Blackie’s Girls’ Annual (undated), c. 1920–1921
J. Dewar cover
includes “A Winter in Tiree” by Isobel Hutchison pp31-36 (full article here)
2026.17.1
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2026.16.1
Magazine article about Léonard Revilliod of 518 Squadron, Tiree, in Czech aviation magazine REVI
Tragická srážka nad Hebridami Ing. Pavel Vančata REVI č. 153/2026
PDF copy held at An iodhlann. Copyright material. Not available on our website.
2026.15.2
Paperback book:
Green Letters, Studies in Ecocriticism Volume 19 Number 1 February 2015
Special Issue: Literature and Sustainability
containing an essay by Dr William Welstead, Baugh. pp75-88:
The role of culture in the sustainable use of a “cultural landscape”: a case study from the Hebridean machair
This article explores the interrelationship between landscapes and culture. Taking as its focus the distinctive machair landscapes of western Scotland and Ireland, this study argues that continuing concern for the sustainable use of this landscape is fostered by its celebration in poetry and song and that, in turn, this literary culture depends on traditional ways of farming this fragile landscape. The blown shell sands of the machair plains are rich in calcium carbonate which contributes to its fertility and to the biodiversity of its flora. This article reviews how the machair landscape has been praised in traditional songs and how contemporary poetry functions as a vehicle for the transmission of cultural knowledge and values. It also considers how machair has become an “index” for Scottish Gaelic culture.
2026.13.1
A PDF copy of a magazine article from Social Work Today Vol 22 No 46 August 1 1991
A feature about Social work assistant, Ian MacKinnon
Published here as Ian, but elsewhere on our website Iain MacKinnon Iain Hillcrest (1954 – 2021)
2026.12.1
Partick Thistle matchday programme “Thistle” 2026 Issue 18
Containing photograph and feature on Johnny MacKenzie “the Firhill Flyer”, of Caoles and his part in the Scotland football team in 1954. Page 23
2025.54.2
From a collection of two signed RAF Mess Christmas Dinner menus
Menu – 5751 M & G Construction Flight, RAF Hong Kong. Victory Christmas, 25th December 1945. Signed on the reverse, including, ” SGT MARSHALL (owner of Kilkenneth Naafi)”
2025.54.1
From a collection of two signed RAF Mess Christmas Dinner menus
Menu – Christmas 1943 Dinner. RAF Station, Ben Hough, Isle of Tiree. Signed on the reverse.
2025.51.1
Papers compiled by Grant Farquharson about his grandfather, Captain Donald Archibald MacCallum 1884 – 1941, born Kilmoluaig, Tiree. Donald Archibald is pictured above (right, as first officer) onboard the SS Huntsman with the captain and a dog which they rescued from the Delfina.
Notes include rescue of crew of the Spanish ship Delfina in 1928 by the crew of SS Huntsman of which Donald Archibald was chief officer. See 2010.77.2
There is an account of Donald Archibald’s wartime experiences including as captain of SS Designer when hit by a torpedo, sinking in six minutes. Out of 78 men onboard, Donald and 66 of his men were lost.
Award of two medals: The Emile Robin Medal from the Shipwrecked Fishermen & Mariners Royal Benevolent Society, The Liverpool Shipwrecked Humane Society.
Photocopied photographs of the medals, the SS Huntsman, its captain and Donald Archibald and rescued dog (see photo above). Donald Archibald with his wife, Isabella “Bella” McNeil, born Balevullin 1885 – 1947 (see photo below), newspaper cuttings.
Also an account of Donald Archibald’s nephew, Captain Donald MacCallum 1903 – 1943. Captain of SS Baron Dechmont when hit by a torpedo from U-507. Taken PoW aboard U-Boat but lost his life ten days later when it was sunk by an Allied aeroplane. See 2010.77.1
Both are named on Tiree’s war memorial and at Tower Hill, London
Additional research by Flo Straker
2025.44.8
A collection of papers from the Campbell family of Kenovay / Cornaigbeg
8. Newspaper cutting about the Tiree Pipe Band dinner dance 1970, mentioning new member Lorelei MacLennan and music by Murray Omand, Stewart Langley and Gordon Connell
2025.44.7
A collection of papers from the Campbell family of Kenovay / Cornaigbeg
7. Scottish Land Court croft assignation Cornaigbeg 1955
