Grimsay Press

In a series of fourteen letters, written in 1722 as he journeyed through Scotland, John Macky set out to show that the 'kingdom will not appear so despicable as some parts of the world imagine'...

First published in 1977 and now reprinted in its original form, A Source-book of Scottish Witchcraft has been the most authoritative reference book on Scottish Witchcraft for almost thirty years. It...

In the idyllic summer of 2013 in Kintyre, the author's journeys by bicycle and on foot were also 'a journey through landscapes of memory and emotion'. The story begins in the rugged south-west, at...

In 1986, the Gaelic writer, Aonghas MacNeacail, described Angus Martin as 'Kintyre's one-man research institute'. This collection reflects the style and character of its predecessor, 'A Summer in...

Although Gaelic no longer resounds through the Lennox and Mentieth as it once did, this volume demonstrates that its rich heritage of literature and folklore deserves to be rediscovered and reclaimed...

A meticulous account, compiled over six summers, of the route through the Debatable Lands, following the border eventually agreed between two nations of Scotland and England whose local warlords had...

Our modern world is dominated by oil. Many of the policies of national governments are based on the desire for its acquisition. Regimes have been overthrown in order to gain control of this valuable...

For 20 years, since 1991, historian and poet Angus Martin has been documenting in the Kintyre Magazine his observations and experiences while walking the hills and shores of his native Kintyre. This...

Sir James Fergusson used to maintain that for anyone lucky enough to live in the Girvan valley the only joy of travel must be the pleasure of coming home. That deep affection, made so plain in the...

This 1887 volume is to a considerable extent a reprint of Sir Andrew Leith Hay's "Castellated Architecture of Aberdeenshire," published in 1849. The aim, throughout, has been to present, in brief...

"Students of English and Scottish history in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries have so long been familiar with the record known as The Chronicle of Lanercost that an English translation may...

Originally published in 1908, this affectionate look at the history and antiquities of Dailly, a rural parish steeped in the past, but affected by change, is based on articles originally published in...

Until now much of the early history of ice hockey in Scotland has been neglected or forgotten - metaphorically frozen in time, lying buried under the ice. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive...

Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) was an artist, craftswoman, writer, and gardener; she is perhaps the most famous garden designers of her time. 'Gardens for Small Country Houses' was first published by...

"A treasury of primary material about cases of witchcraft in East Lothian. This marvellous, vast compendium of transcribed documentation, with useful annotation and perceptive commentary, is a most...

The history of many of the great houses and families of Scotland are well documented in literature, and by clan associations and individuals on the Internet. The family of Lundie (Lundy, Lundin,...

Emerging from the aftermath of the disastrous Darien Scheme and the Treaty of Union (1707) the Royal Bank was established in 1727 to play a major role in many aspects of Scottish life. This book not...

Allan Langdale's guide to the archaeology and historical architecture of northern Cyprus surveys the remarkable history of one of the most culturally rich regions in the world. Given the area's...

Graveyards fascinate many folk. Many inscriptions tell abbreviated stories, which a little research can expand. Some offer philosophical advice, but there are also hidden depths of history, biography...

When it was first published in 1987, this picture of the lives of country folk from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth completed a trilogy on the history and culture of the author's native...

The House of Argyll acquired its Kintyre lands in 1607 and sold them in 1956. During that period, the Campbells exerted a powerful influence in Kintyre, through politics, religion, and agrarian...

Kintyre poet and historian Angus Martin's interest in place-names extends back over 40 years. This meticulously researched exploration covers over 200 Gaelic place-name elements, plus many others of...

This social history of the 'ordinary' people of the south-western peninsula of Argyll, in western Scotland, has become a classic since its original publication in 1984. It is reprinted here with a...

When James McKenna first published his personal recollections of life in Bridgeton, he had no idea how quickly and widely his account of everyday life in the East End of Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s...

Science and technology are the most potent influences driving the modern world. Most science is done in laboratories but, apart from a generalized image of an anonymous building populated by...

Scotland's Radical Exports is about the men and women who took trade unionism and working class politics from Scotland to the main countries that make up the Scottish Diaspora. Many of Scotland's...

"Bilingual Parallel text in English and French -- Texte bilingue fran?ais et anglais en parall?le." Sir Richard Wallace, who was most probably the illegitimate son of the 4th Marquess of Hertford,...

In 1901, Thomas Mawson (1861-1933) first published 'The Art and Craft of Garden Making', now regarded as the foundation of modern landscape architecture. By 1926, it had been reprinted five times. It...

Caerlaverock Castle - in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland - is the ancestral home of the Maxwell family. Reproduced here in facsimile, with half-tone lithographs and black-and-white illustrations,...

Caerlaverock Castle - in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland - is the ancestral home of the Maxwell family. Reproduced here in facsimile, with half-tone lithographs and black-and-white illustrations,...