It is a hard fact that sometimes children don't love their teachers, no matter how lovable they are.  Just read the 'Bash Street...

   The ballad tradition in Scotland in one of the jewels in the national culture and flourised mostly in two areas, the borders and the nor...

   Forthcoming posts on this site will jot down shadier aspects of bygone life associated with religion, such as violence at the Reformatio...

Patrick Paniter was a man of parts, professional cleric and collector of beneficies, courtier and political adviser to King James IV.  Aft...

Forfar as a set of the peripatetic Scottish court in the Middle Ages has definitely been under investigated.  Malcolm Canmore and Queen Ma...

As a modest celebration of this blog's 150th post , I give you a second selection of randomly gathered rhymes from around the county. (...

On the centenary of the granting of votes for women in the United Kingdom it is probably a good time to examined the treatment of women in...