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This collection of lively, detailed anecdotes provides a glimpse of what life was like for Kenneth Macdonald as he grew up in 1891 in the village of Sandwick, Isle of Lewis. A picture of a kind, sympathetic, and exceptionally popular teacher at the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway is painted, highlighting a man whose interest in ordinary folk was what motivated his whole life. Macdonald was regarded as one of the pioneers of socialism in the Isles at a time when left... More >>
Peat Fire Memories: Life in Lewis in the Early Twentieth Century
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