Past Times journalist for DC Thomson Group. Loving digging up the past after many years in news and current affairs.
The Black Rood: Where is the lost Crown Jewel of Scotland?
January 19 2023
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Mystery plaid donated to Glenesk Museum is older and rarer than first thought
January 17 2023
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International Cat Day: Celebrating the unbeatable Towser of Glenturret Distillery
August 8 2022
R W Thomson: Celebrating Stonehaven’s visionary inventor of the pneumatic tyre
June 29 2022
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1980s fashion – was there ever a Stranger Thing?
May 9 2022
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Screen-Free Week: get back in shape with an old-fashioned hop, skip and jump
May 2 2022
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VIDEO: Late Dundee man’s model railway now a museum exhibit and a fine testament to his skill
April 21 2022
From pariah to gay icon to pariah again — how one Stonehaven emigrant is remembered in Canada
April 18 2022
Falklands 40th anniversary: Veteran Arbroath Marine regrets erosion of hard-won freedoms
April 4 2022
UK inflation: Britons were also being hit in the pocket 50 years ago
March 3 2022
Blairgowrie man Jack Stitt was a Gordon Highlander who refused to let the Death Railway defeat him
January 25 2022
Charles Alexander: Legendary north-east truck yard forged a place in workers’ hearts
January 14 2022
10 years since Skyfall: Celebrating James Bond’s Scots heritage
January 12 2022
Forfar poisoning: A tale of forbidden lovers, murder and a drunk jury
January 11 2022
New Year’s Day TV or a nap? It’s hard to tell the difference
January 1 2022
Andy Stewart: How the Red Lichtie was the king of Hogmanay TV
December 30 2021
Harry Potter reunion: How the Highlands shaped iconic moments in the Potter movies
December 29 2021
Half a century of Christmas TV – is it better or worse now?
December 22 2021
JK Rowling: Why boy wizard Harry Potter and Arbroath will forever be linked
December 17 2021
The Scots detective who hunted Jack The Ripper through Victorian London
November 16 2021
James Young: The confectioner who treated Victorian Dundee to a truck-size Christmas cake
November 15 2021
Culloden battlefield yields more of its deadly secrets during archaeological dig
November 3 2021
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Making a killing: Hollywood circling bloody tale of mutiny and murder with links to Dundee
November 1 2021
Horrified family discovers grandfather was baby killer who served time in Perth prison
October 27 2021
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