Bradt Historic Weekends Scotland (Travel Guide): short breaks exploring Scottish history & culture

Brand new from Bradt is Historic Weekends Scotland, a unique guidebook designed to help visitors and locals alike explore inspiring and extraordinary highlights from Scotland's past.Scotland's rich and tumultuous history - across many centuries from before 'Scotland' existed to its emergence as an autonomous country and then part of the UK - is ripe for exploration, and this book offers ideas, itineraries and travel tips for more than 20 breaks centred on locations rich in natural, architectural, industrial or cultural heritage. Travel writers and historians Helen and Neil Matthews showcase famous locations waiting to be enjoyed from new perspectives alongside neglected or under-rated gems that deserve more attention.From the Neolithic era through to the 20th century, Scotland has plenty to discover.Visit the Hebridean island of Lewis, famous for the 5,000-year-old Callanish Standing Stones and the Chessmen, one of the earliest examples of chess sets containing both bishops and queens.