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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.



 


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