Sometimes we get things wrong. The rectangle pictured here, from fo.15 of notebook CW111 and referring to a site in the Isle of Barra, loo...

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...

Last year we wrote a blog about Catherine Pearson or MacPherson (c. 1813–80) who had been prevailed upon by Alexander Carmichael in 1870 ...

Alexander Carmichael’s Carmina Gadelica is one of the principal sources for information about the bean-tuiream : the mourning woman or profe...

Breivig, Barra / Brèibhig, Barraigh An interesting bit of lore picked up Alexander Carmichael from the recitation of a blacksmith call...