The Making of Tormore – Neil Gunn and the SNP
The Origins of the SNP The history of political parties with all their conflicts, splits, ideological positions, and power plays,
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The Origins of the SNP The history of political parties with all their conflicts, splits, ideological positions, and power plays,
Continue readingNeil Gunn was a novelist. His life’s work was fiction but he was an understandable, coherent individual, reserved yet sociable,
Continue reading“Some five years ago I received a letter from the late Lord Bracken (whom I had then not met)
Continue readingI want to use this post to double underline how singular the Tormore building is and how it would not have
Continue readingThe Tormore Connection Lewis Rosenstiel was an unpredictable boss. He was the only authority in his company but his decisions
Continue readingThe man who built Tormore was Lewis Rosenstiel, head of Schenley Industries, one of the biggest liquor companies in the
Continue readingOn the 20th July 1957, in Bedford, Harold Macmillan made a speech about rising prosperity and for the first time
Continue readingI thought I had closed my book on Deanston but what do you know – research is never finished as
Continue readingYou start with an interest in whisky but before you know it you are looking at cotton and the rise
Continue readingI never promised that this blog would be in any way current. Never promised to keep my finger on
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