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Scottish History

Nadine Lee
MacNeil Land Claims on Barra and Vatersay Islands
MacNeil of Barra - Buaidhi no bas (To conquer or die) A land ownership storm is brewing on the islands of Barra and Vatersay in the Outer Hebrides. The late Ian MacNeil, 46th Chief of Clan MacNeil, ...
Nadine Lee
The Legend of Twinlaw Cairns
The Twinlaw Cairns, Lammermuir Hills, East Lothian This weekend I visited my friends in the countryside, as I had heard there was going to be snow. Being from a semi-tropical climate, snow is still...
Nadine Lee
Scottish Battlefield Sites Protected
The Battle of Bannockburn by Brian Palmer The British architect Graeme Shankland once said: “A country without a past has the emptiness of a barren continent, and a city without old buildings is l...
Nadine Lee
From New Zealand to Scotland
New Zealand is a rather funny wee place. One of its defining features is the mishmash of cultures from all around the world that have gathered together on a few tiny islands far away in the depths of ...
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Hill and Adamson
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Buried in the beautiful Victorian Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh is David Octavius Hill, a painter who, along with Robert Adamson, pioneered in Scottish and aesthetic photography. They founded the Hill ...