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New Japanese Tartan Design.
A brand new tartan has just been created for Japan. The colours reflect the spring blossom and the design also draws inspiration from Thomas Glover, the 'Scottish Samurai'. Glover was born in 1838 i...
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Tartan
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Tartan Day
This year, for the first time, the huge contribution of Scots and Scotland to the founding of North America will be celebrated across the whole of Canada and the USA on Tartan Day, April 6.
The decis...
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Tartan Day
Clearances statue unveiled in Canada
A statue has been unveiled in Winnipeg Canada marking the achievements of those who left Scotland for Canada during the Highland Clearances. It is the fist statue of its kind to be erected outside S...
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Clearances
Life of Pi poster shows Scottish Shipwreck
Left is The Life of Pi poster, and on the right the wreck of The Sovereign
A Scottish Shipwreck makes a cameo appearance in The Ang Lee Blockbuster - Life of Pi.
Surprised locals recognised the wre...
Founder of Clan Keith Society Dies
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Sadly the Founder of The Clan Keith Society USA, INC., George L. Newberry, passed away this morning.
George founded the USA Clan Keith Society with John Newberry at Grandfather Mountain. Without Geo...
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Keith
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Burns Night Emergencies - What we have in stock
Here at ScotClans we see that ordering clothes for Burns night always catches people by surprise and we get inundated with people desperately needing some tartan to wear to their Burns event.
The dea...
Memories of Elizabeth Rose
Elizabeth Rose : Obituary
Published in the Scotsman Publications on 15 December 2012
ROSE Anna (Kilravock) Peacefully, at Nairn on December 9, 2012, aged 88 years, Baroness Anna Elizabeth Guillemard...
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Clan Rose, Kilravock Castle
The Gooseberry Bush of Kilravlock Castle
There is said to be a curse on Kilravock Castle and the Chiefs of Clan Rose. It was told that if a gooseberry bush that grew at the top of their main tower died, so too would the male line. It is not...
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Clan Rose, Kilravock Castle
Is there a connection between Burness and Campbell of A...
We have been having an email conversation with someone looking into whether Burness is indeed associated with Cambell of Argyll. In Books such as 'Tartan for Me' it does link Burness with Campbell,...
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Clan Burness, Clan Campbell
Campaign to Return Scotland's Birth Certificate
'Scotland's Birth Certificate' describes the earliest surviving record of the country's existence. This ancient document which is 1,000 years old is being held in the national library of France, where...
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MacAlpin
The Greatest Ever Leither?
There's a competition running down here in sunny Leith at the moment to find the greatest ever 'Leither'. The historic port of Leith to the north of Edinburgh (though now part of the city) has had mor...
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Leith
Clan MacKinnon gets a new Chieftan
Clan MacKinnon have a new lease of life - not only have they appointed a new Chieftan but have a shiny new website. This will serve as a great resource to the widespread MacKinnon Clan. They want ev...
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MacKinnon
Ewan The Headless - A MacLaines of Lochbuie Story
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I came across a great story to read in full follow this link.
Legend / oral history has it that the clan Maclain of Lochbuie chief had a son called Ewan 'with the small head'. concerned that they ...
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Clan MacLaine, Clan MacLean, Mull
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A MacKinnon Tale
Highland Revenge - An Ancient MacKinnon Tale
As each generation passes the torch to the next, something is always lost. Some stories and songs do not get passed down, while others only do so in a gar...
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Clan MacKinnon
Armstrongs on TV
The BBC has begun the re-broadcast of the series 'Scotland's Clans' with the story of Clan Armstrong. This was broadcast here in the UK on Monday night and is available online on the BBCi Player.
I...
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Border Reivers, Clan Armstrong