Issue 121
Summer 2025
Summer 2025
Front Cover
The Magdalen Chapel, Cowgate, Edinburgh.
Photograph by Robin Arnott
See Note 1 The Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society
Contents
The Dragon and the Johnstones
The Oswald & Kirk Session School, Kirkintilloch
Science, Religion, Business and Parenalism - The Crums of Thornliebank, the rise and fall of a family textile firm
A Marriage at Gretna Green
One of the First Americans to Own a Scottish Estate
Note 1: The Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society
Note 2: The City of Glasgow's Pioneering Asylum for the Blind
Note 3: The Rural Remembered
News Feature: Slavery in the Time of Thomas Muir
News Feature: Finlay McKichan and the NTS
News Feature: Rita Cowan, 'Mother of Japanese Whisky'
News Feature: The White House, Craigmillar
News Feature: A World War II Memorial in Bishopbriggs
Each publication also contains Editorial, News Features and Book Reviews