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Braemar Castle
by Donald
Braemar Castle in Aberdeenshire was first built by the 18th Earl of Mar, John Erskine in 1628, using it as a hunting lodge and strong hold against the powerful neighbouring Farquharson family. The cas...
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1715, Aberdeenshire, Braemar, Braemar Castle, Earl of Mar, Erskine, Farquharson
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Map of 2012 Highland Games and Scottish Events - Update...
by Donald
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A map pinpointing many of the Highland Games and Scottish events taking pl...
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Highland Games, Scottish Events
Reverend Ernest Levy Dies
by Donald
Reverend Ernest Levy OBE, one Scotland's most prominent Jewish leaders, and Holocaust survivor has died at the age of 84.
Born in 1925, in Bratislava, in the then Czechoslovakia, his family fled to...
Johnnie Armstrong and the Border Reivers
by Donald
Johnnie Armstrong of Gilnockie was once one of the most popular, powerful, and feared clan chiefs in the Scottish borders. However, after his execution in 1530 by order of James V, Clan Armstrong ha...
Scotland's Oldest Man Dies
by Donald
Scotland's oldest man, Robert 'Bob' Taggart, has passed away on the 13th of Augus tat the age of 109, less than three weeks after being crowned Britain's oldest man, after the death of First World W...
Travel guide warns Vikings of hostile Scottish natives
by Donald
An Icelandic 'travel guide' from the 13th century gave warning to any Viking thinking of heading to 'Skotland' to do a bit of plundering that they should be wary of the aggressive natives with their i...
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Iceland, Malcolm II, travel, Vikings
Thomas the Rhymer
by Donald
Thomas Learmonth from Ercildoune (now Earlston), better known as Thomas the Rhymer was a 13th century Laird, poet and a supposed prophet.
Legend tells us how Thomas the Rhymer went out walking one ...
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Fairy, Learmonth, Myth, Thomas the Rymer
The Tragedy of Mary Hamilton
by Donald
The well known ballad "Mary Hamilton", or "The Fower Maries" is a sixteenth century song about Mary Hamilton awaiting execution and telling the story of her downfall. Mary was a lady-in-waiting to a Q...
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Carmichael, Fleming, Hamilton, James V, Livingstone, Mary Hamilton, Mary of Guise, Mary Queen of Scots, Murder, Russia, Seton
Lochearnhead Highland Games 2011
by Donald
On Saturday the ScotClans team went up to the Highland Games at Lochearnhead to hold a stall for Clan MacLaren. The weather was glorious and it really highlighted the beauty of that part of the countr...
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Highland Games, Lochearnhead, MacGregor, MacLaren
The Beaton Doctors of Mull
by Donald
The Beatons of Mull, the famous 'Ollamnh Muileach', were a family of doctors, whose origins can be traced back to Béthune in France, and are said to have been very talented with a rather unique medi...