Books in the Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland series

Since World War I, communities of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, characterised by collaborative effort and a robust sense of communal identity, have been transformed. This book will help scholars and general readers grasp the magnitude of change as it has transformed an important aspect of Scottish Gaelic culture.

This book explores the role of the flute in Scottish musical life, primarily in the long eighteenth century, including players, repertoire, manuscripts, and instruments. Evidence for ladies having played the flute is examined, as are possible connections between flute playing and bagpipe playing.

This study argues that the works of the Scottish novelist James Kelman should not be seen as a resigned capitulation to capitalism or an acceptance of the fracture of a working-class collective purpose. Instead, his fiction continually disputes the notion of consensus by revealing the voices of those excluded, those who are unaccounted for.

Discomfort and Joy

This interdisciplinary collection draws from the fields of art, literature, social history, demography and legal history, and both architectural and landscape history. Essays employ a range of methodologies and materials - visual, statistical, archival and literary - to illustrate the richness of the primary sources for studying death in Scotland.

This book aims to address the lack of sustained attention given to Margaret Tait's large body of work, offering a contextualisation of Tait's films within a general consideration of Scottish cinema and artists' moving image. The book's grounding in detailed archival research offers new insights into Scotland (and Britain) in the Twentieth century.

The fifteen essays gathered in this book probe the multi-facetted role of death in Scottish history and culture. They explore personal fears of death, anxieties about Predestination, prayers for the dead and the appeal of Spiritualism