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The brutal clearances which changed the face of much of rural Scotland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are most often associated with the Highlands. However, one of the most dramatic conflicts between tenant and landowner took place on the small Orcadian island of Rousay. When members of the Royal Commission tasked with assessing the conditions of tenant crofters arrived there, the islands owner, General William Frederick Traill-Burroughs, threatened to evict any islander who gave evidence. As tension mounted, a gunboat arrived to keep the peace, and it was only the belated passing of the Crofters Act of 1886 and a special Act of Parliament directed specifically against the general that saved the islands. This is the dramatic story of these events. At the end of it, Burroughs, once lauded as a national hero who had seen military action in Crimea and India, emerges as a much more complex and human figure that history has previously painted him.

The Clearances are well known as one of the darkest periods of Highland history. Over a hundred-year period somewhere in the region of 150,000 people evicted from the land they had worked for generations; many were forced to start new lives overseas. The human cost was enormous, but there were huge consequences for the Highland economy too as the land was put to different uses. This book details the Clearances as they affected the island of Mull the Hebridean hub for the emigrant ships which left for the New World. Peter Macnab discusses the influences which changed crofting in the 18th and 19th centuries, the triggers for migration, the crofter protests, the Napier Commission of 1883 and the introduction of various laws to provide security of tenure. Having been brought up in what likely was the last poorhouse in the Hebrides, where his father was governor, Peter Macnab was able to hear directly the stories and about the cruelties suffered. This makes his book a uniquely fascinating perspective on a complex and significant period of Scottish history.

Often, they appeared just once, tucked away in the corner of a lavish stand at one of the big international motor shows; some were never shown in public, confined to technical conferences and seminars. Not flashy dream cars, rather, these are the real concept cars, produced less for show and eye-catching magazine covers, and more to demonstrate technological prowess of their makers.Ray Hutton delves into the archives to remember forty of these fascinating one-offs created through the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, a time of rapid development for everyday cars and growth in sales for the premium brands. Between them, they predicted almost all of the features of todays production cars. And, just as important, are the ambitious failures and the purposely provocative that led nowhere.Most of these cars are long forgotten. They are, in a sense, the cars that never were, and they represent milestones in that development as well as being fascinating in their own right. This book brings them briefly back to life.

UNCOVER LONDONS PAST, BROUGHT TO LIFE THROUGH ITS LOST AND FORGOTTEN TREASURES, LANDMARKS, CUSTOMS AND STORIESLondon is a city steeped in history; a place where the past lingers in every shadow. More than 2,000 years in the making and covering 600 square miles, like any modern capital it reinvents itself on an almost perpetual basis, yet its almost impossible to walk its streets without finding a survivor from one of its previous incarnations. Besides fragments of Roman wall, intact Norman churches and even traces of the odd Saxon fish trap in the Thames, London still boasts working medieval markets, a handful of ancient timber-framed survivors of the Great Fire, and scores of streets and squares that grew out of early experiments in town planning.Many of these treasures are enjoyed by visitors, but much has been lost over the intervening years. However, there are still clues as to what came before old documents, fading photographs, curious street names and Lost London will help you find them.

The historic county of Lincolnshire, stretching from the Humber in the north to the Wash, was for more than a millennium the second largest in England. The Roman occupation through four centuries brought civilisation, and towns such as Lincoln, Caistor and Horncastle were developed and fortified. The Saxons established settlements and cleared forests for farming, to be replaced by violent Viking invaders who in turn were succeeded by the Normans. These new masters built strategic castles at Lincoln and Stamford to become centres of regional power and administration.Lincolnshires coastal situation encouraged commerce with Europe, and in the Middle Ages Boston was the preeminent port in the country, primarily for the wool trade. Throughout the booms and recessions which have characterised agriculture, the county has remained over the centuries one of the foremost areas in England for arable farming. Also covered are the Grimsby fishing industry, the coming of the railways and steelmaking at Scunthorpe, and the county at war is contrasted with the leisure activities at Skegness and Mablethorpe.This is the essential reference book for the local historian, and a most attractive book on Lincolnshires history for the general reader, resident or visitor.

If you can ski in Scotland, you can ski anywhere.Scotlands mountains are tough, its winters unpredictable, and its ski resorts have endured a remarkable rollercoaster of boom, mismanagement, and scandal. From the Alps of Britain at Cairngorm and Aviemore to lesser-known slopes that somehow thrive, this is the story of a winter sport surviving against all odds.For over fifty years, Andrew Hubert has skied these slopes, witnessing first-hand the triumphs and disasters that have shaped the skiing industry in Scotland. He has made an annual pilgrimage to Scotlands unreliable pistes, infected by the sheer barmy enthusiasm of some of the toughest skiers and snowboarders in the world. Some resorts with the most money fail, while scrappy underdogs flourish. The question is why?Discover what has really being going on in the icy world of Scottish skiing. Meet the skiers addicted to the thrill of the ride, who defy the weather, politics or plain bad luck. Tartan Snow traverses the slopes to take you behind the scenes to uncover the untold and true history of skiing in Scotland part history, part expose, and ultimately a love letter to the Scottish slopes and the extraordinary people who keep it alive.