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A Scottish Soldier's Story From D-Day
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While clearing out a few things the other day I came across a very interesting scrap of paper. It was an old sheet of A4 lined paper and on it was a scribbled map and some text. It was given to m...
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Scottish Soldier
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Fears of Overseas Criticism if Bannockburn Event is Sca...
By: Rodger Moffet - ScotClans
There are concerns that the already beleaguered Bannockburn Live event scheduled for the end of June this year may suffer even more set backs with one of the event day...
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Bannockburn, Gathering Clans
The Last Letter of Mary Queen of Scots
This is the last letter of Mary Queen of Scots - it makes very interesting reading. This is the translation:
To the most Christian king, my brother and old ally
Royal brother, having by God's wil...
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Mary Queen of Scots
West Lochaber have a lot going on in 2014
Meet the People :: See the Places :: Settle the Heart
Howling Events, a west Lochaber coalition of heritage organisations has announced its programme of events for the forthcoming Year of Homecoming ...
New Feature: Clans2014 Forum
One lump or two?
We have just added a brand new feature to the Clans 2014 site; A Discussion Forum.
After a brief and fairly painless registration you can come to the forum and discuss topics suc...
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2014
Calling all pipers and drummers
"THE FRONT RANK" - Pipefest 2005, Holyrood Park Edinburgh - 21 August 2005Photographed by Colin Dickson[/caption]
Pipefest are gathering 10,000 Pipers and drummers from around the World. Pipers and...
Bannockburn: Apparently its just because we hate the En...
Sorry! turns out we all hate you apparently.
Normally I try to keep this blog reasonably clear of political opinion (no really I do). It has been suggested many times that the big issue with the Ba...
The Gauntlets are Off! - Sir Malcolm Wades into Bannock...
Strange forces seem to work on the internet, last year only hours after we had launched this site the news broke that the Stirling gathering was on the rocks. Yesterday a matter of minutes after I pub...
2014: A year of Homecoming (if you like golf or athleti...
Bertie Vogts new head of Visit Scotland? noooooooooo!!!
Last year Stirling Council didn't so much drop the ball on the gathering, more like they picked it up on the halfway line, dribbled past thei...
The Second Battle of Bannockburn
I was alerted today that an article had appeared in the Times. As someone who tends to avoid lining the Murdoch's pockets I had missed it. However I've grudgingly given them a pound via my local newsa...