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The Gathering 2009 - the year of the Homecoming.

 

Jack Vettriano - Self taught and sneered at by the art establishment

 

Beaver Homecoming - Mid Argyll sees the introduction of Beavers in Knapdale

 

Christopher Rose - One of the world's great wildlife artists.





 

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Some articles we love from SCOTS Heritage Magazine back issues:

Drum Gardens


It was King Robert the Bruce who fi rst brought the Irvines to Drum. William de Irwyn was both armour-bearer and later secretary to King Robert and evidence suggests that he followed the Bruce right through the dark days of his career to the triumph of Bannockburn and beyond. William de Irwyn was rewarded by Bruce with the land of Drum, part of the extensive forest where for many years the kings of Scotland had come to hunt deer and wild boar.

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The Bagpipes


If the pipes were being played in Scotland by the 14th century, they may have been more or less unknown in the Highlands before about 1400 although Gaelic society had had its own very rich musical tradition.

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Baile - Farm, Village, Town and City


If the Gaelic-speaking segment of Inverness’s population appeared a little less impressed than the majority Anglophone element by the decision to make the Highland capital Scotland’s newest city at the end of last year, it may have been the result of more than mere native Celtic phlegm, for the Gaelic language does not in fact commonly make the distinction which is so enthusiastically articulated in the nominal change from “town” to “city” in English.

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Troubled Times Hounours of Scotland


On March 27, 1625, the 'blessed King James' passed away. His reign had been relatively peaceful. "Here I sit," he wrote, "and govern Scotland with my pen … which others could not govern by the sword". King James’s younger son,, Charles, Duke of Albany, succeeded to the throne as King Charles I.

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Declaration of Arbroath


Scots the world over are familiar with these stirring words. They come from the Declaration of Arbroath, the best known and most treasured document in the National Archives of Scotland.

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The Ring of Brodgar


T he Orcadian bard, George Mackay Brown, called them 'Sun-stricken giants'. It is an apt description for as I draw nearer the Ring, climbing from the grey, ice-bound shores of the Harray Loch up the gentle heathercovered hillside, the 36 standing stones that form the ancient circle loom above me as dark silhouettes against the clear blue sky.

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Traditional Scotish Fiddling


Throughout Scotland, Iain Fraser is renowned both for his fine fiddling and for his inspired teaching – twin aspects of his passionate commitment to traditional Scottish fiddle music which is today enjoying a spectacular revival. At his home in the Borders he spoke with Heather MacIlwraith.

 

 

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The Thistle at War


The Scots have been at war, in one form or another, for a very long time; and it is that experience of war which has undoubtedly played a major role in helping to shape and preserve a Scottish consciousness – Scotland’s image of itself.

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Tracing Scots Ancestors Book 15


Having written about Scottish names, births, marriages and death records, and Scottish census returns, I shall now turn to more unusual sources of information for my next articles.

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Culzean Castle


Culzean’s origins go back to 1569 when Sir Thomas Kennedy was granted a charter over the lands by his brother the 4th Earl of Cassillis. This was a most generous gift as the estate was enormous stretching from Turnberry to Ayr and from Culzean inland to Castle Doon.

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