Is there something odd about Brechin? No, obviously not. But is there something supernaturally strange about the burgh? Maybe. I only ask ...

   To look back on Dundee's whale fishing industry is to wipe away the soot from a dirty window and peer in at a long gone where where...

  This is the third part of John Ochterlony's Account of the Shire of Forfar, written around 1682, and gives a fascinating, if brief and...

Few people know much about the noble title of Spynie or those who bore that name. There were several Lord Spynie's in the late 16th and...

 Those among us who are not overly fond of hearing about orgies may not be pleased with further information about the notorious sexualised b...

   T his post is an expansion on several previous pieces I wrote concerning the Angus family of  Deuchar , who long inhabited the place of t...

  A subject I have returned to several times during the lifetime of this blog is the unresolved question of how Irish was the region now kno...