Folklore terror on the Scottish seas
Poetry duels, pagan beer rituals and playing with storms – the unique folklore legend of the Blue Men of the Minch, with a sideways look at their urban gangster cousins.
George Scott: empire, football and Burma
How the British Empire occupied the remote highlands of Burma (Myanmar) through football, jokes and an indomitable imperialist.
Exploring Glasgow’s tunnels and abandoned ghost stations
The defunct Glasgow Central Railway line left behind a trail of stations, tunnels, shafts, cuttings and bridges throughout west Glasgow: a playground for children and gallery for graffiti artists.
Hinterland: St Peter’s Seminary ruins revisited
The brutalist religious ruins transformed into a mesmerising sound and light show.
Glasgow-London: two cities, two stones and a lot of myths
A cycle ride to the outer edges of Glasgow finds stones, myths, floating saints, plane twitchers and echoes of one of London’s strangest landmarks.
A Journey Elsewhere: City Life on the Yangon Circular Railway
Yangon: an account of a slow and fascinating train journey through an extraordinary city is published in Elsewhere: A Journal of Place.
Dickens: the frozen dead and a macabre Swiss mortuary
Dickens is the master of London writing but a grisly and compelling scene in Little Dorrit was inspired by his travels in the Swiss Alps.
Path of memories: we buy rubbish, we sell antiques
Unpeeling the layers of history in east Glasgow; a path of music and art; and a character who opened a massage parlour called Sheik-Ma-Tadger.
