The Society is pleased to announce the release of our latest open access e-book: Radar in Scotland 1938-46 by Ian Brown FSAScot, the first published history of the Second World War radar stations in Scotland. 

RAF radar tower at Hillhead, Fraserburgh, re-imagined (© Sue Jane Taylor, original photograph by Ewen Weatherspoon)

With histories of each individual station, this book shows how the radar chain operated, how the radar information was processed and used for the air defence of Scotland, and what it was like to live and work on these mostly very remote sites.

Featuring many unpublished photographs taken during the war, as well as first-hand accounts from servicemen and women who served on these stations, Radar in Scotland 1938-46 gives an accurate account of the early warning and navigational aid stations in Scotland and the vital role they played in the Second World War.

The book opens with a preface by Sq Ldr Mike Dean MBE, highlighting its contribution to research on the history of military technology in the United Kingdom.

Ian Brown is a graduate of the Universities of Stirling and Leicester and has been researching the history of radar in Scotland for more than 30 years. He has written and lectured widely on military and aviation history and works as a curator at the National Museum of Flight in East Lothian.

Read Radar in Scotland 1938-46

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