Membership is open to all at a cost of £10 for individual members and £15 for two people at the same address.   This entitles attendance at all meetings and field trips, usually without further charge, and a copy of each Appin Archive published in November and May during the year of membership.  

Membership is open to all at a cost of £10 for individual members and £15 for two people at the same address.   This entitles attendance at all meetings and field trips, usually without further charge, and one copy of each Appin Archive published in November and May during the year of membership.  

Our new publication, A Life on the Land, a boy's upbringing in rural Argyll - 'Up the Airy Mountain' by Ian Weir.  108 pages, A5 size.

In his introduction, Dr Iain McNicol writes:  'Appin Historical Society is delighted to be involved in publishing this collection of Ian Weir's childhood memories, many of which have appeared in the Scots' Magazine. Twenty-one of the stories have been published previously and we have added five 'new' stories together with some old photographs of Ian's relating to the people and places in his childhood.  Ian's pen beautifully and amusingly brings to life a bygone time when people and places mattered more than pin numbers and postcodes.  The cumulative effect is a wonderful social history fashioned by a master story teller. Storytellers use a certain licence and characters can be recognised but all are created     with a deep affection for the lands of Appin and its people.  The Society is grateful to Ian for allowing us to be involved in this project which brings a deeper understanding of our social past to a wider audience.' 

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A full-colour update of our Guide, first published in 1998, with lots of colour photographs and articles about Appin, Duror and Kentallen and Isle of Lismore.

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CLAN STEWART OF APPIN 1463-1752 and its unfailing loyalty to the Royal House of Stewart by Michael Starforth This is the story of Clan Stewart of Appin from its foundation in 1463, after the murder of John Stewart, Lord of Lorn, through battles such as Stalc, Inverlochy, Killicrankie and Prestonpans, to the fatal field of Culloden. It is a story of pain, loyalty and courage...........   

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NOTELETS  with a photograph of Appin Historical Society's 21st Century Blackhouse at Appin Agricultural Show 2007.  Sold in packs of six with envelopes, these cards are blank inside for your own message and can be used for any occasion.  In cellophane wrapper.

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Contents include articles on Beinn Churalain; the old Post Office at Fasnacloich; Appin in 2000 as seen in 1909; the Water Clock at Druimneil House; Inniemhor; the Ringing Stone and Argyll Motors.

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Contents include a Map of Appin, marking places of interest; a Brief History of Appin's past; the Red Book of Appin; History of Suffrage in Scotland; Electoral Register 1889-90; Ballachulish to Oban in 1848; Glen Creran in the 1920s and 1930s; Appin Casualty list at Culloden and a Brief Guide and History of Castle Stalker.

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Contents include Local Gaelic Place Names; Forestry: Past, Present and Future; the Free Church in Appin; Henny's Story; Brewers and Brewsteads; Glen Creran; Private Burial grounds in Appin; Entries relating to Campbells and Stewarts.

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Contents include the Appin Banner; Stewarts of Appin Family Tree; the Final Tragedy of Shuna; Annat Graveyard; Canon Hugh MacColl of Fort William; Parish Register 1918; Non-surrender of Arms 1746.

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Contents include Rosebank in the 19th century; Glen Creran Lead Mines; John of Culloden; Cave Exploring in Appin; Old Highland Therapy.

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Contents include Glen Creran 1962; Ardsheal; Creagan Birdge; Register of Electors 1931-32.

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Contents include the Bothy at Ardveich; AHS Photographic Archive; Garbh Eileach (the Garvellachs).

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Contents include Mary MacArthur's story (continued from Newsletter No. 4); John McColl, Piper and Composer; Tracing your Ancestors; the Glen Creran head; Scottish Country Dancing.

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Contents include Notes on Shuna; Airds House; Prisoners of War 1914-18; Police Reports 1900; Unofficial Opening of Creagan Bridge.

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Contents include Memories of Ballachulish; Probable Chambered Cairn at Portnacroish; Tynnribbie Smithy; the Lady of Lawers; the MacFie Family; Midsummer Millennium Celebrations.

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Contents include the Mysterious Death of Alexander Stewart of Buckie; an Intelligence Report on Appin in 1746; the name MacCorquodale; Archibald Knox, an Argyll link.

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Contents include Holidays in Appin, mid-19th century; the Mysterious Death of Alexander Stewart of Glenbuckie, Part 2; around Loch Leven; a Coll/Appin connection.

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Contents include Lighthouse Preservation Project; Campbell Poseurs and Cold Blooded Killers - a Bard's View of Appin; Ardsheal and St Adamnan's, Duror; an Appin View of the Appin murder.

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Contents include MacColls of Glasdrum; Jane Stewart of Fasnacloich; Dugald (Dugie) William MacColl 1935-2002.

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Contents include Lighthouse Preservation Project; an Act of Parliament regarding Castle Stalker; K W Grant; the Camerons of Callart.

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Contents include Alexander MacCallum Webster; the Ben Vehir Dragons; Kinlochlaich for Sale; the Laird of Appin.

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Contents include Jack Skea, an Appreciation; Port Appin Pier 1916; Chairperson Down Under; some notes by A Donald MacKenzie; death of ex-Baillie Mackenzie, former chairman of Leith Dock Commission; old Burial Ground and Well.

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Contents include Donald William Bain Carmichael 1901-2003; Rock Gongs; the Scattered Seeds of Appin, the Travellers' Tale; Temperance Societies.

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Contents include Loch Linnhe Visit 1939; Donald of the Hammers; Duncan Stewart & MacLean of Duart.

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Contents include Appin Postal Problems 1877; Colin Campbell's Clothes; Appin's Lost Prehistoric Chambered Tomb; Stramash off Shuna 1786.

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Contents include the History of Donald of the Hammers; Sorcery in Appin; Episcopalianism in Appin.

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Contents include Appin, a Place of Boyhood Memories 1946-53; Clachandou: an early Single-storeyed cottage in Appin; Strategy Report for Appin & Lismore.

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Contents include Ragnvald's Stone; Appin's Nutwood; Traffic Census 1911; The Connel Ferry and Ballachulish Railway; The Appin Murder, an 'On the Spot' Report.

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Contents include St Finan's Isle; Lime in the Landscape; The Quern; Forfeited Estates Papers (relating to Ardsheal); Gravestones Kinlochlaich; Dr John Leyden.

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Contents include Ferry Fares Down! 1832; K W Grant.

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Contents include John Gregorson Campbell; French Visitors 1786; New Congregational Mission Parish at Rosebank; Agriculture in 1793.

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Contents include Lt. Col. A K Stewart of Ahnacone; National Health Service 1948-2008; National Insurance Scheme 1948-2008; Poverty in 1864; Connel to Ballachulish 1801; Allan Steward's Bond; Inventory 1688.

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Contents include Gillespie MacCombie; Statistical Account 1791-99; 25 Years of Appin Community Co-operative Ltd.

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Contents include History of Cuil, The Drink Talking!; Crossing Connel Bridge; Intelligence from Appin (after Culloden); Episcopacy in Appin in 1836 and The Station Hotel, Appin.  The colour cover shows our 'Victorian' schoolroom at Appin Show.

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Contents include History of St Adamnan's Episcopal Church, Duror; A Jacobite Court in Exile; Off to America by Jupiter and The Appin Gaelic Interest Group.

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Contents include The Glaistig in Appin; The Carmichael Watson project; Donald McColl and Alexander Carmichael; Agriculture and Industry in 1841.

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Contents include An Armorial Mystery, Sojourners to a New World, Alastair Beg Stewart, A Letter to Castle Stalker, Appin's New Age Travellers, Appin in 1758.

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Contents include Kinlochleven POW Camp; Colin Campbell of Glenure; The Little Lady of Ballachulish House; A proposal; Passing through Appin and A Minister's Problem.

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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.

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Contents include: Home Remedies in 1850; The Dewar Report into Medical and Nursing Attendance in the Highlands and Islands; The Barcaldine Solution; The Barrel Organ; To Australia on the Geelong; Early Descriptions of Appin.

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