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Borders Witch Hunt: The story of the 17th-century witchcraft trials in the Scottish Borders

By Mary W Craig Luath Press Ltd

ISBN 9781913025557 £13.19

Borders Witch Hunt explores the social, political, geographical, religious and legal structures that led to the increased amount of witch trials and executions in the Scottish Borders. As well as looking at specific trials the book also explores the role of women, both as accuser and as accused.

Association and Enlightenment: Scottish clubs and societies, 17001830

Various (eds) Bucknell University Press ISBN 9781684482665 £37.95

The essays in this volume examine the complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. Contributors address attitudes toward associations, their meeting-places and rituals, their links with the growth of the professions and with literary culture, and the ways in which they were structured by both class and gender.

Weather, migration and the Scottish Diaspora: Leaving the cold country

By Graeme Morton Routledge

ISBN 9780367350642 £120

By building on the work of historical climatologists, and the availability of long-run climate data, for the first time the emigration history of Scotland is examined through the lens of the nation’s climate. In significant per capita numbers, the Scots left the cold country behind; yet the ‘homeland’ remained an unbreakable connection for the diaspora.