Publications
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APPINarchived Volume 1: A sounvenir book containing a special collection of articles, some new and some previously published. Contents inlcude: A History of Castle Stalker; The Jubilee Bridge; The Dawn of West Highland Tourism; Four Thousand Years of Life at Clachan; John Dewar's Appin; Temporal Change in the Serpulid Reefs of Loch Creran; A Celtic Stone Head from Port Appin; Achnacone House. 64 pages, full colour throughout, the perfect gift! £10 per copy + P/P
APPINarchived Volume 2: A sounvenir book containing a special collection of articles, some new and some previously published. Contents inlcude: The Restoration of Castle Stalker; The Isle of Lismore Lighthouse and its Nineteenth Century Keepers; Sgeir Bhuidhe Lighthouse; Creagan Bridge; The Connel Ferry and Ballachulish Railway; Memories of 1950s Appin; Sir Donald Campbell of Airds; Wordsworth Tour; The Stone of Destiny; Hotels & Inns in Appin, then and now. 60 pages, full colour throughout, the perfect gift! £10 per copy + P/P
APPINarchived Volume 3: A sounvenir book containing a special collection of articles, some new and some previously published. Contents inlcude: Kilcolmkill; Local Gaelic Place Names; Sea Eagles in Appin; Dugald Carmicheal: Explorer and Naturalist; Allan Breac Stewart; Castle Stalker and Monty Python; The Ferries of Appin; TMyth, Tradition and Legend of Beinn Churalain. 60 pages, full colour throughout, the perfect gift! £10 per copy + P/P
NEWSLETTERS AND ARCHIVES - £5.00 EACH + P/P
Archive No. 56 2024. Contents include The Maclagan Manuscripts; Focus on Duror & Kentallen – The River Duror, Kentallen Bay, Duror & Kentallen War Memorial; A Wedding in Port Appin ends in Tragedy and a History of Appin Skiff.
Archive No. 55 2023. Contents include John McIntyre (1811 -18970, A Lismore Crofter and Entreprenuer; The Book that Led to the Appin Murder; Who was the Red Fox; Robert the Bruce's Heart; Druimavuic.
Archive No. 54 2022. Contents include The Battle of Ledrianach; Temporal Change in the Serpulid Reefs of Loch Creran; Conifer Woodlands and their effect on Appin and District Wildlife; The First 'Great Hunger March' 1922; Further notes on the Appin Murder; The Invasion of Appin by Landhoppers.
Archive No. 53 2022. Contents include Extension to Annat Cemetery; From Mannheim to Appin - a Journey of 37 years; History of Linnheview, Port Appin; Echoes of Appin; The First Case of Road Rage in Argyll.
Archive No. 52 2021. Contents include General Colin Macaulay; My Ancestors in Appin (Dugald MacInnes); In Search of James of the Glen; 1984 in Appin - a Personal Recollection; St John's Cross, Iona; Appin Murder.
Archive No. 51 2021. Contents include Tom Johnston, a Scottish Goliath; Two Lismore Bards (Captain James MacDonald and Captain Lachie MacDonald); The Birth and Rise of the Temperance Movement; Encounter with a Nationalist (Wendy Wood); Paraleptastacus Moorei; Tobar na Reil.
Archive No. 50 2020. Celebrating Appin Historical Society's 25 years. Contents include Overview of Appin's History; A Lismore Bard; Sea Eagles in Appin; The Trysting Tree; Connel Bridge; Foundation of the NHS; Poem: Everything is going to be Alright; Images from 25 Years of Appin Historical Society.
Archive No. 49 2020. Contents include Electricity and Tilley Lamps; The Wireless; Glen Duror Farm; The Declaration of Arbroath 700th Anniversary; Seal Maiden Folk Tales from the Hebrides; Freedom Come all Ye; This is the Time to be Slow.
Archive No. 48 2019. Contents include Dougald Carmichael (1772-1872) Explorer and Naturalist; Alight here for Appin; The Pipe Organ in Holy Cross Episcopal Church, Appin; More News from a Century Ago; Hamish Henderson (1919-2002); Druimneil House, Appin.
Archive No. 47 2019. Contents include The Iolaire Disaster; The Dawn of West Highland Tourism; National News 1919; Douggie Brown; This Flagrant Instance, an Appin Scandal; Snippets - Last Hanging for Horse Theft in Scotland and a Gaelic Proverb.
Archive No. 46 2018. Contents include Reporting the Great War 1914-1918; National News 1914-1918; The Spanish Flu and the 'Doctors' Bag' in 1918; Sister Mary Drummond; Neil Thomson; The Great Tapestry of Scotland; CRM in Walberswick.
Archive No. 45 2018. Contents include Lady Sybil 'Chibi' Stewart; The Stone of Destiny; Myth, Tradition and Stories of Beinn Churalain; The Italian Chapel in Orkney; Dalnashean House; Poem by Sorley Maclean.
Archive No. 44 2018. Contents include McColl Visit 2017; Community Archaelogy on Lismore; Myths and Legends; My McColls in Appin; Johnny GlenDubh.
Archive No. 43 2017 Contents include Ted & Elizabeth Olding, Artists; Monty Python at Castle Stalker; Tales of the Old Inn, Portnacroish; Lismore Graveslabs Project; Wordsworth's Tour in Scotland 1803; Newspaper Article: The Highland Nationalist; John MacCorquodale: An Appreciation; Scotland's Rock Art Project.
Archive No. 42 2016 Contents include Heloise Russell-Fergusson; Gunn's Garage; St Columbia and Coire Salachain; Appin Golf Club; Lord Cockburn's Visit to the Parish of Appin; Obituary: Christine Martin King; Eighteenth Century Life on Collonsay; The Summer of '89.
Archive No. 41 2015 Contents include Highland Hospitality; A Serpent Indeed; Bertrand Stewart; Col. Robertson's Well; Sale of Ardsheal; Colquhoun's Leap; The Bulloughs of Fasnacloich.
Archive No. 40 2015 Contents include Barcaldine Snippets; Allan 'Breck' Stewart; John MacColl - Poet; Fioran Grass; Cold and Hungry and The Red Book of Appin; The Local Connection; Fosterage; The Battle of Stalc.
Archive No. 39 2014 Contents include The Travels of the Appin Banner; Work and Wages 120 Years Ago; Field Trip to Ben Churalain; Missionaries Come to Appin; A New Year Ceilidh; The Creran Fishings; Robert Stewart of Appin; The Jubilee Bridge; Appin Hospitality; Stewarts March; Landing on Cuil Bay.
Archive No. 38 2014 Contents include James of the Glen; The Tax Man Cometh; The First Steamer to Port Appin; Who Fought Rob Roy?; Holiday at Fasnacloich.
Archive No. 37 2013 Contents include Keil Church and Churchyard; Peter's Memoirs; Ben Churalain; St Churalain's Chapel; A Stone Head from Port Appin;
Archive No. 36 2013 Contents include The Fair Trading Bottles; Ferries and Ferry Houses; The Act Against the Wearing of the Tartan; Ardsheal's Escape; The Last "Challenge" in Appin.
Archive No. 35 2012 Contents include Home Remedies; The Dewar Report; The Barcaldine Solution; The Barrell Organ; To Australia on the Geelong; Early Descriptions of Appin.
Archive No. 34 2012 Contents include Dr Lachlan Grant of Ballachulish; Allan Breac Stewart; How the Campbells Came to Airds; Sir Lance Errington, an Appreciation; Stewart of Appin's Regiment; The Kintalen Changeling; The Spell of the Fox.
Archive No. 33 2011 Contents include Kinlochleven PoW Camp; Colin Campbell of Glenure; The Little Lady of Ballachulish; A Proposal; Passing Through Appin; A Minister's Problems.
Archive No. 32 2011 Contents include An Armorial Mystery; Alastair Beg Stewart; Sojourners to a New World; A Letter to Castle Stalker; Appin's New Age Travellers; Appin in 1758.
Archive No. 31 November 2010. The Glaistig in Appin; The Carmichael Watson Project; Donald MacColl and Alexander Camichael; A Campbell in Appin; Sale Particulars - Ardsheal Estate; Agriculture and Industry in 1841; Ardsheal the Merchant.
Archive No. 30 May 2010. Contents include History of St Adamnan's; Beside Loch Creran; A Missed Opportunity; A Jaobite Court in Exile; A Circular Tour; Off to America, by Jupiter; Ghostly Invercreran; The Grameid; The Appin Gaelic Interest Group.
Archive No. 29 November 2009. Contents include History of Cuil; The Drink Talking!; Bishop Forbes' Visit in 1770; Crossing Connel Bridge; Intelligence from Appin: Episcopacy in Appin 136; The Station Hotel; Appin.
Archive No. 28 May 2009. Contents include Gillespie MacCombie; Statistical Account, 25 Years of Co-operation.
Archive No. 27 November 2008. Contents include An Auld Alliance; Where Duror Lies; Sixty Years of our National Health Service; Kerfuffle in the Kirk; Poverty in 1864; A Bargain!; Connel to Ballachulish in 1801; Allan Steward's Bond; You Can't Take it With You.
Archive No. 26 May 2008. Contents include John Gregorson Campbell; French Visitors; New Parish; Annual General Meeting; Life in Argyll; Agriculture in 1793; Draft Programme for 2008-9.
Archive No. 25 November 2007. Contents include Forfeited Estates Papers; Ferry Fares Down!; Ardsheal's Adventures in Holland; The Appin Road; Medicine in Appin; Show House; A Journey up Loch Linnhe; Ballachulish to Creagan.
Archive No. 24 May 2007. Contents include St Finan's Isle; Lime in the Landscape; David Livingstone; The Quern; Forfeited Estates Papers; Grsavestone Inscriptions; Appin and Glencoe.
Archive No. 23 November 2006. Ragnvald's Stone; Appin's Nutwoods; Changed Days; Connel Ferry and Ballachulish Railway; The Appin Murder. An 'On the Spot' Report'; Airds Estate. For Sale in 1840.
Newsletter No. 22 May 2006. Appin, a Place of Boyhood Memories; Clachandou;The Wishing Well at Creagan; Explore Appin & Lismore.
Newsletter No. 21 November 2005. Donald of the Hammers; Sorcery in Appin; Bracken on Shuna; Episcopalian in Appin; The Episcopal Church in Appin; The Church of the Holy Cross, Portnacroish.
Newsletter No. 20 May 2005. Appin Postal Problems; No Easy Way to Appin; Colin Campbell's Clothes; Appin's Lost Prehistoric Chambered Tomb; A Useful Website; MacIan's Revenge; Ancient Animosity; Stramash off Shuna.
Newsletter No. 19 2004. Contents include Tales of the Stewarts; One Good Turn; The Case of Hamilton's Ear; The Ballachulish Line; Loch Linnhe Visit; Duncan Stewart and MacLean of Duart; The Abbreviated Version; Donald of the Hammers.
Newsletter No. 18 2004. Contents include Donald W B Carmichael - Obituary; The Portnacroish Rock Gong; The Case of the Brace and Bit; Duncan MacColl and Prince Charles's Year; Lochan-na-fala or The Bloody Lake; The Scattered Seeds of Appin; Another Song on Culloden Day; Temperance Societies; Stewart of Appin Sleeps; The Red Book of Appin; The Grand-daughter's Tale.
Newsletter No. 17 2003. Contents include Jack Skea, an Appreciation; Pier Pressure; Chair Person Down Under; The Shian Road; Some Notes by A Donald MacKenzie; Old Burial Ground and Well - some answers.
Newsletter No. 16 2004. Contents include Charles Stewart of Ardsheal?; Report from Glen Creran - 1866; A Journey through Appin; The Ben Vehir Dragons; Old Burial Ground and Well; Kinlochlaich for Sale; The Laird of Appin; Members Events; Tracing Roots.
Newsletter No. 15 2002. Contents include A New Light on Recycling; An Act of Parliament re Castle Stalker; Appin News - 1860s Style; K W Grant; Morag of Arrivain; The Camerons of Callart; MacColl Society Bookplate; A Glimpse of Glasgow.
Newsletter No. 14 2002. Contents include The Origins of the McColls of Glasdrum; Jane Stewart of Fasnacloich; Tales of Airds; The Bardic Tradition; Obituary - Dugald W MacColl.
Newsletter No. 13 2001. Contents include Lighthouse Preservation Project; Campbell Poseurs and Cold Blooded Killers; Ardsheal and St Adamnan's, Duror; An Appin View of the Appin Murder.
Newsletter No. 12 2001. Contents include Holidays in Appin Mid-19th Century; The Mysterious Death of Alex. Stewart of Glenbuckie; Around loch Leven; A Coll/Appin Connection; Keep your Eyes Open;An Emigrant Poem.
Newsletter No. 11 2000. Contents include In Search of the Stewarts of Appin; Obituary - Michael Starforth; The Mysterious Death of Alexander Stewart of Glenbuckie Part 1; An Intelligence Report on Appin in 1746; Going to Church in Appin; MacCorquodale; The Will of Henry Benedict Stuart; Archibald Knox.
Newsletter No. 10 2000. Contents include Astray in Appin; Memories of Ballachulish; Chambered Cairn of Portnacroish; Tynribbie Smithy; The Lady of Lawers; Obituary - Mary MacArthur; The MacFie Family of Appin; Midsummer Millennium Celebrations.
Newsletter No. 9 1999. Contents include A Highland Honeymoon; Appin 200 years ago; Notes on Shuna; Appin; Airds House, Australia; Gone but not Forgotten; Police Reports 1900.
Newsletter No. 8 1999. Contents include Making Records (continued); John MacColl, Piper and Composer; Tracing Your Ancestors; Recent Acquisitions; Remembering Glen Creran; Study Visit to Tiree; Scottish Country Dancing.
Newsletter No. 7 1999. Contents include The Bothy; Being Churalain; The Lorn Galley; The Ringing Stone; Garbh Eilach; The Observation Post.
Newsletter No. 6 1998. Contents include The Glen, 1962; Reading Rooms; Ardsheal: The House and Estate; Austin Sevens in Appin; What is a Croft?; Appin, Australia; Creagan Bridge; Register of Electors 1931/1932; 50 Years Ago.....; And this Year.....; And Next Year......
Newsletter No. 5 1997. Contents include Rosebank in the 19th Century; Glen Creran Lead Mines; Unveiling of Memorial Tablet; The Well at North Shian; Rhugarbh Ferry; John of Culloden; The Bairns of Appin; Possible Derivations for Being Churalain; The Eventful Life of a Laird of Appin; Cave Exploring in Appin; Old highland Therapy.
Newsletter No. 4 1997. Contents include The Appin Banner; Making Records - Mary's Story; The Stewarts of Appin Family Tree; Non-surrender of Arms; The Final Tragedy of Shuna; Annat Graveyard; Smile Please!; Strath of Appin School Board; Extract: Appin School Register; Canon Hugh MacColl of Fort William; Day Trip to Glensanda; Parish Register 1918.
Newsletter No. 3 1997. Contents include Local Gaelic Place Names; Kilmoluag; Forestry: Past, Present and Future; Collection of Appin Dance Tunes; The Free Church in Appin; Henny's Story; Stewartsville Graveyard; Stepping Back in Time; Extract from the School Register; Following a Stay in Appin; Entries Relating to Campbells and Stewarts.
Newsletter No. 2 1996. Contents include Map of Appin, marking places of Interest; A Brief History of Appin's Past; The Red Book of Appin; History of Suffrage in Appin; Electoral Register; Photocard to MacFies of Airds; Ballachulish to Oban in 1848; Unloading the Mails in Appin; Evening Excursion to Ballachulish; Map of Glen Creran; Glen Creran in the 20s and 30s; Glen Creran, History and Features; Culloden; Appin Casualty List at Culloden; Return of the MacColls 1996; A Short History of Castle Stalker; A Brief Guide to Castle Stalker; 25 Generations of a Glencoe Family; Appin Badminton Club.
Newsletter No. 1 April 1996. Contents include The history of Appin Historical Society; AHS Commemorates Culloden; The Clan Stewart in Appin; Sunday 13th August 1995 - Sunny with Showers; The Old Post Office, Fasnacloich; Out of the Past; Appin in 2000 - as seen in 1909; History of Myrtle Bank and Thyme Bank, Portnacroish; Rock Cottage, Port Appin; Druimneil House and Gardens; Visit to Inniemhor; Treasures of the Deep; Jurassic Appin; Day Trip to Lismore; Observations in the Parish; The Ringing Stone; Argyll Motors Ltd.
