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Articles
and Stories on Scottish History
This is where we will be posting
smaller articles on a range of Scottish historical matters. |
-
Tour through the Western
Islands in 1768
A tour which gives some interesting information on illnesses found in
the Western Isles.
- Scottish Charms and
Amulets
This is a collection of information under several chapters.
- The Scottish
Historical Review
A collection of articles from this publication.
- Gaelic
Proverbs
As told to Jeff MacDonald by Jimmy MacKay.
- Some wee
articles from Canada
Wee stories of interest from Canada.
- Maeshowe Runes
An article about the Runes of Orkney
- Claims of Ireland
An article on Gaelic by Sharon Gunn
- Notes on a Deed by
Lady Margaret Douglas
Background on the Lady and notes on the Deed as at October 1560.
- Notes on
The Scottish De Quencys of Fawside and Leuchars
By William W. Ireland, M.D., FSA Scot
- Scottish
Regiments at the Battle of Worcester
An interesting article on the battle and on the surname Cone.
- Jottings
from the records of a Farming society
Interesting notes that reveal something of farming practices 1803-1814.
- Notice of a Seal
of James, First Viscount Seafield
Includes some information on this person, James Ogilvy.
- Auld Lang Syne
Its origin, poetry, and music.
- Notes on
Newark Castle, Renfrewshire
Some information on the owners of this castle.
- Falkirk Place
Names
Notes on the derivation and meaning of the place-name Falkirk.
- The Scottish
Expedition in Norway in 1612
A full account of this expedition.
- Notes on the
Pigmies Isle
Some interesting information on the Pigmies Isle at the Butt of Lewis.
- The White Head
Hunter
A story of Graham Ogilvy
- Nova Scotia
Overseas Highland Brigade
Its formation and history
- Wee Snippets of
Scottish Information
From time to time I get wee snippets of historical information so I
decided to create a page to hold them.
- Surgeons and
Barbers
Notes on the Corporation of Surgeons and
Barbers of the City of Edinburgh.
- Loch-In-Dorb
An ancient royal fortress.
- Chromosomes Sketch
New Outline of British History
Article from the NY Times
- Marguerite Garden
Honour at last for Scots woman who 'did her bit' to
help French fighters flee the Nazi occupation.
-
Barons up in arms as Lord Lyon lays down his writ
An article by Alastair Robertson
-
Tolquhon Castle and its Builder
One of the most interesting of the sixteenth century baronial mansions.
-
Cromarty
An interest account of the town of Cromarty.
- Sir Walter Scott and the Civil
War
by Lachlan Munro
- Clanship and Chiefs Dress and
Arms
From Burkes Peerage & Gentry
- The American Fur Trade
Notes on Scottish connections in the American Fur Trade and an insight
into the way of life.
- The Leatherneck Magazine
This was an interesting article in the Leatherneck Magazine about Piping
in the U.S. Marines.
- The
Death of King Coal
The last miners gala day at Kinglassie.
- US Bid to
save Gaelic culture from Scots
Highland games, the Mod, Sir Walter Scot and English blamed for
distorting the true picture of the intellectual Gael - By Noel Young.
-
The Kinlochroag Highland Fold are under
threat
Learn more about this battle to preserve a breed.
-
The Norse Code
Proving the link between the Macdonalds, Madougells and MacAlesters
-
Dead Piper
Story of 'dead' piper's trip
to Canada holds audience spellbound
-
History of the Murrays,
Bedeque, P.E.I.
By Rev. H. Arthur Murray
-
They were the
Mothers of Florida
An account of a McLeod family
- Battle of The Raith 596 A.D.
An account of this important battle often overlooked by historians.
- Battle of Glen Boultachan
by David Rorer
- Ragman Rolls
Of 1296 and 1291
- Scots and
Freemasonry
By Carson C. Smith, FSA Scot
- Heisker/Heisgeir : A Gaelic Site: Then and Now
By Jim St. Clair from the Oran
- The Fiery Young Advocate - John Clerk
By Alan MacKenzie (.pdf file)
- Communion Tokens
Some information on communion tokens
- Forest to Be Restored to Scottish Highlands
By James Owen
-
Scots Prisoners sent to Berwick, Maine - 1651
In November 1650 a number of these prisoners were apparently sent to
Boston in the "Unity," arriving in New England early in 1651
- St. Andrew's Day
in the USA
An account of how St. Andrew's Day came about in the USA.
- The
Glenaladale Pioneers
From the Dalhousie Review Vol 11 (1931-32)
- British
Immigration before Confederation
Helen I Gowan, The Canadian Historical Association
- The Dream of Lord
Nithsdale
By Charles MacKay taken from Blackwood's Magazine
- The Curse of
Glencoe
By B. Simmons
-
A Strachan in France
A letter in French about an old manuscript
- Frame by frame:
the lost voices from Britain's urban hell
An article by Billy Briggs in the March 28 2005 edition of the
Herald.
- I Heard a Shot Fired
By John McKay, Chatham Daily Planet, April 22, 1901
- To Chatham by Canoe
By Miss Annie McLeod, Chatham Daily News, April 18, 1941
- Wolves and Indians
Everywhere
By Mrs. James McDonald, Chatham Daily Planet, March 5, 1904
- One of the Grand
Old Men of Kent
By Robert Stuart Woods, Chatham Daily Planet, February 6, 1904, And
Beers’ Biographical Record, 1904
- The Hotel
Buckhorn
By Alex McPherson, Chatham Daily
News, November 26, 1932
-
One of the many William Coubroughs in Stirlingshire
A genealogical article by Anne
Cruickshank
-
Mosspaul Hotel, Hawick
By James Edgar
-
Articles from James Ruickbie
This is a collection of articles sent in by James Ruickbie.
-
Newark Castle, St Monans
Measured Spot Survey
-
Jim Ferguson
More than 200 children called Ajax man Dad.
-
Historic Castles and Houses
A collection of articles
by
Andrew at
Loyd and Townsend-Rose.
-
Presentation Revolver
Given to Cap't McCullem on Oct
14th, 1787
- Ben
McConville
Historic articles by Ben McConville
- Governor Troup, or
the McIntosh Family
From The History of Alabama
- Athelstaneford
Home of Scotland’s Flag
-
Memoir of the Mission of Strathglass
Prepared by Allan J. Gillis of Ottawa
- Albert
Campbell Burton Journals
About the day to day experience of a settler traveling from Waverly,
Nebraska to Hayes Center Nebraska to homestead some land
- Domestic
Servant Advert
This is an old advert wanting domestic servants from Britain for New
Zealand
- The smuggler, the exciseman,
murder most foul and the BBC
By Ross N. Hutton
-
Diary of Simon Morrison
Our thanks to
Bill McDonald
for sending this transcription of an account of a voyage from Scotland
to Australia in 1854 into us
- Winnipeg Robert
Burns Club
Founded in 1907 and is, we are told, the longest, continuously existing
Federated Burns Club outside the United Kingdom.
- Scotland's Oil
Some details of a report done in 1974 which reveals how wealthy Scotland
could have been if she had won independence.
- Scotland/England
migration
A story of a family moving from Scotland to England
- Lieutenant-Colonel
John Fordyce
Of the 74th Highlanders in South Africa
-
Friends in High Places
By Kenneth C. Jack
- Malcolm D. MacDonald
An article about his life in the late 1800's in Scotland and Africa.
- St. Andrew's Society of Baltimore
200th anniversary newsletter
- A journal by three generations of Walker's
Sent in by Anita Walker
- The Games
Scottish tradition turned American competition
- The Masonic Dollar -
Fact or Fiction
The discussion about the US $ bill and its connection with Freemasonary.
- Alex Kindness
Of Bognell, Banffshire
- The Scots Independent
Newspaper
February 2006
- A
Brief Sketch of the Life of Maria Amelia McQuaig
Partly written in her 56th year and
so on, some written in her 70th year, Jan. 19th
1905, Hulbert Post Office, Dundas Co., Ontario, Canada.
- Hints to Emigrants
By Rev. William Bell, Published in Edinburgh by Waugh and Innes in 1824.
- Hints for Emigrants
From The Emigrant's Directory and Guide to obtain lands and effect a
settlement in the Canadas. By Frances A. Evans.
- Clearing the Land in Canada
From Lois Sparling
- The condensed diaries of the Rev. William
Bell
A record of his daily life as he went from Scotland to Canada
- Strathpeffer Pavilion
In the Highlands of Scotland
- Loyalists that came to Canada
A collection of papers about the Loyalists put together by W. Blair
Orser into a .pdf file
- The Royal Scots College in Salamanca
By Denis Carlin
- Girl Guides in Scotland
A history of the movement
- Woodstock, Ont. 1848
From "The Church The Gaels Built" by W. Stewart Lavell. Excerpt from pg.
4, "Beginnings".
- Tartan Day in Idaho
By Tim Caylor
-
History of
the New Hampshire Tartan
By Kelly Dowling
-
Tartan Day in France 2006
Pictures from
Tom Trillard-Mac
Gregor
-
Catawba Valley Scottish Society,
Inc.
First and Only Coat of Arms granted to a Non-Profit Corporation involved
in presenting a Scottish Highland Games anywhere in the World.
- MacIntosh Family
By MPeters nee McIntosh daughter of the late Harry and Linda McIntosh
- The
Children of a Bitter Exodus
An article about the emigrants from Sky from the Weekend Scotsman, June
5, 1982
- The McWhorters in South Carolina
by Karen McWhorter Wilhelm
- Buchanan
Family from 1750
An account of the Buchanan family by
Shirley Davis
-
James Farquhar
Was this the last clan battle on Scottish soil?
- A Brief History of the
Scottish Ceilidh and Ceilidh Dancing
By Scotland's Ceilidh Band.
- Medieval Scottish
Saints
A talk given by Lindsay Irvin at the Scottish Studies Fall Colloquium,
30 September 2006
-
The Plantation of Ulster
By Boyd Gray
- Gettysburg: The American Culloden - A Clan
Tragedy?
By Dave Chagnon, The Sennachie
- Closeburn
Describes a violent agitation that manifested itself in the waters of
Closeburn Loch.
- The Lincoln Monument - Edinburgh
In memory of Scottish-American soldiers
- The Old Castles and Mansions of Scotland
Taken from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445, Volume 18, New Series,
July 10, 1852
- Scottish Elections
The results of the Scottish elections of 2007
- Alexander Linn
A
martyr for the Presbyterian cause
- Scots Independent Newspaper
This is the June 2007 issue which is the first issue since the SNP won
the Scottish Elections.
- National Scots, Scots-Irish Heritage Month in
North Carolina
Following the process of trying to make this a recognised month in North
Carolina.
- Children of Alba
A story of Scots in America by William G. A. Shaw of Easter Lair
- Falkirk Memorial
Cairn
Unveiled
21st
July, 2007
- Selkirk
Settlers
by Rob R. Bruce-Barron
- Glenshee
by Campbell of Glenshee
- The True Roots and
Origin of the Scots
by Craig White
- Restless
English and Quisling Scots
A compilation article by Jim Lynch
- Sir James Hector
The Hero Scot of Kicking Horse Pass
- Turning of the
Bull Monument
By
Wally
Turnbull
- 20 Year Search Ends
by Keith Rattray
- A Macintyre Saves
Scotland
An article about Scottish work being classified as English.
- CASSOC
Clans And Scottish Societies of Canada
- The Emigrants
Statue
Unveiling by the First Minister of Scotland 23rd July 2007.
- The Edinburgh,
Leith, Glasgow Newspaper
and North British Commercial and Literary Advertiser, March 8, 1834
- Seeking Information
About a spoon and a monument in Scotland
- Chatham Highland
Games
12th July 2008
- Scots in North
Carolina
Taken from a History of North Carolina
- Scots-Irish in
North Carolina
Taken from a History of North Carolina
- Settlers
Dedication in Winnipeg
Article about the ceremonies in September 2008
- Articles by Stuart
McHardy
About Ancient Scotland
- Old Time
Customs
By John Burgess Calkin, M. A. LL.D.
- Were the Scots
Irish?
By Ewan Campbell
- Gloomy Memories
By Donald MacLeod, an account of the Highland Clearances
- Scottish North American
Leadership Conference
End of October 2008
- On the
Antiquity of the Gaelic Language
Showing its affinity to Hebrew, Greek and Latin by the Rev. D. M'Intyre
(1865)
- Through the Eyes of
a Gael
A collection of articles on folkways and beliefs.
- The Tower of
Craigietocher
Following the building of a new Scottish Castle
- New Cumnock Python
Photos taken by Geoff Crolley
- The Scots
Magazine
A little history of the Scots Magazine
- North Carolina
Events
Here is a selection from various event in North Carolina during April
2009
- The Scotch
Taken from the book, "The Makers of the American Republic" by David
Gregg, D.D.
- The Scot in New
France
An Ethnological Study, by J.M. LeMoine 1881
- Characteristics
A Chapter Extracted From ‘Travellers Tales of Scotland’ (1913) By Robert
Hay Coats, M.A. (1873, Paisley - 1956)
- Scotch-Irish
Settlers in the Valley of Virginia
Alumni Address at Washington College, Lexington, Va., by Bolivar
Christian (1860)
- The Heather on Fire
By Mathilde Blind
- Scotland's National Borders
A report on our National Borders and how they are
trying to be altered.
- Clan
Chiefs at the Scottish Parliament
Watch videos of this event.
- Blackfriars of Stirling
A research article about the history of land
ownership in Stirling, Scotland.
- How the EU Common Fisheries Policy Permanently
Damaged Scotland
A Warning for Iceland
By Dr James Wilkie and associate.
- Scotland's
Status as a Nation
By David Thomson
-
Trades
of Scotland
By Alastair McIntyre
-
Life in the
Hebrides
A story of crofting life taken
from an old book about the Hebrides.
-
Highland Dress
and Armour
From an article in the Celtic
Magazine 1882.
-
Adventures
of Donald MacLeod
An article from the
Celtic Magazine 1885
-
The Picts
By Professor MacAndrew
-
The Picts
By Alexander MacBain, M.A., FSA Scot (1887)
-
A
Highland Wedding in Bygone Days
Wester
Ross Customs
-
The Fairy
Snuff Box
From Mr.
Kenneth Macleod, Eigg
-
The Editor in Canada
A series of articles in the Celtic Magazine of Alexander MacKenzie's
trip to Canada in 1879/80.
-
New Year in the Old Style in
the Highlands
From the Celtic Magazine of 1876
-
Marvellous
escape of Captain M'Arthur of the Scottish Highlanders of Carolina
From the Celtic Magazine of 1876
-
A famous Highland Minister of the '45
Being an account of the Rev. James Robertson
-
The
Gaelic Society of Inverness
Professor
Blackie on the Social Economy of the Highlands from the Celtic
Magazine of 1879.
-
Scots in England and Wales
Research by the BBC
-
Tree Myths and Forrest Lore
By William Durie
-
The
Horizontal Mill at Kirtomy, Farr, Sutherlandshire
By Alex MacKay
-
A
Great Unknown Scot
By W. J. Douglas
- The Highlands and Islands - Their Social and
Literary History 1775 - 1832.
By Provost
Macandrew (pdf file)
-
On the Antiquity of
Highland Dress
By Professor Sayce
-
William
Sinclair, First Earl of Caithness of the Sinclair Line
By George
M. Sutherland FSA Scot, Wick
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William Sinclair, Second Earl of
Caithness of the Sinclair Line
By George
M. Sutherland FSA Scot, Wick
-
John
Sinclair, Third Earl of Caithness of the Sinclair Line
By George
M. Sutherland FSA Scot, Wick
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Some Ancient Celtic Customs
By Mr Henry Whyte
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Ancient Celtic Laws
By Mr Hugh MacLeod
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Social Life in the Highlands in the Olden Times
By Mr J. G. Mackay
-
Scottish Emigration to Colonial America
By David Dobson
-
A History of the Scottish People
Health in Scotland, 1840 - 1940 by W W Knox
-
A History of the Scottish People
Migration: Scotland's Shifting Population 1840 -
1940 by W W Knox
-
Renaissance Faire
Held in America
-
Caley History
Provided by Chloe Gardner, Royal Caledonian Schools
Trust
-
Eight
Days in Islay
By the members of the Islay Association
-
Sheep
Farmers and Drovers
A story by William Robertson (1864)
-
Social Life among the Easter Ross Fishermen
From an old copy of the Highland Magazine
-
History of Tennessee
An extract about the Scots-Irish
-
The
Gaelic Concept of Life and Death
By H. Cameron Gillies M.D.
-
Clearance of the Highland Glens
By Colin Chisholm (pdf) from an article in volume 3 of the Celtic
Magazine
-
The Highland Ceilidh
By Alastair Og
-
Mary MacLeod of
Marrig
Or. How the Campbells went to Harris
- "Peermen" and their relations
By Mary MacKellar
-
Scottish Land League of America
From volume 10 of the Celtic Magazine (pdf)
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St Hilda’s Church of England, the Headland,
Hartlepool United Kingdom
By Kelly d. Whittaker
- DNA research article on
Scotland's R1a1 Highland Clansmen
DNA Genealogy and the search for Somerled.
By Andrew Mceachern
- Robert Wallace, M.P., and James
Chalmers
The Scottish Postal Reformers
- The Housing of Potato Diggers
By Margaret H. Irwin
-
The Cludgie Stane
of Destiny
By Robbie the Pict
-
Canada and the United States
From the Scottish Review (1890)
-
The Wicked Clan Gregor
From the Scottish Review (1890)
-
The Crofters Act in
Shetland
From the Scottish Review (1890)
-
The Correspondence of an Old Scotch Factor
By Charles Rampini
-
The Social Condition of the Poor in
Glasgow
Two reports for 1889 and 1891
-
Gael’s Fire the Event of My
Lifetime (pdf)
By; Kelly d Whittaker
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Forfarshire
By J. H. Crawford
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The Peoples of Ancient Scotland
The Fourth Rhind Lecture
-
The Medical Schools of Scotland
From the Scottish Review of January 1894
-
Ellis Island Tartan
unveiled for Tartan Day 2011
By the Clan Currie Society
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A Scottish Free-Lane: Sir Andrew Melville
By J G Alger from the Scottish Review (1895)
-
The Canadian Dominion and Australian
'Commonwealth'
An article taken from the Scottish Review (1895)
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St Andrews 1645-6
An article taken from the Scottish Review (1895)
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The Gathering of the Clans
How the British Dominions and Dependencies and have helped in the war by
J. Saxon Mills
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The State of Turkey
By C N Conder, from the Scottish Review of 1896
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George Thomson, the Friend of Burns
By J Cuthbert Hadden from The Scottish Review
-
Annals of a Publishing House
William Blackwood and His Sons: Their Magazine and
Friends by Mrs. Oliphant.
-
Eighteenth Century Highland Landlords and the
Poverty Problem
By Margaret I Adam taken from the Scottish Historical Review
-
The Western Highlands in the Eighteenth
Century
An article from the Scottish Historical Review
-
The Commemoration of
David Mitchell of Leslie - Locomotive Engine Driver
By Ian Nimmo White
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Korea and the Koreans
By Mrs Bishop
-
The Constable Nun' Alvares
An article from the July 1898 Scottish Review with some interesting
information on Portugal and the Knights Hospitallers.
-
Scottish Guilds
An interesting account of the Scottish Guilds from a review of the book
"The Gild Merchant: A Contribution to British Municipal History. By
Charles Gross in 2 Volumes.
-
The Two Greatest of
Scottish Caterans
An article from the Scottish Review of 1898.
-
The Evolution of the
Procurator-Fiscal
By Henry H. Brown
-
Letters of the Papal Legate in
Scotland, 1543
An article from the Scottish Historical Review of 1913
-
Intellectual Influences of
Scotland on the Continent
By P Hume Brown
-
William Barclay
By David Baird Smith
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A History of Emigration from
the United Kingdom to North America 1763 to 1912
By Stanley C. Johnson, M.A.
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The Berry papers; being the correspondence hitherto
unpublished of Mary and Agnes Berry (1763-1852) by Lewis Meliville
(1914)
-
Mrs Chesnut's Diary
A diary from
Dixie, as written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of James Chesnut, jr.,
United States senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861. (1906)
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Scotland and the Spanish Armada
By J. D. MacKie
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The Site of the New Park in the relation to The
Battle of Bannockburn
By Thomas Miller
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Origins of the Forty Five
and other papers relating to that rising. By Walter Biggar Blakie.
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The Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons
Now the Scots Greys
-
A List of Works relating to Scotland
Compiled by George F Black of the New York Library
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The Antiquity of the Kilt and Clan Tartans
Extracted from the Highlander Newspaper of 1881
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The Language and Literature of the Scottish
Highlands
Extracted from the Highland Newspaper of 1881
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The Race of the Trough
By A. M. Mackintosh
-
Peasant Life in Argyllshire in the end of the
Eighteenth century
From the Scottish Historical Review
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The Highland Emigration of 1770
By Margaret I. Adam
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The Fenwick Improvement of
Knowledge Society
From the Scottish Historical Review
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The riddle of the Ruthvens and other studies
By William Roughead (1919)
-
The Distaff Side : a Study in
Matrimonial Adventure in
the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
By Bruce Seton
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Remembering our Scottish roots
by: Maria Thompson
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The Scottish National War Memorial
-
Articles by Stephanie Cruz
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The World's Largest Kilt
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Scots Academic and Writer, James Wilkie
Awarded one of Austria’s most prestigious honours
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The Leith Flag
By Alexander Wilson
-
A Potted History of the Flag
of the Port of Leith
By Alexander Wilson
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Remember the guy who wouldn't take the flag down?
Van T. Barfoot
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Lord Jeffrey and Craigcrook
A History of the Castle by James Taylor And a Sketch of Lord Jeffrey's
Character and Craigcrook Life by the Right Hon. Lord Moncrieff of
Tulliebole With a Description of the Original Structure by Thomas Ross,
Architect (1892)
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A Broad Scot Magazine
Celebrating the wealth of contemporary Scots Culture everywhere.
-
The Rise and Progress of Whisky-Drinking in
Scotland
By Duncan M'Laren (1858)
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The Treaty of Union of 1707
The Attempted Murder of the Kingdom of Scotland by Robbie the Pict
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The exposure of Dr Charles Roger(s)
by the Stirling Observer in the 1860s as a do-gooding fraudster.
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The Laird and his Tenants
By Charles Edwardes (1906)
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The Lone Shieling
By G. M. Fraser
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Lowland
Tartans
An article from the Scottish Historical Review
-
Scottish Annals from English
Chroniclers
By Alan O Anderson
-
Lislebourg and Petit Leith
An article from the Scottish Historical Review on the name for
Edinburgh.
-
The Municipal
Institutions of Scotland
By James D. Marwick
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The Scottish Peerage
By J. H. Stevenson
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The Earl's Ferry
By George Law
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The Charitie of the Boxe
By E. Maxstone Graham
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Miss Katherine Read
Court Paintress by A. Francis Steuart
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Thomas Dickson LL.D.
In memoriam by J. Balfour Paul
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The Mackintoshes and Clan Chattan
A review.
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Some Sidelights on the History of Montrose's
Campaigns
By George Duncan
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The Use and Forms of Judicial Torture in
England and Scotland
By R. D. Melville
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Dunottar and its Barons
By J. Crabb Watt
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Early Scottish charters prior to
A.D. 1153:
With notes and an index (1905) By Sir Archibald C. Lawrie
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Scottish Pewter Ware and Pewterers
By L. Ingleby Wood
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John Graham of Claverhouse
By Charles Sandford Terry
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The Connexion between Scotland and Man
By Arthur W. Moore
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The 'Diary' of Sir Thomas Hope (1633 - 1645)
Lord Advocate (16116 - 1646)
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The Teaching of Scottish History in Schools
By P. Hume Brown
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The Constitutional Necessity
for the Union of 1707
By Wm. S. McKechnie
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Scottish Trade with the Plantations
before 1707
By Theodora Keith
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Scottish Nationality
By Rev John Ker D.D.
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A Day in the Upper Ward of Clydesdale
By Rev John Ker D.D.
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Memoir of Dr Jamieson
The preserver of the Scots Language
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History of Eaglais Na H-Aoidhe
or St Columba’s Ui in the Isle of Lewis
By Colin Scott MacKenzie
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Bygone Punishments
By William Andrews
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Sketches of the
Early History, Legends and Traditions of Strathardle and its Glens
From the Transactions of the Gaelic Society
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Notes on Highland Woods, Ancient and Modern
Taken from the Transactions of the Gaelic Society
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Gaelic Incantations
From the Transactions of the Gaelic Society
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Durness from Earliest Times
From the Transactions of the Gaelic Society
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The Social Progress of the Highlands since 1800
From the Transactions of the Gaelic Society
-
Union Tracts
An article about the Union of the Crowns in three letters
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Folk-Lore of Luck
By Mr A. Polson
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Exchequer Rolls of Scotland
An article from the Transactions of the Gaelic Society
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The Celtic Province of Moray
By James Barron
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Annual Supper
Report from the Gaelic Society's first annual supper.
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Our Fires and Fire-Sides
By John Murdoch
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Badenoch: Its History, Clans and Place Names
By Alexander MacBain
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Celts and Teutons
By Rev. MacGregor
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The Shieling: Its Traditions and Songs
By Mrs. Mary Mackellar
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Notes on the Parish of Alness
By Roderick MacLean
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Old Highland Roads
By Alex. Ross
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An Inverness Merchant of the Olden Time
By William MacKay
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Some Highland Fishermen's Fancies
By Mr. A. Polson
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Early Travels in Scotland
An article from the Transactions of the Gaelic Society
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Fauns and Fairies
An article from the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness
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The 18th Century Scottish Origins of
Washington, DC
Early Scots in Georgetown and Washington City – Implications for Our
Society By John King Bellassai
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Social Life in the Highlands in Olden
Times
From the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness
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The Clearance of the Highland Glens
From the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness
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The Highland Garb
From the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness
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Old Highland Industries
From the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness
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Parish of Rosskeen
From the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness
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Year of the Sheep
From the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness
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The Ancient Celts
From the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness
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Old Contracts of Friendship
From the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness
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Mr. Fraser-Mackintosh, M.P. and
Gaelic in Highland Schools
Great Celtic Demonstration
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Clava Cairns and Circles
By George Bain
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Popular Tales
By Alexander Macbain, M.A.,
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Folk-Lore from the West of
Ross-Shire
By Rev. C. Robertson
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Traditions of Lochaber
From the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness
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Electric Scotland Posters in Edinburgh
Placed courtesy of Gordon McCreath
-
Scotland's Heritage is on display at the
University of Pittsburgh
An article from the newsletter of the Society of Antiquaries
Scotland
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A Visit to Auch Melvich
By Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart.
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The Picts of Scotland - The Last of the Free
This is a 6 part video series on the Picts.
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Castle Ghosts of
Scotland
A one hour video.
-
Scot who saved American
buffalo subject of film
He is little known in his home country, but the Scot credited with
saving America’s buffalo from being hunted to extinction is now the
subject of an award-winning film.
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The Family of John and Janet 'Jessie' (Ross)
McLennan of Inverness
Compiled by John Henderson
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Military
Memoir of Lieutenant-General Sir John MacLeod, G.C.H.
Director General of Artillery
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The spying Scotsman who hunted the
Nazis of New York
The amazing story of Britain's clandestine war on Hitler's agents...
and his big-money backers in the US by Adam Lebor
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Funeral of Sir Walter Scott
By an eyewitness
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Scottish Voters
Sketches from Real Life
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Characteristics of the Genius of Scott
By Harriet Martineau
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Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir James Edward
Smith
By Madame de Lessen
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The Whig Coterie of Edinburgh
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
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A Stag Hunt at Killarney
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
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Remedies for Highland Famine
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
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The River Tyne
By Sir Thomas Dick Lauder
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The Government and the Parochial Schools of
Scotland
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
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Memoirs and Trials of the Political Martyrs of
Scotland
Persecuted during the years 1893-4-5
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Trial by Jury in Scotland
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
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Condition of the Labouring Poor, and the
Management of Paupers in Scotland.
A two part article from the 1840 edition of Tait's Edinburgh
Magazine.
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Stories
Violet Hamilton or the Talented Family and Lochandhu
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River Tweed
By Sir Thomas dick Lauder
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Celtic Tenures and Highland Clearings
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
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The River Jordon
By Sir Thomas Dick Lauder
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Relief of the Poor in Scotland
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
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Scottish Entails
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
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River Dee
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
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Remedies for Highland Famine
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
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Scottish Song
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
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Widow Rice and William Lindsay
Two cases on the Poor Law in Scotland.
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Alexander Inkson McConnochie
Scottish Author and Chartered Accountant
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Edinburgh in November
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
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The Music, Poetry, and Tradition of
the Highlands
By Donald Campbell
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A Day in the Neighbourhood of Loch Skene
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
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Scotch Bills and Scotch Representation
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1849)
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Literary and Scientific Society of
Edinburgh 1848-9
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
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Church and School in Scotland
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
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The lost pictures of Lewis, Scotland
By Euan Ferguson in the Observer Newspaper
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The Bannatyne Club
List of their works
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Queens of Scotland
By Agnes Strickland
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Church and College in Scotland
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1851)
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Wilson's Scottish Archaeology
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1851)
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Memoirs and Adventures of Sir John
Hepburn
Knight, Governor of Munich. Mariaul of France under Louis XIII
Commander of the Scots Brigade under Gustavus Adolphus, etc. By
James Grant. (1851)
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The Scottish Universities
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1851)
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Sir John Ross
Arctic Voyager
-
A Renaissance Painted Ceiling in
Scotland inspires a Masterpiece in Vermont,
Crarthes Castle's Famous Painted Ceiling Reborn
By Anne Macpherson
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Obituaries
Sir William Hamilton, Bart., James Wilson, Esq, of Woodville, Major
Henrey Langhome Thomson, CB and Sir Alexander Crichton.
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Social Legislation
Mr Forbes MacKenzie's Act
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The Scottish Fishery Board
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
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The Scottish Rights Association and
the Franchise
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1856)
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Edinburgh Review
The second Edinburgh Review, founded in 1802, became one of the most
influential British magazines of the 19th century. It promoted
Romanticism and Whig politic
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Obituaries
Major Calder campbell, General Sir James MacDonell, Robert Burns son
of the poet Robert Burns
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Legend of the Hundred Years
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1857)
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Robert Flockhart
The Street Preacher
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The Scotch Smoke Act
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1857)
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The Night Third-Class to Glasgow
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1858)
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State of the Reform Bill
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1859)
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Willie MacRae
An article about his unsolved murder
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Request for Evidence of Proof of
Ownership by ‘the Crown’ of the Stone of Scone
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Adventures of J. M'Alpine
A Native Highlander from the time of his emigration from Scotland to
America 1773.
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The Rise and Progress of the City of
Glasgow, comprising an Account of its Public Buildings, Charities,
and other Concerns
By James Cleland.
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Memoir of Sir William
Hamilton, bart.
Professor of logic and metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh by
John Veitch (1869)
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Anecdotes to Antiquaries
Letter to Editor of Blackwood's Magazine (1817)
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Scotch Novels
A review of recent Scotch novels by the Edinburgh Review and links
to download them.
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RAF Montrose
Britain’s first operational military airfield was set up in Montrose
by the Royal Flying Corps in 1913.
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The Art of Deer-Stalking
By William Scrope
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The Lauderdale Papers
Edited by Osmund Airy
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Tales and Anecdotes of Pastoral
Life
An article from volume 1 of Blackwood's Magazine.
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The Lockhart Papers
The Lockhart Papers, consisting of memoirs concerning the affairs of
Scotland, from Queen Anne's accession to the commencement of the
Union; with commentaries, containing an account of public affairs
from the Union to the queen's death.
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Robbie the Pict
About him and some of his work.
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Why Alexander Hamilton was picked
to be the first US Treasury director!
By Gary Gianotti
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Bannockburn – 1314
A story by William G. A. Shaw of Easter Lair
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Ancient Bee Symbolism History
By Gary Gianotti
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The Ancient Brehon Laws of Ireland
An article from the University of Pennsylvania Law Review
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School-Days of Eminent Men
Extracted a few Scots from this book by Johm Timbs
-
Scot Family
Some information and a plea for translation
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A story of the Wall - The Maetae - 209 AD
By William G. A. Shaw of Easter Lair
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Miss L. E. Farquharson of Invercauld
An article from the Celtic Annual of 1916.
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Highland Dyes
An article from the Celtic Annual of 1916.
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Book of the Feill
This book published to raise money for the comfort of Highland Soldiers in WWI. Text is both in English and Gaelic. (pdf)
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Doctor Brown
An article from the North British Review
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Scottish Nationality Social and Intellectual
Installation Address of the Right Hon. Henry Lord Brougham, etc., etc. An article from the North British Review
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Symbolism
I discovered the letter symbolism of the ancient kings used in ancient art and Celtic stone carvings. Also this spans all the was into seals relics and art all the way into the 1860s. The Drummond Pyramid is entirely engraved in the ancient symbols on a larger size scale. By Gary Gianotti (pdf)
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Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune Telling by Tea Leaves
By A Highland Seer
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The History of the Scottish Society of Indianapolis (1983-2014)
By Carson C. Smith, FSA Scot (pdf)
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Will Fyffe and Harry Lauder
By John Henderson
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Report on the Ad Hoc Derbfine of Clan Mulcahy
Clann Ui Mhaolchathaigh (pdf)
-
Five Stuart Princesses
Margaret of Scotland, Elizabeth of Bohemia, Mary of Orange, Henrietta of Orleans, Sophia of Hanover, Edited by Robert S. Rait (1902)
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Odd Incidents of Olden Times
Or Ancient Records of Inverary by Peter MacIntyre (1904) (pdf)
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Hebrew, Israelite, and Jew - The Unholy Truth Revealed
An inquiry into why the Jews think they are ‘Chosen’ above others, and entitled to other people’s real estate as their ‘Promised Land’ by Robbie the Pict. (pdf)
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Did Scotland and the Knights Templar Influence the Founding of America and the Design of America's Great Seal?
A World Exclusive Interview with Gary Gianotti, Feb 22, 2015
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John MacPherson (1882–1951)
Styled The Coddie (sometimes The Coddy), and described by Compton Mackenzie as “the outstanding character in Northbay.”
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Scottish Life Memorials and Recollections
Of Historical and Remarkable Persons with Illustrations of Caledonian Humour by The Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D., FSA Scot, Second Edition (1872)
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The Clyde Passenger Steamer
Its Rise and Progress during the nineteenth Century from the 'Comet' of 1812 to the 'King Edward' of 1901
By Captain James Williamson (1904)
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Cort Lindahl
Cort has studied Art History, Archaeology, Geography, and Art. Cort applies his experiences in these fields to form a unique view of history and the dynamics that affect its course through time.
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A Trip Down The Clyde
This is an mp3 audio story of a Trip down the Clyde
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The Gillford Lectures
One of the great lecture series of Scotland
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The Tyrant of Boisdale
By Marjorie F. MacDonald (pdf)
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Life Aboard A British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne
Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner, with Notes and Illustrations by Robert C. Leslie (1889)
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Scottish Geographical Magazine
Volume 1 (1855)
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Local Society and the Defence of the English Frontier in Fifteenth-Century Scotland
The War Measures of 1482 by Jackson W. Armstrong (pdf)
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Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland A.D. 1803
By Dora Wordsworth
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How we lived then
A sketch of Social and Domestic Life 1914-1918 by Mrs C. S. Peel,
O.B.E.
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Wives on Trial
An Ancient Scottish Custom
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Soda Water
An old anonymous poem
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Balmoral
Information from the Aberdeen Weekly Review
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Comical Stories of Thrummy Cap
An old chap book
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Our Street
Memories of Buccleauch Place (pdf)
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Cameronians
Including book about Richard Cameron
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Letter on Immigration
From Harry Munro to Sir William Sinclair, Albany 1773 (pdf)
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A Jumble of Jottings
From the Memories of a Quiet Life (1894) (pdf)
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The Aged Piper
From the Celtic Magazine
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Ornithological Reminiscences
By Shirley (pdf)
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Our Cabmen
From The Home and Foreign Record of the Free Church of Scotland
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Roosevelt’s 1892 Winchester
Authentication
President Theodore Roosevelt’s 1892 Winchester Authentication:
A Comparison Approach to the identification of Engraved Winchester &
Firearm’s by the Ulrich Family of Engravers. Identifying Maker Mark
Hidden Initials and symbolism by the Ulrich’s. By Gary C. Gianotti
FSA Scot; Milford, CT. (pdf)
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Political Economy
By Thomas Chalmers
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US Flag Constellation Origins
By Gary Gianotti, FSA Scot (pdf)
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Reasons for Scots Moving to England
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A Visit to Auch Melvich
By Sir Thomas Dick Lauder (1847) from the Edinburgh Magazine (pdf)
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A Critical Essay on the Ancient
Inhabitants of the Northern Parts of Britain or Scotland
Containing an account of the Romans, of the Britains betwixt the
Walls, of the Caledonians or Picts, and Particularly of the Scots
with an Appendix of Ancient Manuscript pieces by Thomas Innes, M.A.,
(1879) (pdf)
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Family and Genealogical Sketches
By Rev. Thomas Sinton, FSA Scot (1911) (pdf)
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Scottish Villages and Country Life
By H. M. Cadell (1914)
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Northern Scotland
The Journal of the Centre for Scottish Studies, University of
Aberdeen edited by David Stevenson (1990) (pdf)
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The Scottish Highlander
By John Lyle Morison, Professor of History, Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario (pdf)
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Discourse
Containing a summary of the Proceedings of the Directors of the
Society for extending the Fisheries and improving the Sea Coasts of
Great Britain since the 25th March, 1788 and some thoughts on the
present Emigrations from the Highlands By George Dempster, one of
the Directors together with some Reflections intended to promote the
Success of the said Society by John Gray, Author of the Plan for
finally settling the Government of Ireland upon Constitutional
Principles, and other Political Tracts (1800) (pdf)
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The Isle of Skye in the Olden Times
By the Rev. Alex. Macgregor, M.A.
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Sketches of Old Times and Distant
Places
By John Sinclair (1875) (pdf)
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Northern Scotland
The Journal of the Centre for Scottish Studies, University of
Aberdeen edited by David Stevenson (1990) (pdf)
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One Human(e) Society
by Martin MacIntyre (pdf)
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The road to Inveramsay
By Kenneth Roy (2001)
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The
Fife Family History Society Journal
Has reviewed many published Fife family histories. We have gathered
them all together here, and will add to the file as more become
available. Many of the family histories are hard to find, but some
are still available on the antiquarian market. Others are available
as Print on Demand; while a few can be found as Google books. (pdf)
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Scotch Heather
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Mythology in the history of Anglo-Scots
relations
by Alan Sked
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MacLeod and MacAulay
By The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P.
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St. Andrew’s Day and Musings on its
Masonic Connection
An article from Carson C. Smith, FSA Scot
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A Christmas Card for 2020
From Tom and Beth reflecting the pandemic
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The Hobyahs: A Scotch Nursery Tale
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The
Scotch Ancestry of the MacFarrens
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The Moulding of the Scottish Nation
From the Scottish Historical Review
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The Scottish Parliament
1560-1707, Glimpses of old Scots Parish Life and Bishop Norie’s Dundee Baptismal
Register, 1722-26
From the Scottish
Historical Review
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Scotch Beef and the Aberdeen
Slaughter-Houses
(From our Special Sanitary Commissioner.)
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Scottish Arms
By Alexander McMillan Welch
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New Scotch Steamer
From the Scientific American
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The Moulding of the Scottish
Nation
By P. Hume Brown in the Scottish Historical
Review January 1904
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The Municipal Institutions of Scotland
An Historical Survey by James D. Marwick from the Scottish Historical Review of
1904.
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A paper read by George Macdonald
Roman station on the line of the Vallum of Antonine at Bar Hill, near Croy (pdf)
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The Scottish Lochs
'Bathymetrical Survey of the Scottish Fresh-water Lochs,' conducted under the
direction of Sir John Murray, K.C.B., F.R.S., D.SC., etc., and Laurence Pullar,
F.R.S.E., F.R,G.S., during the years 1897 to 1909. Report on the Scientific
Results. 6 volumes. Edinburgh: Challenger Office. 1910.
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Miscellanea
From the FolkLore Magazine (pdf)
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Scottish Harbours
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Scottish Highlands
By Ralph S. Tarr (1907)
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Side Lights from the Dunvegan Charter Chest
By R. C. MacLeod
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Nynia in Northern Pictland
By Archibald Black Scott (pdf)
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Dunnottar and its Barons
Article by J. Crabb Watt from the Scottish Historical Review (pdf)
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The Battle of Glenshiel
An article by C. Sanford Terry from the Scottish Historical Review (pdf)
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A Restoration Duel
Article by C. H. Firth (pdf)
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A Contract of Mutual Friendship in the ’45
Between the Earl of Sutherland and the Lord Reay
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A Scotsman’s journey from Longformacus to
Penang
By Thrifty Traveller
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The Settlement of Penang
By James Scott
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An
international appeal to save a rare collection of British literature has been
successful, reaching its goal of £15 million ($20 million) with American
support. (pdf)
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An Ancient Scottish Custom
Wives on Trial
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Ancient Marriage Customs
Includes a pdf copy of Traditional Customs connected
with the Scottish Liturgy
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Donald Mor
From Grant’s Legends of the Braes o’ Mar
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Little Men of Duthil
By Rev. James Macdougall
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A Smuggling Document
By David Grewar
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Some Aniquities of Tiree
By W. G. Collingwood, M.A., F.S.A. (pdf)
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The Island of Tiree
By William Reeves (pdf)
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Lepidoptera on Tiree
By Derek C. Hulme (pdf)
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At the Sign of the Owl
From the Antiquary magazine
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Emigration from Scotland
By Margaret I. Adam
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Notice of a Hebridean Earth-House
By David MacRitchie, FSA Scot. (pdf)
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The Arms on China of Sir
Archibald Campbell of Inverneill
By J. Tavenor-Perry (pdf)
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Sir Archibald Campbell of Inverneill
By Charles H. Walcott (1898) (pdf)
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The Battle of Culbleen
From a volume of Aberdeen Notes & Queries.
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Thimblers Out-Thlmbled
Aberdeen Journal
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The Reformation. A trouble of the kirk in the Mearns
From the Aberdeen Journal, January 17, 1913
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Jenny Geddes and Laud’s Service Book
From the Aberdeen Journal, January 24. 1913
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Scottish University Maces
From the Aberdeen Journal, January 24. 1913
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Some Considerations on the Present State of
Scotland
In a Letter to the Commissioners and Trustees for improving Fisheries and
Manufactures (1744) (pdf)
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A Contract of Mutual Friendship in the ’45
An article found in an old magazine which was very faint but managed to make
some sense of it and included here for you to read.
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Principal Rory Macleod
From the Aberdeen University Review containing lots of information on the
Macleod and Macpherson families. Written by Rachel Blanche Harrower (pdf)
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A New Setting of an Auld Sang, Robin Tamson
From the Aberdeen
Journal
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Charles Sanford Terry, M.A.
A mini biography along with "A Short History of Europe".
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The Integration of the
Elite and Wider communities of the Northern Highlands, 1500–1700
Evidence from visual cultures by Thomas Brochard (pdf)
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Exile and Return from the
Far North of Scotland
From the Reformation to the Revolution by Thomas Brochard, University of
Aberdeen (pdf)
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Murder in Barra, 1609
The Killing of the ‘Peursan Mór’ by Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart (pdf)
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Harpers in Scotland’s
Outlying Communities in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
By Thomas Brochard (pdf)
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Highland rogues and the
roots of Highland Romanticism
By Domhnall Uilleam Stiubhart (pdf)
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‘Mo Rùn am Fearann’ – ‘My
Love is the Land’:
Gaelic Landscapes of the 18th and 19th Centuries by Kevin James Grant (2016)
(pdf)
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Cairns in the Landscape
Migrant Stones and Migrant Stories in Scotland and its Diaspora by Paul Basu
(pdf)
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Dannsair Air Urlar-Deile
Thu:
Gaelic evidence about Dance from the Mid 17th to Late 18th century Highlands by
Michael Newton (pdf)
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Macdonald had the victory
but the governor had the printer
Harlaw and the lordship of the Isles by Iain G. MacDonald (pdf)
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Anatomy of an Iron Age
Roundhouse
The Cnip Wheelhouse Excavations, Lewis by Ian Armit. This report provides an
excellent source for readers to appreciate the archaeology in the Western Isles.
– Professor Niall Sharples (pdf)
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Plantation
Its Process in Relation to Scotland’s Atlantic Communities, 1590s–1630s By
Thomas Brochard (pdf)
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The socio-economic
relations between Scotland’s northern territories and Scandinavia and the Baltic
in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
By Thomas Brochard (pdf)
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The Serpent-Shaped
Mound of Loch Nell
An Account of Some
Recent Excavations in Argyleshire
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The Income of Tenants on a Scotch
Openfield Farm in the Eighteenth Century
From the Economic Journal of March 1924 by I. F. Grant (pdf)
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The Case of the Pet
Lamb
Winans v. Macrae By Curliana Dingwall
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Dr. Chalmers at Glasgow
An article from the Gentlemen's Magazine
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Contribution to the
Vital Statistics of Scotland
By James Stark, M.D., F.R.S.E., F.R.S.S.A., Fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians, Edinburgh (1851) (pdf)
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Argyllshire Galleys
Some typical examples from tomb slabs and crosses by Lord
Archibald Campbell (1906) (pdf)
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This Little Pamphlet
A collection of interesting articles about Scotland by Archibald Campbell (pdf)
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Britain and the beginning
of Scotland1
Sir John Rhŷs Lecture, British Academy, 5 December 2013 by Dauvit Broun (pdf)
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Anglo-Scottish Culture
Clash?
Scottish Identities and Britishness, c.1520-1750 by Steve Murdoch (pdf)
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Remarkable & Memorable History of Sir Robt.
Bewick and the Laird Graham
Giving an Account of Laird Graham’s meeting with Sir Robert Bewick in the Town
of Carlisle, and they going to a Tavern, a Dispute happened betwixt them, which
of their Sons was the best Man.—How Graham rode Home in a Passion, and caused
his Son to fight young Bewick, which proved their Deaths. This is a chapbook
published around 1840.
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Cultural, British and
global turns in the history of Early Modern Scotland
By Karin Bowie (2013) (pdf)
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Highlamd Minute
An article from the Celtic Magazine of 1888 (pdf)
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Universities in Scotland
Taken from the book, "The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages" by the late
Hastings Rashdall, Dean of Carlisle,
edited by F. M. Powicke, Regius Professor of Modern History, in the University
of Oxford (1895) (pdf)
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Focus on Scottish Studies
A New Agenda for the Field. Introduction by Carla Sassi, Università di Verona
(2012) (pdf)
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