Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A sgian-dubh is a small, single-blade, Scottish ceremonial knife, usually tucked into kilt hose as part of ...
In 1910, there appeared in Inverness a catalogue for the auction of stock from John Munro’s Old Curiosity Shop in Castle Street. Lot 377a was ‘an old dirk with ivory handle inlaid with gold’. A ...