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Notes about “Old Mortality” by Sir Walter Scott…

When Janice and I made our promise to Sir Walter Scott to read all his books, we certainly did not realise the magnitude of the task 😉 How many books did the great Scottish author write, I could not tell exactly but what I do know is that there are many of them! 😉

Today, […]

March 31st, 2023 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: History, Scottish Writers & Artists Houses, Sir Walter Scott, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Discovering the Scottish Borders: “Peel towers”…

Recently, I came across a very interesting article published by Holly Kirkwood in the magazine Country Life. In this article Holly Kirkwood draws our attention to the so-called “peel-towers”, a type of construction typical of the Scottish Borders. “There are more than 100 peel towers in various states of repair and ruin scattered […]

January 30th, 2023 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Castles, History, Sir Walter Scott | Leave a comment

Who was ‘Don Roberto’? Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore, 1852-1936 ..

Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936)

. “Writer, traveller and adventurer, and with a Spanish grandmother, I nevertheless find Cunninghame Graham’s involvement in politics to have been the most remarkable feature of his life – for he was from a noble Scottish family, yet became the first ever Socialist member of our British […]

June 30th, 2020 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: History, Letters From Scotland | 9 comments

In Memoriam of 13 February 1692: Glencoe Massacre…

In Memoriam of all the villagers of Glencoe who died on 13 February 1692 and in the following days during and after the infamous Glencoe Massacre…

The Massacre of Glencoe took place in Glen Coe in the Highlands of Scotland on 13 February 1692, following the Jacobite uprising of 1689-92. An estimated 30 […]

February 12th, 2020 | Tags: , , , , | Category: History, Mountains | One comment

Dr. Donald Caskie of Islay (1902-1983), the ‘Tartan Pimpernel’ ..

Bonjour Marie-Agnes, Janice et Jean-Claude ! 🙂 Hello again from Scotland ! How are you all today ? . A few weeks ago we saw Remembrance Sunday, which in Britain has now for a hundred years been observed on the second Sunday of November. In recent times though, it has become common also to […]

November 30th, 2019 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: History, Letters From Scotland | 7 comments
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