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Header Slides

Today's header slides are a view of the slight remains of Dunscaith Castle on Skye, said to be the location of the legendary "School for Heroes"; and a view across the River Helmsdale of the village of Helmsdale in Sutherland.

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In Focus

Maggie Wall's Memorial On the north side of the B8062 a little under a mile west of Dunning in Perthshire, a gap in the stone wall and some steps give access to one of Scotland's spookier monuments. This is the memorial to Maggie Wall, who, it says, was burned here in 1657 as a witch. The odd thing is that no-one has ever been able to find out anything about Maggie Wall, and there are a number of issues about the monument itself which are very mysterious. ( More ...)

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On This Day

9 October 1900: The death of John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, the scholar, historian, archaeologist, romantic, mystic, and one of the greatest patrons of the arts in the Victorian era.

9 October 1900: The birth in Edinburgh of Alastair Sim, the actor best known for his character and comedy roles.

9 October 2004: The Queen opens the new Scottish Parliament Building.

10 October 1797: The birth in Edinburgh of Thomas Drummond, an engineer and the inventor of the Drummond Light who worked for the Ordnance Survey of Ireland before becoming a senior administrator in Ireland.

Featured Book

Book Cover Bloody Orkney by Ken Lussey (29 June 2021). Bloody Orkney is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland during World War Two. It’s November 1942. Bob Sutherland, Monique Dubois and the Military Intelligence 11 team fly in to review security in Orkney, home to one of the most important and most heavily defended naval anchorages in the world. But an unidentified body has been found. It becomes clear that powerful men have things they’d rather keep hidden and MI11’s arrival threatens the status quo. Then Bob stumbles over a ghost from his past and things get far too personal.
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Scottish Resources

English Borders Index South Central Index Edinburgh Index Fife Index West Central Index Argyll Index Glasgow & Stirling Index Western Isles Index Western Isles Index West Highlands Index Argyll Index East Lothian Index Angus Index West Central Index South-West Index North Central Index Aberdeenshire Index Sutherland Index Caithness Index Orkney Index Shetland Index