Most people have heard of Burke and Hare and their nefarious way of ensuring that the best corpses were provided for the keen medical anato...

  This article details some information about the naval press gangs which were a real and feared feature of coastal communities for many ge...

 There is a forlorness to lost places which lingers long after they have vanished, though traditions can be left behind. Newmans Walls House...

   As is the way with this blog, continuations of previous posts often take an extremely long time since the previous parts.  Fairs and Mark...

 Like many other posts, this is a hotch-potch of information very loosely tied by a single theme (more often than not tied up with a shoogly...

 The case of Mary Elder, tried for murder of her servant Margaret Warren, has been summerised in many places in the nearly two centuries sin...

What connects Bob Dylan and the Ancient City, Brechin? The correct answer is, of course, nothing. Nothing, directly that is. Despite having...