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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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Military Life in Italy
Sketches by Edmondo De Amicis, Army Officer translated by Wilhelmina W. Cady (1882) (pdf)

Fact Stranger than Fiction
Seventy-Five years of a busy life with reminiscences of many great and good men and women by John P. Green (1920) (pdf)


Added our Weekly Newsletter for 14th November, 2025 which you can read as a pdf file or in our Community

David Douglas
Added two pdf files to his page.

Calendar of the State Papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots 1547-1603
Preserved in the Public Record Office, the British Museum, and Elsewhere in England Edited by Joseph Bain in thirteen volumes (1898)

Yahoo Canada Highlights 'World-First" Scots/North American Remote Stroke Operation Success
In a Transatlantic first. Operating from the "City of Discovery" Dundee, Professor Iris Grunwald performed the first remote thrombectomy to remove blood clots from the brain to restore blood flow on a human cadaver. Meanwhile in Florida Dr Ricardo Hanel used the robotic device to operate on a body from across the Atlantic some 6,500 kilometres apart. An article by Bill Magee.

The Dundee Market Crosses & Tolbooths
With views of new & old Dundee by William Kidd (1901) (pdf)

The Crime Against the Yakimas
By Lucullus V. McWhorter (1913) (pdf)

Clan Murray
Added an old document "The Chiefship of the Clan Murray" with notices of the Morays of Bothwell, Murrays of Touchadam and Polmaise, Morays of Abercairney, and Murrays of Tullibardine (Dukes of Atholl) (pdf) and also a link to their clan society.

Camp and Quarters, Scenes and Impressions of Military Life
Interspersed with anecdotes of various well-known characters who flourished in the war by Major John Patterson in two volumes (1840)


Added our Weekly Newsletter for 7th November, 2025 which you can read as a pdf file or in our Community

The History of the Scottish Society of Indianapolis (1983-2025)
Updated History of the Scottish Society of Indianapolis including every officer line, every location in which we have met, every recipient of the Tommy Thompson Award for Excellence, a record of the Games, Flowers of the Forest, and the text of the Annual State of the Society Address. Edited by Carson C. Smith FSAScot.

A Treatise of Maritim Surveying
In two parts with a prefatory essay on Draughts and Surveys by Murdoch MacKenzie, Senior; Late Maritim Surveyor in his Majesty's Service (1774) (pdf)

Tax Reforms for Growth
Policy Brief November 2025 (pdf)

The Medals of our Fighting Men
By Stanley G. Johnson, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.E.S. (1918) (pdf)

Rockstar reported "Layoffs" at odds with Scots gaming sector sucess
Reports of Rockstar Games, the studio behind mega-hit Grand Theft Auto, instigating layoffs that affect its global hub in Edinburgh have hit an otherwise globally-renowned Scottish gaming sector that continues to outplay the rest of the UK. An article by Bill Magee.

Galloway
Added a video to the top of our Galloway page about The Wicker Man: Finding Beauty in a Cult Horror's Filming Locations.  I thinks this video does a great job of highlighting this south west Scotland area.

Memories of a Long Life
By Lieutenant-Colonel David Davidson, C.B., H.E.I.C.S., Honorary Colonel and Late Commandant of the Queen's Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer Brigade (1890) (pdf)

Watson
Got in a copy of their March 2025 newsletter. In my opinion this is one of the best clan newsletters out there as it is really informative.

Hall, Russell & Co., Shipbuilders,
FOOTDEE, Aberdeen. THE 1860’s A NEW BEGINING. A new book from Stan Bruce.  Also note that he's added some new links to other resources on his page under the title THE SHIPBUILDERS OF ABERDEEN - Hall, Russell 1860's October 31st, 2025 which is just above his Poems section about 2/3rds down the page.

A History of the Family of Seton
During eight centuries by George Seton, Advocate, in two volumes (1896)

Military Life in Algeria
By The Count P. De Castellane in two volumes (1853)


Added our Weekly Newsletter for 31st October, 2025 which you can read as a pdf file or in our Community

The Adventures of Captain John Patterson
With notices of the officers, &c. of the 50th or Queen's Own Regiment from 1807 to 1821 (1837) (pdf)

Selected Poetry on or about the MacLeans
by John Patterson MacLean (external Link) which I've added to out Clan MacLean page.

Walter Henry
A Scots-Irish Surgeon and his stories of Military life in 4 volumes

The Stamp Collector
A Guide to the World's Postage Stamps by Stanley C. Johnson, M.A., D.Sc., F. R. E. S. (1920) (pdf)

Saint Columbia, Apostle of Caledonia
By the Count de Montalembert of the French Academy (1869) (pdf)

The Poetical and Prose Works of Robert Burns
With Life, Notes and Correspondence by A. Cunningham, Esq., with origional pieces from the collection of Sir Egerton Bridges, Bart (1855) (pdf)

The Prose Works of Robert Burns
With the notes of Currie and Cromer and many by the present editor, Robert Chambers (1839) (pdf)

The Principles of Gaelic Grammer
Designed to facilitate the study of that language to youth by Archibald Currie (1828) (pdf)

Ancient Society
Includes some good information on the Iroquois by Lewis H. Morgan (1877) (pdf)



 


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