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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 […]

Walter Scott’s First Letters to and from C.K. Sharpe at Hoddom Castle

 

Thomas Carlyle Portrait

 

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time:the articulate audible voice of the Past,

when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

(Thomas Carlyle)