In 1940, following the German invasion, hundreds of Norwegian refugees – men, women and children – sailed across the North Sea in small fishing boats to seek refuge in Scotland. […]
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The Burghead Riots and the Hopeman Martyrs
2022 marks the 175th Anniversary of events which arose from the catastrophically bad harvest of 1846 when potato blight and failure of the wheat crop led to widespread famine throughout […]
Continue readingA Threshing Day on a Farm in the 1920
In those days all threshing contractors had mills which were pulled on the road by steam engines, and powered by them when working. The engines with which I was familiar […]
Continue readingDr Robert Watson – A Neglected Elgin Radical
On a miserable morning in November 1838, the landlord of the Blue Anchor Tavern, near London Bridge, entered the room where an old Scotsman had taken lodging. The old man […]
Continue readingCaring in 19th Century Forres
The Back to Nature and Humanitarian movements that developed in the 18th and 19th centuries as a reaction to the horrid realities of the Industrial Revolution are usually associated with […]
Continue readingPlace Names and Possible Roman Sites In Moray
It is not to be expected that Roman place names are to be found in Moray At the time of the Romans it is believed that the people here were […]
Continue readingElectricity in the North
RECORD DIFFICULTIES A feature of the public supply of electricity, from its introduction into Britain in the 1880’s until 1971;, has been the doubling of the demand every ten years. […]
Continue readingThe East Grange Mill – A Note on its Primary Machinery
The manuscript map by the Rev. Timothy Pont circa 1590 shows a mill at East Grange but no details of it are known. Some information is available about its form […]
Continue readingKellas Oakwood
The oakwood on the eastern lower slopes of the Hill of the Wangie (MR 15 54) is in the ownership of Mr. R.D. Christie of Kellas House, and has been […]
Continue readingFurther Notes on the Barony of Culbin
In his petition to the Scottish Parliament of 1695 Alexander Kinnaird stated that the best “two pairts” of his estate had been “quyte ruined and destroyed”. It is a splendidly […]
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