The Journal of The Scots Heritage Society 

Published August 2002.

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REGULARS

4 Editorial

6 Letters

8 Letter from Scotland - Preserving Scotland's archaeological heritage

24 Focus on Scotland – Dougie Maclean talks about his Perthshire childhood.  Photography by Malcolm MacGregor

72 SCOTS Genealogy

74 SCOTS Gaelic

82 SCOTS Gardens – Crathes Castle

88 SCOTS Clans – Henderson

90 SCOTS Crafts – Càdadh Clansmen 

96 SCOTS Style – Aran Knitting with Alice Starmore

102 SCOTS Fare – Nick Nairn's Breakfast

106 SCOTS Music – The Birnam Oak

108 SCOTS Music Reviews

110 SCOTS Book Reviews

DIRECTORY

112 Caledonian Calendar

114 Clans and Societies

117 SCOTS Business Directory

FEATURES

10 Shetland

In the first of a series of articles Terry Marsh and Jon Sparks journey to Shetland, the most northerly of all the Scottish islands.

18 The Highland Clearances Memorial

The Scots Heritage Society is proud to be a prime sponsor of The Highland Clearances Memorial Centre, a magnificent sculpture, museum and archive commemorating one of the blackest chapters in Scottish history – the forced removal of tens of thousands of Gaelic-speaking Highlanders and Islanders. Bruce Stannard speaks with Dennis MacLeod, the driving force behind the project.

32 The Honours of Scotland

Charles Burnett and Christopher Tabraham continue the story of the Scottish Crown Jewels and the audacious plan that saved them from Cromwell’s army.

36 The Battle of Culloden

Philip Sked continues his series on Culloden with a graphic account of the disastrous battle in which the British Army finally smashed the Jacobite cause in Scotland.

44 Scotland’s Textile Treasures

Isla Macdonald examines the warp and weft of Scottish history in an interview with  Naomi Tarrant, curator of costume and textiles in the National Museums of Scotland.

52 The Scottish Colourists

Tom Hewlett looks at the life of Francis Cadell the last and, undoubtedly, the most versatile of the famous Scottish Colourists.

56 Art as Science

Angus Urquhart speaks with Mary Mendum, one of Scotland’s best-known and most talented botanical illustrators.

62 Border Country

Sir David and Lady Steel continue our tour of the Scottish Borders with a journey through Liddesdale and Teviotdale. 

66 Gurness and Midhowe

Susan Cromarty explores the great Iron Age brochs of Gurness and Midhowe, the mysterious stone towers which rank among the most spectacular of Orkney’s World Heritage sites.

78 Capercaillie

Scotland’s magnificent Capercaillie is expected to be extinct in less than a decade. Kenny Kortland, Capercaillie Project Officer with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds speaks with Catriona Stuart about the last-ditch attempts to save the King of the Pinewoods.