Royal Commemorative Mugs and Beakers

Tuckwell Press claims to be the world’s leading publisher of Scottish history, and it also publishes biography, architecture, literary history, ethnology, folklore, garden history, politics and books on the north of England. Titles range from Somerled to Sport, from Mary Queen of Scots to Captain Scott, and from the Union of 1707 to the Glasgow Trade Unions. Contemporary topics include Scottish Independence and the question of the Scottish nuclear bases in this age of devolution. Royal Commemorative Mugs and Beakers is one of the Press’s latest titles and a very fine production it is, too.

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