Scotland Magazine

THE PROBLEM WITH ILLEGITIMACY

Find a man of this name in the same parish at the right time, and he was likely the culprit

Was there ever, really, a general notion that all our ancestors led entirely moral and upstanding lives, free of ‘scandalous’ behaviour that is often, really, evidence of nothing more than our innate humanity?

When my grandmother walked up the aisle, my father was already into his third month in her womb, and a close examination of many other

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