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Yearly Archives: 2013

West Lothian Place Names (1992)

Posted on 28 November 2013 by John Garth Wilkinson

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 →

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Who Do You Think You Are?

Posted on 2 May 2013 by John Garth Wilkinson

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 →

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Hunting in the Boarwood: Language, Place-names, History and Myth

Posted on 15 April 2013 by John Garth Wilkinson

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 →

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