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Thousands of Scottish Records Released
by Nadine Lee
Family history website ScotlandsPeople has uploaded a tranche of birth, marriage and death records from across the country, dating from 1913, 1938 and 1963 respectively. The records are available to ...
- January 10, 2014 5:52 pm
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A Beginners Guide to Burns Night
by Nadine Lee
Thank goodness Burns Night is just around the corner. With Christmas and Hogmanay celebrations all over for another year, I've been suffering from post-festive-season-depression this past week. Tout...
Gaelic Music Needs Your Help
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by Nadine Lee
Just as the descendents of Scottish emigrants can be found in every corner of the globe, so too can their language. Scottish Gaelic is the focus of a new musical project celebrating the languages sp...
Topics:
Gaelic, Gaelic Music, Jim Sutherland, Kickstarter
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Gaelic Music Needs Your Help
by Nadine Lee
Just as the descendents of Scottish emigrants can be found in every corner of the globe, so too can their language. Scottish Gaelic is the focus of a new musical project celebrating the languages sp...
Topics:
Gaelic, Gaelic Music, Jim Sutherland, Kickstarter
Barra's Seafaring History Goes Digital
by Nadine Lee
Launched on 16 Nov 2013, Sgeulachdan na Mara / Sea Stories is an innovative interactive map that reveals Barra's rich local knowledge, language and culture through the voices and experiences of the ...
Topics:
barra, Fishing, MacNeil of Barra, Sea, Shipwrecks
Worldwide Call for 24 Hour Ceilidh
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by Nadine Lee
People from across the world have been invited to join in a global ceilidh held over 24 hours next summer, as part of Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games celebrations.
The Royal Scottish Country Dance...
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Royal Storm Hits Over Gaelic College Name
by Nadine Lee
A storm is erupting over the Royal designation given to a Canadian Gaelic College by Queen Elizabeth II. Colaisde na Gàidhlig - The Gaelic College in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia is to be styled immedi...
A History of Christmas in Scotland
by Nadine Lee
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...
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...
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
Crowdfunding Appeal to Save Culloden Blunderbuss
by Nadine Lee
The National Trust for Scotland have launched an online crowdfunding appeal to save one of the few items removed from the historic battlefield at Culloden. The 343 year old blunderbuss, currently on...
Griogal Cridhe - Beloved Gregor
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by Nadine Lee
On a Wednesday evening in Edinburgh, direct your ears upwards while wandering up Victoria Street from the Grassmarket and you might just hear a bit of Gaelic tune floating out onto the street below....
Topics:
Balloch Castle, breadalbane, Clan Campbell, edinburgh, Edinburgh Gaelic Choir, Execution, Gaelic Clan MacGregor, Gregor Ruadh Red MacGregor of Glenstrae, Grey Colin, Griogal Cridhe, Lament, Marion Campbell, Mary Queen of Scots, Sir Colin Campbell, Taymouth Castle
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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
Top 5: Whisky of the Clans
by Nadine Lee
Intrinsically linked like bread and butter, whisky and the Clans are about as all things Scot as you're going to get. Here are our top five links between the water of life and Scotland's oldest famili...
Topics:
1745 Jacobite Rising, Blended Whisky, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Clan Campbell, clan chief, Clan Macgregor, Clan MacGregor Whisky, Clan Mackenzie, Clan MacLeod, Clan MacNeil of Barra, Culloden, Dalmore, Drambuie, Duke of Argyll, Glayva, Isle of Skye, King Alexander III, MacKinnon, Malcolm MacGregor, Scottish Liqueur, Single Malt, Talisker, Torquhil Ian, Whisky