James Irvine Robertson is an author, broadcaster, historian, humourous columnist & contributor to a wide variety of newspapers and magazines in the UK, US and Australia

After working in advertising he became a pig and dairy farmer in South West England, contributed to agricultural journals and wrote a series of comic novels - the ‘Any Fool’ series. He returned to Scotland in 1991 since when he has concentrated on history.

The prime purpose of this website is to give access to family historians and other interested in the history of Highland Perthshire to the transcripts of his family papers. These have been used as the basis for 'The Lady of Kynachan' and other works listed in the bibliography.