Vivien Martin

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Border Crossings: DDR 1978 – BRD 2014. eBook available on Amazon

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Writing for iScot Magazine, video clip, September 2017

Recent Posts

Margot Sandeman and the Arran Connection 21 April 2025
Archie Roy 23 December 2024
A Tale of Two Countries – Austria and Scotland 3 November 2024
Saints, Kings, Vikings and Shipbuilders. Govan and the Clyde 6 September 2024
Scottish islands in crime fiction 28 July 2024
Coire Fhionn Lochan – an Arran gem 16 July 2024
Eileach an Naoimh 4 June 2024
Forteviot and the Southern Picts 14 April 2024
The Earthquake House 8 March 2024
Cultybraggan 23 February 2024
Scottish Pilgrim Routes 5 April 2023
“Hunting the Shark”: or Bearsden’s oldest resident! 27 September 2022
Stoneymollan Coffin Road 3 August 2022
Island Tales 3 May 2022
“I to the hills will lift mine eyes” 20 February 2022
Thank you for the Music 19 December 2021
The Dead of Appin 20 November 2021
The Vaccine Challenge 26 October 2021
Life finds a way 23 October 2021
“I could have been a spy!” 21 September 2021
Across Atlantic Airwaves 18 September 2021
The Show Must Go On! 17 September 2021
High Adventure in Ardtornish 24 August 2021
Comings and goings in Morvern 28 July 2021
King’s Cave on Arran 9 July 2021
Dundonald – A Castle for a King 20 June 2021
Sir William Macewen – Bute’s father of neurosurgery 14 May 2021
Inverie and Scoraig – defying the odds 7 April 2021
It’s never too late – Creativity in later life 30 March 2021
A Pilgrim People 6 January 2021
Tonie Ritchie: An inspiration to us all 20 December 2020
Nonagenarian Novelists : Spur of Light by Tonie Ritchie 30 November 2020
History in the Time of Covid: memory, identity and the importance of recording our history 15 November 2020
Death in Tallinn 6 November 2020
Lockdown living – the virtual launch of The Dead of Jura 6 November 2020
Angus Blue is back! 27 October 2020
From Arran to Africa – supporting the work of Mary’s Meals 11 October 2020
Around Loch Torridon 5 September 2020
The Road to Shieldaig 28 August 2020
Sea Roads of Wester Ross 18 July 2020
The Dead of Jura 14 July 2020
The Hydro Boys: the men who brought power to the glens 23 May 2020
Wee Mac Arran – worth waiting for! 29 April 2020
Fort of the Skulker: Dun an Sticir, North Uist 4 April 2020
Museum of Islay Life: home to an island’s memory 1 April 2020
Crime Scene Investigation 2 March 2020
John de Graham’s Castle 25 January 2020
A Fyne Day Out 8 January 2020
Edinburgh – more than meets the eye? 26 November 2019
The Fall of the Berlin Wall 10 November 2019
Bute Connections 24 October 2019
To the Lighthouse 26 August 2019
Killin and the Falls of Dochart 5 August 2019
Flanders Moss 19 July 2019
‘Wee Macgreegor’ and the Mystery of the Three Nuns 7 June 2019
Islands to die for 18 May 2019
What lies beneath? From Pictland to Scotland 4 April 2019
Unlocking the Past: Crossraguel Abbey 4 March 2019
Tall tales and tackety boots 23 January 2019
Scoraig – almost an island 2 January 2019
Keeping you Posted 21 December 2018
As old as the hills: the North West Highlands Geopark 19 November 2018
‘Neolithic chic’ – Coillabus on Islay 26 October 2018
Outlander, The Eagle and the Devil’s Pulpit 25 October 2018
Perspective 18 September 2018
Garioch Women for Change 20 August 2018
Atoms of Delight – the Art of Christian Small 17 August 2018
Labels are for jam 22 July 2018
Old Ways through the Glens: Stoneymollen Coffin Road 13 June 2018
Behind the scenes at the museum with Dr Elspeth King 3 May 2018
Monks, marauders and madmen 22 April 2018
Where the wild things are! 21 April 2018
Scotland’s women have been standing up for their beliefs for centuries! 16 March 2018
Take a walk round Bowling Basin – and bring your dog! 24 February 2018
In search of Tintin: or how Arran and Barra played their part in Hergé’s best known ripping yarn! 11 February 2018
“Defy them all, and feare not to win out.” Elizabeth Melville, Scotland’s first woman in print 21 January 2018
Weighing the World – the Schiehallion Experiment 15 January 2018
Estonia – where the past is preserved to protect the future 10 January 2018
The Kellas Compass 3 December 2017
And now for something completely different – a commercial break! 29 November 2017
The Three Distilleries Path on Islay 15 November 2017
The Raising of Submarine K13 28 October 2017
Thomas Grant Dey 14 October 2017
Glorious Glen Finglas 22 September 2017
Coire Fhionn Lochan – Arran at its best 21 August 2017
Follow the Dead 15 August 2017
Crime wave! 2 August 2017
Aberfoyle 2 July 2017
Glenelg – Spacemen and Spies! 28 June 2017
Rev James Dey 22 May 2017
… and of course, Gorse, … 27 April 2017
Glorious Gorse, a great Scottish native 24 April 2017
Cape Wrath – remote but reachable 2 April 2017
The Bone Caves of Inchnadamph 8 March 2017
Power and Beauty in the Glens: Loch Sloy Dam Part 1 13 February 2017
Time out in the Trossachs 2: it’s BLiSS out there! 9 February 2017
Bute’s West Island Way 6 February 2017
Time out in the Trossachs 1: An Ceann Mòr on Loch Lomond 5 February 2017
A bright start to the New Year by Loch Lomond’s Shores 2 January 2017

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