MILESTONE REACHED IN BOOK PROJECT LATER this year, a book which has been almost thirty years in the writing will finally be published by an author whose home is in Glass. Anne Forbes, has not my research although however, spent thirty topics which I had stud- years writing the book, ied during my degree Trials and Triumphs: proved to be useful,” The Gordons of Huntly Anne explained. in 16th Century Scot- The Gordon Clan is land, as events in her one of Scotland’s most life forced her to take a historically important break from her research clans and Anne’s book and writing and it is spans the dramatic rise only in recent years that of The Gordons, de- she has been able to fo- scribed by her as ‘minor cus on the book and a magnates in Berwick- subject which she has shire to major players in found to be truly fasci- the north and nationally’ nating. and hugely important In August, Anne across a large part of will launch her book at Scotland. the Aboyne Games, an Anne has spent long event which is a high- hours in libraries at Ab- light for members of the erdeen University and Gordon Clan from all further afield and hopes over the world and it is that her book will bring this family in the 16th to life names and char- century which her book acters from Huntly’s details. history. Anne’s interest in the As the book nears Gordon Clan intensi- completion, Anne is fied during her studies now choosing pictures at Aberdeen Univer- and maps to be used as sity where in 1994 she illustrations and said, gained an honours de- “I have really enjoyed gree in Early Modern researching and writing Scottish History. the book, I have loved Her writing had to every minute of it.” be put to one side how- Her book focuses on Anne Forbes, author of the book about the Clan Gordon with the image ever, when she and hus- the family of the 4th from a 1930s woodcut which will feature on the front cover. (H.E. Photo) band Nick, who taught Earl of Huntly with Scots and her son In addition to the picture of Huntly which at Blairmore School, parallel biographies of James. launch at Aboyne Anne acquired some- left the area and went four of his sons and two Anne is delighted Games, Anne hopes time early in her writing to Zimbabwe from the of his daughters. Their that her work, which that she will be able to career. It is thought to mid 1990s until early very different stories extends to 320 pages, have an event in Huntly have come from a 1930s 2001. illustrate the times in is now finally with the Castle to celebrate the woodcut but Anne “It was only when we which they lived as publisher, John Donald publication of her book. would be interested to came back that I was part of the historic pe- who will publish it on The cover of the book find out more about its able to pick up again on riod of Mary Queen of August 1st. features an attractive history.