Author: Eric Simpson

As one of our key forms of leisure and mass entertainment, tourism was a major growth industry of the nineteenth century and this growth continued into the twentieth century. Starting in the golden a …

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Dunfermline has changed and developed over the last century …

Inverkeithing was created a royal burgh in the twelfth century owing to its importance as a port and its strategic position on the King’s Highway linking north and south. This strategic position owed …

The Highlands and Islands today are a magnet for tourists from all over the world, but go back a few hundred years and it was a very different picture. Then, the Highlands were seen as remote and dan …

For centuries tourists and other travellers have been travelling north to the Highlands of Scotland. This book follows the main thoroughfares north, using vintage and contemporary images to illustrat …