Castles

Castles
Author: Plantagenet Somerset Fry
Publisher: David & Charles Publishers
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008
Genre: Castles
ISBN: 9780715326923

Presents original maps, plans and archive illustrations alongside hundreds of photographs, showing ruins and surviving castles in their glory. This work includes descriptions of hundreds of special buildings, from remote ruins in isolated settings to imposing piles in towns and cities.

Scots and the Union

Scots and the Union
Author: Christopher A Whatley
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2014-04-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0748680292

This book traces the background to the Treaty of Union of 1707, explains why it happened and assesses its impact on Scottish society, including the bitter struggle with the Jacobites for acceptance of the union in the two decades that followed its inaugur