The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • About The Hazel Tree
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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach
  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood

Latest blog posts for RSGS

Alexander Kellas - 'the most modest man that ever travelled the Himalayas'
Jane Digby el-Mezrab: from ballroom conquests to bedouin camps
Sir Everard im Thurn and an expedition to 'The Lost World'
Straight up the Prow: Roraima by the hardest route
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Dunfermline Abbey (part 2): pride of kings

    November 18, 2015 /

    The second in my two-part series about the abbey and royal palace of Dunfermline

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    Kilvickeon: a forgotten sanctuary

    December 14, 2011

    The old chapel of Kilvaree

    June 24, 2018

    Kilmore – a quiet chapter

    June 2, 2013
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Dunfermline Abbey (part 1): echoes of majesty

    November 13, 2015 /

    A powerful king and a devoted queen: these massive walls guard a shrine that lies at the very heart of Scotland's history

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    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012

    St Conan’s Kirk

    June 27, 2019

    An old graveyard near Callander

    September 9, 2014
  • Reviews

    Book review: ‘The First Blast of the Trumpet’ by Marie Macpherson

    July 24, 2015 /

    The first in the 'Knox Trilogy', this riveting story of 16th century Scotland will sweep you into the court of James IV and into the candlelit rooms of castles, palaces and convents...

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    Book review: ‘The New Sylva’

    May 7, 2014

    Book review: ‘Scotland’s Merlin’ by Tim Clarkson

    July 14, 2016

    ‘Bonnie Scotland’ by A R Hope Moncrieff and Harry Sutton Palmer

    January 11, 2016
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    "To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."

    Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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