On Thursday 16th June at 7pm, I’ll be in conversation with Dr Arran Johnston at the Battle of Prestonpans Jacobite Museum. This has its home ...

Eilean Donan Castle Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Glenshiel in 1719. Well, it is if we forget the change in the calendar but we’ll ...

The Festival! The Fringe! Street theatre! The Edinburgh Military tattoo and the massed pipes and drums! Glorious sunshine one day, a Biblical ...

(This article was first published in the Summer 2022 edition of The Author, the journal of the Society of Authors.)   Snoopy Cursing the Red Baron   ...

John Cairney as Robert Burns   John Cairney was a charismatic Scottish actor, forever identified with his passionate and powerful portrayal of ...

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The 13th and 14th March sees the anniversary of the devastating Clydebank Blitz of World War 2. Almost 250 bombers of the Nazi German Luftwaffe pounded ...

  Today I’m celebrating the release of the audio book of Storm Tossed Moon, the third volume in my Storm over Scotland series. Like the previous ...