Academic paper ‘The creation of the crofting townships in Tiree’ by Eric Cregeen. Edited by Annie Tindley and published in the Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, Edinburgh University Press, 2015. Courtesty of EUP Blog www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jshs.2015.0153
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Framed, printed map of Scotland showing old place-names, drawn in 1695 by Robert Morden. Includes later hand-written annotations. Originally published in ‘Camden’s Britannia’ 1695, with maps of English Counties and Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
VHS video ‘Sith is Sonas’ (peace and contentment), 1999
Large hardback book ‘Leabhar na Feinne’, 1872. Published collection of heroic Gaelic ballads from the period 1512-1871, presented to Cornaigmore School by James Coates, Paisley, in 1905. James Coates donated many books to Tiree, including The Reading Room’s library (now An Iodhlann). From a collection from Mannal House.
Hardback book ‘From Clan to Regiment – six hundred years in the Hebrides 1400-2000’ by Nicholas MacLean-Bristol, 2007. A history of the MacLeans of Coll by one of their descendents. Signed by the author to Gordon Scott, Tiree, 2012.
Academic paper on ‘A West Highland census of 1779: social and economic trends on the Argyll Estate’, by Eric Cregeen, published in the journal Northern Scotland 5, 2014.
Book ‘The Viking World’ by James Graham-Campbell, 2013. Authoritative update on a previous edition of the same title, based on recent archaeological research, with a new chapter on ships, shipwrights and seamen.
Book ‘The Viking Ship’ by Gareth Williams, 2014. The evolution of the design of the Vikings’ sea-going vessels, their uses and as icons.
Book ‘Vikings!’ by I P Stephenson, 2013. A history of the Viking as warriors.
De-accessioned 21.3.2026.
Collection of 12 academic papers (1984-2013) about Vikings in the Hebrides including information on Norse names in Barra, the Hebrides and the N Atlantic area, Viking silver and gold artefacts, migration to the Inner Hebrides, Norse and Gaelic ancestry by DNA analysis, genetic evidence in Shetland and Orkney, colonization of the N. Atlantic, ethnicity, the Vikings in Gaelic oral tradition.
