This year’s unaccustomedly early onset of really cold weather and the chaotic traffic conditions thereby brought about caused me to think ab...

I recently wrote about the wonderful variety of table lighters which the game of curling had spawned, see here . This second piece on the to...

BBC's Flog It programme broadcast a segment in 2005 with presenter Paul Martin being shown some of David B Smith's collection of cur...

The Table Lighter In its heyday the custom of smoking was all-pervasive. For many a decade no film star could be photographed without a lit ...

The Curling History Blog's guru, and my good friend, David Smith, has been ill for some months. I welcome his return to health with this...

When Archibald, 13th Earl of Eglinton, died in 1861 at the early age of forty nine he was, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Bi...

As the Royal Caledonian Curling Club’s diamond jubilee approached in 1898 much thought was given as to how to celebrate the important event....