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The Men Who Came to Take Lewis

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In 1598, James VI granted a group of Lowland landowners sweeping rights over Lewis. They came with soldiers, craftsmen and plans for a plantation. The island already had inhabitants, its own rulers

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Prince Harry and the Difficulty Of Coming Back After A Grand Exit

I first heard that Prince Harry was coming back on the village WhatsApp group. At 7.36 on Thursday morning, Morag posted: PRINCE HARRY IS COMING HOME. There were no details. This was immediately a problem. Effie replied: To Scotland? Morag said: Britain. Elspeth: For good? Morag: Apparently. Agnes: Has he still got a house? Nobody knew. Then Jean, who has an admirable instinct for the practical difficulty hidden inside every international event, wrote: He’ll need a kettle. American ones are different. I had not yet had breakfast. I put my phone face down and made tea. The reports, when I

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The Working Gardens of Scotland

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There is a particular dignity in the working gardens of Scotland, one that has nothing to do with ornament and everything to do with endurance. It was never designed to impress. It was arranged to feed. In the crofts of the Highlands, the small plots of the Lowlands, and the narrow strips behind cottages and tenements, a quiet system took shape over generations — one that understood climate, season, and necessity with remarkable precision. These were gardens of function, where potatoes, cabbages, carrots, onions, and beans formed the backbone of daily life. Each plant was chosen not for novelty, but
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Nobody Move: He’s Calling Edinburgh

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There is a particular sort of patience required on a Highland single-track road in August. Mr Gunn possesses it, although I should say there are limits. We were on our way to the ironmonger, a perfectly ordinary journey which should have taken perhaps twenty minutes, when we came round a bend and found a motorhome directly in front of us, with what appeared to be most of western Europe parked behind it. It was not one of the modest little campervans you occasionally see tucked neatly beside a loch, but a tremendous white vehicle with bicycles on the back, curtains
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Scottish Brick History

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The Roman occupation of Scotland in first century AD brought brick-making skills to the Scots. Before the industrial revolution all bricks in Scotland were moulded by hand, a long process which began with the excavation of clay in autumn and ended the following summer when the bricks were fired in small kilns. One of the first industrial buildings to be built from bricks in Scotland was Stanley Mills in Perthshire, followed shortly after by numerous cotton mills in Glasgow. The Scottish Brick History website is a growing index of brickmarks, the distinct markings that identify where bricks were produced. These