Articles from Tain & District Museum
Hugh Macdonald of Tain writes to his daughter Liz, recalling further memories of his service with the Seaforth Highlanders, the fighting and surrender at St Valery in 1940, his years as a prisoner of war, the long winter march of 1945, and his eventual liberation and return home.
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We’re looking for someone willing to bring passion for heritage and reliability as a trustee at Tain & District Museum and Clan Ross Centre
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Helen Fraser was a Tain-born nurse whose courage under extreme circumstances earned her one of the highest international honours in nursing, the Florence Nightingale Medal.
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In 1750, long after Scotland’s last formal witch trials, men in Obsdale near Alness still turned to blood and blades to “break a spell.” The Presbytery of Tain met in this church to hear how neighbours were dragged from their beds, cut across the face, and forced to swear secrecy at swordpoint. Drawing on their records, this article revisits that night of terror and shows how the belief in “witch-cutting” lingered in Easter Ross into the nineteenth century.
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A question I am often asked in the Clan Ross Centre is: where were the Rosses at Culloden? The answer is not a romantic one. It tells neither of a clan rushing to the aid of a prince nor of a regiment standing firm for the government. Their story is different — but no less important — because it reveals, in unusual detail, the slow unravelling of a clan.
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Notes from my talk at Ardgay during the celebration of the village being part of Sutherland for 50 years.
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The following extract is taken from The Witches of Balnagown: Witch-Hunting in Easter Ross, 1577–1590. It recounts the opening of the 1590 trial of Katherine Ross, Lady Fowlis.
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An article adapted from a talk given at Inver by Jason Ubych on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. They explore the 1943 evacuation of Inver, local military training for Normandy, and personal stories that connect the area directly to D-Day.
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A short ghost story published in the North Star and Farmers Chronicle in November of 1899.
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