Books from The Saltire Society

Scotland Resurgent: Comments on the Cultural and Political Revival of Scotland
By Paul Henderson Scott
Wherever I went , I took the essential Edinburgh books , The Heart of Midlothian , Weir of Hermiston , Magnus Merriman , Cockburn's Memorials , Lockhart's Scott and Peter's Letters , Fergusson and Garioch , Mossner's Hume .
The World of Rob Donn
By Ian Grimble
It belongs to Captain Mackay , now in the Sutherland regiment , and Laird of Strathy , being an appendage from the Lairds of Farr before they were ennobled . Here is a good house and offices , and I was received with great politeness by ...
Edinburgh in the '45: Bonnie Prince Charlie at Holyroodhouse
By John S. Gibson
... McClure Why Scots Matters Geoffrey Barrow Robert the Bruce and the Scottish Identity I B Cowan Mary Queen of Scots David Stevenson The Covenanters Kenneth MacKinnon Gaelic : a Past and Future Prospect Meston , Sellars and Cooper The ...
Deacon Brodie: Father to Jekyll and Hyde
By John S. Gibson
Henry , 9 , High School of Edinburgh , 16 , 32 , 49 , ( character ) 52-4 , 22-4 56 , 65 , 66 , 68 , 72–111 Holyroodhouse , Palace of , passim , ( speeches in court ) 15 , 17 , 41 , 62 Hume , David , 16 , 17 72-3 , 80 , 86–7 , 101-4 ...
A Scots Grammar: Scots Grammar and Usage
By David Purves
These pronoun adjectives are used with lane ( s ) , when they are equivalent to ' alone ' . A wes left aw ma lane i the houss . We war aw oor lane ( s ) yestrein . Ye soudna be left aw yeir lane on yeir birthday .
A Window in Thrums
By James Matthew Barrie
On the bump of green round which the brae twists, at the top of the brae, and within cry of T'nowhead Farm, still stands a one-storey house, whose whitewashed walls, streaked with the discoloration that rain leaves, look yellow when the ...
A Clamjamfray of Poets: A Tale of Literary Edinburgh, 1950-1985
By Stanley Roger Green
Fulton Robert Garioch : Garioch Miscellany ed . Fulton John S. Gibson : Edinburgh in theʻ45 Ian Grimble : The Trial of Patrick Sellar Ian Grimble : Chief of Mackay Ian Grimble : The World of Rob Donn William Neill : Tales frae the ...
Still in Bed with an Elephant
By Paul Henderson Scott
Donald A Low ( London 1974 ) Critical Essays : Critical Essays on Robert Burns , ed . Donald A Low ( London 1975 ) 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 James Boswell , The Life of Samuel Johnson ( Everyman's Library , London 1935 ) . Thomas Carlyle , essay in ...
Scotland's Relations with England: A Survey to 1707
By William Ferguson
William Croft Dickinson , Gordon Donaldson and Isabel A. Milne , eds . , A Source Book of Scottish History from Earliest Times to 1424 ( 2nd . edn . , 1958 ) , gives a good coverage with valuable introductions and commentaries .
The Saltoun Papers: Reflections on Andrew Fletcher
By Paul Henderson Scott
A wide range of topics is covered: identity, nationalism, language, patriotism, the Union of 1707, in all its manifestations, and relations with Europe and the world, and controversial and often opposing views are argued with passion and ...
Why Scottish History Matters
By Rosalind Mitchison
Extensively revised for this edition, these essays combine to build a picture of Scottish history from the time of the Picts and the Britons, through the Wars of Independence, the Reformation and the time of the Covenanters, to the Union of ...
Spirits of the Age: Scottish Self Portraits
By Paul Henderson Scott
John Bellany Born Port Seaton , East Lothian , 18th June 1942 ARTIST My voyage through life I was born on the eighteenth of June 1942 in Port Seton ... It was an idyllic place to spend your childhood with all the beauty you could want .
Why Scottish Philosophy Matters
By Alexander Broadie
... Why Scots Matters Rosalind Mitchison : Why Scottish History Matters 0 85411 071 2 0 85411 070 4 0 85411 068 2 0 85411 068 2 0 85411 077 1 0 85411 056 9 0 85411 0739 0 85411 072 0 David Purves : A Scots Grammar : Scots Grammar and Usage ...
Scotland Reclaimed: The Inside Story of Scotland's First Democratic Parliamentary Election
By Murray Ritchie
... Why Scots Matters Rosalind Mitchison : Why Scottish History Matters William Neill : Tales frae the Odyssey o Homer David Purves : A Scots Grammar : Scots Grammar and Usage Paul H. Scott : Andrew Fletcher and the Treaty of Union Paul H ...