Dùthchas / Mull Place Names
Place name articles in Mull’s ‘Round & About’ monthly print magazine by Alasdair C. MacIlleBhàin (Whyte). Available to buy in local shops.
Mull Museum
Museum, library and archive, Tobermory, Isle of Mull.
Reading the Gaelic Landscape
By John Murray. Insights into place names, landscape history and ecology.
People and Woods in Scotland
Edited by TC Smout. Gives a woodland history in a longer timescale.
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.
The Gaelic Otherworld
John Gregorson Campbell’s folklore collections of superstitions, beliefs and spirituality from the Gàidhealtachd. ed. Ronald Black.
Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power
by Alastair McIntosh
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
By Rebecca Solnit. A powerful and creative reinvention of the traditional Atlas examining the many layers of meaning in one place.
After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture?
By Paul Gilroy
The Scottish Clearances
The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed by T.M. Devine. ‘Takes the reader by the hand through the prickly jungle of clearance and dispossession’
On the Other Side of Sorrow
On the Other Side of Sorrow: Nature and People in the Scottish Highlands by James Hunter. Rich in history and Gaelic songs / poetry.
Plantation Slavery & Land Ownership
Plantation Slavery and Land Ownership in the West Highlands and Islands: Legacies and Lessons – paper and webinar by Iain MacKinnon
Resisting Dismissal
Resisting Dismissal in the Gàidhealtachd – essay on Gael identity by Gordon Camshron (paywall)
On ‘Cultural Darning & Mending’
On ‘Cultural Darning and Mending’: Creative responses to Ceist and Fhearainn / The Land Question in the Gàidhealtachd – essay by Raghnaid Sandilands and Mairi McFadyen (paywall)
Real People in a Real Place
An essay by Iain Crichton Smith
Awakening of the Gaelic Nation
‘The Creation of the Gaelic Society of Inverness and an Awakening of the Gaelic Nation in Scotland in the Late 19th Century’ – talk on Gaelic identity and activist by Iain MacKinnon
The Making Of The Crofting Community
The Making of The Crofting Community by James Hunter. This award winning book is an essential introduction to some of the central themes of Scotland’s history
What Does It Mean To Decolonise?
What does it mean to decolonise? An article by Alessando Petti and Marie-Louise Richards.
Decolonising Your Practice
Top 10 tips to start decolonising your practice. Blog post by Tehmina Goskar / Curatorial Research Centre
Decolonising Glossary
‘Decolonising Glossary’ – document developed by the Curatorial Research Centre
