Birlinn Origin

The Highland Clearances are a well-documented episode in Scotland's past but they were...

Written by a man who has gone on to become both an award-winning historian of the...

In 1938 John Lorne Campbell bought the Hebridean isle of Canna. He wanted to prevent it...

The Clearances are well known as one of the darkest periods of Highland history. Over a...

This is the story of a Scottish island as it has never been told before. While many...

For much of its history, Orkney had its own language, culture and institutions. The...

Night Falls on Ardnamurchan has become a classic account of the life and death of a...

"The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other...

The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness were positioned between two worlds, the...

In this book he records a world of local legend, folklore and superstition, and charts...

These are the memoirs of a teacher from England who became headmaster of Garrynemonie...

The infamous ‘Beeching Axe’ swept away virtually every Scottish branch line in the...