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What's New on Electric Scotland
A list of the most recent content added to the site in the past month
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Secrets of Dunnottar Castle
Scotland’s Most INCREDIBLE Fortress.  Added a video about this castle to the foot of the page

My Reminiscences
By Lord Ronald Gower, F.S.A. in two volumes (1883)

An historical account of the Macdonnells of Antrim:
Including notices of some other Septs, Irish and Scottish (1873) (pdf). Got a better copy of this book so have now replaced the one I had up with this one.

Life of John Erskine, Baron of Dun
Containing remarks upon the religious and political affairs of Scotland during the sixteenth century by James Bowick (1828) (pdf)

Memorial of the Clan of the Bells
More particularly of the Bells of Kirkconnel & Bells of Blackethouse, Chiefs of the name (pdf)

Clan Buchanan
Added a new history of this clan to the top of our history page for them.

UNESCO Called upon to protect Kilt from the VATMan - An article by Bill Magee
Edinburgh kiltmaker 21st Century Kilts, situated on the Royal Mile and endorsed by non other than national icon comedian Sir Billy Connolly, is seeking UNESCO protection claiming Scots customers should not have to pay VAT on their own national dress.

Memorie of the Lineage, Paternal & Maternal of Mary Elizabeth Jane Douglas, Napier
By her son, Mark Napier (1875) (pdf)

Memorials of the Family of Row
By the Family of Row (1828) (pdf)


Added our Weekly Newsletter for 8th May 2026 which you can read as a pdf file

Lt.-Col. Otho Hamilton of Olivestor
Lieutenant-Governor of Placentia, Lieutenant-Colonel in the army, Major of the 40th Regiment of Foot, Member of the Nova Scotia Council from 1731 to 1744 by Rev. Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, B.A. (1899) (pdf)

Mary McLeod Bethune
And the National Council of Negro Women Pursuing a True and Unfettered Democracy For the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site National Park Service By Elaine M. Smith (1954) (pdf)

Elgin Cathedral
The Cathedral Kirk of Moray, description by J. S. Richardson, H.R.S.A., LL.D., FSAScot., Formerly Inspector of Ancient Monuments for Scotland, history by J. MacKintosh, M.B.E., FSAScot. (1950) (pdf)

Carlile
Added a page for this name which includes a few pdf books,

A Brief Genealogical Account of the Family of McLean
From the First Settlement in the Island of Mull and parts Adjacent by Alexander MacLean (1872) (pdf)

American Clan Lockhart Society
Got in a pdf of their April - June 2026 newsletter

Coghill
Added a page for this name showing Scottish connections.


Added our Weekly Newsletter for 1st May 2026 which you can read as a pdf file

MacDuffee/MacDubhsith
Got in their Spring 2026 newsletter where they announce a change in their official name.

Glencoe and the Indians
A real-life family saga which spans two continents, several centuries and more than thirty generations to link Scotland's clans with the native peoples of the American West by James Hunter (1996) and can be borrowed from the Internet Archive.

Glencoe and the Indians
A Review by Michael Newton, Dept, of Celtic, Edinburgh University (pdf)

Lives of the Baillies
By James William Baillie of Culterallers (1872) (pdf)

Diary of Alexander Jaffray
Provost of Aberdeen, one of the Scottish Commissioners to King Charles II., and a member of Cromwell's parliament to which are added particulars of his subsequent life given in connexion with memoirs of the rise, progress, and persecutions, of the people called Quakers in the North of Scotland among whom he became one of the earliest members by John Barclay (second edition) (1824) (pdf)

Cravie or Craven
Found a book about these names so have created a page for them.

BBC Highlights keen interest in Scots Society of Antiquaries Heritage Hub Global Fundraiser
It took a mere matter of digital seconds for British Broadcasting Corporation to give a "thumbs up" to the one-of global fundraising campaign by Scotland's oldest learned heritage body followed by several other communications outlets and supported by numerous other organisations. An article from Bill Magee.

The Life and Times of Robert Gib
Lord of Carribber, Familiar Servitor and Master of the Stables to King James V. of Scotland by George Duncan Gibb, Bart., of Falkland and of Carribber, M.A. M.D. LL. in two volumes (1874)


Added our Weekly Newsletter for 24th April 2026 which you can read as a pdf file

An Account of the Confederation of Clan Chattan
By Charles Fraser-MacKintosh, of Drummond (1898) (pdf)

Memorials of the Browns of Fordell
Finmount and Vicarsgrange by Robert Riddle Stodart (1887) (pdf)

Family of Dick
Added a page for this family.

I Found Scotland's CHEAPEST Pie…and a COMMUNITY I Won’t Forget
Added this video to the foot of our Scottish Restaurants page

William Alexander Clouston (1843-96)
Folklorist: Introduction and Bibliography by Gareth Whittaker (2004)

Wine and Walnuts
or Gossip of Great Writers, A Book of Anecdote, Laconic Saying and Gems of Thought in Prose and Verse Edited by W. A. Clouston (1876) (pdf)



 


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