Margaret R Aitken

Thomas Clarkson, If Only

Twelve Light Years

Two lighthouses - Stroma in the Pentland Firth and Buchan Ness off the Aberdeenshire coast - were Orkney-born Margaret Aitken's life and home between 1954 and 1966, while her husband, Jimmy, was a lighthouse keeper. This is the story of the peculiar problems of everyday life which these strange home...

In My Small Corner: Memoirs of an Orkney Childhood

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue from the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth: Volume IX: Si-Stoytene-sale

The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue defines and illustrates every meaning of every word used in written English in Scotland up to 1700, when the Scots language merged with standard English. It touches every facet of medieval and renaissance Scottish life and society and supplies a wealth of ...

Education, state and agency in dystopian children's texts.: An article from: Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature

This digital document is an article from Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 6055 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available...

Six Buchan Villages Revisited

"A historic masterpiece ... From days of explosions at Oldcastle, to the coming of the railway at Cruden Bay, her wonderful storytelling truly fires the imagination."

Island of Stroma

Implementing Clinical Supervision: Evaluation of Renfrewshire Division Pilot (Clinical Faculty Report)