John Dewar’s Islay, Jura, and Colonsay: The John Dewar Manuscripts Volume I

Edited by Ronald Black & Chris Dracup

Originally collected in the 1860s, this over 500 page volume of the collection’s 7,000 total pages housed at Inveraray Castle covers the land, stories, and people of Islay, Jura, and Colonsay.

Edited by a team of international researchers and transcribers led by historians Ronald Black and Chris Dracup, and under the patronage of His Grace the Duke of Argyll, this is the first in a series of ten tomes newly transcribed from the original writings of John Dewar, the holy grail of Scottish oral history. The set will retell over 600 stories Dewar wrote down during his travels in the mid 19th century, making this book a must have for the modern Scottish folk historian.”