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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
- September 8, 2008 1:13 am
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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
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
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
Sawney Bean and his tribe
No-one is absolutely sure if these gruesome villains existed, or if they were just English propaganda to blacken the Scottish name after the Jacobite rising, but if you had been traveling in Galloway ...
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Sawnwy Bean