Articles on Scottish History
This is where we will be posting smaller articles on a range of Scottish historical matters.

• Tour through the Western Islands in 1768
  A tour which gives some interesting information on illnesses found in the Western Isles.
• Scottish Charms and Amulets
  This is a collection of information under several chapters.
• The Scottish Historical Review
  A collection of articles from this publication.
• Gaelic Proverbs
  As told to Jeff MacDonald by Jimmy MacKay.
• Some wee articles from Canada
  Wee stories of interest from Canada.
• Maeshowe Runes
  An article about the Runes of Orkney
• Claims of Ireland
  An article on Gaelic by Sharon Gunn
• Notes on a Deed by Lady Margaret Douglas
  Background on the Lady and notes on the Deed as at October 1560.
• Notes on The Scottish De Quencys of Fawside and Leuchars
  By William W. Ireland, M.D., FSA Scot
• Scottish Regiments at the Battle of Worcester
  An interesting article on the battle and on the surname Cone.
• Jottings from the records of a Farming society
  Interesting notes that reveal something of farming practices 1803-1814.
• Notice of a Seal of James, First Viscount Seafield
  Includes some information on this person, James Ogilvy.
• Auld Lang Syne
  Its origin, poetry, and music.
• Notes on Newark Castle, Renfrewshire
  Some information on the owners of this castle.
• Falkirk Place Names
  Notes on the derivation and meaning of the place-name Falkirk.
• The Scottish Expedition in Norway in 1612
  A full account of this expedition.
• Notes on the Pigmies Isle
  Some interesting information on the Pigmies Isle at the Butt of Lewis.
• The White Head Hunter
  A story of Graham Ogilvy
• Nova Scotia Overseas Highland Brigade
  Its formation and history
• Wee Snippets of Scottish Information
  From time to time I get wee snippets of historical information so I decided to create a page to hold them.
• Surgeons and Barbers
  Notes on the Corporation of Surgeons and Barbers of the City of Edinburgh.
• Loch-In-Dorb
  An ancient royal fortress.
• Chromosomes Sketch New Outline of British History
  Article from the NY Times
• Marguerite Garden
  Honour at last for Scots woman who 'did her bit' to help French fighters flee the Nazi occupation.
• Barons up in arms as Lord Lyon lays down his writ
  An article by Alastair Robertson
• Tolquhon Castle and its Builder
  One of the most interesting of the sixteenth century baronial mansions.
• Cromarty
  An interest account of the town of Cromarty.

• Sir Walter Scott and the Civil War
  by Lachlan Munro

• Clanship and Chiefs Dress and Arms
  From Burkes Peerage & Gentry

• The American Fur Trade
  Notes on Scottish connections in the American Fur Trade and an insight into the way of life.

• The Leatherneck Magazine
  This was an interesting article in the Leatherneck Magazine about Piping in the U.S. Marines.

• The Death of King Coal
  The last miners gala day at Kinglassie.

• US Bid to save Gaelic culture from Scots
  Highland games, the Mod, Sir Walter Scot and English blamed for distorting the true picture of the intellectual Gael - By Noel Young.

• The Kinlochroag Highland Fold are under threat
  Learn more about this battle to preserve a breed.

• The Norse Code
  Proving the link between the Macdonalds, Madougells and MacAlesters

• Dead Piper
  Story of 'dead' piper's trip to Canada holds audience spellbound

• History of the Murrays, Bedeque, P.E.I.
  By Rev. H. Arthur Murray

• They were the Mothers of Florida
  An account of a McLeod family

• Battle of The Raith 596 A.D.
  An account of this important battle often overlooked by historians.
• Battle of Glen Boultachan
  by David Rorer
• Ragman Rolls
  Of 1296 and 1291

• Scots and Freemasonry
  By Carson C. Smith, FSA Scot

• Heisker/Heisgeir : A Gaelic Site: Then and Now
  By Jim St. Clair from the Oran

• The Fiery Young Advocate - John Clerk
  By Alan MacKenzie (.pdf file)

• Communion Tokens
  Some information on communion tokens

• Forest to Be Restored to Scottish Highlands
  By James Owen

• Scots Prisoners sent to Berwick, Maine - 1651
  In November 1650 a number of these prisoners were apparently sent to Boston in the "Unity," arriving in New England early in 1651

• St. Andrew's Day in the USA
  An account of how St. Andrew's Day came about in the USA.

• The Glenaladale Pioneers
  From the Dalhousie Review Vol 11 (1931-32)

• British Immigration before Confederation
  Helen I Gowan, The Canadian Historical Association

• The Dream of Lord Nithsdale
  By Charles MacKay taken from Blackwood's Magazine

• The Curse of Glencoe
  By B. Simmons

• A Strachan in France
  A letter in French about an old manuscript

• Frame by frame: the lost voices from Britain's urban hell
  An article by Billy Briggs in the March 28 2005 edition of the Herald.

• I Heard a Shot Fired
  By John McKay, Chatham Daily Planet, April 22, 1901

• To Chatham by Canoe
  By Miss Annie McLeod, Chatham Daily News, April 18, 1941

• Wolves and Indians Everywhere
  By Mrs. James McDonald, Chatham Daily Planet, March 5, 1904

• One of the Grand Old Men of Kent
  By Robert Stuart Woods, Chatham Daily Planet, February 6, 1904, And Beers’ Biographical Record, 1904

• The Hotel Buckhorn
  By Alex McPherson, Chatham Daily News, November 26, 1932

• One of the many William Coubroughs in Stirlingshire
  A genealogical article by Anne Cruickshank

• Mosspaul Hotel, Hawick
  By James Edgar

• Articles from James Ruickbie
  This is a collection of articles sent in by James Ruickbie.

• Newark Castle, St Monans
  Measured Spot Survey

• Jim Ferguson
  More than 200 children called Ajax man Dad.

• Historic Castles and Houses
  A collection of articles by Andrew at Loyd and Townsend-Rose.

• Presentation Revolver
  Given to Cap't McCullem on Oct 14th, 1787

• Ben McConville
  Historic articles by Ben McConville

• Governor Troup, or the McIntosh Family
  From The History of Alabama

• Athelstaneford
  Home of Scotland’s Flag

• Memoir of the Mission of Strathglass
  Prepared by Allan J. Gillis of Ottawa

• Albert Campbell Burton Journals
  About the day to day experience of a settler traveling from Waverly, Nebraska to Hayes Center Nebraska to homestead some land

• Domestic Servant Advert
  This is an old advert wanting domestic servants from Britain for New Zealand

• The smuggler, the exciseman, murder most foul and the BBC
  By Ross N. Hutton

• Diary of Simon Morrison
  Our thanks to Bill McDonald for sending this transcription of an account of a voyage from Scotland to Australia in 1854 into us

• Winnipeg Robert Burns Club
  Founded in 1907 and is, we are told, the longest, continuously existing Federated Burns Club outside the United Kingdom.

• Scotland's Oil
  Some details of a report done in 1974 which reveals how wealthy Scotland could have been if she had won independence.

• Scotland/England migration
  A story of a family moving from Scotland to England

• Lieutenant-Colonel John Fordyce
  Of the 74th Highlanders in South Africa

• Friends in High Places
  By Kenneth C. Jack

• Malcolm D. MacDonald
  An article about his life in the late 1800's in Scotland and Africa.

• St. Andrew's Society of Baltimore
  200th anniversary newsletter

• A journal by three generations of Walker's
  Sent in by Anita Walker

• The Games
  Scottish tradition turned American competition

• The Masonic Dollar - Fact or Fiction
  The discussion about the US $ bill and its connection with Freemasonary.

• Alex Kindness
  Of Bognell, Banffshire

• The Scots Independent Newspaper
  February 2006

• A Brief Sketch of the Life of Maria Amelia McQuaig
  Partly written in her 56th year and so on, some written in her 70^th year, Jan. 19^th  1905, Hulbert Post Office, Dundas Co., Ontario, Canada.

• Hints to Emigrants
  By Rev. William Bell, Published in Edinburgh by Waugh and Innes in 1824.

• Hints for Emigrants
  From The Emigrant's Directory and Guide to obtain lands and effect a settlement in the Canadas. By Frances A. Evans.

• Clearing the Land in Canada
  From Lois Sparling

• The condensed diaries of the Rev. William Bell
  A record of his daily life as he went from Scotland to Canada

• Strathpeffer Pavilion
  In the Highlands of Scotland

• Loyalists that came to Canada
  A collection of papers about the Loyalists put together by W. Blair Orser into a .pdf file

• The Royal Scots College in Salamanca
  By Denis Carlin

• Girl Guides in Scotland
  A history of the movement

• Woodstock, Ont. 1848
  From "The Church The Gaels Built" by W. Stewart Lavell. Excerpt from pg. 4, "Beginnings".

• Tartan Day in Idaho
  By Tim Caylor

• History of the New Hampshire Tartan
  By Kelly Dowling

• Tartan Day in France 2006
  Pictures from Tom Trillard-Mac Gregor

• Catawba Valley Scottish Society, Inc.
  First and Only Coat of Arms granted to a Non-Profit Corporation involved in presenting a Scottish Highland Games anywhere in the World.  

• MacIntosh Family
  By MPeters nee McIntosh daughter of the late Harry and Linda McIntosh

• The Children of a Bitter Exodus
  An article about the emigrants from Sky from the Weekend Scotsman, June 5, 1982

• The McWhorters in South Carolina
  by Karen McWhorter Wilhelm

• Buchanan Family from 1750
  An account of the Buchanan family by Shirley Davis
• James Farquhar
  Was this the last clan battle on Scottish soil?
• A Brief History of the Scottish Ceilidh and Ceilidh Dancing
  By Scotland's Ceilidh Band.
• Medieval Scottish Saints
  A talk given by Lindsay Irvin at the Scottish Studies Fall Colloquium, 30 September 2006

• The Plantation of Ulster
  By Boyd Gray

• Gettysburg: The American Culloden - A Clan Tragedy?
  By Dave Chagnon, The Sennachie

• Closeburn
  Describes a violent agitation that manifested itself in the waters of Closeburn Loch.

• The Lincoln Monument - Edinburgh
  In memory of Scottish-American soldiers

• The Old Castles and Mansions of Scotland
  Taken from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445, Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852

• Scottish Elections
  The results of the Scottish elections of 2007

• Alexander Linn
  A martyr for the Presbyterian cause

• Scots Independent Newspaper
  This is the June 2007 issue which is the first issue since the SNP won the Scottish Elections.

• National Scots, Scots-Irish Heritage Month in North Carolina
  Following the process of trying to make this a recognised month in North Carolina.

• Children of Alba
  A story of Scots in America by William G. A. Shaw of Easter Lair

• Falkirk Memorial Cairn
  Unveiled 21st July, 2007

• Selkirk Settlers
  by Rob R. Bruce-Barron

• Glenshee
  by Campbell of Glenshee

• The True Roots and Origin of the Scots
  by Craig White

• Restless English and Quisling Scots
  A compilation article by Jim Lynch
• Sir James Hector
  The Hero Scot of Kicking Horse Pass
• Turning of the Bull Monument
  By Wally Turnbull
• 20 Year Search Ends
  by Keith Rattray
• A Macintyre Saves Scotland
  An article about Scottish work being classified as English.
• CASSOC
  Clans And Scottish Societies of Canada
• The Emigrants Statue
  Unveiling by the First Minister of Scotland 23rd July 2007.
• The Edinburgh, Leith, Glasgow Newspaper
  and North British Commercial and Literary Advertiser, March 8, 1834
• Seeking Information
  About a spoon and a monument in Scotland
• Chatham Highland Games
  12th July 2008
• Scots in North Carolina
  Taken from a History of North Carolina
• Scots-Irish in North Carolina
  Taken from a History of North Carolina
• Settlers Dedication in Winnipeg
  Article about the ceremonies in September 2008
• Articles by Stuart McHardy
  About Ancient Scotland
• Old Time Customs
  By John Burgess Calkin, M. A. LL.D.
• Were the Scots Irish?
  By Ewan Campbell
• Gloomy Memories
  By Donald MacLeod, an account of the Highland Clearances
• Scottish North American Leadership Conference
  End of October 2008
• On the Antiquity of the Gaelic Language
  Showing its affinity to Hebrew, Greek and Latin by the Rev. D. M'Intyre (1865)
• Through the Eyes of a Gael
  A collection of articles on folkways and  beliefs.

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