From the Archives

Jenny Clow was a domestic servant in Edinburgh in the late eighteenth century. She acquired a dubious fame via her employer and her employer’s ‘gentleman caller’. Jenny worked for Agnes McElhose, who was one of Robert Burns’ many muses. Unusually for those times, Agnes was separated from her husband, who had gone to the West…

Who says the spirit of adventure in modern youth is non-existent? While most of us dread the advent of our winter 10,000 miles distant from Newburgh on Antartica, Graham Burgess of Parkhill faces really harsh climatic conditions. Temperature of -40c winds, 80 knots and blizzard conditions for over 200 days, for Graham is a member…