Escaping government troops by climbing through Knoydart, Bonnie Prince Charlie hid in the very place his father’s troops fought the Battle of Shiel… On that occasion, though, the self-styled James VIII […]
The aftermath of the Battle of Sheil, and implications for Bonnie Prince Charlie in his escape through Knoydart By reason of that battle the great Mackenzie clan’s lands and […]
Tom Weir stops in at a cave of wonder on his trail of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s escape through Knoydart… I had promised our cameraman not just a dark cave, […]
In 1980, Tom wrote a piece for us while filming an episode of Weir’s Way in Bonnie Prince Charlie’s footsteps around Kintail We set out aboard the fishing boat Western Isles […]
The final instalment of Tom Weir’s column To Wild Places covers a day out in the Trossachs and a battle between the acrobats of the air – a peregrine falcon and […]
A Perfect Day on the Cobbler It was an easy walk to the Narnain Boulders and now that we were close in to the corrie floor it needed […]
In September of 1976 Tom Weir caught up with the doyen of Scottish naturalists, Seton Gordon YOU never know who you’ll meet on the Skye ferry. In this case it […]
It was love at first sight for the newest addition to Scotland’s first blogging collaboration When I got the news that I was going to become the newest member […]
I WAS very sorry to miss a visit from my Lancashire friend Stan Bradshaw recently. The note he had slipped through the door told his own story: “Called at […]
Part three of Tom Weir’s column on the crofting life and those who have returned to it I’d like you to meet Mrs Katharine Stewart who wrote a book about crofting in […]
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