TALES OF THE OAK

With the help of a wisecracking, steampunk robot, two accidental superheroes discover that they have inherited some amazing, if unusual,...

The endless, trudging march of time sees us once again stare bleary eyed into the uncertain future of a "new year" and "f...

A slightly off topic post from me today, not directly Magic Torch related, but (maybe) of interest to fans of local heritage, folklore a...

Caribbean Treasure Hunters (audio transcript, 1981) Well this all took place some time in the fifties. Fifty five maybe? I was 8 or 9 ...

  Tin Jimmy lives on the Stramashed blog usually , but we're sharing this wee 1950s comic page from Seagull as it shows Jimmy rescu...

Before tabloids, a broadside was a cheap way of printing and distributing (mainly) sensational or salacious stories. You can read loads o...

James Watt's workshop from SCRAN The following was excised from the notebooks of James Watt on grounds of National Security. ...

From Clutha Dreaming proposal by Andy Scott I think I've made my feelings on the pros and cons of public art and sculpture  fairl...

A recently discovered portrait of local archivist, adventurer and folklorist Sir Glen Douglas Rhodes, sometime resident of the Dutch Gab...