The Massacre of Glencoe

Walking through Edinburgh - with its grand, grey buildings varnished with an ever-present drizzle of rain - it is hard not to feel the darkness of this northern nation.  

Plaques, dedicated to the 4,000 or so women executed for witchcraft in Scotland in the 17th and 18th centuries, are scattered among the tourist shops. One well-worn pub, where I used to drink cheap red wine as a student, is located next to a square where public hangings once took place. It is called ‘The Last Drop’.

Few Scottish stories, however, have stuck in the public imagination more than the Glencoe Massacre of 1692 when the Campbell clan of Glenlyon brutally