The historic mapping available through the National Library of Scotland is a fabulous resource for anyone interested in landscape history and placenames.
Place name articles in Mull’s ‘Round & About’ monthly print magazine by Alasdair C. MacIlleBhàin (Whyte). Available to buy in local shops.
TOPICS
- Culture, Duthchas, Gaelic Language, Heritage, History, Isle Of Mull, Place
TOPICS
- Clearances, Culture, Heritage, History, Isle Of Mull, Maps, Place, Scottish Islands
Reading the Gaelic Landscape
By John Murray. Insights into place names, landscape history and ecology.
TOPICS
- Heritage, Highlands, History, Place, Scottish Islands
People and Woods in Scotland
Edited by TC Smout. Gives a woodland history in a longer timescale.
TOPICS
- Heritage, Highlands, History, Land, Land Ownership, Maps, Scotland, Scottish Islands, Woodlands
A History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland
A history of the native woodlands of Scotland, 1500-1920 by TC Smout, AR MacDonald & F Watson. A great overview of how we’ve lived with woodlands over the last several hundred years.
TOPICS
- Highlands, History, Land, Land Ownership, Maps, Place, Scotland, Scottish Islands, Woodlands
The Gaelic Otherworld
John Gregorson Campbell’s folklore collections of superstitions, beliefs and spirituality from the Gàidhealtachd. ed. Ronald Black.
TOPICS
- Culture, Duthchas, Gaelic Identity, Heritage, Highlands, History, Place, Scottish Islands
A Handbook of the Scottish Gaelic World
By Michael Newton. Out of print and hard to come by outside academic libraries but well worth seeking out
TOPICS
- Gaelic Identity, Heritage, Highlands, Place, Scottish Islands
Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power
By Alastair McIntosh
TOPICS
- Clearances, Decolonization, Gaelic Identity, Heritage, Highlands, History, Land Ownership, Place, Scottish Islands
