A pristine original version of the 1992 edition of West Lothian Place Names is now available to download free of charge in PDF format (6 MB). West Lothian Place Names (1992) … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2013
Can history help us define British identity today, or is it part of the problem? Five-sevenths of history is story. In the Romance languages the equation is exact. History and story are the same word: Spanish historia, French histoire, Italian … Continue reading
BATHGATE USED TO BE AT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD! WEST LOTHIAN FOLK ONCE SPOKE WELSH! Imagine someone standing on a soapbox in the middle of the Steelyard, shouting these two sentences: not so long ago they would have been … Continue reading