This Friday the Carmichael Watson Project object catalogue, based on Carmichael's collections at the West Highland Museum and the Natio...

A child losing a tooth is one of life's milestones and along with it comes the tradition of the tooth fairy. In  Carmina Gadelica , Al...

Thousands of pages of undiscovered Gaelic prose – unread for many years, but now brought to light by the National Library of Scotland. The...

In the national census taken on the 2 April 1871, Alexander Carmichael is recorded as living in Trumaisgearraidh Manse in the north-east o...

The mysterious drowning of a seaman as skilful and well-known as Roderick MacPhee clearly gave rise to a whole host of rumours and specula...

The Scottish Place-Name Society conference at Oban last weekend was a real pleasure to attend: the town was looking its best in the early...

Last Sunday the team made their way through beautifully snowy glens to Fort William to carry out a significant piece of work for the project...

It's been a busy few weeks for the team as Phase 4 fever takes holds. The objects which we are cataloguing and researching are held eith...

Eilean Donan Castle From whom Alexander Carmichael got this snippet of information concerning St Donan’s House, South Uist, is not now...