Publications

Scotland's First World War

Scotland's First World War is one of the first books to focus on Scotland’s built heritage of war as a whole – from coast and air defences to hospitals and prisoner of war camps.

Scotland's Landscapes

Scotland’s Landscapes tells the enduring story of this interaction between man and his environment with stunning new imagery from the National Collection of Aerial Photography.

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.

Shifting Sands

Links of Noltland, Westray: Interim Report on Neolithic and Bronze Age Excavations 2007–09

Shifting Sands documents some of the most remarkable discoveries including the Westray Wife, a Neolithic stone figurine, now recognised as the earliest depiction of the human form known from Scotland.

St Kilda

The Last and Outmost Isle

This book St Kilda back from the ‘end of the world’ to tell a compelling story of triumph over geographical adversity.

The Honours of Scotland

The Honours of Scotland tells the turbulent story of the Honours – Scotland's crown jewels – and the equally dramatic tale of the Stone of Destiny.

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.

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.

Victorian Scotland

This book showcases images from the National Collection in a remarkable illustration of this landmark era.

Wanderings with a Camera in Scotland

this stunning volume showcases Erskine Beveridge's photography and highlights one of the nation's earliest and most remarkable photographic collections.

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

Who Built Scotland

25 Journeys in Search of a Nation

Experience a new history of Scotland told through its places. Writers Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, James Robertson and James Crawford pick twenty-five buildings to tell the story of the nation.