Three new galleries will showcase more than 1,500 historic items

FROM THE EDITOR

Welcome to the first History Scotland issue of 2019

Entries invited for The Alasdair Ross prize

The Scottish History Society and History Scotland magazine

Professor Eric Richards remembered

Professor John M.Mackenzie pays tribute to the late Professor Eric Richards, who passed away on 21 September 2018

New research suggests ‘certain and possible examples’ of human sacrifice in Viking Age Britain and Ireland

New research suggests ‘certain and possible examples’

THE RESTORATION OF MONTEATH MAUSOLEUM

David Freeman charts the progress of an ongoing project to restore a magnificent mausoleum built for a fiercely private soldier who went to great lengths to ensure his final resting place would be an imposing building where he could lie in solitary splendour

RETURNING TO CLAN HOMELANDS

This month Neil McLennan visits Inverness and surrounds, using the history of his ancestral clan as a springboard for his explorations

GOLD IN PREHISTORIC SCOTLAND

Dr Alison Sheridan introduces a new joint project to explore what we know – and what we have yet to discover – about early gold use in Britain

Scotland: DEFENDING THE NATION

Christopher Fleet, map curator at National Library of Scotland, presents three very different maps which help tell the story of how the nation has been defended – and threatened – over the centuries

THE ROMAN CAVALRY IN SCOTLAND

John Richardson of the Antonine Guard society describes the history of the Roman cavalry in Scotland

Lazy hussies dreaming by a murmuring brook?

Vanessa Habib goes on a journey to identify the lost linen bleachfields of Scotland

Sky above, Skye below

Investigating an archaeological landscape

Uncovering the house of the Blackfriars in Stirling

Investigations on the outskirts of medieval Stirling discovered the foundations of the medieval dominican friary and the remains of a young man who may have been a friar there

These curs’d rufians’and heir women’ DUNDEE WHALING AND WHALERS

Malcolm Archibald delves into the lives of Dundee’s whaling seamen, a group traditionally reviled as rough and uncouth, but who in fact emerge as hard-working (if also hard-playing) professionals, and moreover as men for whom their relationships with women were of central importance

The Robertsons of Alvie in Van Diemen’s Land

In the opening half of a two-part study, Dr David Taylor tells the story of the Robertsons, a group of brothers from Badenoch who emigrated to Van Diemen’s Land – modern Tasmania – in the early 19th century, hoping to strike it rich as farmers

‘Idly sauntering and lithering about’ The Scots in early modern England. Part 2

Concluding their study of Scottish migrants in early modern England, Professor Keith Brown and Dr Allan Kennedy explore how Scots were received by their English hosts, investigating the nature of anti-Scottish prejudice, how far Scots were able to assimilate into English society and how they dealt with the issue of identity

MARY OF GUELDERS A EUROPEAN QUEEN

In the fourth volume of her ground-breaking study, Dr Amy Hayes considers the queenship of Mary of Guelders, wife of James II and the first Stewart queen from continental Europe, and also the first Scottish consort who managed to exploit her position as the king’s wife to gain a significant political role

In the next issue of history SCOTLAND

Coastal history in Scotland Following on from his appearance

THE MARIAN CIVIL WAR

In the opening instalment of a new series in which he outlines key events and developments in Scottish history, our consultant editor, Dr Allan Kennedy, explores the vicious civil war that convulsed Scotland after the overthrow of Mary Queen of Scots

Conceiving a nation

Neil McGuigan delves into a reappraisal of Scotland’s ‘dark age’, and the literary sources and physical evidence that bring the period to life

When war came to the Hebrides

Anne Rutten explores a study of the sinking of the Tuscania and the Otranto and the effect of these tragedies on the community of Islay

From Robots to Robert Burns

Start the year with something a little different, as

‘A very arduous period’ the Register Houses at war, 1914-1918

For an organisation dedicated to maintaining a large tranche of the nation’s collective memory, it seems strange that the National Records of Scotland has not inherited from its predecessor organisations memorials to all the staff who died in both world wars, writes Dr Tristram Clarke

Girlguiding Scotland Archive

Margaret Grosset introduces this unique archive that covers more than a century of girlguiding history, showing how girl guiding in Scotland has changed over the years, and highlighting the work of some of the movement’s prominent members

EDINBURGH IN SNOW

Our seasonal work of art is a winter painting of the city of Edinburgh, showing familiar landmarks transformed through a powerful use of light and visual signals

Spotlight on… Clyne Heritage Society

Since its inception in 1998, the Clyne Heritage Society’s

The end of the great war

This month, Ken Nisbet shares his top tips for using medical registers and directories to research ancestors who used the services of a hospital or doctor

TREASURES OF THE SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY

Dr Annie Tindley highlights a volume which explores in rich detail the stories of Scots who migrated to America from the mid 17th century to the early 20th century

FINAL WORD

Natasha Ferguson, Project Reveal Lead Inventory Officer at National Trust for Scotland, talks about the Trust’s extensive archaeology collections, which are part of an ongoing project to catalogue and photograph tens of thousands of artefacts held at its sites around the country