Added our Weekly Newsletter for 22nd May 2026 which you can read as a pdf file

City Grandee Martin Gilbert Asia Strategy Offers Key Pointers to Scots Ministers
Scottish Government ministers, those re-elected and newbies, about to launch a new style high-growth unit to hopefully boost the country’s economy are being urged to embrace a novel two-way business ventures and investments approach based on Asia. An article by Bill Magee.

A view of the British Empire, more especially Scotland; with some proposals for the improvement of that country, the extension of its fisheries, and the relief of the people.
By John Knox (1785)

An Drochaid - The Bridge
Vol 52 Issue 1 Spring 2024 Newsletter
Includes an article on page 4 about the MacTavish and Thomson situation.

Emigration to Canada and the Clandonald Colony
A video on YouTube.

Biographical Sketch of Oliver Pollock, Esq..
Of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States Commercial Agent at New Orleans and Havana, 1776-1784 with genealogical notes on his descendants also sketches of other Pollock families settled in Pennsylvania by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden (1883) (pdf)

The Stirlings of Keir, and their family papers
By Sir William Fraser (1858) (pdf)

Comments in refutation of pretensions advanced for the first time on the above book by John Riddell (1860) (pdf)

Added our Weekly Newsletter for 15th May 2026 which you can read as a pdf file

550 Scots vs 3,000 Cavalry
The IMPOSSIBLE Defense That SAVED an Empire (Balaclava 1854). A video from YouTube

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.