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A Walk in Strathnaver Strathnaver Museum £3.00 |
H2007 Year of Culture: Small book produced as a result of this Project. Incorporates George Gunn`s poem `A Walk in Strathnaver` with pictures produced by Donna Murray to illustrate each verse. Also includes some of the children`s work and photos from Donna`s Taster Craft Event in Bettyhill. |
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Brief History of the Museum Strathnaver Museum £2.00 |
Small booklet giving a brief history of the clearances of Achanlochy and Rossal and the story of the Farr Stone. |
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Crofting Years Francis Thompson £6.95 |
This book about crofting describes a written history spanning the last two centuries. Bloody conflicts and gunboat diplomacy treachery compassion music all figure in the story. |
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Dr Ian Grimble Strathnaver Museum £3.00 |
Small booklet incoporating the information and pictures used in a museum display set up in 2006 about the life of Dr Ian Grimble, Writer/Historian, Radio & TV Producer/Presenter and Co-Founder of Strathnaver Museum. |
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Gloomy Memories Donald Macleod £7.50 |
Gives an eyewitness account of the Highland clearances in Strathnaver. `I was present at the pulling and burning of the house of William Chisolm`. Donald Macleod wrote this letter with those he sent to the Edinburgh Chronicle describing the story of a 100 year old bed-ridden woman being evicted. Seallar`s comment was `damn her the old witch she has lived too long`. |
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Healing Threads Mary Beith £9.99 |
Traces the history of Highland folk medicine from earliest times in Part1; Part 2 gives a directory of remedies, cures and practices. |
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Highland Cattle Galore Una F Cochrane £7.99 |
Celebrates a breed of domestic cattle that evolved alongside the flourishing of ancient man in the once forested shores, glens and mountains of Scotland. |
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History of the Highland Clearances Alexander Mackenzie £9.99 |
An unparalleled record of the events of that time given in the words of a wide variety of witnesses and participants. |
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Homage to Rob Donn Donald Campbell £5.00 |
Selection of poems in broad Scots dialect in homage to Rob Donn the celebrated Gaelic poet. |
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Memories of North and West Sutherland Christopher J Uncles £12.95 |
Pictorial account in black and white of the area. |
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North Sutherland Studies Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group £2.70 |
Notes on Strathnaver Clearances and crofting landscape in Skerray,Sutherland.,Notes on building types and traditions in Tongue & Farr Parishes. Illustrated black & white |
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Patrick Sellar as a Young Man (1801-1810) by G M Fraser £6.10 |
Account of the first 10 years of Sellar’s working life firstly in his father’s law firm then as a farmer in Sutherland. |
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Tales of the North Coast Alan Temperley and the children of Farr Secondary School, Bettyhill £0.00 |
Stories collected in the early 1970’s and told by the pupils of Farr Secondary School, Bettyhill. Tales are based on fact and legend. |
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The Highland Clearances John Prebble £12.99 |
This book is a graphic portrayal of The Highland Clearances and the suffering of a disposed population. The museum holds John Prebble`s original manuscript. |
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The Drove Roads of Scotland A.R.B Haldane £9.99 |
One of the great classics of Scottish History interweaving folklore, social comment and economic history in a fascinating account of Scotland`s droving trade and the routes by which cattle and sheep were brought from every corner of the land to markets in central Scotland. |
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The Northern Highlands Tom Atkinson £6.99 |
Description of area of northern Scotland between Ullapool and Cape Wrath and between Bonar Bridge and John O’ Groats also includes myths and legends and history and poetry. |
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The Story of the Lovat Scouts Michael Leslie Melville £10.99 |
Regiment of Scouts raised by Lord Lovat in 1900, mainly from Highland stalkers. Distinguised in two world wars. |
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The World of Rob Donn Ian Grimble £16.99 |
Stories and poems of Rob Donn one of the last Gaelic Poets born in 1714 |
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Their Past Your Future Strathnaver Museum £5.00 |
DVD: Their Past Your Future Project. Interviews by schoolchildren with local people on their wartime memories |
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