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Balfour Stone at Killiecrankie
The Balfour Stone in the Pass of Killiecrankie supposedly marks the grave and the spot where Brigadier Barthold Balfour was killed while trying to rally Scottish government troops fleeing...
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Battle of Killiecrankie
At the battle of Killiecrankie on 27 July 1689, Scottish government forces under the command of Major-General Hugh Mackay of Scourie were defeated by...
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Roman roads in Scotland
Myth and fable surround much common understanding of Roman roads, they are for instance proverbial for their straightness and all lead to Rome. Or...
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Massacre of Glencoe
In the Massacre of Glencoe of 13 February 1692, 120 Scots Army soldiers from the Earl of Argyll’s Regiment of Foot fell upon the...
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Balfour Stone at Killiecrankie
The Balfour Stone in the Pass of Killiecrankie supposedly marks the grave and the spot where Brigadier Barthold Balfour was killed while trying to...
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How a bad case of flatulence saw the Macleans gain the lands of Ardgour
In the 1430s, while residing at Ardtornish and ill with an upset stomach which caused him 'not to smell well', Alexander MacDonald, Lord of...
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The Execution of James Renwick
On 17th February 1688, Presbyterian minister James Renwick was hanged in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket. He would be the last Covenanter to be publicly executed. James Renwick...
Scottish history books
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The Sea Kings
The archipelagic kingdoms of Man and the Isles that flourished from the last quarter of the eleventh century down to the middle of the...
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Industry, Reform and Empire
From the death of James III to the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, Jane Dawson tells story of Scotland from the perspective of...
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Union and Revolution
A provocative new account of Scotland's history across a century of revolution and political instability. This edition in the New History of Scotland series...
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Resources
General George Wade
George Wade was born in 1673 in Killavalley, Westmeath, Ireland, and is best remembered as the father of the military road-building programme that he...
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Lord Lovat’s memorial to George I
THE Highlands of Scotland, being a country very mountainous, and almost inaccessible to any but the inhabitants thereof, whose language and dress are entirely...
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Hugh Mackay of Scourie
Hugh Mackay of Scourie was born c.1640 and is best remembered for commanding Scottish government forces at the battle of Killiecrankie in 1689.
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