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BSc
(Hons) PhD OMLJ FIGRS FHEA CBiol QG
Consultant Genealogist and Heraldist, Author, Broadcaster, Lecturer
Shennachie
to the Chief of Durie
Academician,
Académie Internationale de Généalogie
Fulbright
Senior Scottish Studies Scholar, 2015-16
Right
of Audience at the Court of the Lord Lyon
Freeman
and Burgess of the City of Glasgow
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Genealogy
and Heraldry books
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 NOW
AVAILABLE HERE....
Ordinary
of Arms vol III
compiled
by Dr Bruce Durie
Interest
in Scots heraldry is at an all-time peak.
Balfour
Paul's Ordinary of Arms (1903 edition) had some 5,500 entries covering
the 230 years from 1672 to 1902.
Reid
and Wilson's Ordinary volume II Added another 6,000, representing 72
years up to 1973.
Now,
almost another 5,000 Arms were granted or matriculated between
1971 and 2017.
In
addition there is considerable personal fascination with the field, not
least in the many corners of the globe where Scots are to be found.
This
new Ordinary was published to mark the 2022 Lyon Court
celebration of the 350th Anniversary of the Public Register of All Arms
and Bearings in Scotland.
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 NOW
AVAILABLE HERE....
Songs
and Stories of the Jacobite times and the five Jacobite Risings - Words,
music and history -
compiled
by Dr Bruce Durie
The
five Jacobite Risings from 1689 to 1746 produced many songs - some pro-Jacobite,
some Whig, some outright satires, some recounting historical events, and
some spin and fake news.
Many of those now considered “traditional” were composed later,
during the Victorian rediscovery of all things Highland in the 1800s,
long after the events described.
Some were by well-known later poets including Robert Burns, Sir Walter
Scott and James Hogg, "the Ettrick Shepherd". Some have become
corrupted over the years. Some will be familiar, some less so.
These songs
form a crucial part of Scotland’s musical and folk culture, and
deserve to be sung and played today. This short book came out of an
invitation to sing some of these songs and tell the surrounding tales
and histories arising from Scotland during and after the Jacobite era.
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STILL
AVAILABLE HERE....
Your
Scottish-American Ancestry
(Limited Edition)
 Researching
your Scottish ancestry from America, with Family History sources,
musings on aspects of Scottishness, inheritance, migration, land and
maps, heraldry, DNA, hints and tips, and more.
This
book emerged from courses taught at the universities of Strathclyde and
Edinburgh in
Scotland, and
Guelph in
Canada, and from many talks given in
Scotland, the USA and elsewhere.
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Scottish
Genealogy
NEW 4th Ed (2017)
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Understanding
Documents for Genealogy and Local History
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Welsh Genealogy
(2012)
Buy the Paperback
or Kindle
version
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These
books are available from
www.thehistorypress.co.uk
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and at 
www.amazon.co.uk
See the whole list
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and at 
www.amazon.com
See the whole list
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The Retours
of Services of Heirs
- Inquisitionum ad Capellam Domini Regis
Retornatarum, quae in Publicis Archivis Scotiae Adhuc Servantur
Possibly the greatest unused resource for Scottish genealogy and land
inheritance history, these are not widely available and thus are largely
unknown. Essentially, they are abbreviated abstracts of the records of
inheritance, the continuity of heritable possession of land and certain
associated rights and responsibilities.
The original
Retours themselves are often long and complicated, and mostly in Latin, but they
were indexed and abbreviated into the form presented here. The first series of
the Inquiries Retourned to the Chancery of our Lord the King which are Held in
the Archives of Scotland recorded Retours from 1544 to 1699 are presented in
Volumes A and B. The Retours of Services of Heirs 1700-1859 are in Volume C.
There is additional material by Dr. Bruce Durie, including an explanation
and instructions for use in Volume A and a Latin Glossary in Volume B.
READ
THE INTRODUCTION TO THE VOLUMES FOR AN EXPLANATION OF RETOURS AND THEIR USE
The
HERALDIC
CLASSICS series
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J.H.
Stevenson's Heraldry in Scotland (1914)
with a new Introduction by Bruce
Durie
 The
classic treatise on Scots heraldry. It deals with all aspects of
rights to Arms and legal aspects of heraldry in Scotland more
extensively than Innes of Learney's later Scots Heraldry and
follows on from George Seton's 1863 Law and Practice of Heraldry in
Scotland, Nisbet's 1722 A System of Heraldry and McKenzie of
Rosehaugh's 1680 Scotland's Herauldrie.
This book is a recreation
of the 1914 Maclehose edition, with line drawings and illustrations in
black and white.
The colour versions are available for free download here.
Buy
this book here
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The
Comic History of Heraldry by R H Edgar (1878)
with a new Introduction by Bruce
Durie
 This
gem from 1878 puts Heraldry in perspective.
With a new introduction by well-known Genealogist and Heraldist Dr Bruce
Durie,
The Comic History of Heraldry is a timeless classic that deserves
a place on every bookshelf.
Plus…
a mystery solved – who was the original author?
Buy
this book here
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Local
History
Victorian
Crime Fiction
Comic Fantasy - the
End
of All Magick
saga
Buy
The High History of the Holy Quail
(2012)
Volume the first in the
End of All Magick saga
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Buy
The King of
Elfland’s Dafter
or Looney Runes (2016)
Volume the Second in the
End of All Magick saga
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AT
LAST, AND AGAINST ALL ADVICE,
LOGIC, COMMON SENSE OR ANY PRECEPT OF GOOD TASTE....
The National
Elf
or
How to succeed in education without really crying
Volume the
Third in the
End of All Magick saga
Coming in 2024
You can't say you weren't warned!
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