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PM Cites Clan Cameron Heritage in Referendum Speech
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by Nadine Lee
David Cameron answers questions from the media in East London after his speech on the importance of Scotland to the UK.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has referenced his clan heritage in an appeal...
Topics:
Alex Salmond, Bannockburn, Clan Cameron, Culloden, David Cameron, Independence, Lord Lovatt
- February 11, 2014 5:33 pm
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Glencoe Plaque Found in Edinburgh Antique Shop
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by Nadine Lee
The Glencoe Massacre Site Plaque - Image courtesy Deadline News
A plaque commemorating the victims of the Glencoe Massacre has been discovered in an Edinburgh antique shop, 40 years after it went m...
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Antiques, Clan Campbell, Clan MacDonald, edinburgh, glencoe, Glencoe Massacre
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Macbeth News: Blockbuster Set to Film on Skye, Windfarm...
by Nadine Lee
Macbeth Illustration
The Isle of Skye has been confirmed as a shooting location for the latest version of Macbeth to take to the silver screen. The Hollywood blockbuster, starring Oscar contender M...
Hands Across Hadrian's Wall
by Nadine Lee
Hadrian's Wall
A Tory MP has called for 100,000 Britons to hold hands across Hadrian's Wall this summer, in order to prevent Scotland voting for independence. Once used as a defensive fortification...
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Emperor Hadrian, Hadrian's Wall, Hands Across the Border, MP Angus MacNeil, MP Rory Stewart, Roman Empire, Scottish independence
Clan Event Fund Recipients Announced
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by Nadine Lee
Recipients of the Scottish Government's Clan Event Fund were announced today, with over £26,000 in funding awarded to clan events as part of 2014 Homecoming Scotland celebrations.
Enterprise and Tour...
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Romancing the Stone: Curling's Scottish Heritage
by Nadine Lee
On Thin Ice - Team GB at Sochi Olympic Games 2014
Who could have thought that a sport whose humble beginnings can be traced back five centuries to a frozen Scottish lake, would become one of the bi...
Talking Folk with The ELephant Sessions
by Nadine Lee
The Elephant Sessions performing at Northern Roots 2013. Photo by Roddy Mackenzie.
Hailing from Inverness, The Elephant Sessions are an upcoming act set to make waves on the traditional Scottish mu...
Kiev Bagpiper Inspired by Scots Soldiers
by Nadine Lee
Eugene the Piper plays 'Bonnie Galloway' during protests in Kiev.
As violence and unrest continues to engulf Kiev, footage emerged last week of a brave bagpiper playing 'Bonnie Galloway' as bullets...
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bagpipes, Bonnie Galloway, Kiev, Protest, Traditional Scottish Music, Ukraine, Ukrainian Revolution
Work Begins on Clan Donald Village
by Nadine Lee
Kilbeg Village Master Plan
Construction work began this week on the first planned village for over 100 years on the Isle of Skye. A project initiated by the Clan Donald Lands Trust, the 21st centur...
Hunt On For Highland Strongman
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by Nadine Lee
Scotland's original strongman, Donald Dinnie (1837–1916).
Organisers of the Aboyne Highland Games have issued a plea for help tracking down an elusive Highland Games competitor. The strongman is on...
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Ambassador Claims Vikings 'Brought Sarcasm to Britain'
by Nadine Lee
Monty Python have a lot to thank the Vikings for according to the Danish Ambassador.
For over two centuries, Vikings colonised, traded and raided their way through much of Britain before disappeari...
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Danish ambassador, Denmark, Monty Python, Norse, viking
Calling all Murrays
by Nadine Lee
Blair Castle, one of Scotland’s biggest tourist destinations and the ancestral home of the Murray Clan, is marking Scotland’s Year of Homecoming with an open invitation to all Murrays across the glo...
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Blair Castle, Clan Murray, Earl of Atholl
An Ode to Scotland - Meeting a Modern-Day Scots Poet
by Nadine Lee
Intertwined and impenetrably linked to Scottish culture, poetry has a long and distinguished history in Scotland. And it's a history that's continuing to this day – Edinburgh was recently named the wo...
Topics:
edinburgh, Harry Giles, Hugh MacDiarmid, Norse, Orkney, Poetry, Scots, Scots Renaissance, Scottish identity, Vikings
Francis Alexander Mackinnon, 35th Chief — A Hat-Trick V...
by Nadine Lee
Francis Alexander Mackinnon, born April 9, 1848, was the 35th chieftain of the Mackinnon Clan and a Test cricketer for England. Arunabha Sengupta remembers the life and career of the man who was the s...