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Nadine Lee
Map Reveals Scots Modern-Day Surnames
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A map of Great Britain’s most popular surnames shows the dominance that clan areas still hold in Scotland, while other areas show the effects of modern-day immigration. Created by experts from three...
Topics: edinburgh, glasgow, Highlands, Inverness, orkeny, Shetland, surnames, uncertainty of identity, western isles, Fraser, MacDonald, MacKay, MacKenzie, MacLeod, Ross, Sinclair, Sutherland
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Nadine Lee
Bus Driver Says 'Kilt Wearing Scots are Lucky'
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A bus driver in the northern Swedish town of Umea has begun wearing a skirt to work as temperatures sore past 25C. Mats Lundgren decided to find a trouser alternative when his boss turned down h...
Topics: Kilt, skirt, Sweden
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Nadine Lee
Learn to Speak Norn For Only £120
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A dictionary of an extinct language spoken only in the remote Scottish Highlands has been uncovered in an English charity shop. The two-volume Norn Dictionary was anonymously donated to the Willow Bu...
Topics: language, norn, Norse, northern isles, Orkney, Shetland
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Nadine Lee
English Historian Claims Haggis
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An English food historian has declared Haggis as an English delicacy, claiming the Scottish origins of the dish are as “made up” as tartan. Peter Brears has described Haggis as a ‘fine English dish’ ...
Topics: Haggis, Scotland v England, scottish food, Tartan
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Nadine Lee
Sam Heughan is Outlander's Jamie Fraser
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It's official - Scottish actor Sam Heughan has been cast in the upcoming television adaptation of Outlander. In a statement released yesterday, American cable network Starz confirmed the casting aft...
Topics: Claire Randall, Diana Gabaldon, Historical Fiction, Jamie Fraser, Outlander, Sam Heughan, Starz, Television
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Nadine Lee
Asterix Weighs in on Independence Debate
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Inspired by the Scottish independence debate, the latest Asterix adventure sees the comic book hero travel to Iron Age Scotland where he meets the Picts. Author Jean Yves-Ferri explained that the sto...
Topics: Asterix, Iron Age Scotland, Picts, Scottish independence
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Nadine Lee
Poem Marks Bannockburn Anniversary
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Rotunda Monument at the Bannockburn Battleground A new poem has been unveiled to mark the upcoming 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn. The specially commissioned poem appears on a new t...
Topics: Bannockburn, Bannockburn Live 2014, Poetry, Robert the Bruce, Rotunda Monument
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Nadine Lee
Why is Scotland so.... Google Reveals All
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Internet search giant Google has revealed questions the world wants to know about Scotland, unfortunately showing rather unflattering results. The auto-complete feature imbedded in the search engine ...
Topics: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Google
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Nadine Lee
The Duchess and I
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Scottish National Portrait Gallery Frieze As you enter the main hall of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 150 titans of Scottish history gaze down at you, providing a dramatic introduction to...
Topics: Alexander Gordon 4th Duke of Gordon, Castle Gordon, edinburgh, General Cornwallis, Gordon Highlanders, Island of the Swans, Jane Gordon Duchess of Gordon, Lady Jane Maxwell, Lord Brome, Robert Burns, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Sir WIlliam Maxwell
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Amanda Moffet
New fashion of getting a Sgian Dubh tattooed
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We recently had a comment on a post about Sgian Dubhs being banned at events telling us of a new craze going across America at the moment – getting Sgian Dubhs tattooed! This is particularly popular ...
Topics: sgain dubh
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Nadine Lee
Billy Connolly's Highland Retreat For Sale
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The Dining Room at Candacraig With a price tag of almost £3 million pounds, Scottish comedian Billy Connolly's Highland baronial home in Aberdeenshire has been listed on the market. The 12-bedroom ...
Topics: Aberdeenshire, Billy Connolly, Candacraig, Clan Anderson, Corgarff, Glenbuchat, Kildrummy, Macnab, Real Estate
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Nadine Lee
A Cannonball, a Sheepskin and a Loch Village
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From a cannonball found lodged in the wall of a castle, to a Bronze Age body wrapped in a sheepskin - it's been a thrilling week in the field of archaeology. Here's the lowdown on the latest uncovered...
Topics: archaeology, Bronze Age, Cannonball, Clan Campbell, clan donald, crannog, Excavation, Iron Age, Loch VIllage, Lochaber, Mingary Castle, sheepskin
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Nadine Lee
Home to Hume
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Clan Hume Gathering at Hume Castle, 08/09/2013 Earlier in September Amanda and I traveled to the Scottish Borders to spend an afternoon at Hume Castle, where part of this years Clan Hume/Home gathe...
Topics: Battle of Flodden, Borders, Canada, Clan Associations, David Douglas-Home CVO CBE, David Hume, diaspora, Duke of Roxburghe, Earl of Home, Floors Caste, Home, Hume, Hume Castle, Isla St Clair, King James II of Scotland, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, United States
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Nadine Lee
Move Over Breaking Bad, Here Comes Bannan
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Scotland's Gaelic TV channel BBC Alba is hoping Bannan will appeal to a wider audience. Here's some great news for my fellow small-screen junkies - a new Scottish series will soon be hitting our sc...
Topics: 2011 Scottish Census, Bannan, BBC, Breaking Bad, Chris Young, Gaelic, River City, Scots, Tony Kearney, TV Drama
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Nadine Lee
Lord Sempill to Attend Stone Mountain Games
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Lord Sempill will be attending the 2013 Stone Mountain Games Every year during the third week of October, you'd be forgiven for thinking a little piece of Atlanta was in fact a little piece of Scot...
Topics: merican Scottish Foundation, Ancestral Tourism, Atlanta, Clan Elliot, Clan Rose, COSCA, David Rose, Gathering 2009, Georgia, Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, Lord Sempill, Macdonald & Rees, Margaret Elliot, Scottish Heritage USA, Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, Stone Mountain Highland Games, United States
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