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Nadine Lee
‘Outlander’ Set For The Small Screen
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With over 20 million copies sold, Diana Gabaldon’s hugely successful series of novels set in the Highlands has been greenlit for televison. Outlander centres around a love story between an 18th Cent...
Topics: 1745 rebellion, Castle Leod, Claire Randall, Diana Gabaldon, Dr Who, Earl of Cromartie, Historical Fiction, Jacobite, Jacobite Rising, Jamie Fraser, John Mackenzie, Outlander, Starz, Television, Fraser, Mackenzie
Nadine Lee
University Brings Mary, Queen of Scots Back to Life
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3D Facial Reconstruction of Mary, Queen of Scots A renowned team of experts at the University of Dundee have revealed a 3D virtual image of Mary, Queen of Scots as she would have looked at the time...
Topics: 3D reconstruction, Mary Queen of Scots, National Museum of Scotland, Stewart, Stuart, University of Dundee
Nadine Lee
Bannockburn Visitor Centre Ready for Battle
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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,...
Topics: 700th Anniversary of Bannockburn, Bannockburn, Bannockburn 2014, Bannockburn Visitor Centre, Robert the Bruce, Sir James Douglas
Nadine Lee
Macnab Memorial
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Macnab Country – The village of Killin and Loch Tay from Stron a’Chlachain. Photo by Andy Hall Last Friday Amanda and I attended the memorial service for James Charles Macnab of Macnab, 23rd Chief o...
Topics: Macnab, Death, Dochart Falls, Innis Bhuidhe, Killin, Memorial Service, The Trossochs
Nadine Lee
An Unlikely Jacobite Hero
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  A number of molehills have sprung up across the battlefield site at Culloden, much to the delight of a Jacobite supporters group. The Circle of Gentlemen – a Highland based Jacobite supporters socie...
Topics: Bonnie Prince Charlie, Circle of Gentlemen, Culloden, Jacobite, molehills, William III
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
Nadine Lee
Holyrood Perplexities - A Beginners Guide to Scottish P...
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It's an exciting time to be able to vote in Scotland – in September 2014 the country will go to the polls to decide on the Scottish Independence Referendum. This morning I received a delightful lette...
Topics: Independece, politics, westminster, holyrood, parliament
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Nadine Lee
Ellice McDonald, Jr., CBE 1913-2013
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It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Ellice McDonald, Jr., CBE, a central figure and past High Commissioner of Clan Donald USA. McDonald spent a lifetime involved in the clan societ...
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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
Nadine Lee
Nigel Ivan Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes 1918-2013
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Nigel Ivan Forbes, 22nd Lord of Forbes, KBE, JP, DLChief of Clan Forbes(19 February 1918- 5 March 2013) Nigel Ivan Forbes, 22nd Lord of Forbes and Chief of Clan Forbes, has died aged 95. A distinguish...
Topics: Death, Scotland's Representative Peers, House of Lords, Aberdeenshire, Clan Gordon
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