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This is a list of the most recent content added to the site in the past month
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Films by Arthur Barr
Some old short color movies of olden days in America

Retro Retail Therapy a Hit with Scots Gen Z Consumers
"Yesterday's" Adverts Catch the Eye more than Social Media. An article by Bill Magee (pdf)

Latin America
Some information on Scots in Latin America

Bobby Cruickshank
Famous Scottish Golfer in America


Added our Weekly Newsletter for 14th March 2025 which you can read as a pdf file or in our Community

A Compendious Book of Godly and Spiritual Songs
Commonly known as The Gude and Godlie Ballatis reprinted from the edition of 1567 edited with introduction and notes by A. F. Mitchell, D.D., LL.D., Emeritus Professor of Ecclesiastical History, St. Andrews (1897) (pdf)

Memoirs of the Life of Lord Lovat
From an old text where the letter s is written as an f (1776) (pdf)

Maighstir Raonall Mac Domhnaill
Priest at Inverbeg, Tarbert and Bracarina from 1780-1840 (pdf)

The Morar Cross
A brief history of the Cross and the Morar Church by P. Galbraith (pdf)

The Last Laird of Morar
by Alasdair Roberts (pdf)

Styles of Writs
And Forms of Procedure in the Church Courts of Scotland by Rev. J. Cook, D.D., Minister of Haddington (1850) (pdf)

Oswald Chambers
After studying and later teaching in a small theological college in Dunoon, he moved into a preaching ministry that spanned Britain, America and Japan.

The Highlander
Vol. I - No.2 Week Ending May 21, 1873 (pdf)

The Highlander
New Series Vol. I - No.1 July 1881 (pdf)

The Scottish Academie
Or, Institution of a Young Nobleman describing first, Who are truly Noble, or Gentlemen, &c. Then, Methodically thus shewing, in five books, Of Parents towards their Children, Of Preceptors towards their Pupils, Of Children towards God and the King, Towards their Parents, and Preceptors. Towards all men in the civill conversation and lastly directing them in their Travelling abroad by James Cleland (1611) (pdf)

A Concise History of The Scots’ Charitable Society
Added this document to our page about the society and also another one we found both in pdf format.

John of Fordun's Chronical of the Scottish Nation
Translated from the Latin text by Felix J., H. Skene (1871) (pdf)

Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Glasgow
Volume IV 1878-1880 (pdf)

The Clydesdale Flora
A Description of the flowering plants and ferns of the Clyde District, arranged according to the natural orders, with a glossary of terms and diagrams by the Late Roger Kennedy, Lecturer on Botany in the Andersonian University, Glasgow (1878) (pdf)

The McIntire family, descendents of Micum Mecantire of York county, Maine
By Harry Alexander Davis (1939) (pdf)

Soldiering and Surveying in British East Africa 1891-1894
By Major J. R. L. MacDonald, R.E. (1897) (pdf)

Scotland's Prime Position as Global R&D Partner Under Threat Following US Political Moves Massachusetts Institute of Technology report warning the Trump political regime - spearheaded by Musk's DOGE - is "dismantling" scientific leadership with global ramifications the outcome. An article by Bill Magee.


Added our Weekly Newsletter for 7th March 2025 which you can read as a pdf file or in our Community

Peter Buchan
Added some additional information about this poet including a couple of links to videos reciting his poems.

Two Hundred Years
The History of The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1698-1898 By W. 0. B. Allen, M.A., and Edmund McClure, M.A., Secretaries of the Society (1898) (pdf)

Scouting for Boys
A Handbook for Instruction in good citizenship by Robert Baden-Powell, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., LL.D. (seventh edition) (1915) (pdf)

The Scottish Tourist and Itinerary
Being a guide to the Scenery and Antiquities of Scotland and the Western Islands (eighth edition) (1842) (pdf)

The Scottish Pulpit
From the Reformation to the Present Day by William M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D. (1887) (pdf)

Scottish and Irish Diaries
From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century with an Introduction by Arthur Ponsoby, M.P. (1927) (pdf)

Scottish Society of Louisville
Got in their March 2025 newsletter.

Sketches of Old Virginia
By A. G. Bradley (1897) (pdf)

A Short History of S.P.C.K.
By W. K. Lowther Clarke, B.D., Editorial Secretary of the Society (1919) (pdf)

Stuart McFarlane
Got in two new poems which I've added to his page.

Selections from the Writings of Lord MacAulay
Edited with occasional notes by the Right Hon. Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Bart. (New Impression) (1903) (pdf)

Seigneur Davie, A Sketch Life of David Riccio
(Rizzio) By A. Francis Steuart, Advocate (1922) (pdf)

Thoughts on a Sunday Morning - the 2nd day of March 2025 - Lent is coming
By the Rev. Nola Crewe

The Public Records of Scotland
By J. Maitland Thomson, LL.D. (1922) (pdf)

Records of Clan Campbell in the Military Service of the Honourable East India Company 1600 - 1858
Compiled by Major Sir Duncan Campbell of Barcaldine, Bt., C.V.O., FSAScot., F.R.G.S. with a Foreword and Index by Lt.-Col. Sir Richard C. Temple, Bt., C.B., C.I.E., F.S.A., V.P.R.A.S. (1925) (pdf)

Reminicences and Documents relating to the Civil War during the Year 1865
By John A. Campbell, Baltimore (1887) (pdf)


Added our Weekly Newsletter for 28th February 2025 which you can read as a pdf file or in our Community

COSCA
Added the last four newsletters to their page along with an article about What Do American Scots Really Want from Their Cousins Back Home in Scotland? By John King Bellassai.

Pomphrey's Directory of Wishaw
And Handbook of the Parish of Cambusnethan  with Historical Sketches of Cambusnethan and Shotts. (Third Edition) (1893) (pdf)

Political and Social Economy
Its practical applications by John Hill Burton (1849) (pdf)

Montrose
By John Buchan (1929) (pdf) in which he says of this updated version... My aim has been to present a great figure in its appropriate setting. In a domain, where the dust of controversy has not yet been laid, I cannot hope to find for my views universal acceptance, but they have not been reached without an earnest attempt to discover the truth.

Tales and Traditions of the Lower Cape Fear 1661-1896
By James Sprunt (1896) (pdf)

Papers on Sutherland Estate Management 1802-1816
Edited by R. J. Adam, M.A., in two volumes which I've added to the foot of our Sutherland page.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Added the three books of his Scots Quair in pdf format to his page.
In 2005 the first book, Sunset Song, was named the "Best Scottish Book of All Time" at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.)

An Outline of the Life of George Robertson
Written by himself with an Introduction and Appendix by his son (1876) (pdf)

Moray and Nairn
By Charles Matheson, M.A., McLaren High School, Callander, With Maps, Diagrams and Illustrations (1915) (pdf)

On Veldt and Farm
The record of a journey in South Africa, in Bechuanaland, Cape Colony, The Transvaal and Natal, mainly devoted to an inquiry into the agricultural situation and the prospects for intending colonists by Frances McNab (1897) (pdf)

Handbook on South Africa
By S. W. Silver & Co.'s (third edition) (1880) (pdf)

Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland
Hitherto unpublished with explanatory notes by Peter Buchan, corresponding member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in two volumes (1875)

Soldiers of the Legion
Trench etched by Legionnaire Bowe who is John Bowe of Canby, Minnesota and Charles L. MacGregor, Collaborator (1918) (pdf)

Some Account of John Duke of Argyll and his Family
By his Great-Niece Lady Louisa Stuart (1863) (pdf)

Natural History & Sport in Moray
Collected from the journals and letters of the Late Charles S. John (1863) (pdf)



 


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