Edinburgh Castle: A Historical Landmark with Exceptional Views.
When I lived in Edinburgh I was about a 10-minute walk away from this glorious landmark. It is simply beautiful...
A Blog of Poetry, Short Stories and Everything Scottish.
When I lived in Edinburgh I was about a 10-minute walk away from this glorious landmark. It is simply beautiful...
Another adventure from the Broons family. Getting ready. Facebook welcome.
Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, has become well known over the last couple of decades for being a bustling...
The mystery hangman of Dundee, 1835 After the mid 19th century hangmen were widely unpopular in Dundee after the hanging...
Cuilén (also Culén, Cuilean, anglicised Colin; died 971) was an early King of Alba (Scotland). He was a son of Illulb mac Custantín, King of Alba, after...
James Gauld (9 May 1931 – 9 December 2004) was a Scottish footballer, who played as an inside forward. He began his career with Aberdeen but...
Sir Andrew Barron Murray OBE (born 15 May 1987) is a British professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Association of...
Blantyre or ; Scottish Gaelic: Blantaidhr) is a town and civil parish in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, with a population of 16,900. It is bounded by the River Clyde to the...
Rappers Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. were gunned down 6 months apart. The music world was rocked in the...
Duke of Buccleuch (/bəˈkluː/ bə-KLOO), formerly also spelt Duke of Buccleugh, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created twice on 20 April 1663,...
Lady Emily Eliza Steele Gordon Cathcart (née Pringle) was born in 1845. Her father was John Robert Pringle. Her first marriage was...
Rona Anderson (3 August 1926 – 23 July 2013) was a Scottish stage, film, and television actress. She appeared in TV series and on...
The Battle of Myton, nicknamed the Chapter of Myton or The White Battle because of the number of clergy involved, was a major engagement in the First...
Beautiful bagpipes playing “Abide with me” enjoy. Apt for this scenario we are all facing. Facebook welcome.
Scotland has been handing down its traditions for close to a thousand years now, since the earliest days of the...
If. If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If...
David II (5 March 1324 – 22 February 1371) was King of Scotland for nearly 42 years, from 1329 until...
Elizabeth Sutherland Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (née Sutherland; 24 May 1765 – 29 January 1839), also suo jure 19th Countess of Sutherland, was a Scottish peer from...
Baikie was born at Kirkwall, Orkney, eldest son of Captain John Baikie, R.N. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, and, on obtaining his M.D. degree, joined...
Another adventure from oor wullie. About a new film coming out. Facebook welcome.
Fort William (Scottish Gaelic: An Gearasdan [ən ˈkʲɛɾəs̪t̪ən]; “The Garrison”, Scots: The Fort) is a town in Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands, located on the eastern shore of Loch...
The Battle of Auldearn was an engagement of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It took place on 9 May 1645, in...
Hi friends, this song is in traditional Scottish Gaelic, Along with the Bonnie bonnie banks o loch Lomond..Hope you enjoy.....
As Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire, Scott needed to spend part of the year in easy reach of the courtroom in Selkirk,...
The introduction of the Poll Tax in Scotland. The Community Charge, commonly known as the poll tax, was a system of taxation...
Because I could not stop for Death. Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The...
Giric mac Dúngail (Modern Gaelic: Griogair mac Dhunghail; fl. c. 878–889), known in English simply as Giric and nicknamed Mac...
Patrick Sellar (1780–1851) was a Scottish lawyer, factor and sheep farmer. In 1811, he was employed as a factor by the Sutherland Estate...
Sir Thomas Sean Connery CBE (born 25 August 1930) is a Scottish retired actor and producer, who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA...
Who (and where) is DB Cooper? The next unsolved mystery: November 24, 1971. Dan Cooper was a passenger on Northwest...
There are more than a few British towns that are best viewed in total darkness. Dumfries is one of them,...
Hanoverian General Cope landed at Dunbar on September 17, 1745. Along with approximately 2,500 troops, he marched toward Edinburgh. With...
The Gaels gave Scotland its name from ‘Scoti’, a racially derogatory term used by the Romans to describe the Gaelic-speaking...
Death is nothing at all. Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into...
Beneath the golden arc of sun,Where endless azure skies have spun,Summer whispers, sweet and clear,With warmth that draws the heart...
Donnchad mac Crinain (Modern Gaelic: Donnchadh mac Crìonain; anglicised as Duncan I, and nicknamed An t-Ilgarach, “the Diseased” or “the Sick”; ca. 1001 – 14 August...