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by Nadine Lee
Clan Hume Gathering at Hume Castle, 08/09/2013
Earlier in September Amanda and I traveled to the Scottish Borders to spend an afternoon at Hume Castle, where part of this years Clan Hume/Home gathe...
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Battle of Flodden, Borders, Canada, Clan Associations, David Douglas-Home CVO CBE, David Hume, diaspora, Duke of Roxburghe, Earl of Home, Floors Caste, Home, Hume, Hume Castle, Isla St Clair, King James II of Scotland, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, United States
- September 19, 2013 3:05 pm
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Move Over Breaking Bad, Here Comes Bannan
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by Nadine Lee
Scotland's Gaelic TV channel BBC Alba is hoping Bannan will appeal to a wider audience.
Here's some great news for my fellow small-screen junkies - a new Scottish series will soon be hitting our sc...
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2011 Scottish Census, Bannan, BBC, Breaking Bad, Chris Young, Gaelic, River City, Scots, Tony Kearney, TV Drama
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Lord Sempill to Attend Stone Mountain Games
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by Nadine Lee
Lord Sempill will be attending the 2013 Stone Mountain Games
Every year during the third week of October, you'd be forgiven for thinking a little piece of Atlanta was in fact a little piece of Scot...
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merican Scottish Foundation, Ancestral Tourism, Atlanta, Clan Elliot, Clan Rose, COSCA, David Rose, Gathering 2009, Georgia, Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, Lord Sempill, Macdonald & Rees, Margaret Elliot, Scottish Heritage USA, Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, Stone Mountain Highland Games, United States
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Our Vote for Scotland's National Tree
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by Nadine Lee
Canada has the instantly recognisable maple tree, Japan has the whimsical cherry blossom, and England has the mighty royal oak. However Scotland seems to have missed the proverbial national-tree boat,...
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Gaelic Heritage, MacLachlan, Malcolm, Scottish Clans, Scottish Nature, Urquhart
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Photographs Reveal Croft Memories
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by Nadine Lee
3:44am, Isle of Harris (John Maher)
A new photographic exhibition is set to open that shines a light on abandoned crofts throughout the Western Isles of Scotland. Entitled Leaving Home: An Alternat...
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boarded out children, croft, emmigration, Eriskay, Exhibition, hebrides, Homes, Ian Peterson, John Maher, Lewis, Photography, Stornoway, western isles
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