The Wee Guide to Scotland: a Concise History with 1,250 Heritage Sites to Visit

Several earlier Wee Guides have been reviewed in these columns. So successful has the series been that the latest addition is, if the editor will forgive me lapsing into the vernacular “no that wee at aa”, being about the size of a regular paperback. It aims to list every significant site of historical importance in Scotland, and this aim seems to have been achieved. The method is as follows: the first section gives a short history of Scotland, with references to some sites relevant to each period. The main body of the work is divided into about 30 categories, some...