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Kilmartin Glen through the eyes of its children

Friday, 14th November, 2008 | Community News, History | None

A recent Kimartin Primary School project had Primary 4 and 5 pupils learning about people who lived in their glen from 7000 BC until the iron age. Their interest in their discoveries bred the notion that they would create their…

Argyll loses energetic Auchindrain Museum curator to Thurso

Thursday, 13th November, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, History, News, People | None

Joanne Howdle, the energetic curator of Auchindrain Township Museum is moving to Thurso. She is to be Curator of a new flagship museum there, Caithness Horizons. It is already all but finished, is currently being fitted out and will open…

Bute and Cowal Councillors attack heritage and conservation stranglehold

Wednesday, 12th November, 2008 | Community News, History, Local Government | None

Bute and Cowal Area Committee have unanimously made a conscious strike against the burden of narrowly framed ‘conservation’ guidelines. They set aside advice from planning and other council officers acting by the guidelines and granted permission for two separate planning…

Two Mull women find unrecorded early Christian chapel above Tobermory

Saturday, 8th November, 2008 | History, News, People | None

Hylda Marsh and Bev Langdon, two amateur historical detectives from Mull, have tracked down ruins at Baliscate above Tobermory which turn out to be an unrecorded early Christian chapel.

Inspired by an open evening in April 2007 run by Scotland’s Rural…

Kilmartin Museum launch of book on Scotland’s oldest surviving law

Tuesday, 4th November, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, Community News, History | None

On Saturday 15th November - at 7.30pm, with wine and nibbles - Kilmartin House Museum is publishing Gilbert Markus’s translation of Scotland’s oldest surviving law - Adomnan;s Law of the Innocents.

Adomnan was Abbot of Iona  and his Law of the…

University of the West of Scotland launches book on Argyll’s Inchmarnock island

Wednesday, 29th October, 2008 | Community News, History | None

The University of the West of Scotland has launched a very interesting and scholarly book written by Dr Christopher Lowe on one of Argyll’s little known islands - Inchmarnock, lying off the west coast of the Isle of Bute.

The book…

Auchindrain Museum to receive plaque recognising national significance

Tuesday, 28th October, 2008 | Community News, History | None

Joanne Howdle, Curator of Auchindrain Township Museum in Mid Argyll and Alison Hay, Chair of the Museum’s Trustees, are to travel to Ayr on 12th November to be presented with a plaque and certificate as evidence of the major recognition…

Poppy Scotland 2008 launches with Scotland’s first thanksgiving for service lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan

Sunday, 26th October, 2008 | Defence, History, News, The Argylls | None

Tomorrow afternoon, 27th October, at the Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling, there will be Scotland’s first ceremony of thanksgiving for the lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan by those in the armed services, including the Argylls. The ceremony, an…

Scotland’s gypsy travellers recognised as distinct ethnic group

Sunday, 26th October, 2008 | History, News | None

Judge Nicol Hosie has ruled that Scotland’s gypsy travellers are a distinct ethnic group with rights as ethnic minorities protected by the 1976 Race Relations Act.

In coming to his decision he heard evidence from Dr Colin Clark from Strathclyde University,…

The Guga Hunters published

Wednesday, 22nd October, 2008 | Community News, History | None

Shetland resident Donald Murray has made a study of the hunting of young gannets for food - from Sulasgeir to Orkney, the Faroes and Iceland. His book, The Guga Hunters, has just been published alongside a pamphlet with his poems…