Celtic History

Celtic History In the News — November 2019

Celtic History and Archaeology In the News Apologies to any of you that have already read this one...

Recent News in Celtic Archaeology and History Rare spindle whorl discovered in Pictish excavation in Perthshire Archaeologists delving...

Originally published October 2015. Updated December 2019. Irish Astronomers Until the 1990’s it seems that a number of...

Ireland’s Female Weavers During the Napoleonic War from 1803 to 1815 there were some 300,000 men in the...

So you’ve swabbed the inside of your cheek and done the genealogy research. You’ve discovered you’re Scottish, Welsh,...

If like so many people are the world, you have been entranced by all things Scotland, Celtic, and...

You may be asking yourself, what is a tartan? That is not an easy question to answer. When...

Originally published July 2015. Updated November 2019. “Celtic” Tarot? Some notes for something I was working on a...

Bog Butter Update A post on an ancient Ireland blog recently included a photo (left) of a “mether”...

Originally published October 2012. Celtic History Newsletter Brought to you by The Celtic Croft and MacGregor Historic Games...