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this Week in Scottish History
Last updated
Saturday, 19. August 2017
One of a million Centenary candles
lit at "Lights
Out" for the million British and Colonial fallen of the
Great War at 2200 hrs on 4th August 2014 and extinguished
at 2300 hrs, the hour war was declared in 1914.
Project News
Le Paradis Details
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Maps, positions,
locations and contemporary photos.
2017 Visit to Le Paradis
(1940) and WWI Sites (1917), Centenary
Remembrance for 2nd Lt
Morris Attached Royal Flying Corps (k.i.a. May 1917)
11th Company "George
Garland" Valparaíso Chile
New Book on
51st
(Highland Division) at Saint-Valéry-en-Caux
Stewart Mitchell, a
researcher at The Gordon Highlanders Museum has completed 5
years of research and his book on The Gordon Highlanders at
St Valéry
has now been published. This deals not only with the battle and
the Gordons part with the 51st (Highland) Division but also
covers their time as prisoners of war.
Veterans of The Royal
Scots (The Royal Regiment) at the 2016 Cenotaph Parade
Le Paradis 2016 and
visit to WWI Sites, May 2016
The Heroes of St Valéry:
4th Cameron Highlanders in Stalag
Luft VIIIB/334 Lamsdorf on Keith Neven's Facebook Page
Burns Night 2016
75th Anniversary of the
Defence of the Dunkirk Perimeter 1940/2015
Burn's Night 2014
New Page: "What Islam did for Us" and
the Alhambra, Granada
Tim Wallace-Murphy's book and the genius of the Alhambra
New Link: Scots
Language Centre
"Scots is spoken throughout Scotland from
Shetland to Galloway and Aberdeen to Glasgow.
Use this site to find out more about the history of Scots and to
meet the people that speak it today.
Explore, Scots song, poetry, read our blogs and find out more
about the origins of Scots."
New Aberdeenshire Pictures - September
2013
Picts
Forts
Bennachie
Moni tis Choras -
Kariye Müzesi - Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora
Built
outside the walls of Constantinople it is considered to be one
of the most beautiful surviving examples of a Byzantine church
More...
2013: The 500th Anniversary of the Battle of Flodden
The remains of
Richard III, the last English King to fall in Battle
have
been found.
As
Alex Orr of Edinburgh has written, would
it not be fitting in the year of the 500th Anniversary of the
Battle for the body of James IV, the last Scottish King
killed in battle, last seen in the lumber room of Sheen Priory
in the 16th Century, but which may now lie lie under the 14th
fairway of the the Outer Course of the Royal Mid Surrey Golf
Club in Old Deer Park, to be found and returned to Scotland
to lay in rest with dignity, and for his sword, dagger and ring
to be brought to Edinburgh Castle to accompany the Honours of
Scotland?
More...
Heroes of St Valéry
The account of the Highland Division that fought
on in France after the evacuation of the BEF from Dunkirk
Added the experiences of
Pte. James (Pongo) Forbes Adams 4th Battalion Queens Own Cameron
Highlanders, as told by his son.
New Pages for Seville and Segovia
A Church thought to be Templar turns out not to
be, may be more closely connected to Moorish Architecture in
Seville and echoes of Rosslyn Chapel in Seville with its own New
World connections.
Updated Battle of Flodden Page
New links and a new account.
400th Anniversary of the Battle of Kringen, 1612
Summary of events leading to and the Battle
itself and aftermath;
Books on Kringen;
Media Coverage
2012 and
Online
Sources
Norwegian Castles and Sinclairs
in
Connections with
Norway.
Myths and Legends?
Pillarguri?
26th August 2012 marks the 400th Anniversary of the Battle of
Kringen. Norman Henderson has been translating material
which points to the historical reality of the girl now known as
"Pillarguri"...more
Centenary of the Founding of The Royal Flying Corps 13th
April 1912 - 13th April 2012
King George V signed a Royal Warrant establishing
the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) on 13th April 1912. My Grandfather,
Great Uncle and my wife, Annabel's Grandfather, served in WWI
with the RFC which combined with the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS)
to become the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1918, in which my parents
were later to serve.
More...
Guestbook
Tripod Lycos withdrew their Guestbook on 2nd April 2012.
Thank you very much for the many and interesting postings
received there, and please accept my apologies for their loss.
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Older News
Campaign for the Real Reel of the 51st
The dance based around the Saltire,
Scotland's Flag, and created by the Highland Division, whose
sacrifice in France in 1940 it commemorates, is being danced
incorrectly by many today, unaware of its significance.
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"Carpe Diem" - Seize the Day
10 Reasons to make the most of what we have, and do
something while we can. Who knows what tomorrow may bring ?
More...
Photographs © Iain
Laird 2016
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