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Nadine Lee
An Expedition to Munro Country
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Hector Munro outside Foulis Castle The Highlands in the spring time are a busy, bustling place. Tractors hold up traffic on the A9, lambs dot the earthy-coloured countryside and freshly sown fields ...
Topics: 1745 rebellion, Captain Patrick Munro, Culloden, Dr Donald Munro, Easter Ross, Foulis Castle, Hanoverians, Hector Munro, Highlands, historic scotland, Munro, Seaforth Highlanders, Sir John Cope, Sir Robert Munro
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Nadine Lee
How the Clans Inspired Game of Thrones
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If you still haven’t seen Episode 9 ‘The Rains of Castamere‘ in the latest season of Game of Thrones, you should probably stop reading this post right about now. It’s a well-known and begrudgingly a...
Topics: Alexander Livingston, Campbell, Clan Crest, Clan Motto, Crichton, Douglas, Edinburgh Castle, Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin, Glencoe Massacre, House Lannister, House Stark, King James II, MacDonald, MacGregor, royal mile, Seat, The Black Dinner, The Red Wedding
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Nadine Lee
Mary, Queen of Scots Returns to Edinburgh
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Chambers Street, Edinburgh In August 1561 Mary, Queen of Scots returned to Edinburgh from France as a Catholic queen in a newly reformed Protestant Scotland. Initially greeted with crowds curious t...
Topics: Blairs Memorial Portrait, Earl of Moray, Elizabeth Curle, Elizabeth I, james vi, John Knox, Mary of Guise, Mary Queen of Scots, National Museum of Scotland, Penicuik Jewels, Reformation, Stewart
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Nadine Lee
Clan Robertson Estate up for Sale
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Dall House, surrounded by Dall Estate An excessively magnificent and utterly luxurious highland estate with clan links has been placed on the market, boasting an equally impressive price tag. Once ...
Topics: Bannockburn, Culloden, Dall Estate, Dall House, Duncan the Stout, George Duncan Robertson, Highlands, James I, Loch Rannoch, Malcolm James, Real Estate, Robert Riach the Grizzled, Robert the Bruce, Robertson, scottish wars of independence, Thomas MacKenzie
Rodger Moffet
Culloden Moor Housing Development and our Ancestral Her...
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As dusk fell over Culloden Moor on the 16th April 1746 the last major land battle to be fought on British soil had drawn to a conclusion. With close to 2,000 dead and wounded Jacobites the campaign...
Nadine Lee
Vikings Force Closure of Shetland Fire Station
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A Shetland fire station has been forced to close its doors as the result of a viking fire festival. Two fire fighters from the station on the Island of Bressay have refused to shave their beards ahe...
Topics: Vikings, Shetland, Up Helly Aa
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Nadine Lee
Hands Across Hadrian's Wall
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Hadrian's Wall A Tory MP has called for 100,000 Britons to hold hands across Hadrian's Wall this summer, in order to prevent Scotland voting for independence. Once used as a defensive fortification...
Topics: Emperor Hadrian, Hadrian's Wall, Hands Across the Border, MP Angus MacNeil, MP Rory Stewart, Roman Empire, Scottish independence
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A Scottish Soldier's Story From D-Day
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  While clearing out a few things the other day I came across a very interesting scrap of paper. It was an old sheet of A4 lined paper and on it was a scribbled map and some text. It was given to m...
Topics: Scottish Soldier
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Owen Wright
Historic Preservation & Heritage Managment
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This is an area where topics can be discussed relating to the preservation, protection, and interpretation of Scotland's historic architecture and landscapes. From the castle to cottage and formal gar...
Topics: Historic Preservation, Heritage, Architecture, Architectural Design, Cultural Resource Management, Culture, history, Restoration, Conservation, Landscapes, Landscape Design
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Donald
Duncan Campbell and the Ghost of his Brother
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Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe was fatally wounded at the Battle of Carillon in 1758 during the Seven Years' War. The night before the battle Campbell had a ghostly encounter with his dead foster...
Topics: Campbell, Ghost, Seven Years' War
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Donald
The Death March to Durham
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The aftermath of the 1650 Battle of Dunbar saw the grave mistreatment of 5,000 Scottish prisoners-of-war at the hands of the English Parliamentarian army. These battle-weary prisoners were starved o...
Topics: Covenanter, Cromwell, David Leslie, Death March, Doon Hill, Dunbar, King Charles
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Amanda Moffet
Scots fought 'in bright yellow war shirts not Bravehear...
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Medieval Scottish soldiers fought wearing bright yellow war shirts dyed in horse urine rather than the tartan plaid depicted in the film Braveheart, according  research. Historian Fergus Cannan stat...
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Nadine Lee
The Battle of Clachnaharry
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Perched atop a hill overlooking the Beauly Firth in Inverness, the Clachnaharry Monument commemorates a particularly fierce battle between Clan Munro and Clan Chattan that occurred in 1454. After a...
Topics: Beauly Firth, Chattan, Clachnaharry, Fraser, Inverness, John Munro Tutor of Foulis, Lord Lovatt, Munro
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Nadine Lee
Conservation Work Begins on Drum Castle
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Drum castle, ancient seat of Clan Irvine, has received a £700,000 conservation grant from Historic Scotland. The 700-year old castle boasts the oldest keep in Scotland and is the oldest intact buildi...
Topics: Irvine, Castle, Robert the Bruce, Aberdeenshire
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Nadine Lee
Clan Campbell Mausoleum Restoration Begins
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The dome topped mausoleum in front of Kilmun Parish Church Work has begun on restoring the final resting place of twenty generations of Campbell chiefs. Built in 1798, the current mausoleum is on th...
Topics: Argyll, Argyll Mausoleum Ltd, Campbell, Holy Loch, Kilmun, Sir Duncan Campbell
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