Interview: Stuart Laing and Alison J. Butler The Hanging of Margaret Dickson April 2015 Book of the Month Award It is my very gre...

The Hanging of Margaret Dickson by Alison J. Butler Reviewed by Stuart S. Laing I approached this story thinking I knew the r...

Hogmanay fireworks above Edinburgh Castle A freezing sleet swept over the city of Edinburgh, chilling the frozen people of the city a...

Anchorage, Alaska: Tent City in the run up to Christmas 1916~~Lisl (From the Great Land series) Simon Stirling writes ...Where do y...

Captain Burnet Rises to the Challenge~~ Jayne adds in today that she chose this post because it involves Edinburgh, her favorite British...

A Riotous Affair~ I love this post by author Stuart S Laing because it reminds me of one of my favourite highwaymen films, Plunkett and...

When asked what my favourite book is these days I would have to confess that I don't actually have any single book which I would claim...

Edinburgh has had many notorious criminals through the centuries; some achieve a sort of immortality by having pubs named after them such ...