For Argyll

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…