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Edinburgh at Christmas Time It's hard to imagine that once upon a time Christmas was banned for over 400 years in Scotland. Today shops are full of anything and everything Christmas related you cou...

Topics: Banning of Christmas, Catholic Church, Celtic Paganism, Christmas, John Knox, Scottish Reformation, Yule

Hundreds of Piping Santas Advance on Edinburgh

by Nadine Lee

Bagpipe playing Santa Clauses descended on Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens over the weekend, to help warm up runners at the city's annual Santa Run. Hundreds of runners and walkers dressed as Santa...

Topics: bagpipes, Christmas, edinburgh, Santa Claus, Stockbridge Pipe Band, Unicycle

Scots Christmas Fare

by Nadine Lee

Perhaps my favourite part of Christmas (after opening presents, of course), are the days spent feasting and picking at leftovers until you can't possibly eat anymore. Here's a compile of traditional...

Topics: Baking, Christmas, Clootie DUmpling, Cock-a-Leekie Soup, Cooking, Mary Queen of Scots, Roastit Bubbly-Jock, Shortbread, Theodora Fitzgibbon, Traditional Scottish Cookery, Traditional Scottish Food, Turkey

Top 5: Last Minute Gift Ideas

by Nadine Lee

For those of you stuck for Christmas gift ideas, here's a roundup of items over in our store at ScotClans.com that are in stock and ready to ship now! The final cut off date for Royal Mail Airmail is ...

Topics: Christmas, ScotClans Shop

All You Want for Christmas – Our Picks

by Nadine Lee

It's well and truly December now, and time to really start thinking about what you want for Christmas. Here at ScotClans we've got orders flying out the door on an hourly basis, so I've put together a...

Topics: Christmas, ScotClans Shop

Alex Salmond's Christmas Card Too 'Political'

by Donald

Alex Salmond's annual Christmas card has been criticised by members of the opposition parties because of its inclusion of the St. Andrew's Cross. Both David McLetchie, Scottish Conservative chief w...

Topics: Christmas, Politics, St. Andrew

Clan Christmas Cards

by Amanda Moffet

Yes we know its only October but this latest offering from ScotClans list of 'homespun' products has arrived just in time. We teamed up with our very good friends at Edinblythe, who have been making f...

Topics: Christmas

Topic: Christmas