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Nadine Lee
Romancing the Stone: Curling's Scottish Heritage
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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...
Topics: Curling, Grand Caledonian Curling Club, Kilsyth Curling Club, Rabbie Burns, Royal Caledonian Curling Club, Scottish immigration to Canada, Scottish Inventions, Scottish Sport, Sochi WInter Olympic Games 2014, Team GB, Winter Olympics
Nadine Lee
Tartan Day Celebrated Around the World
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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...
Topics: April 6, Columbia, Decleration of Arbroath, Minneapolis, New York City, New York Tartan Day Parade, Robert the Bruce, Tartan Day, Washington
Amanda Moffet
Titanic's secret saviour - the Countess of Rothes
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On the night that the Titanic sank, one woman, the Countess of Rothes, put the welfare of others before her own, working tirelessly to row them to safety. Angela Young tells her great-grandmother’s in...
Topics: Titanic
Amanda Moffet
A Beginner's Guide To The Jacobites
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Let me start off this post with a caveat. If you are a serious scholar or indeed if you have ever read a book or even paid attention during a documentary about the Jacobite rebellionsthen best to move...
Topics: Jacobite
Nadine Lee
The Massacre of Glencoe
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Today marks the 321st anniversary of the Massacre of Glencoe, in which 38 MacDonald of Glencoe clansmen were murdered on direct orders from the crown. The death warrant signed by King William III prov...
Topics: Campbell, glencoe, Jacobite, MacDonald, Massacre of Glencoe, Scottish Socialist Republican Movement, William III
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