about the character and extraordinary history of the legendary pipes. 
 The author covers both Ceol Mor and Ceol Beag, Piobaireachd, dance music, martial music, music for competitions and music for pleasure, music for pipe bands as well as a commentary on the state of piping today. Updated from its last paperback edition, this book is the only comprehensive history of piping in print and has never been surpassed.

The Highland Bagpipe and Its Music

Cannon, Roderick D.

The railway era had yet to make its impact on the Clyde during the period 1864 to 1888: this was the age of the private steamer company. The 1860s and '70s were the heyday of the "all the way" steamboat service down the Clyde coast. It was not until the 1880s that the greater convenience of new rail and steamer routes and the increasing pollution of the river eroded a trade by which many steamboat proprietors have previously prospered. This book traces the development of Clyde steamers from the middle of the 1860s to the eve of the railway invasion. From the legendary "Iona" to the much-loved "Lucy Ashton", each ship is described, together with the services they offered. These details are set aginst the social background of the period, the personalities, the engineering developments and the disasters that made this such a fascinating era.

The Victorian summer of the Clyde steamers (1864-1888)

Engineering & Transportation

Paterson, Alan J.S.

Transportation

By no means prepared by birth, education or training for leadership, Wallace nevertheless rose to prominence during the Wars of Independence, leading forces which broke the sequence of English victories and re-energising and inspiring his countrymen in the process. While others, ostensibly his betters, yielded and collaborated, Wallace set an example of constancy and perseverance and became the Guardian of Scotland. Even his terrible death in London in 1305 can be seen as a victory as it provided inspiration for the continuance of the struggle against English domination. Despite Wallace's almost mythical status—boosted in no small part by the film Braveheart—present-day perceptions of him are not always based on the objective analysis of the historical facts. In this revised and expanded biography, Andrew Fisher investigates all the aspects of Wallace's life and character, treating him as a man of his time. The result is a more authentic picture of the greatest of Scotland's heroes than has been previously available.

William Wallace

Biographies & Memoirs

Fisher,Andrew

Historical

When did thousands of people last crowd into Edinburgh's High Street to witness an execution? Three brass bricks on the pavement mark the spot, but how many people notice them or know what they mean? As a fire engine roars along the road sirens blaring and lights flashing, what has that got to do with a fire of 1824? Why was Leith in mourning one bleak day in 1915 and where can you find a monument that commemorates the tragic event? 
The answers are all in an expanded and revised edition of Edinburgh Curiosties. A Capital Cornucopia, and combines both volumes. Thomson and Coghill have trawled through the city's characters to bring together a collection of the men and women who scandalized and inspired the city over the years. But in addition to the notorious, like the Porteous Riot, Deacon William Brodie-the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde-or Madeleine Smith, they look at other lesser known, but nevertheless fascinating, people and events. Stories you've maybe heard something about but don't know the detail. They also float intriguing speculation like the possibility of members of Ned Kelly's gang carrying out armed robberies in Leith after the bushranger was hanged in Australia. The result is a fascinating dip into Edinburgh's rich and varied past, which will appeal to natives and visitors alike.

Edinburgh Curiosities

Coghill, Hamish

Thomson, James U.

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