Description
In winter when the nights were fair drawing in and the wind and rain howling outside, there was nothing Scots of yesteryear liked better than to gather round the fire with their pals and tell tales of devils and warlocks and ghosts and ghouls. We don't have a crackling fire for our spooky supernatural special, but we do have Susan Morrison's front room and a posse of historians on the couch to tell us tales of poltergeists, witches, devils and hellfire. Dr Martha McGill has stories about things that go bump in the night in Darkest Leith. Dr Mark Jardine has a tale from Galloway of Covenanting ministers, devils and a bold atheist beggar. Ciaran Jones of Edinburgh University tells us about the servant girl in Irvine who claimed to have raised the Devil and Dr Louise Yeoman revisits the ghastly tale of Major Thomas Weir 'the warlock' and his downfall.
Susan Morrison and Len Pennie explore what it takes to be King in medieval Scotland, where ruthlessness and brutality where qualities at the top of the job description.
Published 01/26/24
Aberdeen is soon getting the Baird Family hospital for Maternity, Neonatal and Reproductive Medicine - but who were the Baird family and why is it named after them? Dr Alison McCall clues in Susan Morrison on Sir Dugald, his wife, Lady May Baird, son Professor David and daughter Dr Joyce Baird....
Published 06/08/23