Book Release

Release date: November 12th 2022 – City Arts Centre Edinburgh – RRP £21.95

“I’m delighted to see this book published, and it will be of all the greater ethnographic value because MacKenzie had the Gaelic. It is rare to see accounts of women’s history being recovered and written. ” Alastair McIntosh, Scottish writer, academic and activist.

In 1912, the Highland Home Industries sent Isabell Burton MacKenzie on a mission to the Western Isles of Scotland, as their first organiser.

Foreword by Dr. John MacInnes – School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh University.

We have numerous collections of poetry, music and folktales made over the last two or three centuries in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. By way of contrast, however, we have few descriptions of the everyday life of the people who contributed to these collections. As a consequence, every scrap of information is if great interest.

Alyne Jones is to be congratulated for bringing this diary to light. Furthermore, the fieldwork she is planning to carry out should revive memories of a variety of home-based industries which will provide material of enormous value to social historians.

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