Category: Thomson’s Scotland

  • Travelogue – 24 November 2023

    Travelogue – 24 November 2023

    Andersonian Library Waking up in a place you don’t know always feels strange. It was late before going to bed – I had to write an email to Robin Campbell, the Scottish Mountaineering Club Honorary Archivist, to deal with a few questions on the archive deposited at the National Library of Scotland – but I […]

  • Travelogue – 23 November 2023

    Travelogue – 23 November 2023

    To Edinburgh and Glasgow The morning is nearly awake, with some gleaming pastel colours covered by lower grey clouds. In Grantham, I board a train to Edinburgh for a ten-day trip to Glasgow and Edinburgh. My main goal is to dive into archives to continue my search on the work and life of the Scottish […]

  • Back of Keppoch

    Back of Keppoch

    For a year, photographer and history researcher Estelle Slegers Helsen has wandered around Lochaber in the footsteps of W.S. Thomson MBE (1906-1967). Estelle has made a series of remakes roughly 70 years after Thomson originally depicted the landscape. She has talked to local people along her journey and now Estelle will be taking you to […]

  • Glencoe

    Glencoe

    For a year, photographer and history researcher Estelle Slegers Helsen has wandered around Lochaber in the footsteps of W.S. Thomson MBE (1906-1967). Estelle has made a series of remakes roughly 70 years after Thomson originally depicted the landscape. She has talked to local people along her journey and now Estelle will be taking you to […]

  • Achnacarry

    Achnacarry

    For a year, photographer and history researcher Estelle Slegers Helsen has wandered around Lochaber in the footsteps of W.S. Thomson MBE (1906-1967). Estelle has made a series of remakes roughly 70 years after Thomson originally depicted the landscape. She has talked to local people along her journey and now Estelle will be taking you to […]