IN my recent series on the ancient history of Scottish towns, I named St Andrews as the most famous town in Scotland worldwide, more so even than Paisley or Ayr or Lanark, my logic being that because it is the Home of Golf, the name of St Andrews is known by more people across the globe than any other Scottish town.
IN this final column of a three-part series to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the writer Eric Linklater, I will start by asking what might have happened to him and the cause of Scottish nationalism if he had been successful in standing as a parliamentary candidate for the National Party of Scotland (NPS), forerunner of the SNP.
IN researching the history of Scotland’s most important villages, I have been constantly surprised to discover that at some time in their history, many were expected to develop into towns and did not do so for a variety of reasons
IN this second of a three-part series on the life and career of Eric Linklater – the 50th anniversary of whose death took place on Thursday – this week I will be concentrating on his writing but next week I will be speculating as to what might have happened to him and the cause of Scottish nationalism if he had just been a tad more successful in standing as a candidate for the National Party of Scotland, forerunner of the SNP ...
THE trouble with asking readers to suggest ideas to include in these columns is that they come up with some very good ones ...
THIS week sees the 50th anniversary of the death of Eric Linklater, one of Scotland’s finest writers – a poet, historian, and briefly a politician who was a parliamentary candidate for the National Party of Scotland, forerunner of the SNP. He was also a soldier who had a brush with death as you will see below ...
IN this second of three columns on the ancient history of our nation’s most important villages, today I will be writing about the village I consider to be the most important of them all. In terms of Scotland’s past, surely no village has been the scene of more historic events than Falkland in Fife.
IN this final part of a trilogy on Robert Fergusson, the poet who famously inspired Robert Burns, I am going to chart his tragic decline and early death and show why he is worthy of appreciation ...
UNLIKE so many other countries, the majority of the people of Scotland do not live in our eight cities but in towns, villages and smaller settlements ...
THIS is the second of a three-part short series on the life, career and legacy of Robert Fergusson (1750-1774) one of Scotland’s finest and most underrated poets...
