Occasionally in the past I have looked at the Lost Houses of Angus , usually those large castles and mansions where the gentry lived. Lost ...

Lintrose House , also known as Todderance , stands a few miles away from Coupar Angus .  Although it has been incorporated into Perthshire ...

As a kind of footnote to my previous post about the songs associated with Dundee ( Dundee Songs...Baffling Meanings? ), here's two exa...

   Superstitions are, by their nature, snapshots of the chaos of the human condition perhaps.  Most have no reason beyond perpetuating fra...

While I take a short (and possibly well-deserved) break from my blogging schedule, can I bring your attention to my recently published boo...

Thomas Hood is not a well remembered figure now, which is a shame because he is one of the more bearable minor English poets of the 19th ...

  This article is a companion piece to the earlier piece  Blood in the Fields and Burghs: Seventeenth Century Violence   and examines wheth...