3 February 2012
Norman Drummond, Not Just Visiting
I first met Norman Drummond four years ago when he addressed an Edinburgh headteachers conference. …
3 February 2012
BRIAN KEENAN, I'LL TELL ME MA Book Review
Along with John McCarthy, Brian Keenan spent four and a half years in captivity in…
3 February 2012
MICHAEL FRY, EDINBURGH A HISTORY OF THE CITY Review
Michael Fry, whose previous publication, The Scottish Empire, illustrated Scotland’s role in the British Empire, and…
3 February 2012
IAN COMRIE, SEEDS IN THE WIND book review
Ian Comrie is a West Lothian character. He recently celebrated his 70thbirthday. With his family…
1 February 2012
MARKS FOR GOOD BEHAVIOUR
In my last column I challenged the assertions about school exclusions made by the Scottish…
31 January 2012
MILITARY RECORDS AS GENEALOGICAL EVIDENCE: Robert Taylor, MM and Bar – a Soldier's Tale
A student in my genealogy class brought me a set of military papers relating to…
31 January 2012
THE ENGLISH PATIENT Key subject is ailing as exams fail to address grammar and vocabulary failings
The debate on the quality of English teaching has raged since English became a school…
29 January 2012
Keeping discipline: behaviour management in schools
KEEPING DISCIPLINE By Alex Wood Published in Holyrood Magazine, 16 January 2012 The Scottish Secondary…
29 January 2012
Alexander Marr in Pittengullies, Fornicator
Genealogy confirms Grassic Gibbon’s crie de coeur, “ … daft the journey, but the journeying…
