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Miscellaneous Articles on Scottish history by Peter Lawrie FSAScot,


  • Articles on the history of Clan Gregor
  • Miscellaneous articles on aspects of Scottish History
  • Articles on Sutherland

  • We dinna gae - an elegy for 2020


    My very brief history of Scotland with a bias towards the Gaelic Highlands

    Èrainn – The language of the Picts?

    The derivation of Hibernia by Jacques Pauwels

    The Irish Scots of Dalriada - or were they?

    Watson's Celtic Placenames of Scotland

    Scottish Castles - Fortifications or Mansions?

    Highland Clothes - did an Englishman invent the kilt?

    A summer walk wearing a plaid from Balquhidder to Glenlyon

    War & the Formation of the Scottish State

    The Castle of Finlarig

    Campbell Boat Building Accounts 1600-1700

    Print Culture in early 19th Century Dundee

    Improvements in Dundee urban fabric after 1871

    Perthshire Ghost stories

    King Arthur at Barry Hill, Alyth



    The Gaelic Songs of Duncan Maclntyre edited by George Calder (1912) - PDF download

    The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer by Alexander MacKenzie

    Highland Superstition - an appendix to the Brahan Seer by Alexander MacKenzie

    The History of the Highland Clearances, by Alexander MacKenzie


    Clans and Clearance by Alwyn Edgar


    The Spelling and Pronunciation of English


    Tartan Day by Dr Michael S. Newton

    The Declaration of Arbroath - a film by Lesley Riddoch and Charlie Stuart

    Scotland's place in Europe by Alec Salmond

    The Scotch, a verminous race, published by Boris Johnson

    It's Scotland's Oil! - The McCrone Report - 1975

    Leslie Evans and Judith Mackinnon by Calton Jock

    What will the world be like after coronavirus? by Simon Mair

    The Sunday Times feature on Coronavirus - 19/4/20

    The corrupt and rotten state of the UK

    The long term benefits of Scottish Independence


    The Bard of the Braes of Balquhidder


    Austin Seven Power

    Morag MacKay MacLeod

    The Lawrie name and my own descent

    Christina, my daughter, and her husband, Marcus, perform Am Muillean dubh