The open-ended handle is now so common that one sometimes wonders why there ever was a desire for a different design. But in some parts of S...

This from David B Smith: Charles Doyle, the father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was an accomplished artist, member of a family of accomplished...

This feature appeared in the October 2008 Scottish Curler magazine. David B Smith tells the story: Late last year I got a phone call from a ...

When Sir Alexander Boswell, the laird of Auchinleck in Ayrshire, gave a medal to the curlers of Kyle he caused very precise instructions for...

In one of the earliest poems about curling, by the Lanarkshire poet, James Graeme, and first published in 1773, we find: The goals are marke...

At a time when - for reasons that are obvious: there are so many more of them than us - Canadian terms are beginning to oust the old, indige...

In November 2006 the Scottish Curler printed an article by David Smith about the attempt of the RCCC in 1850 to institute a uniform for it...