My Highland House of Memories app

Added on 30 January 2019

I really had fun working with Lorna Cruickshank and Alison Parfitt from High Life Highland to source and write about the contents for the My Highland House of Memories projectHouse of Memories is a unique museum-led dementia awareness programme created by National Museums Liverpool. The app is desi...

Raining's Stairs

Added on 24 August 2018

I very much enjoyed the chance to work with designer and photographer Iain Sarjeant again, when he asked me to research and write this panel for Raining's Stairs in Inverness. John Raining was born in Dumfries in 1659. He married Frances, had two children, became a successful merchant in Norwic...

Well, well what have we here?

Added on 24 August 2017

And the answer - as far as we can tell - is a well, dating from the 1200s, and unnusual in having steps down the well itself. After the community excavation had finished it was decided to leave the well open, to give people a flavour of some of the evidence we'd uncovered. I was asked by the C...