My Favourite Links

A Good Read

Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Scotland by Rev. Charles Cordiner, 1782

Coldbackie in Decline (Northern Times 1934).

Autobiographical Journal of John Macdonald, Schoolmaster and Soldier, 1770-1830

The Story of Island Roan, by John George Mackay.
Life on the now-deserted island near Skerray.

The Highland Clearances.

Statistical Accounts of Scotland, 1790s and 1830s.
Scotland through the eyes of the parish ministers.

A Study of the Poor Roll in A Scottish Highland Parish [Kildonan] 1864-1914

Highland Clothes - or - Did an Englishman invent the Kilt?

Donald Bowie's "Journal of a Traveller"
From Dornoch, Sutherland to Australia in the early 20th century.

The Story of St Ann's (Edinburgh reminiscence group)

Memoirs of Tom Barker, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, World War II)

Bill Bell's Family History