Collection: Local Collection Non Fiction

This is the remarkable story of Donald Caskie minister of the Scots Kirk in Paris at the time of the German invasion in 1940. Although he had several opportunities to flee, Caskie stayed behind to help establish a network of safe houses and escape routes for Allied soldiers and airmen trapped in ...

The Book of Kells is the most spectacular of a group of manuscripts created in Ireland and northern Britain between the seventh and tenth centuries, a period when Irish monasticism was in the vanguard of Christian culture. Its earliest history remains controversial but it was in the keeping of th...

"Scotland has a rough and bloodstained history. It is a complex one, to, but the author has disentangled the thread and ,enlivened his brisk account with both wit and scholarship. Pictures from contemporary sources illuminate his story - its romantic figures and bloody battles, its politics and r...