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Nadine Lee
Clan Television Series Axed
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1263 Battle of Largs American television network ABC has scrapped plans to create a sweeping TV drama set in the Highlands. Described as a ‘tartan Game of Thrones‘, the series was to be set in mediev...
Topics: Battle of Largs, Charlize Theron, Clan Battles, Vikings
Nadine Lee
Macnab of Macnab - Scotland's Newest Chief
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Clan Macnab – Let Fear Be Far From All One of the most fascinating things about Scotland is the way that a country steeped in history and tradition is colliding with the new. This is especially true ...
Topics: chief, Clan Socieities, Gathering 2009, Heir, Killin, Macnab, Smooth John Macnab
Nadine Lee
Clan Douglas and The Battle of Ancrum Moor
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Archibald Douglas In 1545 the aptly titled War of Rough Wooing was in full, ruthless swing. In order to gain Scotland’s allegiance to England, King Henry VIII employed the curious tactic of scorching...
Topics: Archibald Douglas 6th Earl of Angus, Borders, Douglas, Earl of Hertford, edinburgh, James Hamilton 2nd Earl of Arran, Jedburgh, King Henry VIII, Lady Lilliard, Leith, Mary Queen of Scots, Sir Ralph Eure, War of Rough Wooing
Nadine Lee
The Massacre of Glencoe
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Today marks the 321st anniversary of the Massacre of Glencoe, in which 38 MacDonald of Glencoe clansmen were murdered on direct orders from the crown. The death warrant signed by King William III prov...
Topics: Campbell, glencoe, Jacobite, MacDonald, Massacre of Glencoe, Scottish Socialist Republican Movement, William III
Nadine Lee
Scotland's Greatest Gift - Penicillin
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Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS(Eng)6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955 On a sunny morning in September 1928, Scottish biologist Sir Alexander Fleming accidentally made one of the most important me...
Topics: Ayrshire, Davel, Health, Penicillin, Sir Alexander Fleming, World War I, World War II
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