From quiet homes and first beginnings
Archivist Fiona Mackenzie describes her first five years on the Isle of Canna.
Photo forensics – teasing out the details
Canna archivist Fiona Mackenzie shows how research helps to fill in the details of the Margaret Fay Shaw photographic collection catalogue in Canna House.
Gulliver’s Travels – the Le Mans connection
Here’s a question for your next lockdown quiz – what’s the connection between the small Hebridean island of Canna and the world-famous Le Mans car race?
Té an ath-dhoras – the woman next door
We take a look at how ‘ordinary’ women are represented in the photographic collections of Canna House.
Margaret Fay Shaw’s diary – the voyage to Scotland in 1920
Read Canna’s Margaret Fay Shaw’s diary entries during her first voyage to school in Helensburgh, on the Anchor Line’s SS Columbia.
Margaret Fay Shaw: the shadow in the corner
Fiona Mackenzie, Canna House Archivist, explores whether folklorist Margaret Fay Shaw deliberately inserted her shadow into her photography as a form of self-portrait.
Remembering the sinking of the ‘William Humphries’
Find out more about the story of Canna’s war grave and the tragic sinking of the steam trawler ‘William Humphries’, hit by a U-boat in 1939.
Margaret Fay Shaw’s first Christmas in Britain in 1920
Folklorist Margaret Fay Shaw, from Pittsburgh and Canna, describes her first British Christmas in London, on holiday from school in Helensburgh.
Bride, banns & braces – when two folklorists wed
Read a special personal account of the wedding of Canna’s John Lorne Campbell and Margaret Fay Shaw in June 1935.
The feast day of St Columba
Enjoy some images and sounds from Canna related to Cholm Cille (St Columba) to mark his 1,500th birthday in 2021.
‘Colm’ – an island journey with St Columba
Be taken on an island journey with St Columba through Canna, Lewis and islands of the Irish Gaeltacht in this short film.
A waulk on the wild side
Enjoy this gallery of images of sheep and the wearers of their wool – to coincide with the tweed waulking event on Canna this weekend.
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