Publications

The Picts Guide

Including Guides to St Vigeans Museum and Meigle Museum

This extensively illustrated book explores all the available information on the Picts in an appealing, accessible and authoritative way.

Edinburgh Castle Souvenir Guide

Available in various languages

Read this official souvenir guide to learn about the important events and characters from this tourist attraction’s past.

Bloody Scotland

Winner of the CWA Short Story Dagger

In Bloody Scotland twelve of Scotland’s best crime writers use the sinister side of the country’s built heritage in stories that are by turns gripping, chilling and redemptive.

Monuments of Orkney

A Visitor's Guide

In this extensively illustrated guide, Orkney-based archaeologist Caroline Wickham-Jones introduces more than 60 monuments.

Where are the Women?

A Guide to an Imagined Scotland

Can you imagine a different Scotland, a Scotland where women are commemorated in statues and streets and buildings – even in the hills and valleys? This is a guidebook to that alternative nation

Scotland's Sporting Buildings

Scotland’s Sporting Buildings brings the special interest of these sites and structures to life for the first time in a fascinating and accessible guide.

The Small Isles

This comprehensive guide – illustrated with a wealth of photographs, maps and drawings – takes readers on a tour of both place and time.

Edinburgh Castle for Kids

Explore Scotland’s most famous castle – home to kings and queens, the site of historic battles, and probably the best-known place in Scotland.

Mary Was Here

Where Mary Queen of Scots Went and What She Did There

This fast-paced, accessible and extensively illustrated book traces Mary’s life through specific episodes at specific places on specific dates.

A History of Scotland's Landscapes

These evocative spaces provide unique evidence for the way this land and its wealth of resources has been lived in, worked on, ruined, abandoned, restored and celebrated.