Social History

Who is more Glaswegian? An Irishman, a Highlander or a Pole? Whose city is this anyway?

Linlithgow is not just the birth place of Mary Queen of Scots, it's also home to a number of lively clubs and societies.

A social history of West Lothian's cotton and coal town

John Cairney's personal tribute to his native city.

A first hand account of a hydro boy in the Highlands.

The heroes of this book are the 'hydro boys' who gave their all - even their lives - to the great project of generating hydro-electricity from the Scottish Highlands

Mother and daughter team Barbara and Marie Pattullo take
us back to the days of Rows houses and horse drawn
grocers’ vans, to summer gala days and thriving village sports clubs.

Filling a blank in the written history of crofting over the last two centuries.

From 'Paraffin Young' to today's global oil companies - the authentic voices of the Scots involved in and dependent on shale mining.

Pumpherston - surely one of the strangest place-names in Lowland Scotland - has a history that is as unusual as its name.

The inside story of a newspaper and a nation. Five tumultuous decades as they happened.