Who grew your jumper?
With 33 million sheep, it can’t be that hard to find a 100% British grown and made jumper. Or can it?
The women’s quarters
History is revealed by crumbling brick courses and corrugated iron poking from willowherb-strewn rubble.
The blessed bramble
Every thorn is picked out, every drupelet of blackberry shines. In Scotland the ‘blessed bramble’ had amazing healing properties.
It is indeed a light in a dark place
The lights have gone on, and off, continuously, at Bell Rock Lighthouse for over 200 years.
Last letters from a forgotten war
‘This has been an experience, alright.’ How recently-discovered letters to a sister in Edinburgh have breathed new life into a young Scottish casualty of the Korean War, which ended 70 years ago this month.
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