by Bob Cowan On Friday, January 11, 1952, a Pan Am airliner called 'Flying Cloud' (* see below) landed at Prestwick airport with...

by Bob Cowan It is more than four years since David and I set up the Curling History Blog. One of the earliest posts, see here , was abo...

David B Smith writes: From at least the beginning of the nineteenth century the medal has been used in Scotland both as a trophy to be won...

What a pleasure it is to read in a newspaper of a by-gone age a piece which was intended to be read as literature. The following essay appea...

by Bob Cowan The mid 1800s to the early twentieth century was the era of the 'dime novel' in the USA. These were printed on cheap ...

David B Smith writes: The Kilmarnock Standard of April 23, 1892, printed a long account of a dinner held in the town to celebrate the J...

Written by Bob Cowan This photo of eight upstanding young curlers - all members of Carmunnock and Rutherglen CC - comes from the late 19...