Or: Red Clydesiders, the Dear Green Place & Sparkling White Snow Great event at this year’s Aye Write! Glasgow Book Festival and the large turnout was all the more impressive given the snow that had been falling all night and continued to fall through the morning. The Dear Green Place turned white. I was...
This year we celebrate the centenary of women over 30 in Britain finally winning the right to vote but what links Red Clydeside & the Scottish (and English) suffragettes? Quite a lot, actually. You can read about the connections in the new paperback edition of When the Clyde Ran Red: A Social History of Red...
Looking forward to speaking about Jacobite men as well as Jacobite women as part of a panel at the Gordon Highlanders Museum in Aberdeen next Monday, 6th November, on the subject of ‘The Scottish Warrior in Commemorations, Museums and Politics.’ This is a free event but booking is required here. Doors open at 5.30,...
On Thursday 12th October, from 18.30 – 20.00 (doors open 18.15), I’ll be one of a panel addressing different aspects of the 1745 Jacobite Rising at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. I’ll be talking about the women I wrote about in Damn’ Rebel Bitches: The Women of the ’45, Arran Johnston will...
On Saturday 30th September, I’ll be in conversation about Damn’ Rebel Bitches: The Women of the ’45 with my friend and colleague Lin Anderson, founder of the Bloody Scotland crime writing festival and award-winning author of the Rhona MacLeod series. The event starts at the NTS visitor centre at Culloden at 1.30 pm, doors...
20th May 2017 at Aviemore Highland Resort, Outlandish UK Gathering Delighted to be speaking to #Outlander fans at their 2017 gathering in the Highlands, organized by @Outlandish_UK. I’m doing two events on Saturday 20th May. In the morning, I’ll be speaking about some of the real people who played their parts in those interesting...
Nairn Bookshop, Friday 17th June 2016 at 7-8.30 pm. I’ll be talking about my writing life and my books, non-fiction and novels. Books will be available for sale on the night and I’ll be delighted to sign them. Free entry and refreshments will be served. Nairn Bookshop 01667 455528 NTS Visitor Centre, Culloden Moor, Saturday...
I’ll be talking about my passion for Jacobites at Waterstones in Glasgow’s Byres Road on Wednesday 13th April at 7.30 pm. For more information, call them on 0141 337 4759....
Saturday 12th March 2016, 2-4 pm. Meet the authors and enjoy a delicious Vintage Tea Party with Maggie Craig and her friend and colleague Aline Templeton, author of the DI Marjory Fleming crime mysteries. The event takes place at the historic Portsoy Salmon Bothy. Tickets including tea and scrumptious goodies cost £10 and are...
I’m delighted to be giving a talk on Jacobite Women at the NTS Visitor Centre at Culloden on Saturday 5th March from 12.30-1.30. This is as part of a day looking at the lives of women in and around the ’45. More details from NTS Culloden Events....