Scotland and its History. Standard.
1745 – Raising The Standard At Glenfinnan In 1745 news was received of a powerful new Jacobite force to arrive...
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2 May 2025
Scotland and its history
A menu of everything to do with Scotland. from bagpipes to inventions.
2025
Scotland and its History. A Royal Visit.
1842 – Queen Victoria Visits Scotland The second visit of a United Kingdom monarch to Scotland was in 1842 when...
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27 April 2025
Scotland and its people. The Picts.
A video of Scotlands Ancestors, known as the Picts. Generated with AI.
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23 April 2025
Scotland and its History. Dress.
1746 – Highland Dress Proscription Act Following the Jacobite defeat at Culloden, the last pitched battle on British soil, Prince...
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20 April 2025
Scotland and its History. Black
1729 – Black Watch Raised One of the world’s most famous militia was first raised in 1725 and became a...
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12 April 2025
Scotland and its History. Rebellion.
1715 – First Jacobite Rebellion Thanks to the treatment of Scotland before and after the 1707 Union, there was always...
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9 April 2025
Scotland and its History. Rising.
1666 – Pentland Rising The covenanting ministers who rejected the Restoration settlement with Charles II’s additions, found themselves replaced by...
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4 April 2025
Scotland and its History. Tay.
1879 – The Tay Bridge Disaster Designed by Sir Thomas Bouch, the Tay Railway Bridge was opened in 1878. The...
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26 March 2025
Scotland and its History. Crofters.
1886 – The Crofters Act After a century of being treated worse than the cattle they lost their lands to,...
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18 March 2025
Scotland and its History. Gretna.
1915 – Gretna Rail Disaster On the 22nd May 1915 Three trains; a special troop train, a local train and...
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11 March 2025
Scotland and its History. Charles.
1646 – Charles I Surrenders To The Scots Civil War had begun in earnest by 1642. Charles I was the...
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28 February 2025
Scotland and its History. Covenant.
1638 – The Second Covenant Charles I’s views of himself, theology and politics became increasingly contradictory to the beliefs of...
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24 February 2025
Scotland and its History. TV.
1926 – First Television Broadcast It is regarded by some as Man’s greatest invention, possibly more life-sustaining than fire and...
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20 February 2025
Scottish Language. History.
Dominance of Scots. By the fourteenth century Scots had emerged as the dominant speech of all ranks in Scottish society...
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10 February 2025
Scotland and its History. Crowns.
1603 – The Union Of The Crowns The son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Lord Darnley became King of...
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7 February 2025
Scotland and its History. Orkney.
1468 – Orkney & Shetland Return To Scotland For six centuries the Orkney and Shetland Islands remained under Norwegian sovereignty,...
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31 January 2025
Scotland and its History. Dunblane.
1996 – Dunblane Massacre. Wednesday 13th March 1996 should have been a normal school day for the children of Dunblane...
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23 January 2025
Scotland and its History. Red.
1306 – Murder Of The ‘Red Comyn’ In 1304, John Comyn II, known as the Red Comyn after his grandfather,...
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14 January 2025
HAPPY NEW YEAR. 2025.
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1 January 2025
2024
Scotland and its History. Norway.
1098 – Magnus Barefoot Lands In The Western Isles Magnus Barefoot (or Barelegs) came to the throne of Norway in...
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28 December 2024
Scotland and its History. 80AD.
80 AD Gnaeus Julius Agricola in Scotland Gnaeus Julius Agricola was sent in the year AD77 to be governor of...
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23 December 2024
Scotland and its History. Referendum 3
2014 – Scottish Referendum The Scottish National Party, whose central aim is independence, won the 2011 Scottish Parliament election by...
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19 December 2024
Scotland and its History. Referendum 2.
1997 – Second Referendum In 1997 after nearly 20 years of Conservative rule a labour government swept to power with...
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18 December 2024
Scotland and its History. Bronze Age.
With the advances that metal brought better weapons came and with this more warfare and the need to defend. Brochs...
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11 December 2024
Scotland and its History. Hunter.
The First Hunter Gatherers Around 6,000 BC – 1,000 BC Currently our understanding is that around 8/10 thousand years ago...
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8 December 2024
Scotland and its History. Referendum.
1979 – First Referendum From the Mid 1970s onwards there had been building political pressure towards separate parliaments in both...
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3 December 2024
Scotland and its History. Clans.
Described as ‘fiercer than fierceness itself’, the Clan Cameron is said to be one of the most ancient of Scottish...
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1 December 2024
Scotland and its History. Dunvegan.
The Fairy Flag of Dunvegan One of the most treasured possessions of the clan MacLeod is the famous Fairy Flag...
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21 November 2024
Scotland and its History. Neolithic.
Neolithic Farmers and Monument Builders The Neolithic Age is considered the New Stone Age. By 3,000 BC. The population in...
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16 November 2024
Scotland and its History. The Luckenbooth.
The Luckenbooth The Royal Mile, Edinburgh The Royal Mile is a long cobbled street that runs down from Edinburgh castle...
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13 November 2024
Scotland and its History. Brahan Seer.
The Brahan Seer Living around the same time as the legendary Nostradamus was a farm labourer called Coinneach Odhar. His...
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10 November 2024
Scotland and its History. The Thistle.
Common throughout the highlands, islands and lowlands of Scotland, the prickly purple thistle has been Scotland’s national emblem for centuries....
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2 November 2024
Scotland and its History. The Reformation.
This article presents the role John Knox’s leadership played in the success of the Scottish Protestant Reformation in 1560. John...
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22 October 2024
Scotland and its History. St Andrew.
The union flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is sometimes referred to as the Union Jack and is made...
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7 October 2024
Scotland and its History. The 4 Marys.
Mary Queen of Scots, queen of Scotland at the age of just 6 days, had a very chaotic and endangered...
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5 October 2024
Scotland and its History. Darien.
The Darien Scheme. Some have said: ‘The Darien Venture was the most ambitious colonial scheme attempted in the 17th century…...
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27 September 2024
Scotland and its History. Railway.
Rattling and screeching, the wooden waggon trundles down the track through fields and bushes towards the coast. Its heavy load...
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12 September 2024
Scotland and its History. Unicorn.
The Unicorn, National Animal of Scotland The unicorn: a mystical beast, representing both purity and innocence, power and ferocity, adopted...
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1 September 2024
Scotland and its History. Slaves.
Colliers and Salters: Scottish Slaves ‘So recently as 1799 there were slaves in this country. Twenty-five years before, that is,...
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22 August 2024
Scotland and its History. IRN BRU.
Describing the taste of Irn Bru to a non-Scottish native can be a difficult task. It’s incredibly sweet, with some...
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12 August 2024