Mary Withall: 3 books

When Patrick Gillies graduated from the University of Edinburgh’s distinguished school of medicine with honours in 1890, a high profilecareer as a surgeon lay ahead of him. Any city across the world would have welcomed him, and his university mentors, including the famousJoseph Lister, urged him...

The Slate Islands lie off the west coast of Argyll. Slate has been taken from these shores from their earliest recorded history and the richness and quality of the deposits meant that in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries slate quarrying was one of the most important industries in Scotland. The...

The year is 1843 and after the Disruption in the Church of Scotland James Bantrie finds himself dismissed from his comfortable life, like many dissident clergy members, and obliged to seek employment elsewhere. James and his family move to a small parish on the island of Orchy off the Argyll coast...