Pictish Symbol Stones - an Illustrated Gazetteer

History

RCAHMS

Europe

Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Scotland

Hidden behind the dramatic Ochils to the north-east of Stirling, Menstrie Glen is now largely the preserve of sheep and the occasional hillwalker. The apparent tranquillity belies its history for a thriving population occupied these hills and worked the land prior to the agricultural improvements of the 1700s. The architect of change, James Wright, lived at Luss in the heart of the glen and his record of the farming cycle as the plough gave way to sheep details aspects of earlier farming life that are rarely even glimpsed elsewhere. More than this the abandoned farms and fields that he wrote about can still be seen throughout the glen. These two strands are brought together here in an account that is not simply of local interest, for the transformation of Menstrie Glen into a sparsely populated sheepwalk reflects the momentous changes that were afoot throughout Scotland in the 18th century.

' Well Sheltered & Watered': Menstrie Glen, a Farming Landscape Near Stirling

D.C. Cowley

The Antonine Wall is the most important surviving Roman Monument in Scotland. This booklet is published as part of the process of its nomination as a World Heritage Site in order to explain the Wall and its protection.

The Antonine Wall

DAVID J. BREEZE

<p>This text presents a history of small-burgh conservation in Scotland. It provides a comprehensive overview of the National Trust for Scotland's Litte Houses Improvement Scheme.</p>

Little Houses

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This book presents a brief history of the Scottish coal industry, concentrating on the period following nationalisation in 1947 until the re-privatisation and the subsequent closure of Scotland's last deep mine in 2002. At the heart of the volume is a heavily illustrated county-based inventory of all the coal mines to have worked in this period, and a glossary of mining terms. The book is designed to be of general historical interest, and of use in an educational and research context.

Scottish Collieries

Miles K. Oglethorpe

The Archaeological Landscape of Bute

Geddes, George

Scotland's Landscapes: The National Collection of Aerial Photography

As the glaciers of the last Ice Age receded, humans ventured into the far north, exploring a wild, fertile territory. Nomadic hunter-gatherers at first, they made the decision to stay for good - to farm and to build. The landscapes they lived on were remarkable in their diversity. Vast forests of pine and birch ran through one of the world's oldest mountain ranges - once as high as the Himalayas but over millennia scoured and compressed by sheets of ice a mile thick. On hundreds of islands around a saw-edged coastline, communities flourished, linked to each other and the wider world by the sea, the transport superhighway of ancient times. It was a place of challenges and opportunity. A place we know today as Scotland. Over the past 10,000 years, every inch of Scotland - whether remote hilltop, fertile floodplain, or storm-lashed coastline - has been shaped, changed and moulded by its people. No part of the land is without its human story. From Orkney's immaculately preserved Neolithic villages to Highland glens stripped of nineteenth century settlements, from a Skye peninsula converted to an ingenious Viking shipyard, to a sheer Hebridean clifftop used as the site of a spectacular lighthouse, Scotland's history is written into its landscapes in vivid detail. Scotland's Landscapes tells the enduring story of this interaction between man and his environment. Stunning new imagery from the National Collection of Aerial Photography comes together to build up a picture of a dramatic terrain forged by thousands of years of incredible change. These are Scotland's landscapes as you have never seen or understood them before.

Arts & Photography

Crawford, James

Photography & Video

<p>"I love this city, and always shall. I write about it. I dream about it. I walk its streets and see something new each day - traces of faded lettering on the stone, still legible, but just; some facade that I have walked past before and not noticed; an unregarded doorway with the names, in brass, of those who lived there sixty years ago, the bell-pulls sometimes still in place, as if one might summon long-departed residents from their slumbers." Edinburgh is a city of stories - a place that has witnessed everything from great historical upheavals, to the individual lives of a remarkable cast of characters. Every spire, cobblestone, bridge, close and avenue has a tale to tell. In this sumptuous new book, Alexander McCall Smith curates his own, distinctive story of Edinburgh - combining his affectionate, incisive wit with a wealth of stunning imagery drawn from Scotland's national collection of architecture and archaeology. Through a series of photographs, maps, drawings and paintings - many never before published - he takes the reader on a unique tour. Just like the city's architecture, the book can move in an instant from sweeping views to secret, hidden vignettes. This is a story of famous landmarks and lost buildings; the people who made them; the people who lived in them. 'A Work of Beauty' is an intimate portrait of a city by one of Scotland's greatest storytellers.</p>

A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh

McCall-Smith, Alexander

Above Scotland: The National Collection of Aerial Photography

Cowley, Dave

A new, paperback edition of the bestselling Scottish photographic book. In the early 1960s, in the course of recording a Dunfermline mill building that was scheduled for demolition, RCAHMS surveyors discovered an incredible collection of over 800 glass plate negatives. Taken between 1880 and 1919, the photographs are a remarkable record of a bygone era, ranging from black houses in the Western Isles and Highland crofts in the shadow of Ben Nevis, to remote castles in Argyll and busy harbour views in Fife. The photographs are the work of Erskine Beveridge (1851-1920), a wealthy Dunfermline industrialist - and enthusiastic historian and archaeologist - who would become one of the finest amateur photographers of his generation. Fascinated by landscapes, boats, buildings and archaeological monuments, Beveridge's images are not just fine, well composed representations of their subjects, but also convey a sense of what made Scotland's places meaningful to him. With a biographical introduction by RCAHMS Head of Collections Lesley Ferguson, this stunning volume highlights one of the nation's earliest and most remarkable photographic collections.

Wanderings with a Camera in Scotland: The Photography of Erskine Beveridge

Ferguson, Lesley M.

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