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Has our relationship to food changed during the coronavirus crisis? Stockpiling, shortages, local sourcing, and self-sufficiency are now on everyone’s lips. William Mackenzie shares his memories of the time when almost all common foods had been placed under rationing. By W.A.M. MacKenzie Some eighty years ago

300,000 to 1. Those are the odds of being struck by lightening in the UK. 
The chances of being fatally struck are speculated to be around 1 in a million. 
 by Anna MacRae MacDonald In the late spring of 1895, parts of the Highlands were experiencing hot and humid

A day or two after any visitor arrived to St Kilda, the inhabitants suffered from outbreaks of a respiratory tract infection known locally as the ‘boat cough’ By James Currall On August 15th 1727 three men and eight boys were rowed from Village Bay on Hirta, the largest island of