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Signs in the sky
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Clouds, mist and rain
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The sky as an “ever-moving map”
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When it really was an ill wind . . .
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The “bare” winds blow the coldest
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The sea and the mountains
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“Here is the Feather Forecast”
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Wind-bags and weather-bugs
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Bats, cats and big toes . . .
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Raising the wind
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The signs of the times . . .
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North wind, cold and flaying
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“A lean cow coming home . . .”
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Sgrìob liath an earraich: the grey track of spring
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Naming the winds of spring
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It's Biters, Sweepers and Whistlers
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An gearran agus an damhag: the cutter and the oxer
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Last of the gusty zoomorphs?
|
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“Between two Beltanes”
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“Be ready to move at the term . . .”
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“Patron saint of the Highlands”
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Fire, water and the St John con
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The star of the shieling
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Yellow month, dog-days and bordertime
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Hands off the ancient Lammas!
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St Maolrubha 1: “Good Ma’ Ruibhe!”
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St Maolrubha: who was he?
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Féill Ròid of the Roaring
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The day of the quern-dust . . .
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The harvest maiden
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The old wife and the crippled goat
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Eleven days to Martinmas
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Old style, new style
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Cha robh Nollaig Mhór gun fheòil
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Boil-Cinn na Nollaig
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Beating the skin
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Blackberries in February
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Old things uncoiling in the earth
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Shrovetide secrets from Rome
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Month of multicoloured weather
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When every waterfall is pregnant
|
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The year of the yellow snow
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The three days of the hogs
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The storm of the Borrowing Days
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The national food of the Highlands
|
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May: first month of summer
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Lochaber’s midsummer saint
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The Spanish Princess
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Songs of the summer
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Following the peat
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Female saints or female sinners?
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Great Marymas of the Clergy
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Summer toil, harvest gold
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When cattle passed for gold
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He imposed a law on the clans
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The honest Highland cowboys
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Hallowe’en: window on the future
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The black badlands of November
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The bend in the river
|
| |
Bare month of colds and coughs
|
| |
Strife with strokes unlimited
|
| |
Kicking up a shinty
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“I spent last night very quiet”
|
| |
Who was Ivor’s daughter?
|
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The great fair of St Brigid
|
| |
Hunger’s a good cook
|
| |
All hands to the shore
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When the sun dances
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Ploughing a lonely furrow
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What a man sows . . .
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At the seaweed-face
|
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The day of the herring
|
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Kelp: the castle’s reward
|
| |
“On another planet”: the herring-girls
|
| |
St Peter’s: a great day for crowdie
|
| |
St Martin’s forty days of rain
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The songs of summer
|
| |
St Angus and his stones
|
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The last of Maolrubha’s brood
|
| |
The ritual of the guga hunt on “Gannet Skerry”
|
| |
The travels of Barra’s crop saint
|
| |
Coan: Skye bridge’s patron saint?
|
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The night of the smearing-pot
|
| |
Muttering darkly and taking stock
|
| |
The songs of winter
|
| |
Andrew: Scotland’s spurious saint
|
| |
Geigean, the king of winter
|
| |
The Gaick Disaster – Part 1
|
| |
The Gaick Disaster – Part 2
|
| |
By God and St Nàile?
|
| |
The patron saint of yuppies?
|
| |
Card, spin and wind . . . wind, spin and card
|
| |
The saintfullest week of the year
|
| |
The week of the hag
|
| |
Songs of spring translated
|
| |
Saints of Eigg and elsewhere
|
| |
All the fun of the fair
|
| |
May – Golden Joytime of St Mary
|
| |
The stern herdsman of Iona
|
| |
Calum’s Fair, Colin’s Fair
|
| |
The sound of the wilderness
|
| |
Shielings: in the bothy of fun
|
| |
The isle of the nine virgins
|
| |
When was the shieling season?
|
| |
What were shielings made of?
|
| |
The old fairs of Skye
|
| |
Cailleach an Dùdain, key to the year?
|
| |
By the light of the Michaelmas moon
|
| |
The dance of The Thorny Croft
|
| |
Hallowe’en: prognostication and chaos
|
| |
The inbetweenness of Hallowe’en
|
| |
All the days of the week
|
| |
Reading the bone – 1
|
| |
Reading the bone – 2
|
| |
Epiphany and Handsel Monday
|
| |
Monday, the key of the week
|
| |
The four that came over
|
| |
The crisis time of the year
|
| |
A look at one man’s March
|
| |
Monday, Tuesday, Monday, Tuesday . . .
|
| |
We die every day . . .
|
| |
Unlucky Wednesday
|
| |
Bubbling to the surface
|
| |
What did you leave behind you?
|
| |
Lucky Thursday – but not always
|
| |
Turning thatch into potatoes
|
| |
“I can theek wi’ any wan thing”
|
| |
The earth mother and the cailleach
|
| |
The first of August
|
| |
The glorious lamp of the poor
|
| |
On the first night of the moon
|
| |
Runrig – dream and reality
|
| |
The moon and the tides
|
| |
The moon, the weather – and MacNeil
|
| |
Bringer of the new month
|
| |
When the dead come to life
|
| |
The month around Hallowe’en
|
| |
The month-names of Coligny
|
| |
Lucky months and borrowed days
|
| |
Sweet influences on the year
|
| |
When was the New Year?
|
| |
Bridging the spring gap
|
| |
Brigid, mother of spring
|
| |
The sighs and the laughter of spring
|
| |
On snakes and MacIvers
|
| |
Patrick of the special powers
|
| |
Life and hope after St Patrick’s
|
| |
Black Humphy of the Hill
|
| |
Humpty the cosmic egg
|
| |
Saturday’s my darling
|
| |
The trouble with Carmina
|
| |
St Ternan: of cows and gods
|
| |
Sixty-six, Humph of the Sticks?
|
| |
Missing presumed killed
|
| |
The old “Sunday Sixties”
|
| |
Sunday sayings, Sabbath sayings
|
| |
Sunday: the Law and the Poem
|
| |
Sunday wood and Sunday water
|
| |
A thousand years of Sundays
|
| |
Sunday rules: ‘Men’ and cows
|
| |
Bearing the Sabbath burden
|
| |
Putting screwnails in it!
|
| |
Classic Sabbath frighteners
|
| |
All the unlucky days
|
| |
Fast-day, wash-day and no-work-day
|
| |
Whose week is it anyway?
|
| |
The three fast-days
|
| |
Watch out for fairies on Friday
|
| |
Journey to the land of no lungs
|
| |
Old Seanchan and all his shenanigans
|
| |
The Tribe of the Horse Goddess
|
| |
A treasure that will never waste
|
| |
The magnificent charm of the Màm
|
| |
Never use iron or count on Friday
|
| |
In search of May-Day wells
|
| |
From the cradle to the grave
|
| |
From amorous sports to playthings
|
| |
In search of the finding
|
| |
What were the signs?
|
| |
The blessed Sunday plant
|
| |
The hard way to heaven
|
| |
The harvest-god and his fair
|
| |
At the end of a month of autumn
|
| |
A Tuesday feast’s for reaping
|
| |
The trinity of Tuesdays
|
| |
King of the three Fridays
|
| |
Friday’s the night for the beauty contest
|
| |
‘What does your flock really believe?’
|
| |
Winter for basketwork
|
| |
God’s books or the Devil’s?
|
| |
Highland leather, Highland shoes
|
| |
Enter dark strangers, bearing gifts
|
| |
A Challainn, buail an craiceann!
|
| |
Let us in, let us in!
|
| |
Blackberries in wolftime
|
| |
The snow and the slipper
|
| |
The night when water turns to wine
|
| |
March winds and Spanish galleons
|
| |
Sating the river goddess
|
| |
The siege engines of Gloucester
|
| |
Fires of Beltane
|
| |
The Princess of Lismore
|
| |
The Thursday Fast Day
|
| |
The Thursday saint and John Smith
|
| |
The Carmina and the stars
|
| |
How the forests were burned
|
| |
The story of the three knots
|
| |
Aimsirean, singularities and Buchan’s Spells
|
| |
Images for making rain
|
| |
Marymas: markets, first fruits and a prophecy
|
| |
Spotted hankies and strong praying
|
| |
The Seeing Detective
|
| |
Listening in to the future
|
| |
The gift of prophecy: big toes and holy fools
|
| |
The patron saint of Western Europe
|
| |
We’ll a’ get up at the first toot
|
| |
Who was the son of the earl of the white banners?
|
| |
Under the sacred mistletoe
|
| |
In search of our oldest fairs
|
| |
The Celtic Olympics
|
| |
On quarterdays and communions
|
| |
Écu, almighty father of great markets
|
| |
The strange story of Sunday markets
|
| |
Wood-sense and raven-black
|
| |
Warband on point, dollars down . . .
|
| |
So the Gaelic for chess is . . .
|
| |
Bells, clogs and whistles
|
| |
Landlords who called themselves saints
|
| |
The fast food of the Gael of old
|
| |
Pigeon that pops in and out of church
|
| |
St John of the Sea
|
| |
Manannan, the god of Man
|
| |
The Bush of John the Baptist
|
| |
Samuel Johnson, LLD, ethnologist extraordinary
|
| |
Crying the Peace of the Fair
|
| |
Joining the dots: the kissing-game
|
| |
Like tulips planted in dung
|
| |
A dinner date at Castle Dounie
|
| |
Where the bridge leaps
|
| |
The loch that never freezes
|
| |
Unfinished underwater business
|
| |
The Féill Éiteachain at Ardgay
|
| |
The little Lourdes of the Islands
|
| |
A Gaelic carol analysed
|
| |
God of the Moon, God of the Sun
|
| |
Domhnall Ruadh’s year in verse
|
| |
A book about Brigid and bears
|
| |
Candle Day in February
|
| |
The eclectic tradition-bearer
|
| |
From seanchas to shoes
|
| |
Who are the MacLeans?
|
| |
All the way from baking to weaving
|
| |
Trees noble and servile
|
| |
Trees sacred and crossed
|
| |
Macpherson’s creative reconstructions
|
| |
The Chief Relic of the Western World
|
| |
The Highland welfare state
|
| |
The prophecies of Calum Cille
|
| |
Columba’s prophecies: a cynical view
|
| |
Power, faith and second sight
|
| |
The Law of Kilmachellaig (1)
|
| |
The Law of Kilmachellaig (2)
|
| |
Welcome, new moon of harvest
|
| |
From the harvest moon to the Milky Way
|
| |
The many names of October
|
| |
The earliest Highland inns
|
| |
The three King’s Houses
|
| |
Inns – the case for and against
|
| |
Innkeepers: the dog’s drooping snout?
|
| |
The spirit of carthannas
|
| |
The Dunkeld Bridge Toll Riots of 1868
|
| |
The eruption of Laki
|
| |
The causes of famine
|
| |
The fixed points of time
|
| |
The threshing, the storm and the standard
|
| |
When it was no sin to plunder
|
| |
Down to the Year of the Black Spring
|
| |
The Year of the White Peas
|
| |
Three decades of disaster
|
| |
The road to apocalypse
|
| |
The Bunbury Incident
|
| |
The coming of the tattie-root
|
| |
The Year of the Black Ugliness
|
| |
Friday the thirteenth
|
| |
Why don’t we walk under a ladder
|
| |
“Your brains the next time!”
|
| |
Why do we salute a person who sneezes?
|
| |
A sinister sort of stick
|
| |
The last of the named years
|
| |
The Uig Flood of 1877
|
| |
The Uig Flood as judgement?
|
| |
The Tara of Scotland
|
| |
The search for common ground
|
| |
The Black Knife with the Bent Handle (1)
|
| |
The Black Knife with the Bent Handle (2)
|
| |
The Rhymer Reconstructed
|
| |
The Rhymer’s Travels
|
| |
The messiah of the Gael
|
| |
How did Thomas become the messiah?
|
| |
A century of coded messages
|
| |
The search for the Sandy Ford
|
| |
What frightened the Port Glasgow women?
|
| |
Gladsmuir that glads us all
|
| |
Thomas’s prophecies (1)
|
| |
Thomas’s prophecies (2)
|
| |
Arthur, Merlin – and Thomas
|
| |
The Once and Future King Thomas?
|
| |
Back to the future: two views of 2000
|
| |
The sacred duty of the Gael
|
| |
The identity business is booming
|
| |
Fleeing the moss-troopers
|
| |
“See how they run, how long will they run?”
|
| |
Just as Peden prophesied
|
| |
The Fixer with Friends in High Places?
|
| |
“That woman with the pirnie plaid”
|
| |
The death and resurrection of Alexander Peden
|
| |
On the sneck of the door
|
| |
“Shame upon the mothers of Lochcarron”
|
| |
The song that killed a man
|
| |
To respond to all the thiggers
|
| |
Thigging and sorning
|
| |
The wool that I collected
|
| |
Cadging all the way there
|
| |
The daddy of all couch potatoes
|
| |
“Butcher-meat – or else”
|
| |
A double dose of blue moons
|
| |
Kisses and cuddles all round
|
| |
The biggest animal in the world?
|
| |
Nessie: water-horse, Cìrean Cròin and loch spirit
|
| |
In the name of the unholy spirit
|
| |
Otherworld messengers of death
|
| |
The Big Beast of Loch Awe
|
| |
Kelpie the Lowland water-horse
|
| |
What does a water-horse look like?
|
| |
The beast that changes shape
|
| |
Water-Horse and Children
|
| |
Water-Horse and Farmer
|
| |
The glittering bridle
|
| |
“I am cold, I am cold”
|
| |
The water-horse’s bridle
|
| |
Willox the Wizard
|
| |
“Bàrdachd nam Beann”
|
| |
How Donnie gave his heart to Mammon
|
| |
Sir Donald, Laird-of-the-Pinnacles
|
| |
The twentieth-century Tìr nan Òg
|
| |
MacCallum’s heart and Lamont’s conscience
|
| |
All my favourite Knock-and-bull stories
|
| |
Christmas shopping, old style
|
| |
What was life like in AD 1000?
|
| |
The beginnings of time
|
| |
“Gregorius Calendarifex”
|
| |
“The 3rd of September the 14th is nam’d”
|
| |
“Whose Calendar but the cursed Campbells’!”
|
| |
The day of the battle of the cocks
|
| |
The noblest day that’s coming or past by
|
| |
All the moveable feasts
|
| |
The Month of the Rising Sun
|
| |
Robin the Hood and his merry men
|
| |
The Lady of Lawers (1))
|
| |
The Lady of Lawers (2)
|
| |
The Lady of Lawers (3)
|
| |
July – and it’s time for Colin’s Fair
|
| |
Longfellow, Wordsworth and Dòmhnall Aonghais Bhàin
|
| |
“Bha, Tha agus Hallaig”
|
| |
Deer’s feet and ceilidh-houses
|
| |
There’s a new fad in MacLean lands
|
| |
Communion forever unbroken?
|
| |
‘Moladh Chabar Féidh’ (1)
|
| |
‘Moladh Chabar Féidh’ (2)
|
| |
‘Moladh Chabar Féidh’ (3)
|
| |
‘Moladh Chabar Féidh’ (4)
|
| |
‘Moladh Chabar Féidh’ (5)
|
| |
‘Moladh Chabar Féidh’ (6)
|
| |
Dressing up at Christmas
|
| |
The Twelve Days of Christmas
|
| |
The silent goddess Tà
|
| |
The minister who loved superstitions
|
| |
My little quern-dust Valentine
|
| |
Pity the Shrovetide cock
|
| |
When each waterfall is pregnant
|
| |
Mothers’ Day and cailleachs fried in butter
|
| |
The trees of Easter Week
|
| |
The flowers of death
|
| |
Breath, Bible, key, sieve and shears
|
| |
A month not to marry in?
|
| |
Whigs and tories
|
| |
Crossing the Barvas River
|
| |
Keep the cat turning!
|
| |
The summons by water
|
| |
The wrapping in the hide
|
| |
The Mull Men’s Ford revisited
|
| |
Make way for Seaforth’s rent!
|
| |
Fuddy Andy Duddy
|
| |
The cat in the Allt Grànd
|
| |
Making fun of Walter’s folk
|
| |
Murdoch Matheson, spin doctor
|
| |
The Robin Hood of the North
|
| |
The bin Laden of the Gael?
|
| |
Her Heart’s Youthful Prize
|
| |
The remarkable Father Rigg
|
| |
Where religion meets superstition
|
| |
Weather, weddings and social control
|
| |
As daft as old Sam Coleridge?
|
| |
The bubbling and steaming of a huge talent
|
| |
Talk of the devil
|
| |
What does the devil look like?
|
| |
The two Easter beetles
|
| |
Why the duck is blessed
|
| |
The little man of the Highlands
|
| |
The eagle of Loch Tréig
|
| |
Barebones and Smasher
|
| |
In search of a mythical owl
|
| |
A game of Chinese whispers
|
| |
Who is Queen Mab?
|
| |
The king of Connacht and his pillow-talk
|
| |
The women behind King Lear
|
| |
Housekeeping, childcare and murder
|
| |
Drink, dreams and gardyloo
|
| |
Codes for violent abuse?
|
| |
The woman who ran with the deer
|
| |
Victims of the powers of darkness
|
| |
How the fairies got into the Bible
|
| |
Changelings or child abuse?
|
| |
Kidnapping women (1)
|
| |
Kidnapping women (2)
|
| |
From Rory Mor’s cup to the fairy flag
|
| |
The reason of the cow’s hide
|
| |
Sniffing the sacred dewlap
|
| |
Bramble berries in the wolftime
|
| |
A smell of honied apples
|
| |
The Ghost of Coilig Ravine
|
| |
The underbelly of history
|
| |
Now you see him, now you don’t
|
| |
Robert Mac Iain Ghiorr from Mull
|
| |
The pursuit through the kyles
|
| |
Praise, dispraise and social control
|
| |
The Dean Swift of the Highlands?
|
| |
The hairs of your head are numbered
|
| |
The knotted black silk handkerchief
|
| |
Stick us a’ in Aberlady
|
| |
John Mackenzie and “the enterprise”
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (1)
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (2)
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (3)
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (4)
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (5)
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (6)
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (7)
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (8)
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (9)
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (10)
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (11)
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (12)
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (13): The Road to Derby
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (14): The Turning Point
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (15): What if . . . ?
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (16): The Long Road Home
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (17): The low road to Falkirk
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (18): The Battle of Falkirk
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (19): The Road to Culloden
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (20): his little kingdom
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (21): Hungry Culloden Moor
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (22): Mackenzie goes out of control
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (23): Strike not the weak
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (24): The Prince’s escape
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (25): Look around you
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (26): The Prince in Lewis
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (27): to Harris, Uist – and St Kilda?
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (28): Corodale
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (29): Enter Flora
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (30): Betty and Flora
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (31): Carmichael’s cloth
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (32): Doing the dishes
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (33): My friends are my enemies
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (34): Ring of fire
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (35): cruadal
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (36): The Seven Men of Glenmoriston
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (37): east into Badenoch
|
| |
Charlie’s Year (38): The Prince sails away
|
| |
The whistling trick
|
| |
The Italian Connection
|
| |
Captain Forrest and the witches
|
| |
The double stigma
|
| |
Talk of witches and revolution
|
| |
The dangers of being poor
|
| |
Nicneven: the witch at the crossroads
|
| |
The “finding” and Father Allan
|
| |
The signs and Father Allan
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Dream signs
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The unlikeable Irish statesman
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The nine kinds of love
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The seven wonders of Scotland
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The bells of Perth
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Seven years and a snooze
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The King of the Cats
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How the Mackintoshes got a roasting
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The cats of Skye
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The Gaelic Whittington (1)
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The Gaelic Whittington (2)
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The curse of Neist (1)
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The curse of Neist (2)
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When waulking is murdering
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Waulking-boards and broomsticks
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The two Captain Forresters
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When the animals speak
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The external soul
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Dargo the mighty
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The Battle of the Birds (1)
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The Battle of the Birds (2)
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Seeing through the cheese
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Minding your P’s and Q’s
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A new old custom: Sowans Friday
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The girl, the hoodie and the comb
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Mermaids, monsters – and little girls
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The brewery of eggshells
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Abandonment
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MacMhuirich and the beast
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Vowing on the swan
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The cave of gold
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Murchadh, Mionachag and the berries
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The Water of Life
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The Green Isle of the Great Deep
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Ròcabarraigh revisited
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The real Green Island
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The search for Brazil (1)
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The search for Brazil (2)
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The search for Brazil (3)
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Why are penguins so called? (1)
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Why are penguins so called? (2)
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Why are penguins so called? (3)
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The Three Soldiers
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The Cabbage Donkey
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The harpless harper
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The cow that ate the piper
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A pig’s dinner at Corry
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The House of the Steep Climb
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The Patagonian giants
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The chattering books of Raasay
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The treasure of Port Elizabeth
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A day to be avoided
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Clans, regiments and a force for good
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The religion of the yellow stick
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The Isle of Mist
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Casting the heart
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The clothing blessing
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Reading the road-signs
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Standing stones: tall tales?
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The last Norsemen in the Isles?
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Standing stones and Norsemen
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The MacAskills of Rubha an Dùnain
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The Dun Hill
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The MacLures of Skye
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The Tale of the White Pet
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The rich brother’s poor mother-in-law
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The Gaelic Christmas
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Happy New Year?
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More mother-in-law trouble
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The King who Wished to Marry his Daughter
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Naming and shaming
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The year of leaping
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All the colours of the rainbow
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What colour is the sea?
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The Bulls’ Stone
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The epitome of a colour
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The feminine principle
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