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Alistair Macdonald is Mackie Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen. David Worthington is Professor of Scottish History and the Head of the Centre for History at UHI, Scotland. He is the author of British and Irish Experiences and Impressions of Central Europe, 1560-1688 (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2012) and Scots in Habsburg Service, 1618-1648 (Brill: Leiden, 2003). He is also editor of The New Coastal History: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond (Palgrave MacMillan: London, 2017) and British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688 (Brill: Leiden, 2009).

• ArticlesThe Integration of the Elite and Wider Communities of the Northern Highlands, 1500–1700: Evidence from Visual CultureThomas BrochardNorthern Maps: Re-negotiating Space and Place in the Northern Isles and Norway in the Eighteenth CenturySilke ReeploegA Forgotten Diaspora: The Children of Enslaved and ‘Free Coloured’ Women and Highland Scots in Guyana Before EmancipationDavid AlstonReportBennachie, the ‘Colony’, Balquhain and Fetternear – Some Archival SourcesColin MillerOpinion PieceCrofting: A Clean SlateSir Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw BtReviewsThe Kings of Alba, c.1000–c.1130.By Alasdair Ross. Pp. xvvii, 245.ISBN: 9781906566159 (pbk).Edinburgh: John Donald, 2011. £20.00.Neil McGuiganThe Stewart Earls of Orkney.By Peter Anderson. Pp. xvii, 343.ISBN: 9781904607465 (pbk).Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2012. £25.00.Ian Peter GrohseBritish and Irish Experiences and Impressions of Central Europe, c.1560–1688.By David Worthington. Pp. xviii, 232.ISBN: 9780754663423 (hbk).Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. £74.00.Martyna MireckaLordship and Power in the North of Scotland: the Noble House of Huntly 1603–1690.By Barry Robertson. Pp. xvii, 221.ISBN: 9781906566340 (pbk).Edinburgh: John Donald, 2011. £25.00.Alexander D. CampbellGoverning Gaeldom: The Scottish Highlands and the Restoration State, 1660–1688.By Allan Kennedy. Pp. xiii, 404.ISBN: 9789004248373 (hbk).Leiden: Brill, 2014. £99.00.David WorthingtonFamine in Scotland. The ‘Ill Years’ of the 1690s.By Karen J. Cullen. Pp. xiv, 218.ISBN: 9780748638871 (hbk).Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. £60.00.Richard W. HoyleFrom An Antique Land. Visual Representations of the Highlands and Islands 1700–1880.By Anne Macleod. Pp. xx, 233.ISBN: 9781906566531 (pbk).Edinburgh: John Donald, 2012. £25.Alastair J. DurieThe Temperance Movement in Aberdeen, Scotland, 1830–1845: ‘Distilled Death and Liquid Damnation’.By Aaron Hoffman. Pp. ix, 585.ISBN: 9780773425828 (hbk).Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2011. £114.95.David BeckinghamScotland's First Oil Boom. The Scottish Shale-Oil Industry, 1851–1914.By John H. McKay. Pp. x, 310.ISBN: 9781906566500 (pbk).Edinburgh: John Donald, 2012. £25.00.Robin MackieA Swedish Field Trip to the Outer Hebrides: In Memory of Sven T. Kjellberg and Olof Hasslöf.Compiled and edited by Alexander Fenton with Mark A. Mulhern. Pp. xv, 110.ISBN: 9781905267651 (hbk).Edinburgh: The European Ethnological Research Centre/National Museums Scotland, 2012. £25.00.Andrew G. NewbyLandscapes of Protest in the Scottish Highlands after 1914: The Later Highland Land Wars.By Iain J. M. Robertson. Pp. x, 256.ISBN: 9781472411372 (hbk).Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2013. £65.00.James HunterBroadcasting Empire. The BBC and the British World, 1922–1970.By Simon J. Potter. Pp. ix, 261.ISBN: 9780199568963 (hbk).Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £63.00.Marjory HarperThe Making of the Modern Scottish Highlands 1939–1965: Withstanding the ‘Colossus of Advancing Materialism’.By John A. Burnett. Pp. 310.ISBN: 9781846822414 (hbk).Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. £50.00.Dr Catriona Mackie