In the Scottish fishing village of Auchmithie in 1707, Mac Ayton, the youngest in a family of brave Covenanters, grows strong amid clashes with the sea, bandits

Alexander Fenton writes on the uses of shellfish as a way of examining the relationship between small-scale and large-scale fishing, and Ian Morrison investigat

This book places early modern Scottish maritime warfare in its European context. Its formidably broad range of sources sheds light on many previously little kno

Examines the union of England and Scotland by weaving the navy into a political narrative of events between the regal union in 1603 and the parliamentary union

Charles Withers' book brings together work on the history of geography and the history of science with extensive archival analysis to explore how geographical k