Time Travels

Deadly Insults and Decisive Shipwrecks


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Rev Dr Nikki Macdonald on flyting and scolding before the Kirk Sessions - the Scottish church courts - including the amazing range of insults people used. Top up your vocabulary with 'lukenbrowit witch' (having a mono brow!) mensworn dog (perjured) and having the grandgore (syphillis). Early modern Scots could give modern day rappers a run for their money with their disses and burns.

Jeni Park (Hub Project Manager at Unlocking Our Sound Heritage Project, National Library of Scotland) on their sound archive digitisation project

The shipwreck that could have taken the future of Jacobitism with it - Dr Eric Graham and Dr Mark Jardine explain how if the wreck of HMS Gloucester had gone that little bit differently. Scottish History would have changed out of all recognition.

Louise Yeoman on the fate of Jimmy Gilligan a homeless old soldier from 19th century wars who lived in a cave at Caiplie near Cellardyke in the early 20th century which he’d kitted out with a door and a stove and a bed.

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