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Clan MacNicol Land Appeal
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by Nadine Lee
The cliffs of Ben Chracaig looking north over the Sound of Raasay
Donors are currently being sought to help preserve ancestral land home to Clan MacNicol/MacNeacail for at least 800 years. The Clan...
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Ben Chracaig, Clan MacNeacail, Clan MacNicol, Clan Society, Donation, Isle of Skye, Scorrybreac
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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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St Patrick's Scottish Heritage
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by Nadine Lee
It's the most Irish day of the year, so what better time to brush up on the history of Ireland's well-known patron saint. As Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated today by Irish communities in all corne...
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Celts, Druids, Hadrian's Wall, Ireland, Roman Britain, Saint Patrick, Saint Patrick's Day
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This Week in History: Isabel MacDuff and Robert the Bru...
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by Nadine Lee
Bruce is crowned for the second time in two days by Isabel MacDuff, Countess of Buchan. Colour litho by Williams, Morris Meredith (1881-1973).
With attention focused on the approaching 700th annive...
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14th Century, Battle of Bannockburn, Battle of Methven, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Dumfries, Isabel MacDuff, John Comyn, MacDuff, Robert the Bruce, scottish wars of independence
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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...
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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...
Queen Marks Anniversary in Scottish Style
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by Nadine Lee
Beside a bubbling brook in a remote part of the highlands isn’t usually where you would expect to come across a modern-day monarch. But a new portrait of Queen Elizabeth II has done just that – pictu...
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Balmoral, Crown Jewels, Elizabeth I, Gelder Burn, Macnab, Mary Queen of Scots, order of the thistle, Queen Elizabeth II, River Dee, Sir Henry Raeburn, Victoria
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English Historian Claims Haggis
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by Nadine Lee
An English food historian has declared Haggis as an English delicacy, claiming the Scottish origins of the dish are as “made up” as tartan. Peter Brears has described Haggis as a ‘fine English dish’ ...
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Haggis, Scotland v England, scottish food, Tartan
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Martin Fowler's Graphic History of Scotland
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by Nadine Lee
The Royal Bank of Scotland - Martin Fowler
Compiling 500 years of Scottish history is by no means an easy feat. Countless pages of history books burst at the seams with tales of battles, inventions...
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1978 World Cup, Act of Union, AIDS, Art, Bannockburn, Culloden, Darien Venture, Edinburgh Trams, Flodden, Highland Clearances, Housing Act of 1980, Martin Fowler, North Sea Oil, Opening of Scottish Parliament, Rangers FC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Scottish identity, Scottish Prison System, Women of Coigach
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Poem Marks Bannockburn Anniversary
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by Nadine Lee
Rotunda Monument at the Bannockburn Battleground
A new poem has been unveiled to mark the upcoming 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn. The specially commissioned poem appears on a new t...
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