Monthly Archives: November 2011

The West Lothian Oil Rush

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Kyle McKibben

If you look down the somnolent mainstreet of post-industrial Pumpherston, it’s difficult to believe that West Lothian was the centre of the world’s first oil boom, but it was. James “Paraffin” Young didn’t discover paraffin in 1851, but he was … Continue reading →

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A Time of Tyrants, Scotland and the Second World

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Alex Wood

Trevor Royle’sA Time of Tyrants, Scotland and the Second World War (Birlinn, £25.00)starts symbolically with the Empire Exhibition in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, in 1938. Glasgow perceived itself as ‘the second city of the Empire’ and with some legitimacy.

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