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ST KILDA DIARY
A Record of the Early Re-occupation of St Kilda
Dr David Boddington
Retail Price £9.99
Captain David Boddington, RAMC, was Medical Officer on St Kilda from 1958, when the Army first took over the base as a functioning unit of the Royal Artillery Guided Weapons Range on the remote island group. He was simultaneously Rations Officer, Meteorological Officer, Postmaster and Barber! And he had a passion for ornithology and natural history, doubling up as warden for the Nature Conservancy and representative of the National Trust for Scotland. During his first year on St Kilda, David kept a diary of his multi-dimensional day to day activities as the base became established. This book publishes extracts from his diary for the first time – a compelling first-hand account of life lived to the full at a momentous time in the post-evacuation history of St Kilda.
STEAMSHIPS TO ST KILDA
John McCallum, Martin Orme, and the Life and Death of an Island Community
by Donald Meek
Retail Price £7.50
Donald Meek, who has recently retired from his Professorship at Edinburgh University, is best known for his Gaelic scholarship. But another passionate interest, nurtured from his boyhood days in Tiree, is Hebridean sea transport and particularly the steamships which have played such an important part in shaping island life. In this booklet, published to mark the 80th anniversary of the evacuation, Donald looks at the wonderful steamships which served St Kilda for over a century, particularly the well-loved SS Dunara Castle and SS Hebrides. His research has uncovered important new material relating to the seminal role played by McCallum, Orme and Company Ltd, including the first ever published photographs of Captain John McCallum. Beautifully illustrated, this will be of absorbing interest to all St Kilda and ship enthusiasts.
CALLANISH - Monument, Moon and Mountain
Ian McHardy
Retail Price £7.50
The magnificent Callanish stones have captured the imagination for centuries. From Martin Martin to Lady Matheson and New Age Travellers, they have been the source of fascination and speculation. In turn, they have given rise to innumerable theories about their purpose, and why such an impressive prehistoric monument should be located in Lewis and on this particular site.
This booklet by Ian McHardy, a professional archaeologist and historian, sets out some important new ideas, drawing on folklore in Scotland and the Celtic world more generally. He demonstrates the value of looking across disciplines, using insights from physical science as well as traditional beliefs and folklore, to shed new light on this age-old subject.
SUAS GU DEAS
Two Hebrideans walking from the Butt to Barra Head
Angus Peter Campbell and Cailean Maclean
Retail Price £20
DOLLY DOCTOR
Pictures of Bygone Island Life
Retail price £12
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REFLECTIONS ON THE HISTORY OF STORNOWAY AND LEWIS
-Sandy Matheson
Retail price £6
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ICELAND AND THE HEBRIDES – MY ROOTS by Sally Magnusson
Retail Price £5
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STORNOWAY IN WORLD WAR TWO
- Mike Hughes
Retail Price £6.
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EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN LEWIS – THE NESS CONNECTION
Retail Price £6 
THE SPORTING ESTATES OF THE OUTER HEBRIDES - PAST AND PRESENT
by David S D
Jones
Retail Price £12.99
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WHALING AND THE HEBRIDES
Retail Price £12
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Dualchas àraid agus prìseil
A UNIQUE AND PRECIOUS CULTURE
The Changing Face of South Uist and Eriskay
Photographs by Dr Kenneth Robertson
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LATEST
PUBLICATIONS
FROM CLEITS TO CASTLES
A St Kildan Looks Back.
The autobiography of Calum Macdonald who was born on St Kilda
Retail price £9.99
There is a vast literature on the subject of St Kilda, almost all by outside writers. The authentic voices of those who were native to the Island remain largely silent. This book helps redress the balance. It is the remarkable story of Calum MacDonald, who was born on St Kilda in 1908, and lived there until he was sixteen, when he left prior to the evacuation for the bright lights of Harris. He tells the story of a hard life earning a living from the inhospitable land, but there is another story too: one of closeness, kindness, spirituality and humour. Calum’s life was to take twists and turns he could never have dreamt of during his childhood on the island, but throughout his later career in great houses and a top London hotel he was always mindful of his origins: ‘All my life I have been very fortunate because I was born among a small community of Christian belief, who lived and shared their lives as a whole, not as a unit. Our closeness was partly due to kinship and isolation from the outside world.’
DESTINATION ST KILDA
Edited by Mark Butterworth
Retail Price £19.99
In 1885 Aberdeen photographers George Washington Wilson and Norman Macleod set out to travel through the Western Isles to St Kilda. They took many photographs along the way and their collection of pictures, ‘From Oban to Skye and the Outer Hebrides’ was shown in magic lantern lectures throughout Scotland. In 2004 Mark Butterworth purchased the set, complete with the original lecture notes.
The images and text in this book come from this double set of lantern slides which was produced in the late 1880's Individually hand coloured onto the glass plates, these images capture the Western Isles and their way of life in evocative details. Published here for the first time as a complete set, many of the images, particularly of St Kilda and its inhabitants are iconic, well known among enthusiasts of Western Isles history. However, these contemporary hand coloured slides are rarely seen and present a new light on life in the Western Isles, produced fifty years before colour photography came to Scotland.
THE FRENCH MACDONALD - JOURNEY OF A MARSHAL OF NAPOLEON IN THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND
JEAN-DIDIER HACHE
Retail Price £12
New enlarged edition of this best-selling book now available - incorporat ing the results of important recent research by Jean-Didier Hache which sheds new light on the dramatic story of Marshal MacDonald. This extraordinary book provides a unique footnote to the momentous events of Jacobite and Napoleonic history.
SHETLAND, ORKNEY,
AND THE WESTERN ISLES
some personal reflections on comparative island life
by Colin Scott Mackenzie
Retail £7.50
This booklet offers a fascinating insight into the similarities and differences between the Western Isles, Orkney, and Shetland.
The author, Colin Scott Mackenzie, is un iquely qualified to do so, because he has served for many years as Sheriff in all three island groups. The aim is to provoke discussion and debate among islanders who have much to learn from each other.
Sheriff Mackenzie comes from a distinguished Stornoway family. As well as his legal pedigree, he is related to such well-known historical writers as William Cook Mackenzie and Agnes Mure Mackenzie. Colin has himself recorded the adventures of the Ross Mountain Battery at Gallipoli in the First World War in his three volume history “The Last Warrior Band” (2002).
FROM HIRTA TO PORT PHILLIP
ERIC RICHARDS
The story of the ill-fated emigration from St Kilda to Australia in 1852
Retail price £7.50
While the emotions and eco nomic realities surrounding the evacuation of St Kilda in 1930 are well-known and still hotly debated, less is known of an equally traumatic earlier event in the history of the islands – the emigration of 36 islanders to Australia in 1852. Fewer than half of the St Kildans who set sail from Birkenhead in the ‘Priscilla’ survived the journey and its immediate aftermath. In this well-researched and beautifully illustrated booklet, Eric Richards, Professor of History at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, and an expert on the Highland Clearances and emigration, looks at the intriguing background, story, and consequences of this ill-fated venture.
ISLAND HEROES
The Military History of the Hebrides
Retail price £15
Almost every township throughout the Islands has its war memorial inscribed with scores of names, but how much do we really know about the role of the Hebrides and her people in wartime?
The Islands Book Trust held a three-day conference to address exactly this question. ‘Island Heroes – The Hebrides and UK Military History’ took place in the Isle of Lewis, where a range of excellent speakers discussed the disproportionate contribution and sacrifice made by islanders to UK military campaigns over at least the last 250 years and the role of the Hebrides during World War Two.
This book brings together the various contributions - looking at warfare from a uniquely island perspective.
Memories of the Island of Scarp
In this well-illustrated booklet, Donald John Macleod brings together his own personal memories of life on the island, together with a series of anecdotes and  contributions which vividly illustrate what it was like to be a resident of Scarp during the last century. It will be of absorbing interest to all who have visited this now depopulated island, or have gazed wistfully across the narrow sound of water near Husinish, Harris, to the clearly visible buildings on a green strip of land which once formed a living community.
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ISLAND
NOTES
Island Notes - If you missed one
of our events we have introduced a series
of modestly-priced Island Notes which summarise
talks given at Trust events.
You can purchase copies in the Publiations section or if you prefer to order by post a
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