Our Publications

Discover Art Deco Scotland: Design and Architecture in the Jazz Age - a comprehensive hardback publication featuring stunning photography and illus...

A History of Scotland’s Landscapes explores the many ways that we have used, adapted and altered our environment over thousands of years. Full of m...

The architecture of Scotland exists in many forms. In Mousa to Mackintosh, Frank Arneil Walker examines the recognisable and recurring features evi...

A Life of Industry: The Photography of John R Hume publication covers Scotland’s foremost expert on industrial heritage. John’s greatest passion wa...

Historic Environment Scotland Publication ‘There have always been lighthouses in my life. There has been a closeness and steadiness to our relation...

Mary Was Here exclusive Historic Scotland publication with foreword by Liz Lochhead. Mary Queen of Scots is one of Scotland’s most famous figures. ...

The book Where are the Women? shows that for most of recorded history, women have been sidelined, if not silenced, by men who named the built envir...

New for 2023! The official souvenir Holyrood Park Guidebook including Arthur's Seat will help you explore the Park, identify its remarkable feature...

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....

A History of Scotland’s Landscapes Hardback explores the many ways that we have used, adapted and altered our environment over thousands of years. ...

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 grip...

Scotland’s vibrant and bloody past captures the imagination, but there is far more to Scotland's History than murder and mayhem, tragedy and betray...

Over the past 10,000 years, every inch of Scotland has been shaped, changed and moulded by it's people. Scotland’s Landscapes tells the enduring st...

In Who Built Scotland, experience a new history of Scotland told through its places. Writers Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffa...

In Hunting Picts: Medieval sculptures at St Vigeans, Angus Volumes 1 and 2, learn that during restoration of St Vigeans Church in the 1870s, a coll...

A Work of Beauty - Paperback book showcases Edinburgh as a city of stories – a place that has witnessed everything from great historical upheavals ...

This publication explains the chronological history of the design of shops in Scotland, gives a technical background to the elements and materials ...

The Small Isles is a comprehensive guide illustrated with a wealth of photographs, maps and drawings. It takes readers on a tour of both place and ...

In An Inventory for the Nation, learn about The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The commission was establishe...

In Victorian Scotland learn that Victorians were the harbingers of the modern age. Their society was driven by curiosity, a zeal for invention, and...

Using stunning photography Scotland's Sporting Buildings brings the special interest of these sites and structures to life for the first time in a ...

Our With Thy Towers High book publication brings together the evidence from the archaeological excavations, surveys, historical research and invest...

In Building Knowledge - An Architectural History of the University of Glasgow, learn the story of the University and its buildings told through a w...

Scotland's First World War tells the story of the war through Scotland's people and places. It explores the buildings where, one hundred years ago,...