Title: Blood on the thistle
Description: Blood on the Thistle is an examination of the life and times of a remarkable Scottish family, the Cranstons of Haddington, East Lothian. It focuses on a period from about 1880, when the young, hard-working parents, Alec and Lizzie Cranston, arrived in Haddington, through to 1920, when the family they had produced, torn apart by the effects of the Great War, broke up as its surviving members pursued separate lives around the globe. Out of seven sons who served in the First World War, four died and two more were horrifically wounded; only one, the youngest, returned home physically.
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918, TRAVEL, HISTORY, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, Biography, Family, great britain, World war, 1914-1918, biography, Scotland, biography, Scotland, history
Places: Europe, Haddington, Great Britain, Scotland, Haddington (Scotland)
People: Cranston family
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century