Birlinn Origin

As the most advanced frontier construction of its time, and as definitive evidence of...

This is an extraordinary collection of tales from one of the very greatest Gaelic...

The Clearances are well known as one of the darkest periods of Highland history. Over a...

Written by a man who has gone on to become both an award-winning historian of the...

Knoydart - the northern edge of the 'Rough Bounds' is one of the most evocative names...

Trains and stagecoaches stuck in the snow, wild storms driving sailing ships off...

Highland Folk Ways vividly describes the many aspects and artefacts of our ancestors...

In 1938 John Lorne Campbell bought the Hebridean isle of Canna. He wanted to prevent it...

In 'Hebridean Sharker' Tex Geddes describes his exploits during the 1950s as a hunter...

In Islay's history, there are no convincing records of the Vikings ever having been...

For nearly forty years John Wilson travelled the length and breadth of Scotland as a...

In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son...