St John Ogilvie
Banffshire-born Jesuit priest, the only Roman Catholic
martyr in Scotland, was hanged for refusing to renounce the supremacy of the
Pope. He was canonised in 1976.
Ancient Legacies
10 Castles Held by the Original Clans. Fortunes rise and fall but these
clans managed to hold on to these castles throughout the generations. Some
of them are even still lived in by the chief! Added this video to our Clans
index page.
Discover Dunans Castle
A Tale of Preservation in the Scottish Highlands
with Charles Dixon-Spain. I added this video to the foot of the Fletcher
page.
Chronicles of the Cumming Club
And Memories of Old Academy Days 1841 - 1846 compiled by Alexander Fergusson,
Lt-Colonel, Historiographer to the club (1887) (pdf)
James
Grant
Added two of his publications to his page,
Cassells's Old and New Edinburgh in three volumes and also The Romance of War in
four volumes.
Arts
and Artisans at Home and Abroad
With Sketches of the Progress of Foreign Manufactures by Jeeingeb C. Symons,
Esq., one of the Assistant Commissioners of the Handloom Inquiry, &c. (1839)
(pdf)
The Scottish Journal of Agriculture
Volume IV (1921)
The
Church in the Highlands
Or the Progress of Evangelical Religion in Gaelic Scotland in 563 - 1843 by John
MacKay, M.A. (1914) (pdf)
Aberdeen
and the Church in the Highlands
by Ian R. MacDonald (2002) (pdf)
The
Tour of Dr Richard Pococke
Lord Bishop of Ossory, through Sutherland and Caithness in 1760 with
Introduction and Notes by Daniel William Kemp (1888) (pdf)
The
Public Worship of Presbyterian Scotland
Historically Treated by Charles Greig M'Crie, Minister at Ayr (1892) (pdf)
A Plan of Communication
between the New and the Old Town of Edinburgh
In the line of the Earthen Mound, and of Building upon that site with the
Observations and Ground-Plans by Alexander Trotter, Esq. of Dreghorn, second
edition, greatly enlarged, with additional plates (1829) (pdf)
A
Treatise on the Breeding, Rearing and Feeding of Cheviot and Black-Faced Sheep
With some account of - and a complete cure for, that fatal malady The Rot
together with observations upon laying out and conducting a Store Farm by a
Lammermuir Farmer, John Fairburn (1823) (pdf)
Old and Rare Scottish Tartans
With Historical Introduction and Descriptive Notices by Donald William Stewart
FSAScot. (1893) (pdf)
Added our Weekly Newsletter for 9th May 2025 which you can read as a
pdf file or in our
Community.
Buchanan,
the Sacred Bard of the Scottish Highlands
His Confessions and His Spiritual Songs rendered into English Verse with his
Letters and a Sketch of his Life by Lachlan MacBean (1919) (pdf)
The Children's Portion
Entertaining, Instructive, and Elevating Stories selected and edited by Robert
W. Shoppell (1895) (pdf)
Scottish Society of
Louisville
Got in their May 2025 newsletter.
Speeches of The Hon. Thomas
Erskine
(Now Lord Erskine) when at the Bar, on subjects connected with The Liberty of
the Press, Against, Constructive Treasons, and on Miscellaneous Subjects,
collected by James Ridgway in four volumes (1813)
Scottish Canals and Waterways
Comprising State Canals, Railway-owned Canals and Present-Day Ship Canal
Schemes by Edwin A. Pratt (1922)
British
Mezzotinters
Edited by Alfred Whitman of the Print Room, British Museum, Thomas Watson, James
Watson and Elizabeth Judkins (1904) (pdf)
Thomas Thomson
Advocate, President of the Bannatyne Club (pdf)
The
Tradegy of Paotingfu
An authentic story of the Lives, Services and Sacrifices of the Presbyterian,
Congregational and China Inland Missionaries who Suffered Martyrdom at Paotingfu,
China, June 30th and July 1, 1900 by Isaac C. Ketler, New York (1902) (pdf)
William Shepherd 1st Collection 1793
Sheet Music from the Highland Music Trust (pdf)
The
Scottish Soldier and Empire, 1854–1902
By Edward M. Spiers (2006) (pdf)
Clan Gregg
Added a page for this name.
Scoto-Celtic
Studies
Essays and Papers by Alex MacBain, M.A., FSAScot. (pdf)
The Myth and the Reality
of the “Men”
Leadership and spirituality in the Northern Highlands, 1800-1850 by David M.M.
Paton, M.A.M.Ed., Ph.D. (pdf)
The Scots Magazine
And Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, being a General Repository of Literature,
History, and Politicd , for 1806 (pdf)
New Lights on Old
Edinburgh
By John Reid (1894) (pdf)
Memoirs of the Rev. William Wilson, A. M.
Minister of the Gospel at Perth, one of the four brethern - the founders of the
Secession Church, and Professor of Theology to the Associate Presbytery; with
Brief Sketches of the State of Religion in Scotland for fifty years immediately
posterior to the Revoluition; including a Circumstantial Account of the Origin
of the Secession By the Rev. Andrew Ferrier, Glasgow (1830) (pdf)
Chapters from the
History of the Free Church of Scotland
By the Rev. Norman I. Walker, D.D. (1895) (pdf)
Added our Weekly Newsletter for 2nd May 2025 which you can read as a
pdf file or in our
Community
Baptism in the Highlands
By Rev. John MacInnes, Ph.D. (pdf)
A
Contribution to the Bibliography of Scottish Topography
By the Late Sir Arthur Mitchell, K.C.B., and C. G. Cash, F.R.S.G.S., Cork. Mem
Hoc. Ant. Scot. in two volumes
Highland Archive
Service
Got a copy of their April 2025 Newsletter
Sketches of
Sutherland Characters
By Alexander MacKay, Treasurer of The Sutherland Association, Edinburgh (1889)
(pdf)
The Road
of Life
A Study of Pilgrim's Journey as far as Vanity Fair by John Kelman, D.D. (1911)
(pdf)
The parishes of medieval Scotland
By Ian B. Cowan (1967) (pdf)
The
Last Duel (1845)
"How Lieut. Hawkey and Capt. Seton quarrelled at Hollingsworth's Rooms, and the
duel that resulted from it." From the Annals of Portsmouth by William S.
Saunders, published in 1880. (pdf)
Clan Munro of Australia Newsletter
Got in their April 2025 newsletter
Report on the Manuscripts
of the Earl of Mar and Kellie
Preserves at Alloa House, N.B. (1904) (pdf)
Report by Thomas
Tucker upon the Settlemt of the Revenues of Excise and Customs in Scotland
THE Work which I present to you as my contribution to the Club, contains some
curious and apparently very authentic information relative to the Trade and
Shipping of Scotland in the year 1656. (pdf)
Disruption Worthies
A Memorial of 1843 with an historical sketch of the Free Church of Scotland from
1843 down to the present time by The Rev. James A. Wylie, L.L.D. (1881) (pdf)
Disruption Worthies of
the Highlands
Another Memorial of 1843 (1877) (pdf)
Added our Weekly Newsletter for 25th April 2025 which you can read as a
pdf file or in our
Community
Diary and Sermons
of the Rev. Alexander MacLeod, Rogart
(Formerly of Uig, Lewis) and a Brief Memoir by the Rev. D. Beaton, Wick (1935)
(pdf)
The MacLeods of Harris - A Talk by Ruari Halford-MacLeod
Added this link to our MacLeod page.
The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture
Vol. VI.
June 1835 — March 1838 includes an article on Canada and the Illinois: A
Tour through North America; together with a Comprehensive View of the Canadas
and United States, as adapted for Agricultural Emigrants. By Patrick Shirreff,
Farmer, Mungoswells, East Lothian. Edinburgh*, (1835) (pdf)
A Treatise on
the Rights and Burdens incident to the Ownership of Lands and other Heritages in
Scotland
By John Rankine, M.A., Advocate (second edition) (1884) (pdf)
The
Farmer's Magazine
Volume the fourteenth (second series) July to December (1846) (pdf)
The Children's Portion
By Alexander MacLeod, D.D. (1884) (pdf)
ScotlandIS "Pivotal" to Future Knowledge
Economy Success, Key Survey Finds
Country's 25-Year-Old Digital Custodian's expertise will be needed significantly
more next quarter of century'. An article by Bill Magee.
High
Adventure
A Narrative of Air Fighting in France By James Norman Hall (1918) (pdf)
Proud Heritage
The Story of the Highland Light Infantry by Lt.-Col. L. B. Oatts, D.S.O. Late
H.L.I. Volume Three (pdf)
Essays of Military Biography
By Charles Cornwallis Chesney, Colonel in the British Army and Lieutenant
Colonel in the Royal Engineers (1874)
1970: Shetland Life
Added this video to the top of our Shetland page.