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    Ian Hamilton and Scotland’s Stone of Destiny ..

    Bonjour Marie-Agnes, Janice et Jean-Claude ! 🙂 Hello again from Scotland !

    Is there, I wonder, any more romantic story in all of our country’s modern history than the tale of ‘The Stone’ – how at Christmas 1950 Ian Hamilton (b.1925) and some young friends removed Scotland’s Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey to […]

    September 12th, 2021 |Category: Letters From Scotland, Uncategorized | 5 comments

    Robert Burns : Our Poet at Ellisland Farm, 1788-1791 ..

    Robert Burns : Our Poet at Ellisland Farm, 1788-1791 ..

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    Portrait of Robert Burns by Alexander Nasmyth, 1787, Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

    Bonjour Janice, Marie-Agnes et Jean-Claude. Hello again from Scotland ! 🙂 We do hope that you’re all keeping safe.

    Margaret and I were very happy, Marie-Agnes, to receive a […]

    January 21st, 2021 |Category: Letters From Scotland, Robert Burns, Scottish Writers & Artists Houses | 6 comments

    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 |Category: History, Letters From Scotland | 7 comments

    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 |Category: History, Letters From Scotland | 2 comments

    Jim Clark Remembered ..

     

    Jim Clark memorial sculpture in Kilmany

    Whether or not you are an amateur of Formula I races, you’ll love Iain & Margaret’s last “Letter from Scotland” in which our dear friends tell us about the fascinating story and tragic destiny of Jim Clark, nicknamed “The Flying Scotsman”, one of the greatest motor-racing […]

    January 21st, 2019 |Category: Letters From Scotland | 14 comments
     
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