Election Time!

Election Time!

Sir Hugh Paterson, 3rd Baronet & The Elections of 1708-15   By Andrew Colquhoun The loyalties of Sir Hugh Paterson, 3rd Baronet and laird of Bannockburn House, were to the exiled House of Stuart. Politics in early eighteenth-century Scotland was rent by sharp...
Winter’s End & Spring’s Beginning

Winter’s End & Spring’s Beginning

Winter’s End and Spring’s Beginning   This seems to have been a long, dreary winter. For us here, in central Scotland, our photos record some snow and the there were some sunny, frosty days but it is hard to recall them as there has been such a long stretch of...