Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Central Scotland The written history and archaeological records of Central Scotland takes us back to Pictish times some 5,000 years ago. The geology of the area stretches back a further 400 million years.The oldest rocks are found near Lesmahagow and in the Pentland... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Rise and Fall of the City of Money It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city's two... RRP: $34.99 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Declaration of Arbroath The Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April, 1320, is one of the most remarkable documents to have been produced anywhere in medieval Europe. Signed by 51 Scottish nobles, it confirms Scotland's status as an independent sovereign state with the right... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added When The Clyde Ran Red When the Clyde Ran Red paints a vivid picture of the heady days when revolution was in the air on Clydeside. Through the bitter strike at the huge Singer Sewing machine plant in Clydebank in 1911, Bloody Friday in Glasgow's George Square in 1919, the... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Wall Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running 73 miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least 26 miles down the... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Isolation Shepherd In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch which was... RRP: $22.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Teatimes In Teatimes: A World Tour food historian Helen Saberi takes us on a journey into the fascinating history of teatimes, from elegant afternoon teas, hearty high teas and delicious cream teas, to cricket and tennis teas, the funeral teas of Britain and much... RRP: $59.99 $58.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Goths The Goths are truly a 'lost civilization'. Sweeping down from the north, ancient Gothic tribes sacked the imperial city of Rome and set in motion the decline and fall of the western Roman Empire. Ostrogothic and Visigothic kings ruled over Italy and... RRP: $37.99 $37.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Forgotten War 'We are at war with them,' wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. 'What we call their crime is what in a white man we should call patriotism.'Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. So why are there no official memorials... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Everything You Need to Know About the Uluru Statement from the Heart We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.On 26 May 2017, after a historic process of consultation, the Uluru Statement from the Heart was read... RRP: $27.99 $27.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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