Tiree and Coll Community Directory 1998/99
Small booklet listing the various community groups and organisations on Coll and Tiree, with summaries of their aims and activities, and contact details of these and other useful organisations.
Newsletter/booklet “West Highland Notes and Queries”, 2007
Booklet/newsletter of the Society of West Highland and Island Historical Research, August 2007. Contents: “A dismal day”, “Lachlan Maclean 1st of Coll”, “Maclean of Coll papers”, “Right hand men”, “The mystery of Peter Whannel alias Buchanan”. Query/replies: John Maclean, joiner in Coll, Defunct surnames, Patronymics and nicknames.
Booklet “First Footsteps – searching for prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the Hebrides”
Booklet “First Footsteps – searching for prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the Hebrides” summarising the archaeological findings of Prof. Steven Mithen and colleagues from the University of Reading during their surveys of Tiree, Coll, Gunna, Mull, Colonsay & Oronsay and Islay during 2006. Includes a letter from Steven Mithen to Dr John Holliday (02/04/08) and a copy of a research note about his work at Fiskary Bay, Coll, published in Scottish Archarological News.
Article about the findings of an archaeological dig on Coll in 2007.
Article reporting the findings of an archeaological dig at Fiskary Bay, Coll, by Steven Mithen and Karen Wicks (Univ. Reading) and Jim Hill (Coll). Includes photographs of flint blades, hazelnut shell fragments and fish bones, the dig and the dig site.
Softback book `The Wild Flowers of Coll and Tiree` by John Bowler, Emma Grant, Charlie Self and Simon Wellock
Flower Book, ` The Wild Flowers of Coll and Tiree` by John Bowler, Emma Grant, Charlie Self and Simon Wellock
Hardback book `From Clan to Regiment – Six Hundred Years in the Hebrides 1400-2000` by Nicholas MacLean-Bristol.
A History of the MacLeans of Coll.
Newspaper cutting about the fin whale washed up on Coll in February 2004.
Article and photograph about the fin whale washed up on Coll in February 2004 and the fibreglass copies made of her jawbones.
Newspaper article dated 28/4/1951about Dr J. G. Buchanan and the Campbells of Coll.
Article about the rescue by Malcolm Campbell of Cornaig, Coll of the naval ship `Caesar` in difficulties off the coast in 1798, for which he was presented with a silver urn, now in Nova Scotia. The article mentions that Dr J. G. Buchanan had the previous week (April 1951) purchased the farm of Caoles in Coll and the island of Gunna.
Copy of a sepia photograph of Captain John Cambell of Coll around 1889.
Captain John Cambell of Coll, master of the SS Hebrides, possibly on his wedding day around 1889.
Copy of a sepia photograph of the SS Hebrides in Aringour Bay.
SS Hebrides in Aringour Bay.
