Scotland

Scottish Blue Bonnets

Originally Published April 2012. Scottish Blue Bonnets Some time ago I was discussing the topic of Scottish men’s...

Originally Published June 2012 Scottish & Irish Pirates Although when thinking about pirates most people think of Johnny...

Originally published November 2012 Alexander Selkirk Alexander Selkirk was born in 1676, and was the real-life inspiration behind...

Originally published April 2013. Scottish Dirks We have a guest writer this month. A friend, Joseph D. Smith...

Originally published June 2011. History of the Highland Games The early origins of the Highland Games are subject...

Originally Published February 2011. Black Watch Mutiny After the 1715 Jacobite Rising the “Disarming Act” was passed by...

Scottish “Gypsy” Kingdom Town Yetholm is a small village in the Scottish Borders to the south east of...

Originally published April 2011. Scotland’s Frankenstein In 1818 in the anatomy room of the University of Scotland was...

Alleged corn/maize carvings in Rosslyn Chapel I’ve previously discussed the claim that Henry Sinclair sailed to the New...

Who Was MacBeth? The real MacBeth was the High King of Alba from 1040-1057. (In the eleventh century...