Add New Blog
Categories
Titanic's secret saviour - the Countess of Rothes
dave Miller, Glenna Davidson Brock, Lisa Bumgarner and 1 other person likes this.
On the night that the Titanic sank, one woman, the Countess of Rothes, put the welfare of others before her own, working tirelessly to row them to safety. Angela Young tells her great-grandmother’s in...
Topics:
Titanic
- April 13, 2015 5:42 pm
- ·
dave Miller, Glenna Davidson Brock, Lisa Bumgarner and 1 other person likes this.
View all 1 comments
James Taylor - “The Father of the Ceylon Tea Industry”
by Donald
Over the weekend of the 22nd to the 24th of August, Scotland's Tea Festival will be hosting a series of events in Laurencekirk and Auchenblae in Aberdeenshire celebrating tea and Scotland's contributi...
The legacy of Margaret MacNab - over 100 years of fami...
Donald likes this.
James and Jane McNab lived in the coastal town of Girvan on the west coast of Scotland. It was a fishing port and agricultural region. The Isle of Arran could be seen across the sea and the Ailsa Crai...
Donald likes this.
Francis Alexander Mackinnon, 35th Chief — A Hat-Trick V...
by Nadine Lee
Francis Alexander Mackinnon, born April 9, 1848, was the 35th chieftain of the Mackinnon Clan and a Test cricketer for England. Arunabha Sengupta remembers the life and career of the man who was the s...
An Ode to Scotland - Meeting a Modern-Day Scots Poet
by Nadine Lee
Intertwined and impenetrably linked to Scottish culture, poetry has a long and distinguished history in Scotland. And it's a history that's continuing to this day – Edinburgh was recently named the wo...
Topics:
edinburgh, Harry Giles, Hugh MacDiarmid, Norse, Orkney, Poetry, Scots, Scots Renaissance, Scottish identity, Vikings
Calling all Murrays
by Nadine Lee
Blair Castle, one of Scotland’s biggest tourist destinations and the ancestral home of the Murray Clan, is marking Scotland’s Year of Homecoming with an open invitation to all Murrays across the glo...
Topics:
Blair Castle, Clan Murray, Earl of Atholl
Tartan Day Celebrated Around the World
by Nadine Lee
Celebrated annually around the world, April 6 is recognised as an international celebration of Scottish heritage and ancestry. Known as Tartan Day, the celebration marks the anniversary of the 1320 si...
Kelburn Castle Set to Reopen
by Nadine Lee
The seat of Clan Boyle, also known as the 'graffiti castle', is set to reopen after a five year £500,000 renovation. Kelburn Castle near Largs, North Ayrshire was closed in 2009 following a fire in ...
Topics:
Boyle, Castles, Scottish Clans, Scottish History, Scottish News
Airline Reveals Tartan-Clad Plane
Owen Wright likes this.
by Nadine Lee
Cabin crew sport tartan scarves in front of easyJet's new tartan-clad plane.
A distinctive orange and black tartan-clad aircraft has been unveiled to mark a new early morning flight from Inverness ...
Topics:
EasyJet, highland, Inverness, Kilts!, London Gatwick, Plane, scottish register of tartans, Tartan
Owen Wright likes this.
This Week in History: Isabel MacDuff and Robert the Bru...
Thomas Gray likes this.
by Nadine Lee
Bruce is crowned for the second time in two days by Isabel MacDuff, Countess of Buchan. Colour litho by Williams, Morris Meredith (1881-1973).
With attention focused on the approaching 700th annive...
Topics:
14th Century, Battle of Bannockburn, Battle of Methven, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Dumfries, Isabel MacDuff, John Comyn, MacDuff, Robert the Bruce, scottish wars of independence
Thomas Gray likes this.
Amanda Moffet (147)
Nadine Lee (134)
Donald (78)
Tartan Footprint (21)