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PUBLISHER: The History Press Ltd

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9780750930789

RRP: £20.00

PAGES: 256

PUBLICATION DATE:
December 4, 2003

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From the Bloody Heart: The Stewarts and the Douglases

Oliver Thomson

In early medieval Scotland bitter rivalry grew up between two immigrant families from Flanders in their struggle for the crown: the Stewarts and the Douglases. From the Bloody Heart covers the period from 1286 to what may be thought of as the “final” defeat of the Stewarts at Culloden in 1745.

Oliver Thomson

Oliver Thomson is the author of Sutton’s The Great Feud: The Campbells and the MacDonalds and Easily Led: A History of Propaganda. He is managing Director of one of Scotland’s largest advertising agencies. His other publications include A History of Sin.

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