The Journal of The Scots Heritage Society 

Published November 2006.

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REGULARS

4       Editorial

6       Letters to the Editor

8       SCOTS Q & A - find the answers to those elusive questions.

106   SCOTS Fare – Shirley Spear offers some special occasion dishes.

110   SCOTS Music – Pete Clark's latest album. 

112   SCOTS Music Reviews - Pete Clark  

114   SCOTS Book Reviews - Seumas MacLeod  

117   Clans and Societies

122   SCOTS SHOWCASE

FEATURES

10  HARRY BENSON - A LIFE IN PICTURES

Harry Benson is one of the world's most famous photojournalists.  Over five decades his work has produced a series of emblematic era-defining images which are among the highlights of a major exhibition at Scotland's National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. 

18 THE REIVER TRAIL

If your family name is Armstrong, Beattie, Bell, Crosier, Douglas, Graham, Hepburn, Home, Irvine, Jardine, Johnstone, Kerr, Little, Maxwell, Moffatt, Nixon, Oliver, Rutherford, Scott or Turnbull then you're linked to some of the most colourful characters in Scottish history, the Border Reivers.  

22 THE FEMALE FACTOR

Mansfield Estates, one of the largest landowners in Perthshire, have appointed 33 yea old Suzanne Urquhart as Chief Executive, a role in which she manages 30,000 acres of forests and farmlands. 

38  SCOTLAND'S CASTLES 

Christopher Tabraham continues his series in the castles of Scotland. 

48  FAMILY TREE 

DNA, the unique genetic code which each of us carries, is the latest tool in genealogy and its one which is yielding extraordinary results in the scientific search for our ancestors. 

50  THE MORAR HIGHLANDS

Beyond Fort William, on the road to the isles, lies "highlands of the Highlands", and centre of the Rough Bounds, that wild and desolate, but uniquely beautiful part of Scotland which was once the homeland of the MacDonalds of Clanranald. 

58  IN FLANDERS FIELDS

Remembrance Day marks the end of one of the worst conflicts the world has ever known.  In Edinburgh, Angus Urquhart spoke with Stuart Allan, curator of the Scottish National War Memorial. 

64  CLYDEBUILT 

The Clyde Room at the Museum of Transport in Glasgow's Kelvin Hall is an Alladin's Cave of treasures for anyone fascinated by the history of the River Clyde.

70  ARGYLL

Argyll, the enduring heart of Gaelic Scotland, is as rich in history as it is spectacularly beautiful. 

78   NEW LANARK

The beautifully built mill buildings and stone tenements of New Lanark once housed a unique community of workers and remains a fitting tribute to its founder David Dale, and the enlightened vision of his successor, Robert Owen. 

86  CALUM'S ROAD

Calum MacLeod laboured alone and unassisted for more than 20 years to build a road which he hoped would stem the tide of departures from the island of Rasaay.