The swarm
How the small-but-mighty midges stopped a train They have cut short many a walk, the midges, but did you know that they also stopped a […]
Heritage
Pictish place names
Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history and origins of place names around our area The consensus amongst scholars is that Pictish is a
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Second World War pillboxes
Eighty years ago, in 1940/41 more than 30 anti- invasion concrete structures were built around the Kyle of Sutherland and the Dornoch firth. These were
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Lord Mac Haw Haw
Few Scots ever admitted to listening to German propaganda radio broadcasts during the Second World War. A fewer still realized that the original Lord Haw
Wartime memories
We reproduce here some poignant first person accounts on everyday life during wartime. Taken from Sarah Horne’s Bonar Bridge booklets, printed in the year 2000.
Why research your family history?
Lairg & District Learning Centre launches new Family History course Researching your family history can be an exciting, frustrating and surprising pastime. You can preserve
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Dog, fox or wolf?
Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history and origins of place-names around our area In Gaelic cù means ‘dog’ while the word madadh may
Rosehall links with slavery
In Guyana’s Berbice region, a handful of interrelated families from the north Highlands were the first to build sugar-cane plantations.
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Brothers in arms
Two world wars. Two war memorials. Two sets of siblings. Two Highland families: The Gordons and The Macleans.
Pat, the Irishman
W. A. M. MacKenzie remembers this local character and his horses, two big working Clydesdales used for clearing timber from the nearby forest