SCOTLAND HISTORY

History of Clan Campbell (vol. 1) by Alastair Campbell

Synopsis
The most in-depth and authoritative history of the Clan Campbell available. Commissioned by the Clan Campbell Education Association in Louisiana, it is a full history in three volumes with a foreward by the Duke of Argyll. Fully illustrated throughout with maps and genealogies and twenty pages of plates. It includes six appendices with a full genealogical analysis of the Clan and includes an authoritative account of the Clans' tartans.

A History of Clan Campbell: Volume 2: From Flodden to the Restoration by Alastair Campbell

Synopsis
Alastair Campbell describes the onset of the religious and civil wars in the seventeenth century. The greatest figure in Scotland then was the first Marquess of Argyll, an ardent Protestant, who was pitted against the charismatic cavalier, the Marquess of Montrose. On behalf of church and crown in Scotland each led governments and armies against one another. Montrose was executed in 1650. Argyll was similarly rewarded in 1661, and here the story ends (until volume 3) with the Clan once more imperilled by the crown. The book is illustrated with maps and genealogies, and contains twenty pages of plates, four in colour. Two appendices deal with the substantial body of music associated with the Clan and the Campbell symbolic emblems.

A History of Clan Campbell: Volume 3: From the Restoration to the Present day by Alastair Campbell

Synopsis
The story resumes at a high pace in the third and final volume of Alastair Campbell's acclaimed account of the Campbell clan. Successive incidents include the ninth Earl's part in the 1685 Rebellion and his eventual execution; the tenth earl's rise to dukedom; the massacre of Glencoe; the second duke's quashing of the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion at Sheriffmuir; the notable part played by the clan in the 1745 rebellion and the Appin Murder in its aftermath. The old clan system came to an end following the defeat of the Jacobite armies at Culloden in 1746. Succeeding chapters describe the break-up of the old order and the diaspora. From its founding to the war in Iraq, Campbell elucidates the details of the chiefly family and an account of the position of the clan in the British Army. It is extraordinary to see how firmly, widely and in what a variety of ways the Campbells have left their imprint. Appendices cover the heraldic history of Clan Campbell and the titles it has gained. The book is illustrated with maps expertly drawn by Kenneth Campbell and twenty pages of plates, four of them in colour. It includes appendices covering the Clan's heraldic history and the titles it has gained over the centuries, and ends with a full bibliography and comprehensive index. Alistair Campbell's trilogy ranges over the histories of the west highlands, Scotland, and the Scots overseas, in which Clan Campbell played a notable and decisive part. In a well-paced narrative, his writing has combined depth and readability. He has made a significant contribution to the history of Scotland by recording the history of a remarkable family.

Great Feud: The Campbells and the Macdonalds by Oliver Thomson

Publisher's Synopsis
The famous clans of Campbell and MacDonald began their feud after 1296, when the Campbell chief was brutally killed. Though the two families stood together at Bannockburn they soon clashed again and became sworn and deadly enemies for 450 years. There were numerous cullings and clashes inflicted by both sides, in both Scotland and Northern Ireland." "Yet despite the mutual antipathy both families continued to grow, to scatter over the world and to produce a number of talented, energetic descendants including two British prime ministers (Campbell Bannerman and Ramsay Macdonald) and the first Canadian prime minister." "The second half of the book charts this more peaceful period after 1746 when members of both clans spread rapidly around the world: transported as criminals, evicted in clearances, or simply seeking their fortune in peace or war. We follow the families in the American and Napoleonic wars, to India, the West Indies and Australasia. We meet politicians, poets, terrorists, sportsmen and women, entrepreneurs, world speed record holders and a mistress introduced to Kennedy by Sinatra." "The Great Feud, with its mix of historical fact and legendary high-jinx, will appeal to Campbells and MacDonalds the world over, and to anyone interested in history's most infamous 'neighbours from hell'.

Campbell's Came by Raleigh Bruce Barlowe

Publisher's Synopsis
The exploits of seven generations of one branch of the Campbell clan from Scotland’s bloody Covenanter wars of the 1660’s to the opening of the American West and panning for California gold.