Dr Arran Paul Johnston
Publications
Books by Arran Johnston
CAPTURING THE CAPITAL: Edinburgh in the Last Jacobite Rising
Pen & Sword, 2027
BEYOND THE BATTLE: the People and Places of the Prestonpans Battlefield
Battle of Prestonpans (1745) Heritage Trust, 2025
THE BATTLES OF BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE: The Young Chevalier at War
Pen & Sword, 2023
"ESSENTIAL AGONY": The Battle of Dunbar 1650
Helion & Company, 2019
"ON GLADSMUIR SHALL THE BATTLE BE!" The Battle of Prestonpans 1745
Helion & Company, 2017
"WHAT WOULDN'T WE DO FOR SCOTLAND?": Tales from the Scotish Diaspora Tapestry
Prestoungrange University Press, 2018
THE SCOTTISH DIASPORA TAPESTRY
Co-editor; Prestoungrange & Cuthill Press, 2014 (Second Edition 2015)
"BLOOD STAIN'D FIELDS" The Battles of East Lothian
Boydell & Brewer, 2013
"VALOUR DOES NOT WAIT! The Rise and Fall of Charles Edward Stuart
Prestoungrange University Press in assoc. with Burke's Peerage & Gentry, 2010
"REBELLIOUS SCOTS TO CRUSH" An Anthology of Literature Relating to the Battle of Prestonpans
Prestoungrange University Press in assoc. with Burke's Peerage & Gentry, 2008
Chapters & Articles
THE SCOTTISH DIASPORA TAPESTRY
in The Modern Scottish Diaspora in the Contemporary World, Edinburgh University Press, 2027
DARNICK 1526
in Battlefield Magazine, Spring 2026
FALKIRK 1746: A WASTED OPPORTUNITY
in The Falkirk Papers, 2025
MAY 1639: THE FIRST SHOTS OF THE CIVIL WARS
in Battlefield Magazine, Summer 2025
THE PRESTONPANS THORNTREE RE-VISITED
in Transactions of the East Lothian Antiquarians & Field Naturalists' Society, Vol XXXIV, 2024
OLD LOCHEND HOUSE: A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION
Co-authored with Jamie Lewis, in Transactions of the East Lothian Antiquarians & Field Naturalists' Society, Vol XXXIV, 2024
BROTHERS IN ARMS: THE 1st and 2nd DUKES OF HAMILTON
in Battlefield Magazine, Spring 2024
THE EDINBURGH UNITS 1745-6
in Rebellious Scots to Crush: Military Responses to the Jacobite Threat, Helion & Co, 2020
THE JACOBITE HIGH COMMAND IN 1745
in Command and Leadership 1721-1815, Helion & Co, 2019
SPOTTISMUIR 1296: THE FIRST BATTLE OF DUNBAR
in Battlefield Magazine, Winter 2018-19
THE BATTLE OF LANGSIDE 1568
in Battlefield Magazine, Summer 2018
THE BATTLE OF ROSLIN 1303
in Battlefield Magazine, Summer 2017
SOLDIERS OF KILLIECRANKIE 1689
in Battlefield Magazine, Summer 2016
CULLODEN 270: Looking back at the battlefields of the '45
in Battlefield Magazine, Spring 2016
HISTORY IN THE MAKING: Community Self-Esteem in Post-Industrial Prestonpans
Co-authored with Dr Gordon Prestoungrange, in Transactions of the East Lothian Field Naturalists and Antiquarians, Vol XXIX, 2023