In the Scottish fishing village of Auchmithie in 1707, Mac Ayton, the youngest in a family of brave Covenanters, grows strong amid clashes with the sea, bandits

These diverse essays investigate political factors behind the rapid development of cartography in Renaissance Europe and its impact on emerging European nations

Alexander Fenton writes on the uses of shellfish as a way of examining the relationship between small-scale and large-scale fishing, and Ian Morrison investigat