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Falkirk's Kelpies Hit The Big Apple
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by Nadine Lee
Scaled models of Falkirk's Kelpies at their temporary home in NYC.
Scaled models of Falkirk's impressive Kelpie statues have embarked on their first overseas tour, just in time for upcoming Scottis...
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Falkirk, Horse, New York City, Tartan Day, The Kelpies
- March 25, 2014 11:43 am
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Fears of Overseas Criticism if Bannockburn Event is Sca...
By: Rodger Moffet - ScotClans
There are concerns that the already beleaguered Bannockburn Live event scheduled for the end of June this year may suffer even more set backs with one of the event day...
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Bannockburn, Gathering Clans
Bannockburn Visitor Centre Ready for Battle
by Nadine Lee
A 3D Robert the Bruce visits his troops at the new Bannockburn Visitor Centre
We're just back from a quick trip up the road to just outside Stirling to check out the new Bannockburn Visitor Centre,...
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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Tartan Day Celebrated Around the World
by Nadine Lee
Celebrated annually around the world, April 6 is recognised as an international celebration of Scottish heritage and ancestry. Known as Tartan Day, the celebration marks the anniversary of the 1320 si...
West Lochaber have a lot going on in 2014
Meet the People :: See the Places :: Settle the Heart
Howling Events, a west Lochaber coalition of heritage organisations has announced its programme of events for the forthcoming Year of Homecoming ...
New Feature: Clans2014 Forum
One lump or two?
We have just added a brand new feature to the Clans 2014 site; A Discussion Forum.
After a brief and fairly painless registration you can come to the forum and discuss topics suc...
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2014
Calling all pipers and drummers
"THE FRONT RANK" - Pipefest 2005, Holyrood Park Edinburgh - 21 August 2005Photographed by Colin Dickson[/caption]
Pipefest are gathering 10,000 Pipers and drummers from around the World. Pipers and...
Bannockburn: Apparently its just because we hate the En...
Sorry! turns out we all hate you apparently.
Normally I try to keep this blog reasonably clear of political opinion (no really I do). It has been suggested many times that the big issue with the Ba...
The Gauntlets are Off! - Sir Malcolm Wades into Bannock...
Strange forces seem to work on the internet, last year only hours after we had launched this site the news broke that the Stirling gathering was on the rocks. Yesterday a matter of minutes after I pub...
2014: A year of Homecoming (if you like golf or athleti...
Bertie Vogts new head of Visit Scotland? noooooooooo!!!
Last year Stirling Council didn't so much drop the ball on the gathering, more like they picked it up on the halfway line, dribbled past thei...
The Second Battle of Bannockburn
I was alerted today that an article had appeared in the Times. As someone who tends to avoid lining the Murdoch's pockets I had missed it. However I've grudgingly given them a pound via my local newsa...
Stone Mountain Games: Listen for Yourself
Many thanks to COSCA for posting up the audio file from the Stone Mountain clan conference from last month. Unfortunately due to technical difficulties the first part of the audio is missing. What we ...
Grasping the Thistle
Bless those poor wee journalists over at the The Herald Newspaper and their former bosses up the road at Scottish Television, they might have a finger on the pulse when it comes to news, they might ...
Stirling Council and Trotsky's Elbow: Incompetence or D...
"This isn't the Gathering you're looking for - you can go about your business"
A few hours after this site went live on October 12th the news began to break that Stirling Council had pulled the plu...
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