"This illustrated environmental history of rural life in Northern England and the Scottish borders in the late medieval and early modern periods explores the relationship between society and the environment - the ways in which humans responded to and used the environment in whic…
This is a page-turning history, lucidly written, and it is enhanced by a selection of five famous Border ballads. One of the best reads of the year, without doubt' - Hamish Coghill, Scottish Life'This is a history as exciting and dramatic as the Border ballads themselves' - Cumb…
"From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands witnessed one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder ever seen in modern Europe. As a consequence of near-constant conflict between England and Scotland, Borderers suffere…
From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, outlaws reigned supreme on the contentious frontier between England and Scotland. Feud and terror, raid and reprisal, were the ordinary stuff of life?and a way of survival. Power was held by the notorious border reivers (the steel …
Rogues, criminals, family honor. From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, outlaws reigned supreme on the contentious frontier between England and Scotland. Feud and terror, raid and reprisal were the ordinary stuff of life--and a way of survival. Power was held by the not…
Tells the story of the border reivers: clan-loyal raiders, freebooters, plunderers, and rustlers who worked the border between England and Scotland from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries.
From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, outlaws reigned supreme on the contentious frontier between England and Scotland. Feud and terror, raid and reprisal, were the ordinary stuff of life?and a way of survival. Power was held by the notorious border reivers (the steel …
Explores the history of the Debatable Land, the former buffer between Scotland and England and once upon a time the bloodiest region in the country.
Explores the history of the Debatable Land, the former buffer between Scotland and England and once upon a time the bloodiest region in the country.
"Best-selling author Graham Robb finds that the 2,000-year-old map of Ptolemy unlocks a central mystery of British history. Two years ago, Graham Robb moved to a place of legend called the Debatable Land, an independent territory that once served as a buffer between Scotland and…
Ten years after walking across Central Asia and through Afghanistan, Rory Stewart returns to Britain. He walks a thousand miles, crossing and recrossing the English-Scottish Border. A referendum is coming on whether Scotland will become an independent country; he is a Scot livin…
His father Brian taught Rory Stewart how to walk, and walked with him on journeys from Iran to Malaysia. Now they have chosen to do their final walk together along 'the Marches' the frontier that divides their two countries, Scotland and England. Brian, a ninety-year-old former …
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Places in Between, an exploration of the landscape of his home on the borderland between England and Scotland-known as the Marches-and the history, people, and conflicts that shape it.