Product Description: Bradshaw’s Guides were published in the 1860s when rail travel was still in its infancy. They give the reader a unique insight into the new world of the Victorian railways, recording the sights to be seen in the beautiful Scottish countryside, as well as the towns and cities encountered along the way...read more

Product Description: Formed from the merger of the Inverness & Aberdeen Junction and the Inverness & Perth Junction railways in 1865, the Highland ran from Perth in Central Scotland north to Inverness and then on up to Wick and Thurso. From Dingwall it ran west to Kyle of Lochalsh to serve Skye and the Western Isles...read more

Product Description: At one point London had one of the largest dock systems in the world, and certainly one of the busiest. From Gravesend and Tilbury, all the way to the Pool of London, the sides of the river were crowded with ships, with large dock systems from St Katherine's to the King George V and Tilbury Docks, full of ships loading and unloading their cargoes...read more

Product Description: The Georgian "Profanisaurus". From the 1790s to the 1820s, numerous editions of the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue were published. Looking at the slang and vernacular language of the time, this dictionary pre-dated Roger Mellie's best-selling Profanisaurus by a good 200 years...read more

Product Description: The chance find of a photograph album from 1912 at an antique fair in Bristol led Campbell McCutcheon to chronicle the story of St Kilda and one of the ships that sailed there. At the far flung western corner of the British Isles is a group of islands called St Kilda, made famous for being the remotest inhabited part of Britain...read more