Collection: Local Collection Non Fiction

"Lighthouses have a particular fascination, and nowhere is that fascination more powerfully represented than by the noble towers which stand at Scotland's edge. This book is a celebration of those who made the building of these towers possible, of those who man the service today and of those who...

This book tells you just how to tap into that fund of information and services to trace your Scottish forebears. Author Alwyn James describes the wealth of information available and tells you where to access it and how to make full use of the records. He provides a hands-on example to demonstrate...

Scotland is unusually rich in field monuments and objects surviving from the remote past. They range from the enigmatic cairn of stone covering a humble burial to the splendor and architectural sophistication of Maes Howe, rightly claimed to be among the wonders of prehistoric Europe; from the pl...