A history of the second oldest Hospital School foundation in Scotland.

Eric Graham traces the development of the Scottish marine and its institutions during a formative period, when state intervention and warfare at sea in the pursuit of merchantilist goals largely determined the course of events.

Published to coincide with the 1100th anniversary of the death of AEthelflaed, who ruled over the ancient kingdom of Mercia (English Midlands). The book examines her important place in history as the only woman who ruled one of the major powers of Dark Age Britain.

This book shows that the links with France stretch back deep into the Middle Ages, and continue without a break into the eighteenth century, the Age of Enlightenment.

This book explores the king's successes and failures, offering a fresh assessment of his contribution to the making of Scotland as a nation.

The first full-scale academic study of Alexander III's reign since 1937, with a fundamentally different treatment in terms of the relationships between king and magnates.

Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship. The events which followed his early and unexpected death plunged Scotland into turmoil, and into a period of warfare and internal decline which almost brought about the demise of the Scottish state.

Anstruther is one of the most picturesque villages on the north coast of the Forth, packed with architectural delights and filled with historical resonance.