Dr Neil McGuigan

Greatly honoured, not to mention over the moon, to receive this appreciation & award. It will take some time to sink in I think... @BirlinnBooks

Recently received this exciting new book, I really hope the tourist shops stock it. There aren't many quality books on Gaelic Scotland suitable for this kind of audience from real experts like Coinneach Maclean : acairbooks.com/books/travels-…

July 11: Feast of Drostan († early C7th), founder-abbot of the Pictish monastery of Deir (Deer). Several dedications to him in NE Scotland including Episcopal church at Old Deer. The old church at Aberdour, Aberdeenshire, claimed his relics. Also Dec 15. The C10th Book of Deer

Courtesy of my 'For You' section. Still a lot saner than a big portion of the Scottish twittersphere though. 😂

Marching north on a campaign against the Scots, Æthelstan, king of the English, visited the shrine of St Cuthbert at either Cuncacestre (Chester-le-Street) or more likely Ubbanford (Norham) #OTD in 934. He gifted precious items, including books and vestments, to the church there.

Recently published, myself reviewing Ben Hudson's *Macbeth before Shakespeare*. Behind a paywall, but in summary a good read that could have been a much better piece of scholarship had the author engaged significantly with research produced after the 90s: journals.uchicago.edu/toc/spc/2025/1…

NEW book: Ì Chaluim Chille: Interdisciplinary Studies on Iona and Columba on the 1500th anniversary of the birth the saint. Fully open access, available here: clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/… @CelticGaelic @UofGCSCS @UofGArtsHums #Iona #StColumba

Pictish Piasts? 'The male skeletons almost all carry a single, rare group of genetic variants on the Y chromosome...today found mainly in Britain. The closest known match belongs to a Pict buried in eastern Scotland in the 5th or 6th century.' independent.co.uk/news/science/a…

New publication from myself today: "The fame and significance of Dunkeld in the tenth and eleventh centuries": clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/…

Happy St Columba's day. Today is released a new volume commissioned to mark the 1500th anniversary of the birth the saint. Features greats like Thomas Charles-Edwards, John Carey, Thomas Owen Clancy and Simon Taylor among others. I am also there. clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/…

Hudson’s Bay Company, Canada’s oldest retailer, didn’t die of natural causes — it was gutted by private equity. Stripped of assets and loaded with debt, it leaves behind job losses, endangered pensions, and a hollowed-out legacy reduced to branding rights. jacobin.com/2025/06/hudson…

The Highlands and the British State, 1725-2025 eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-highland…

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