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26 April

26 April 1711: The birth in Edinburgh of David Hume, the most influential thinker of the Scottish Enlightenment and one of the greatest philosophers of all time.

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Battle of Loch nan Uamh during the Jacobite ’45

HES seeks community input for the future management of the Calanais Standing Stones

The first muster of the Black Watch at Aberfeldy

Archaeologists uncover grapeshot and a clan chief’s shoe buckle at Culloden

The Ardeer Company and the defence of Nobel’s Explosive Factory