One of the things I’m most passionate in life is education. I am a very proud lifelong learner and love…
Stìomagan agus brèideich: Highland maidens and wives
The painting above, by Alloa-born artist David Allan, is one of my favourite 18th century paintings depicting Scottish people. On…
Britannia is a woman
In 1940 a film entitled Britannia is a Woman was released by Movietone News to be shown in cinemas across…
Scottish women’s history
I have returned to studying this academic year part-time and am catching up on modules I had started last academic…
Temperature scarf & Scottish wool
A few weeks ago I was talking with my husband about the weather in Scotland. It has been a really…
The start of a kilt maker’s journey
My daughter and I have started to learn to make kilts this summer, thanks to Nikki and Amanda at The…
On long covid, lockdown and hope
Winter this year was a particularly horrible one. The weather was abysmal, I had a reoccurrence of what I now…
Catching up
I realise it has been an incredibly long time since I have posted anything on my blog. Like many others,…
The curious case of Alexander MacGibbon and the Old Statistical Account for Parish of Kilmadock or Doune (1798)
This blog post is somewhat different from stuff I usually write about. As we are all at home due to…
Who will play the silver whistle?
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Figure 1:Gillebride as the time-travelling* Gwyllyn the Bard…
Sassenach Stitcher 
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