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Mary Katherine Burke

Mary Kathleen Burke

02/12/2008

Mary Kathleen Burke is a distinguished graduate from the school of hard knocks. Having endured the kind of life shattering experiences from which most of us might never recover, she has had the intelligence and the maturity to harness her pain and channel it into music of outstanding quality. It’s given her voice, her musicianship and her songwriting layer upon layer of subtlety and nuance that commands both attention and admiration and ranks her, I think, among the great exponents of the art.

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Old Postcards from Fort William. Scottish Field Magazine
 
The HUnt of the Unicorn

The Hunt of the Unicorn

01/12/2008

In November 2002, SCOTS reported on the beginning of one of the biggest and most ambitious conservation projects in Britain, the restoration of the Royal Palace within Stirling Castle. Six years on we revisited Stirling to discover that a vast amount of truly exceptional work has been carried out, much of it under the more or less constant gaze of the visiting public.

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Craigellachie Hotel on Speyside The Town House Company
 
Celebrating the Written Word

Celebrating the Written Word

01/12/2008

Every now and then, by a freak of nature or circumstance, Scotland yields up some unsuspected treasure: a fossil, a tomb, a relic of a bygone age now almost completely forgotten. Robert Smail’s Printing Works in the sleepy little Border town of Innerleithen is one of those, an industrial time capsule where everything was perfectly preserved and in excellent working order, exactly as it was in the 1800s.

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The Arran Banner The Oban Times
 
Glenfinnan

Glorious Glenfinnan

01/12/2008

At Glenfinnan, Highland grandeur and Highland history come together. Great mountains guard the narrow length of Loch Sheil; their wooded slopes rise steeply from its edge; the scene changes with every change of light. At the head of the loch a narrow strip of land makes a natural stage in the amphitheatre of the hills.

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Eilean Iarmain Hotel on Skye. National Trust for Scotland
 
Out of India

Out of India

01/12/2008

If Henry Noltie ever quits his job as taxonomist at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh I should think Scotland Yard would be more than happy to employ him as a detective. In five years of meticulous investigation Dr Noltie has drawn together the many strands of Robert Wight’s life in Scotland and in India, weaving them all into a seamless, eloquent and beautifully illustrated three-volume tribute to the great botanist.

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Sillycat Media The Campbeltown Courier
 
Harry Bensons Glasgow

Harry Bensons Glasgow

01/12/2008

Even after 44 years in the United States, Harry Benson has lost none of the unmistakeable burr that stamps him as a man born and bred in Glasgow. As one of America’s bestknown photographers he has homes in New York and in Florida and yet he still regards the city on the Clyde as his real home.

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The Argyllshire Advertiser
 
Museum of Scotland

The National Museum of Scotland

01/12/2008

The Royal Museum is a masterpiece of High Victorian architecture. A crystal cathedral of soaring white enamelled cast iron pillars and translucent glass, it was designed by Captain Francis Fowke, who created London’s Royal Albert Hall and the National Gallery in Dublin.

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Lest we Forget

Scottish National War Memorial

24/11/2008

Although the unspeakable carnage of the Western Front was still raging, there was, by 1917, a faint glimmer of hope that “the war to end all wars” might soon be over. Scotland had paid a terrible price. With more than 148,000 dead and many more wounded, the country was in no mood for celebration, still less gloating over the prospect of eventual victory.

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The Great Map

The Great Map

24/11/2008

They were troubled times for the House of Hanover in 1746. Barely 30 years had elapsed since King George I had ascended the British throne and already the vanquished house of Stuart had made three attempts to regain it – in 1715, 1719 and 1745.

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Cutty Sark

Cutty Sark

18/11/2008

Ask anyone who loves the sea and ships to name just one vessel that embodies all the romance and the glory of the great age of sail and the chances are they will, without hesitation, nominate the beautiful Scottish clipper, Cutty Sark. I’m one of them

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