History Scotland Magazine

Vol.6 No.3 May/June 2006

Contents

FEATURES Piety or Pretext? Scottish Devotion to St Thomas Becket in the Long Fourteenth Century
Michael Penman

The Siege of Edinburgh Castle, 1573
Harry Potter

Sugar for the Brose: Sir Archibald Grant, Jamaica and Agricultural Improvements at Monymusk c.1720-1760. Part 2
James Glass

Stornoway and Scotland at the start of the 20th Century.Part 2.
T.C. Smout

The past, present and future of Scottish History. An interview with Tom Devine
Interviewed by Richard Oram

News features

• Heritage within a Highland Community Forest Dave Sneddon
• The oldest tangible evidence for human settlement in Western Isles?
• Perthshire Archaeology Month
• Govan’s Pearce Institute. Ian R Mitchell
• Anatomy Acts Siobhan McConnachie
• John Murray Archive
• Vision of St Cuthbert