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NEW DEATH BC PROJECT LOOKS AT MODERN PREHISTORIC BURIAL TREND

Academics at the University of Glasgow are to look at the modern-day phenomenon of why people wish to be buried like their prehistoric ancestors

Dunkirk Little Ship finds a permanent home

One of only two remaining ‘Dunkirk little ships’ from the World War II operation is to have a permanent home at the heart of a new immersive heritage experience in Dumbarton

SHOT, SHELL AND SPRUE: the material remains of the battle of Glenshiel

Derek Alexander of the National Trust for Scotland reports on archaeological artefacts that help to illustrate the military activity on the Jacobite battlefield of 1719

REMOTE AND RURAL MEMORIES Highland medicine in the mid 19th century

Dr Daisy Cunynghame explores the availability of medical care in the highlands and islands in the mid 1800s when, following the devastation of the potato famine and the clearances, those who remained found themselves vulnerable to the ministrations of unqualified doctors, and many miles from professional care

WALSINGHAM AND THE WITCH ENGLAND’S FAILED ATTEMPT TO PACIFY KING JAMES VI

Against a backdrop of strained Anglo-Scottish relations, Elizabeth I in 1583 sent her spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, on a diplomatic mission to James VI in Scotland –a mission that would prove very far from satisfactory.

‘DOLL’ THOMAS AND HER DAUGHTERS

Dr David Alston tell the story of the remarkable Dorothy ‘Doll’ Thomas, a free black woman whose visit to Glasgow in 1810 caused something of a stir in the ‘second city of empire’

The Return of the King (1341-1346)

In the fourth part of his study of the Second War of Independence, Dr Iain A. MacInnes charts the changing fortunes of the Bruce Scots between the return of David II in 1341 and the disastrous defeat at the battle of Neville’s Cross five years later

A TALE OF TWO STATUES

John Wallace explores the life and legacy of the Boer soldier and politician Deneys Reitz, who maintained an emotional link to Scotland through the work of Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns, as well as through the Royal Scots Fusiliers

Inspir ing Walter Scott

David Forsyth and Dr Anna Groundwater take us on a tour of a new display at National Museum of Scotland that brings together two of his greatest passions – and speak to us of his literary inspiration

Tor House through time

Diana Sproat charts the story of a 19th-century villa that, over more than a century, has served as a country retreat, Balloon Command HQ and convalescent home

Allahakbarries C.C. J.M. Barrie's extraordinary celebrity cricket team

Pitamber Kaushik takes a look at a cricket team assembled by author J.M. Barrie in the years before World War I, that made up for what it lacked in athleticism with its enthusiasm for the game and the impressive literary roll-call of its membership

THE FOUNDATION OF THE EDINBURGH SCHOOL OF ARTS

Dr Ian Cawood takes a look at the foundation, on 16 October 1821, of the Edinburgh School of Arts, a unique institution whose legacy would spread across the globe

WHAT WILL YOU DISCOVER IN THE KIRK SESSION RECORDS?

Following the online release of around one million records to the ScotlandsPeople website, Veronica Schreuder invites us to take a look at how these records can help to piece together how ordinary Scots lived, worked and worshipped over the centuries

LADY OF Swords

FRESH PERSPECTIVES ON THE JACOBITE ERA BY EMERGING VOICES IN SCHOLARSHIP

Cheap print for the reading public

Laura Doak is impressed by Adam Fox’s ground-breaking study of early moder n print culture

Scots in the Spanish Civil War

Edward Andrews enjoys a carefully-researched study of Scotland’s response to the Spanish Civil War

RECENTLY PUBLISHED

Bannockburn and Stirling Bridge: Exploring Scotland’s two greatest

Britain, Europe and the ʻScottish question’

David McVey finds that style distracts from substance in Dan Robinson’s history of the Union

DIARY DATES

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...THE FAMINE OF THE 1690s

History Scotland’s consultant editor, Dr Allan Kennedy, discusses the devastating famine that ravaged Scotland in the 1690s, interpreted by some as divine punishment on the nation for the recent overthrow of James VII

How to trace ancestors who fell on hard times

This month, Ken Nisbet takes a look at the variety of online resources that can help you find out more about ancestors who endured poverty

CULTURE, CRIME AND CELEBRATIONS

Professor Annie Tindley introduces the Perth kirk session books 1577-90, a fascinating resource that allows us to share in the everyday concerns and joys of the townsfolk of 16th-century Perth

FINAL WORD

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