Athach
Name pronunciation: AH-takh (stress on the first syllable; the second is guttural, like Scottish...
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Category: Bestiary
Alison Rough: One of Edinburgh’s Deadliest Property Investors
Alison Rough (c. 1480 — 3 September 1535) was one of Edinburgh’s most formidable...
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Maggie Dickson: How ‘Hauf-Hangit Maggie’ Survived the Gallows
Maggie Dickson is one of Edinburgh’s most enduring legends, a woman who survived her own...
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St Kilda — landscape, life and lore
St Kilda is an archipelago of wind‑lashed cliffs and empty cottages, remote off the west coast of...
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Deacon Brodie: Edinburgh’s Real-Life Jekyll and Hyde
Deacon Brodie is the name behind one of Edinburgh’s most infamous double lives. Today, his...
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The Battle of Dunkeld: How a Small Covenanter Force Turned the Tide of the First Jacobite Rising
The Battle of Dunkeld was fought on 21 August 1689 in the narrow streets around Dunkeld Cathedral,...
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